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Cards on the table; despite advancing years and over 3 decades of gig going, I am more then capable of acting like an utter twat at a show. One such occasion was in 2011 when at the once inevitable Orange… Continue Reading →
D-Rei. Doremi Fasol Latido? Maybe I’m over thinking the title of this album but when opening track ‘Stare At The Water’ hits its stride and Black Space Riders heavily Hawkwind influenced space rock bursts out it really was my first… Continue Reading →
There is only one depressing thing about this 3 piece Icelandic band’s second release. The band appear so young that it looks like if you added their ages together they would still be younger than me – and I’m 20… Continue Reading →
Doesn’t time fly? It was 2008 when I last laid hands on a Mustasch album, the compilation ‘Lowlife Highlights’, and since then they’ve fired out two new albums, one LP re-recording old tracks, a bunch of singles and EPs, as… Continue Reading →
Go into any bar full of musos and a not uncommon debate is about the influences of certain substances on certain musicians and their albums. Is the album fast and paranoid? Cocaine. Angry as fuck? Amphetamine. Fuzzed out stoner rock?… Continue Reading →
The Vision Bleak released their fantastic debut 9 whole years ago in 2004! Well that was a shock – where does the time go? It was at the height of Gothic Metal and their dark theatrical ‘horror metal’ (as they… Continue Reading →
Danish band Helhorse have been making a good bit of noise in the scene recently and all sorts of people had been telling me to lend them an ear. So here we are and within seconds of the perfectly titled… Continue Reading →
Italy really seems to be coming into its own these days as a country where metal thrives. There is a huge and bewildering wealth of talent springing from every corner of this nation, which was unimaginable not too many years… Continue Reading →
Well howdy and welcome to the Lone Star State, y’all. If you’re into guns and Stetsons, cowboys and whisky, then you’re gonna just love Texas Hippie Coalition. THC’s frontman Big Dad Ritch has said “We want the people that love… Continue Reading →
Those Finnish Dark Rock Vampire Sleaze Glam Metallers 69 Eyes have chosen to inflict their tenth gothic Metal-ish studio album on their predominantly female, predominantly young, predominantly gothic audience – considering which who can blame them? This is a band… Continue Reading →
There is some confusion in all this recent hero worship of rock and metal eras past. It’s all fine and dandy if we are, like some of the haunting occult space rock bands, taking things on a step or two… Continue Reading →
Instrumental bands, a bit of a turn off? A group who just cannot find a decent singer? A bit of a hipster fad from a band trying desperately to be in vogue? Well yes and no as so many get… Continue Reading →