Name: Jerry Rojas
Dateline: Dallas, Texas
Articles: 50
First Published: Sunday, February 25, 2007
Last Published: Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Currently listing articles 50-1:
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Yay or Nay: Synastry, Cradle to Grave, The Briggs, The Underneath & D’espairsRay — Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Concert Review: The Dillinger Escape Plan & The Bled - Ridglea Theater - Ft. Worth, TX - April 18, 2008— The city of Ft. Worth should have seen the mayhem coming.
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Concert Review: Girl In A Coma at Poor David’s Pub-Dallas, Texas— This Texas trio is one of the best bands I have discovered in a long time.
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Concert Review: Gigantour 2008 w/Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy, and High of Fire at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas— Bringing along some of the best in underground metal, Megadeth provides plenty of punch with this solid metal package.
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Music Review: P.O.D. - When Angels and Serpents Dance — With some notable musical guests, San Diego's native sons deliver their latest rap/hard-rock creation.
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Yay or Nay: Year of the Sun Records featuring Of The First Born Son, Dear Black Diary, Handheld, For The Mathematics & What's He Building In There? — Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Jimmy Eat World At American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX— Making Dallas the first stop on their U.S. tour, the Foo Fighters open it up with a big bang.
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Music Review: The Mars Volta -The Bedlam in Goliath— A prog/punk/Afro-Cuban rock odyssey into the paranormal, The Mars Volta invites you to come along for the ride.
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Music Review: Danny Diablo - Thugcore 4 Life— The Queens, New York native son brings to us the art form of "thugcore".
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Music Review: Eyes Set To Kill — Reach — Female-fronted hard rock/metal outfit presents us their debut release.
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Music Review: Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist— Aggressive and ambient at the same time, Deftones give us their latest work of art.
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Interview: Killswitch Engage's Howard Jones (Part II) — In part two of our interview, we discover and discuss Jones' love of professional wrestling.
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Interview: Killswitch Engage's Howard Jones (Part I)
— In part one of our interview, KSE's resident frontman discusses Dio, working with Adam D in the studio and tattoos.
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2008 Grammy News: As I Lay Dying, King Diamond, Queens of the Stone Age Nominated— Heavy metal and hard rock will be represented well at next year's Grammy awards.
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My Top 10 Rock and Metal Albums of 2007 — From the heavy to the pristine. these are my top rock and metal albums of 2007
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Yay or Nay: Avenged Sevenfold, A Wilheim Scream, The Expendables, The Black Dahlia Murder— Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Yay or Nay: Nights Like These, blessthefall, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer, and Copeland— Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Book Review: A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex by Chris Jericho— This book is essential for anyone who calls themselves a true pro wrestling fan.
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Concert Review: Bad Religion/The Briggs at the House of Blues, Dallas TX— Punk pioneers come to town and give us a lesson on how it's all properly done.
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Music Review: Between The Buried and Me — Colors — This grind/prog-metal collective present their latest exploration of sound.
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Music Review: Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty— An album well suited for a night of debauchery, The Big Dirty is a sonically pleasant collage of filth with its own penicillin shot.
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Concert Review: Metal Blade’s 25th Anniversary Tour with Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord— If death, thrash or grind is your cup o’ tea, the Metal Blade tour will provide your metal fix.
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Music Review: As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
— Simply put, As I Lay Dying have created their own Master of Puppets.
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A Letter to My Favorite Hollywood Party Girls— Call me so we can catch up!
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Concert Review: Family Values 2007 Featuring Korn - Smirnoff Music Centre, Dallas, Texas - August 17, 2007
— The Family Values Tour... come, eat, drink, rock.
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Music Review: Aiden - Conviction— A graceful transition from the realm of horror rock into a darker, more mature sound, Aiden delivers in full.
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Music Review: The Warriors - Genuine Sense of Outrage— An emotionally-charged new record that sounds like a rabid midget plundering through a group of 12-foot Goliaths.
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Music Review: Nodes Of Ranvier—Defined By Struggle — South Dakota-based metalcore tries to bring the noise.
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Concert Review: Vans Warped Tour—Dallas, Texas - July 14, 2007— In its 13th year and with over 40 bands to chose from, the Vans Warped Tour continually gives concertgoers the most for their money.
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Music Review: Darkest Hour - Deliver Us— From the opening chords of Darkest Hour’s latest release Deliver Us, they manage to elevate themselves above the many emulators.
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Music Review: Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist— While there are glimpses of what once was, Zeitgeist only reminds us that sometimes bands don't necessarily get better with age.
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Concert Review: Sounds of the Underground - Dallas, Texas — In the third year of the Sounds of the Underground tour, Dallas was chosen as the opening date and overall, it did not disappoint.
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Music Review: Bad Brains - Build A Nation— Rastafarism and hardcore? Bad Brains showed us it worked in 1982 and it still works today.
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Music Review: The Fire The Flood - Truthseekers— Charlotte based The Fire The Flood catches your attention with solid ear-pounding guitars all around. Alas, the vocals fall somewhat short.
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Chris Benoit: From Triumph To Tragedy— A sad day for wrestling fans worldwide.
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Music Review: The Brothers Martin— This self-titled release is a pleasant surprise.
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Music Review: Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows— Oklahoma Grind served straight up.
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Interview: Chimaira’s Matt DeVries— Chimaira look forward to the 2007 Sounds of the Underground tour and the mayhem the tour is known for.
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My Top CDs: Underground Christian Rock of the 1990s— Rest assured, not all music made by Christians is mediocre and bland.
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Concert Review: Deftones, The Fall Of Troy at House Of Blues, Dallas, TX— Plenty of prog rock but with a nice dose of heavy, The Fall of Troy hold their own on tour with the Deftones.
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Music Review: Bury Your Dead – Beauty And The Breakdown— So nu-metal isn't quite dead. It decided to leave the hip-hop behind and head toward the world of hard-core and metal.
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Music Review: Poison The Well - Versions— We should all go out in the desolate Swedish countryside, limit our exposure to the sun and see what happens.
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Bad Words, Rap Music and the Almighty Dollar— It doesn't matter who we offend as long as we are getting paid for it. Is that so wrong?
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Movie Review: Grindhouse— With plenty of blood and action, Grindhouse is a gore lover's dream for sure.
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Interview: Norma Jean's Cory Brandon— Old Hollywood starlets they are not.
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Concert Review: Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, DragonForce, He Is Legend - 3/14/07
— An onslaught of metal mayhem for everyone. Read on.
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An Open Letter to Rage Against The Machine— My plea for Rage to come back.
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Movie Review: Black Snake Moan— A very surprising film that wasn't at all like I expected.
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Concert Review: Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Trivium, Gojira — Palladium Ballroom 2/16/2007 ( Dallas , Texas )— Lamb Of God proved again why they currently sit at the top of the metal landscape.
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Music Review: Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies— The newest release from the Massachusetts-based quintet does not stray far from the formula they helped perfect.
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