Category: Reviews – Audio
Glorious metal in all its earthly forms, compressed onto shiny plastic discs or into digital files. Which ones will become the soundtrack to your life?
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Chip Kinman – The Great Confrontation 2LP
Chip Kinman The Great Confrontation 2LP (In The Red Records) I confess that I had forgotten about The Dils until the opportunity to review the band’s Live! reissue came up. Not that I was unfamiliar with the band before (I remember discovering the band at the same time I came upon The Weirdos, The Bags,…
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The Slackers – “New York Berlin” b/w “Tell Them No” 12” single
The Slackers “New York Berlin” b/w “Tell Them No” (12” one-sided picture disc single) (Pirates Press Records) I confess that, while the two songs which comprise the new Slackers single are good, solid cuts, I do not understand why this single has been pressed the way it has. First, both “New York Berlin” and “Tell…
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Garbageface – Penumbra//Antumbra 12” single
Garbageface Penumbra//Antumbra (12” Single) (Rap Will Eat Itself Records) If history has taught us anything about Karol “Garbageface” Orzechowsky, it has taught us that the artist takes a lot of joy in turning expectations that fans may have of him on their collective head – and the emcee’s newest 12” single, Penumbra//Antumbra, upholds that practice…
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Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 2LP
Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9 2LP (Epic/Sony Music) With the last good Ozzy Osbourne album having been released over twenty years ago now (2001’s Down To Earth was respectable – 2010’s Scream was both an earnest and mawkish expression of Ozzy’s strengths as it tried to update its styling for a new, digital generation which…
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Jacob Brodovsky – I Love You and I’m Sorry LP
Jacob Brodovsky I Love You and I’m Sorry LP (independent) I started trying to write a review of Jacob Brodovky’s debut album, I Love You and I’m Sorry, six times before finally electing to do what the album does and just opening with a bit of candor: on my first play through the album, I…
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Suzi Moon – Dumb & In Luv LP
Suzi Moon Dumb & In Luv LP (Pirates Press Records) After having released two EPs in the last sixteen months, it’s unlikely that fans expected a full-length album to be forthcoming from Suzi Moon – but the even greater surprise is just how incredibly good Dumb & In Luv is. Where the EPs hinted at…
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Man’s Body – A Set Of Steak Knives LP
Man’s Body A Set of Steak Knives LP (Nocturnal Sol Records) It’s funny how names and images have the power to be completely irrelevant, when it comes to music. Really think about it, reader; on first sight, a name like Man’s Body feels like it might be a little prog-gy or even a little metallic…
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Bandcamp Friday Picks – September 2022
Today – it’s time again for Bandcamp Friday, where the folks over at Bandcamp completely waive their revenue share in order to offer more support directly to the artists. More info is on the Bandcamp blog. Here are a couple of picks to guide you in navigating the huge catalogue that’s available: Silurian – End…
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Imperial Triumphant – Live – August 14th, Glasgow, UK
Sunday night – what better time for an evening of thinking man’s chaotic avant-garde black metal, namely Imperial Triumphant from New York. This show was another covid casaulty, originally penned in for last year but was inevitably postponed. Formed in 2005 by Zachary Ilya Ezrin, they released a few full-lengths but it was 2008’s Vile…
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Cattle Decapitation – Live – August 18th, Glasgow, UK
Hot off the trail of their debut appearance at Bloodstock Festival, American death/grinders Cattle Decapitation are back in Glasgow. In 2019, they released their prescient album Death Atlas and toured for it into the following year, before cancellations due to you-know-what. So this delayed European tour promotes that album and feels timely considering the global depression…