Backwards it begins, and backwards we end. As though blind, we walk with our hands out, feeling our way through the mess of cacophonous noise and following notes that dart and dive and make every effort to remain unseen. Notes that are not restricted by meter and seem to travel free [...]

After graduating from Greenville in 2006, my band (which was then referred to) When Sorrow Fails when on tour. After tour we buckled down, wrote some songs we were proud of and recorded with me using Greenville’s studios (thanks to my favorite prof., Mike Johnson!) Before we took the weekend to track the [...]

Behemoth’s “Evangelion” 4.5/5 Musical Lord of the Rings epic with Sauron winning. Heaviest blackened death metal cd til judgement day #nwms
im going to also start ascribing a #howfire level to these #nwms records on a scale of Jane Doe (10) to #crabcore (-10) #nwms
Behemoth’s #howfire score is a 6 #nwms
Hatebreed’s “Perseverence” 2.5/5 Middle of the [...]

On Wednesday I finished my response mixtape to my friend Travis. The mix was a two parter, as I felt like I needed to give him one mix of “hardcore” stuff and a second of non-aggressive/heavy/screamy music so to more fully show my tastes. The first mix proved a bit difficult. I [...]

It’s a Converge day today in the office. Nothing like a little Jane Doe to get me stoked about calling students!

A paper I wrote for Rock Music History about Converge.
Converge Paper for Rock Music History
Prof. Andrea Johnson
May 5th, 2005
Converge is arguable one of the most important hardcore bands since Black Flag, Minor Threat, Agnostic Front and Sick of It All.  Converge, along with a few other bands in the early nineties, pioneered the metalcore subgenre [...]