http://www.ohboydestroy.com/index.php I started this site because I felt like there wasn't one place to go to get consistent reviews on the kinds of music I like so I thought other people might have the same dilema. Sure there's lots of music reviews sites but most are either focused on one particular niche (and biased against anything else) or use so many different writers that the quality of the reviews are inconsistent. So here it is. A music site written by one person encompassing all the different kinds of music I like. Anything from punk to emo to hardcore to death metal. Basically anything that's played with real emotion by real humans using real instruments. Sorry to anyone that likes rap...This feed has excerpts from the latest music reviews on www.ohboydestroy.com. Click on the links to read the full review and check pricing. en-us http://www.ohboydestroy.com/album/Chaosfear-One-Step-Behind-Anger.php Chaosfear is a Brazilian band playing, of all things, thrash metal. Comparisons to Sepultura are inevitable at this point but in Chaosfear's case I think they'd proudly welcome them. That they wear their influences on their sleeve is clear from get go but it's a distilled, meaner version of that band, culled from the classic "Beneath The Remains"/"Arise" era that really made me take an interest in their debut album...click for more. http://www.ohboydestroy.com/album/Michale-Graves-Return-To-Earth.php Anyone familiar with Michale Graves knows that he was the singer and contributing songwriter for the controversial, reincarnated version of The Misfits and when that dissolved, a solo artist in much the same vein, so much so it's hard to make a clear distinction between the two (which makes sense given his singer/songwriter combo). So no one could fault fans for assuming "Return To Earth", like the previous "Punk Rock Is Dead", would be more of the same Misfits inspired horror punk. But the music world, much like life, is always full of surprises, with some, like this one, not so pleasant...click for more. http://www.ohboydestroy.com/album/The-Haunted-The-Dead-Eye.php It's official. There's now an early The Haunted and a late The Haunted with "rEVOLEr" being the demarcation line. If "rEVOLVEr" was the musical equivalent of driving perilously fast into Dead Man's Curve, "The Dead Eye" blew right past the warning signs and flew full throttle off the cliff with nary a skid mark. To call all this a metal album is being very, very generous. Most of it floats by like a slightly more sinister version of American radio hard rock. There are soft, spoken word parts and there are melodic hard rock choruses but what there's not is even a hint that this is the same band that crafted "One Kill Wonder" or "Made Me Do It". This may not be as drastic a move as Metallica following "...And Justice For All" with the black album, especially given the early warning signs on "rEVOLEr", but damn if The Haunted didn't use the worst elements of that album to make this entire record.... http://www.ohboydestroy.com/album/The-Duane-Peters-Gunfight.php Musically speaking, Duane Peters is a busy man. With two full time bands, the U.S. Bombs and Die Hunns, it's a bit of a surprise he'd start up yet another one but here's the album to prove it. Long time fans had a right to view this release with skepticism because frankly, before Duane Peters And The Hunns brought in Corey Parks and changed the name to Die Hunns, they were almost indistinguishable from the U.S. Bombs. So it's natural to assume this would be yet a third band playing the exact same thing. While rooted in a similar aesthetic there are enough differences and flourishes to make it stand on its own two feet and in some cases, top the more recent output of his other outfits...Click for more. http://www.ohboydestroy.com/album/Soulscar-Endgame.php There were a lot of things I liked on the last Soulscar record. The delicious dual lead guitars, the occasional thrash riffing and general old school metal feel to the songs but then there were some things I didn't like. The frequent clean vocals, the general metal power ballad tilt to a lot of the songs and the somewhat anemic production. It always had me thinking that if they dropped some of these negative elements and tapped their inner thrash/speed metal demon they would have one hell of a record. I guess they must have thought the same thing because that one hell of a record is right here...Click for more.