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If one thing has given me a Trill in recent months it has been discovering King Parrot. A mate of mine was squawking about how entertaining their videos were and how blisteringly chaotic the accompanying music was. It knocked me… Continue Reading →
Well, dang, here’s an album with a full-blown strut-worthy, stomp-happy boogie backline. And yet Death Alley isn’t exactly a moniker that you’d associate with such a stone cold groove is it? It turns out that Black Magick Boogieland hasn’t exactly… Continue Reading →
The NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana) scene has been positively thriving this year, with new offerings from Down, Crowbar, Eyehategod and now Goatwhore have joined the takeover with their sixth slice of groovy filth “Constricting Rage Of The Merciless”. For those… Continue Reading →
Woah, New Orleans, you really are spoiling us this year – Down, Crowbar and Eyehategod have each put out their respective releases following varying hiatuses and the world might just implode under the weight of all those riffs. Most surprising… Continue Reading →
Anyone finding and reading this page should have a healthy, or in the eyes of mainstream music press, an unhealthy knowledge of the band and style of music they have been been pumping out in a sea of sludge… Continue Reading →
I reckon Nuclear Blast think they’ve found a band who have inhabited a small gap in the Metal market – it is their job after all, but they might just be right. It’s probably a sound that only a… Continue Reading →
What’s in a name? Take PurpleHaze Ensemble’s moniker for instance. You’d imagine this Polish quartet to be a Jimi Hendrix covers band who, before each gig, spun a coin to see which band member would get to set fire to… Continue Reading →
Broozer is a self-described ‘tough technical modern sludge’ act from Melbourne. Formed back in 2010, it seems that they have spent the last three years practising and perfecting the seven songs that would make up this, their debut release. What… Continue Reading →
How to review this album? This is quite a dilemma as to quote the lyrics from opening track “Music Media Is My Whore” this is definitely “authentic anti-music” with discordant rhythms and timing signatures and Phil ranting and screaming in… Continue Reading →
Phil Anselmo, legendary frontman for bands like Pantera, Superjoint Ritual and Down, can be a bit of an enigma. So often he delivers on every front, yet every now and then you sense one or two weak spots emerging in… Continue Reading →
Tonight marks Down’s Luxembourg debut, and unsurprisingly, it’s a sell-out. Then again, according to the modest tour shirts (whose dates are obscured by a giant red ‘SOLD OUT’ stamp), so is the whole tour. It came as a bit of… Continue Reading →
Featuring musicians who have been a part of bands like Skullview, Nocturnal Torment, Chronic Disorder and Invasion, this is a rather different musical operation. The style is a hybrid of stoner/sludge/doom and classic Southern rock based on their older influences… Continue Reading →