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Dear John,
You were right.
If you remember back in 2002 we at Punknews.org published our yearly “best of” lists. You responded, like so many of our readers do, with a list of what we got wrong, particularly the lack of attention paid to the Pacific Northwest scene. As it always goes with retrospective articles I tend [...]

III: Ghost Tigers Rise isn’t the album I was expecting, but it is the album I was hoping for.
For a band with a penchant for aggressive songs and macabre imagery, the fact that your drummer’s been shot four times and has a bullet permanently lodged in his brain should (understandably) fuel some angered, raging tunes. [...]

I was the staff member saddled with the burden of reviewing The Empire Strikes First, which you’ll see from the review itself I quite like. It’s a burden due to the attention it gets and the pressure to make it worthwhile. I think the review itself has well over 7 thousand hits, that’s not counting [...]