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Hyvmine – Retaliation Review

Hyvmine – Retaliation Review

By Kenstrosity on July 12, 2019 in 2019, Alt-Metal, American Metal, Hard Rock, Post-Grunge, Reviews, Seek and Strike, Alt-Metal, Hard Rock, Post-Grunge, 63 comments

“Hard rock. Alt-metal. Post-grunge. These were the things I listened to back in high school. Breaking Benjamin and Disturbed in particular satisfied my desire for a bit of harmless aggression in my angsty youth. To be fair, I still hold a soft spot for the stuff, with Phobia and Ten Thousand Fists rising above the rest as the two albums from this subset of artists that I still regularly revisit. Los Angeles’ Hyvmine emerge from the same gene pool, fully intending to rock the world with their sophomore effort Retaliation.” You have hives.

Upon a Burning Body – Southern Hostility Review

Upon a Burning Body – Southern Hostility Review

By Dear Hollow on June 6, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Deathcore, Reviews, Seek and Strike, Deathcore, 24 comments

“I realize I use the phrase ‘ad nauseam’ too much, and I also apologize a lot. I took two years of Latin in high school, which was pretty cool in ways I didn’t foresee. So you would think I would have the basic knowledge to tell you what ‘ad nauseam’ means, but I had to Google it only to be embarrassed by its obvious meaning: ‘to nausea’ or ‘to a nauseating degree.’ Just like deathcore!” Down with the deathness.

Hyvmine – Earthquake Review

Hyvmine – Earthquake Review

By Akerblogger on January 21, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Seek and Strike, Progressive Metal, 51 comments

“I don’t often jump into a review without even a smidgen prior knowledge of a band or genre. Usually, armed with a fine-toothed comb and a cuppa, I’ll spend hours entering a band from the promo list into ol’ Encyclopaedia Metallum researching them. Making Sophie’s choice is usually tough — I never want to do a band a disservice by not researching or placing myself confidently within their musical world. However, all the promo for the next month was already selfishly taken by my fellow staff members and so, feeling like a lonely Zoidberg in ‘Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?’ I settled for the Los Angeles-based progressive hard rock and metal band Hyvmine (a purposeful misspelling of hive-mind).” NU LA Land.