Cover art for the "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" EP by Rob Sheridan. Image via Nothing/Interscope Records. "Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur." -Nassim Taleb One of my favourite Nine Inch Nails songs ever is "Every Day Is Exactly the Same." Released on 4 April 2006, it was … Continue reading Every Day Is Exactly the Same
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Everything Changes
Cover art for the "Everything Changes" single. Image via Flip/Atlantic Records. "Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. How many people don't even know your name. How many will soon have forgotten it. How many offer … Continue reading Everything Changes
Lights Out
Cover art for the "Lights Out" single. Image via Atlantic Records. "Don't let the force of the impression when first it hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, 'Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test.'" -Epictetus "Lights … Continue reading Lights Out
Coming Undone
CD single artwork for "Coming Undone." Image via Virgin/EMI. "The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills." -Ernest Hemingway "Coming Undone" was the second single from Korn's seventh album, See You on the Other Side. Released on 21 February 2006, it reached … Continue reading Coming Undone
Just Stop
Cover art for the "Just Stop" CD single. Image via. Reprise Records. "No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. What is to give light must endure burning." -Viktor Frankl "Just Stop" was the third single released from Disturbed's Ten … Continue reading Just Stop
Testify
Cover art for Testify. Image via Atlantic Records. "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." -Seneca What do people tend to think of when they think of nu-metal? Aggressive, down-tuned riffs, combined with hip-hop beats and an industrial edge, with a guy rapping … Continue reading Testify
See You on the Other Side
Korn at the MTV Asia Awards in Bangkok, Thailand 2006. Image from Wikipedia. "Getting into action generates inspiration. Don't cop out waiting for inspiration to get you back into action. It won't! … I leave you with one thought: It's not a compliment when someone tells you you're a survivor. It's bullshit. We're all survivors … Continue reading See You on the Other Side
Goodbye for Now
Katy Perry performing with P.O.D. onstage. Image from YouTube. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -Seneca "Goodbye for Now" was the lead single off P.O.D.'s underrated gem of an album, Testify. Released in late 2005, it received some decent airplay, and was the band's most successful single since "Youth of the Nation." … Continue reading Goodbye for Now
On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland. Image from Nielson Barnard, Getty Images. I'm not sure where to start on this, so I'm just going to make it up as I go along. The image of Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst in their heyday didn't really do the band or the man justice, that Durst was just … Continue reading On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
On the Deftones
Deftones, from left to right: Abe Cunningham, Fred Sablan, Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado, and Stephen Carpenter. Image from LiveNation. I was probably twelve years old and discovering music on my own when I found the Deftones in 1999. They were featured on the Matrix soundtrack, which I was listening to on CD. The track was … Continue reading On the Deftones
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