Alexisonfire "Old Crows / Young Cardinals" 2023-02-10 Butt’s flighty riffs lifting the

Butt’s flighty riffs lifting the thrash bedrock to further heights of melodicism

the band is back from hiatus with a brand new EP and an exhilarating amphitheater tour that's selling out fast

warm sound is due not only to the band

Although many of the band's later albums would be unified by a central theme with lyrics written mainly by Roger Waters

based on a book that Numan never completed about a futuristic metropolis where androids with cloned human skin called "Machmen" team up with machines to keep citizens controlled under fear and force

Alexisonfire "Old Crows / Young Cardinals" 2023-02-10 Butt’s flighty riffs lifting theAlexisonfire's third album Crisis helped elevate the band out of a scene and into their own lane, and 2009's Old Crows Young Cardinals drew the line in the sand that this will never be a band that lives in the past. It's right there in the chorus of the first song ("We are not the kid we used to be Stop wishing for yesterday"), and it's there in the music, which was Alexisonfire's most experimental and genre defying yet. Bold, risk taking albums are