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Link: Meshuggah The Inside Pulse: Meshuggah made a declaration with this album after their EP, I. Following in the vein of that release, their goal was to make albums as opposed to collections of songs. In other words, Catch Thirty-Three is most certainly a technical metal soundscape as opposed to anything resembling singles. The result [...]

Link: Gorillaz The Inside Pulse: Harkening back to the late ’60s, Gorillaz burst onto the scene a few years back with the gimmick of being a completely animated band of animals — gorillas of varying types, to be exact. Why make the artists faceless? MARKETING! Anyway, Demon Days doesn’t deviate much from the sound of [...]

Dearest readers, I am apologizing here for my lack of an actual real, new column. I’m out of town, I have a busy agenda, and won’t be back in time to properly compose my column in the way it should be written. However, rather than leave you hanging, I have hand-picked some exerpts from pieces [...]

Link: Wednesday 13 The Inside Pulse: Member of both the Frankenstein Drag Queens to the Murderdolls, vocalist Wednesday 13 apparently feels the need to strike out on his own and make music completely different from his other two bands. You know, morbid hard rock. Because the other two… never mind. Regardless of the reasons why [...]

Link: Twin Cities Electropunk The Inside Pulse: Kids everywhere have computers; more and more of these kids are discovering that they can use them to make music and be rock stars. In the northern midwest lies Minneapolis/St. Paul, a rather tech-savvy metropolis that seems to be full of these geeky rockstar wanna-bes. Enter the world [...]

Link: Bruce Dickinson The Inside Pulse: Vocalist for the immortal Iron Maiden as well as someone who has previously ventured out solo, Bruce Dickinson continues his legendary status with Tyranny of Souls. A disc infused with the grandeur and storytelling contained in the best of old Maiden and almost indescernible from such, it’s an interesting [...]