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Discography Review: Dance Gavin Dance

It’s easy to love an album or two from a band, but bands with a lengthy career tend to have member shifts, changes in sound, and some albums that will certainly be more prolific than others. It’s compelling to see how one…

Why DGD’s “Strawberry’s Wake” is Jon Mess’ Best Song Yet

WARNING! The video embedded in this article contains profanity. Reader discretion is advised. Now at the point in their careers that exemplifies their longevity, Dance Gavin Dance is set to release album number ten, Afterburner, on April 24th, 2019. This announcement came with…

Dance Gavin Dance’s Instrumental Treats

Over the course of 2019, Rise Records released Dance Gavin Dance’s discography instrumentally. This stretched from 2018’s Artificial Selection all the way back to 2006’s Downtown Battle Mountain. Kris Crummett’s holding of the master tracks of all these albums proved to be a delight for…

Is The Color Morale Set for a Comeback?

One of my favorite bands of the 2010s is The Color Morale, a metalcore act from Rockford, Illinois. With a strong lyrical emphasis on hope, steadfastness, and persistence, the band inspired thousands going through struggle, myself included. Albums like Know Hope and…

Mike’s Album of the Decade

Off the heels of My Devil in Your Eyes, The Color Morale had established that they were one of the premier midwest post-hardcore bands in the scene. Drawing inspiration from early metalcore giants like Misery Signals and Poison the Well, the band found…

Rise Records Botches Instrumental Album Release

Over the course of this year, Rise Records has been surprise releasing instrumental versions of Dance Gavin Dance albums, spanning their entire discography. They have been releasing these in reverse chronological order, starting with 2018’s Artificial Selection and on 11/29 they have…

Lead Hands – Lead Hands Album Review

At the dawn of this decade, the landscape of Post-Hardcore was filled with long hair, breakdown riffs, and a bit of a generic nature. If you’ve heard one post-hardcore band, there wasn’t much to set them apart from the crowd. This is…