It is pure mayhem and chaos to attend an all American heavy metal music festival. Rock on the Range brings more than one hundred and twenty thousand metal heads over the course of three days to Mapfre Stadium in Columbus Ohio, and the result is one of the largest and most hectic parties in the entire country. 

In 2002, the self-titled album The Used was released. This was my introduction to the Emocore/Screamo genre of rock music. Sure this type of music was around, but it never enticed me listen. To be honest this album would go unknown to me for another year after its release as well. Then in 2003 I...

In my humble opinion, Metalcore has, shall we say, run its course. As always, there are staunch, vocal supporters of any given genre or sub-genre or sub-sub-genre, but I don’t think anyone would disagree that Metalcore as it was first defined doesn’t really exist anymore. Bands like...