15 YEARS OF THE LONG COLD DARK

THE LONG COLD DARK (BUFFALO METAL) PHOTO CREDIT: MEREDITH SNOW Here at WRETCHED SOUND, we’re celebrating 15 YEARS of THE LONG COLD DARK, and if you’re at all familiar with local bands in any community, you know that 15 years is some impressive longevity. Furthermore, they’re a band who have been consistently churning out quality […]

INERTIA (APPRECIATION POST 7/7)

We’ve reached the end of our anniversary series! The final band we’re shouting out is Buffalo tech death aficionados, INERTIA! This is the same article that appeared in our 7th anniversary hardcopy, but now that we’re online, I’ll include links to all the cool national press Inertia have gotten over the years! INERTIA (Buffalo, New […]

HELL EVER AFTER (APPRECIATION POST 5 OF 7)

HELL EVER AFTER (Buffalo, New York rock opera) Vocals (female operatic) – Gina Lunetta (classically trained, exceptionally gifted) Vocals (male clean/harsh) – Ryan Mis (Short Attention Span Theatre‘s voice of mischief) Vocals/guitars/composition – Lawrence D. Gomez Guitars – Kahlil Sarikey (Technical death metal aficionado from Inertia) Keyboards- Eareckson Murray (a master of many instruments currently […]

GATES OF PARADOX (APPRECIATION POST 3 OF 7)

GATES OF PARADOX (Rochester, New York power metal) Vocals – Daniel Parker Guitar – Zane Knight Guitar – Eddy DiGiulio Bass- Josh Shufelt Drums – Alex Zillioux No one supports the underground harder than GOP’s vocalist, Daniel Parker. He’s been blasting and sharing every project I’ve ever done for years and I couldn’t be more […]

DILUTED (APPRECIATION POST 2 OF 7)

DILUTED (Rochester, New York metalcore) Vocals- Pat Mulligan Guitar- Zach Coffey Bass- Michael Kimak Drums- Tyler Creller Photo credit: Kirsten Milliron of Milliron Design / @KLMilliron Diluted are 100% nostalgia for me in their pursuit of telling modern metal elitists to go fuck themselves. Diluted don’t care what the kids are listening to these days. […]

ANTHROPIC: (APPRECIATION POST 1 OF 7)

About a month ago, we released our 7-year anniversary zine, featuring fine folks in the Buffalo and Rochester metal scenes who have been supporting this publication since the very beginning. Naturally, this means that our March 2022 issue included 7 bands, all of which will now be featured here on our website via an APPRECIATION […]

COURSE OF EXTINCTION: BRUTAL DEATH METAL – ENDICOTT, NY

I first saw this band at Finger Lakes Metal Fest in May of 2019. They absolutely blew my mind. I loved just how relentless their entire set was, and they played for a while as I recall. COE are a band pulling from all the greatest influences in brutal death metal, old school death metal, […]

SINGLE REVIEW: FIGHT FROM WITHIN – SELF RESCUE MISSION

This was the first song I heard this morning and I’ll be humming the chorus all day. Fight from Within are an up-and-coming metalcore band from Syracuse, NY, featuring Tykeese Breland on guitar (who will be one of the featured artists in our physical May 2021 issue). Stylistically, it’s hard to complain about a band […]

Local Band Reactions: WARBLADE (Rochester Melodic Black Metal)

I decided to start reacting to local bands from WNY I’ve never heard before. To kick the series off, I chose to check out Warblade from Rochester, who unfortunately have been disbanded for some time now. This band rules. Any fan of Dissection and/or Ablaze My Sorrow should LOVE these guys. And if you’re familiar […]

Band Profile: Meet Me at the Altar

Today I’m going to be talking about a very different band than we typically discuss here at The Metal. I’m going to be talking about the all girl Pop Punk band Meet Me at the Altar! This is for a few reasons, the first being that they are entirely BIPOC women, and because of that […]