Tag: review
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Wild Moccasins – Look Together LP
In the context of New West Records’ stable of artists, Wild Moccasins stand out as a truly unique entity. Most of the other artists signed to the label have their roots in musical forms and structures linked clearly to rock instrumentation and styling, but Wild Moccasins don’t so much rebel against that paradigm as simply…
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Grim Reaper live in Toronto, October 2018
Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper / Ammo @ The Mod Club, Toronto on 4th October 2018 Steve Grimmett is the absolute face of perseverance. Early last year, he developed a ravenous infection while touring in Ecuador. Frighteningly, doctors had to amputate his leg and he spent several weeks in hospital, far away from his England home.…
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Mars By 1980: The Story of Electronic Music
by David Stubbs Electronic music is everywhere now. Look at the TV series ‘Stranger Things’, for example, with its John Carpenter-inspired synth-scapes. ‘Mars By 1980’ tells the story of how music got to this point. It was a long time getting here but now the future has arrived. The book is split into four main parts: Part…
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Windhand – Eternal Return
Windhand has consistently been one of my favourite doom bands of the past few years. They’ve shown that “female-fronted doom” isn’t limited to cloaks, capes and songs about Satan while cranking out a string of pretty solid records. But when I heard the initial press describing Eternal Return as a “doom/grunge” album, namedropping the likes…
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High On Fire – Electric Messiah
Some people might say Matt Pike’s the new Lemmy, but when it comes to High On Fire’s consistency, I’d compare them to AC/DC. As they enter their 20th year as a band, you pretty much know what you’re gonna get before you push play – and yet, I can’t say I was disappointed by Electric…
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Create a Kill – Summoned to Rise
Being a fan of the Thrash genre since the tender young age of 12 (I’m now 45) I have been fortunate enough to hear and witness the birth of some of the greatest Thrash music known to man. For some time it seems like the genre which I have hung my hat on as my…
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Glenn Hughes live in Dublin, September 2018
Glenn Hughes Plays Classic Deep Purple live at the Olympia, Dublin Sunday, September 30th, 2018 I always loved the Deep Purple albums featuring the talents of Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale, on the Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band albums respectively. In recent years Coverdale revisited his Deep Purple heritage with ‘The Purple Album’ and tour, and…
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Jayce Lewis live in the UK, September 2018
September 16th 2018 O2 – Academy Birmingham The show opener this evening was This Burning Age with their alternative rock somewhat haunting, violently beautiful, atmospheric, dark and broody. A band to watch out for! www.thisburningage.com | www.facebook.com/thisburningage Wasn’t the best of nights for Coventry based Goth outfit Deadfilmstar. The warpaint make-up disappeared in the smoky darkness as…
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Lord of the Lost | 04.10.2018 | Frankfurt
The “Thornstar” tour kicks off masterfully on the 4th of October in Batschkapp Frankfurt. The Hamburge dark metal band Lord of the Lost is out conquering the European stages with their 7th album release. Thornstar is a concept album – lovingly researched and reproduced down to the last detail – about the demise of the Pangaen culture. The show…
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Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
Behemoth, one of Poland’s biggest black metal bands, returns yet again after the successful release of their 2014 record, The Satanist. The new album, I Loved You At Your Darkest, is another album of a fully-realized vision by Behemoth frontman, Nergal, and is nothing short of atmospheric, offensive and melodic. Imagery is something that Behemoth…