Band  The Black Dahlia Murder Album   Servitude (Metal Blade Records) Release Date   September 27, 2024  Review Written By Steve Jones, OOTB Publications It was Ozzfest 2005 in Columbus, Ohio at the once great Polaris Amphitheater, it was 105 degrees and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The concert program featured this band who I’d never heard nor seen. Waters were like $20 and we were all roasting in the summer heat. The band came out in their tighty shorts and proceeded to throw down; the most brutal set of the day! I love acoustic guitar with my death metal! The Black Dahlia Murder continues to create some of the most face-melting death metal that’s ever existed. Ten albums later, they are set to destroy your senses with a brutal assault of acrobatic guitar work and chaotic drumming! Get this album immediately when it’s released! Servitude is full of bangers! Let’s gooooo! I’ve already listened to it three times! Rating 5/5 Favorite Tracks “Aftermath,” “...

  Christian Cole joined the Out Of The Blue Publications ’ roster in the late summer of 2024 as a Contributing Writer. On and off, Cole has spent the last decade or more inside the local music circuit performing with jam bands Day Old Dozen and The Blues Sea Jam Experience. Cole currently writes, sings and plays guitar for Midwest Emo band Downbad. where he resides in Marion, Ohio. Cole graduated from Upper Sandusky High School in May of 2015, continuing from there into the local music scene. While in high school, Cole took computer and video classes and took a liking to journaling and writing poetry, even creating his own website to showcase his work while a sophomore in high school. He also wrote and recorded albums of original music on his battery powered MP3 player, he then transferred the music to discs and handed them out anywhere and everywhere he went, often times distributing them under a pseudonym. It was things such as this that instilled in him an interest in journalism...

  We are Seldom Fade! We are a four-piece modern rock band form Stow, Ohio.  We recently released our latest single "All The Memories” and it currently sits at more than 95k views; we are so shocked and excited about this! We love and appreciate every single person who has listened to it.  Our new EP Rekindle // Revive comes out Aug. 30! This is our first release in two years. We have spent the last two years completely rebranding the entire band with new imagery, production, songs and even a new logo. Our single that came out in 2022, titled "DTNA,” was the first small step into this new direction before going full bore with it.  We also will be playing our first shows back in almost three years this Fall. We will be playing Horns For Hearts in Mechanicsburg, Pa. on Sept. 29 at Lovedrafts Brewing Company. This show is hosted by 717 entertainment as well as Emelle from the band Eternal Frequency. All the proceeds for this show will directly go to the American Founda...

  Written By Christian Cole, OOTB Publications This week’s LP comes to us all the way from Los Angeles, California; home of melodic-punk rockers Stoke Signals who are prepping for the release of their debut album Make Dying Fun , releasing September 20th. Stoke Signals MAY be readying for their first full length record, but they’re no stranger to the scene. The band rose from the smoldering ashes of TWO bands: Holy Fangs, whose name you can find boasted on the tracklist as the first single on the album, and Promise Me This.  What we get here with Make Dying Fun is a record that DELIVERS—one that showcases a band in their infancy as a UNIT, clearly not just as individuals or musicians.  The nostalgia emanating from the LP is hard to ignore, while it doesn’t force itself upon you or seem to be the objective goal of the record. It scratches that itch of 1990s-2000s skate punk records while never intentionally baiting you in and touching the soft spots of your youth JUST to ...

  Written By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications   Leading Ohio-based Metallica tribute band The Four Horsemen—fittingly named after the classic 1983 Metallica song, formed in 2004 and solidified in 2010 and has since shared lineups and stages with artists including: Theory of a Deadman, Nickelback, Bush, Vanilla Ice—recently took time away from their current extensive tour to discuss the band’s success, the pressures to live up to their name (performing precise, album quality, crowd-pleasing songs from Metallica's first four classic albums: Kill 'Em All , Ride the Lightning , Master of Puppets , …And Justice For All , along with popular anthems from the Black Album), today’s rock music, interests and much more in this interview with vocalist, guitarist Sean Perry.  Watch The Four Horsemen Promo   When you close your eyes at a live show, you can’t tell the difference between The Four Horsemen and Metallica. Is there a lot of pressure on you to carry out such a perform...

  Neil D. Shumate is the 2001 co-founder of Out Of The Blue Publications and current Editor-in-Chief, Owner, Publisher, Public Relations Manager. Shumate is the Webmaster of www.ootb-zine.com and Contributing Photographer and Writer.  He graduated in 1999 from Marion Harding High School in Marion, Ohio and graduated in 2010 from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio with cum laude honors, having a Bachelor Of Arts   in   Journalism  with Minors in Criminology and Geography  and an Associate Of Arts Degree. Along with OOTB, Shumate worked in the food service industry for 19 years and is currently an insurance claims customer service representative. COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENTS —Kappa Tau Alpha, OSU James E. Pollard Chapter: national journalism and mass communication honor society —The Ohio State University Honors Program —Golden Key International Honour Soceity —Qualitative Interviewing Internship Merit (Dr. Brenda Dervin) —Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweav...

 Written By Neil Shumate, OOTB Publications Having gained experience as a touring vocalist sharing the stage with  Lenny Kravitz, Chic, Duran Duran, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul  and as the frontwoman for rock/soul band  Army of the Underdog,  it’s only natural for Norfolk, Virginia singer-songwriter Jessie Wagner to release undeniably incredible music of her own.  Now based in New York City, Wagner released her debut full length album Shoes Droppin’ (Wicked Cool Records) Oct. 2020 and she just recently released a new upbeat reggae-like single “I Just Can’t Today” with more light hearted B-side “The Unknown.”  About the songs, Wagner said : “Just Can't Today' came about when I was having one of those I Can't Get It Right days. I allowed myself some grace. Sometimes you need a moment to take a deep breath, lose yourself in a mindless Netflix comedy, and regroup. That's what this song is about. Giving yourself the courtesy to start again. “T...