Band: Holy Grail Album: Ride The Void Label: Prosthetic Records Genre: Pure Fucking Metal It’s been just over two years since Holy Grail released their monolithic debut album Crisis In Utopia, and now the SoCal metal troupe has returned with their second album, Ride The Void. With only one member difference from the last album […]
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UTG LIST: Best Albums of 2012
December 24th, 2012 
Tyler Osborne All year the Under the Gun Review staff has weighed in on what we thought about the albums the music scene had to offer. This year has been good to us musically, but it’s a really hard process to shave down to our ten favorites of the year. As you’ll see when you read through […]
25 Days Of Metal 2012: #24 Murder Construct – Results
December 2nd, 2012 Jordan Munson Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing your a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown We’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of […]
25 Days Of Metal 2012: #25 Enslaved – RIITTIIR
December 1st, 2012 Jordan Munson Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing your a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown We’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of […]
REVIEW: August Burns Red – August Burns Red Presents: Sleddin’ Hill, A Holiday Album
November 24th, 2012 Jordan Munson Band: August Burns Red Album: August Burns Red Presents: Sleddin’ Hill, A Holiday Album Label: Solid State Records Genre: Metalcore/Seasonal Before getting into the meat of this thing, let me preface this by saying I don’t normally care for holiday music save for two styles: old school vocal jazz and Trans-Siberian Orchestra. That’s pretty much […]
REVIEW: Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence
September 27th, 2012 Jordan Munson Band: Between The Buried And Me Album: The Parallax II: Future Sequence Genre: Progressive Metal Label: Metal Blade Records Every now and then a metal band comes along that carves out their one very special niche in the music world, a band that is virtually without peers. Between The Buried And Me is one of […]
MUSIC VIDEO: As I Lay Dying – “A Greater Foundation”
September 11th, 2012 Grant Trimboli Wow, a music video from both As I Lay Dying and Parkway Drive in one day. UTG must have rubbed our rabbit’s foot today. AILD have partnered up with the good people at Pure Volume to premiere their video for “A Greater Foundation” and it hits harder than ever. The band are poised to release […]
REVIEW: As I Lay Dying – Awakened
September 10th, 2012 Jordan Munson Band: As I Lay Dying Album: Awakened Label: Metal Blade Genre: Metalcore It’s a little bit crazy to think that As I Lay Dying are about to release their sixth album since the band’s inception in 2000; wasting what would appear to be no time at all in the last decade, touring and releasing albums […]
REVIEW: The Faceless – Autotheism
August 13th, 2012 Jordan Munson Band: The Faceless Album: Autotheism Label: Sumerian Records Genre: Technical/Progressive Death Metal “It’s not you, it’s me.” That’s how I picture a conversation with The Faceless and their fans going in regards to their new album, Autotheism. Saying that the latest effort from The Faceless expands on their previous formula (if you could say they […]
REVIEW: Gojira – L’enfant Sauvage
June 22nd, 2012 Jordan Munson Artist: Gojira Album: L’enfant Sauvage Genre: Metal Label: Roadrunner Records When you’re in the throes of complete and utter fandom of a band and you get the news that you’re given the responsibility of reviewing their yet-to-be released album, what are your first thoughts? Mine were quite simple: I hope this album is as good as […]
SINGLE REVIEW: Breathe Carolina – Hit and Run
May 26th, 2012 James Shotwell Artist: Breath Carolina Song: Hit and Run Genre: Pop Earlier this week, pop duo Breathe Carolina released their highly-anticipated new single “Hit and Run.” The track marks the group’s first new material since Hell Is What You Make It hit shelves last year and essentially serves as the starting point for what will become a […]
UTG Metal Review Roundup (May 2012)
May 22nd, 2012 Jordan Munson UTG METAL REVIEW ROUNDUP. This column is exactly as simple as it sounds. Lots of metal albums come out and resident metalhead Jordan Munson is here to give you the skinny on a litany of these albums. No frills, no extra, no nonsense–just the information you need to know. For Today – Immortal Forty minutes […]