Tag Noise Rock
The first thing I noticed about this was that of the quartet that makes up Human Impact, one of them was in Unsane, a band I like. Noise rock they call it, and reading the band biography all four members… Continue Reading →
When the New York Times deems it news-worthy to write about your upcoming album, I think it’s safe to say that you’ve established yourself as a band. Once part of the subversive underground, the Jesus Lizard are now part of… Continue Reading →
A desolate scene decorates the cover of Uniform’s new album American Standard. In it, a power plant or some kind of processing site is blasting smoke into the air, and the yellow hue of the semi-dark scene suggests heavy pollution…. Continue Reading →
A second full length from this Austrian band whose previous album was full of intriguing dynamics and a plethora of mind bending genre fusions. The same applies here but to a lesser degree I felt when listening to it but… Continue Reading →
Formed way back in the mists of time (1994), Haystack should be castigated as one of the laziest bands in Christendom (other religions are available to be used in this catchall statement to describe scale before you start flinging your… Continue Reading →
Listening to “an unnerving excavation of ill health and Catholic guilt” in musical form doesn’t sound like a whole load of fun, but without going into the detail this album does reflect the personal experience of the vocalist, and as… Continue Reading →
There can’t be many things in life that are less embarrassing than looking back at past version of yourself and realising that hubris, although a word I rarely deploy in any shape, way of form, is not something that you… Continue Reading →
Having had the pleasure of bathing in KEN mode’s particular oily ooze whilst reviewing their last full-length album (2022s ‘Null’) it proved almost impossible to fully grasp what the band were attempting. Re reading the slightly hysterical and hyperbolic praise… Continue Reading →
Cards on the table, I have been immensely fortunate to have been gifted the opportunity this summer to have six weeks paid holiday and whilst not wanting this first paragraph to come across as a gloating puss filled, humblebrag conceitful… Continue Reading →
I’m a bit late reviewing this which means that I naturally went and read what the usual suspects have already written about the release at hand before writing my own review. None of my fellow scribes mention what I thought… Continue Reading →
From New York City comes Netherlands, a heavy metal project with the label of heavy-progressive sludge, but given the lengthy multi-genre history of its creator Timo Ellis much more is promised. I had no doubts however that given the stated… Continue Reading →
Described as shapeshifting, atmospheric noise rock, “The Silver Snake Unfolds” is Wailin Storms’s second album following their 2020 debut “Rattle”. Do I suspect that Wailin Storms have been listening to Black Sabbath? Well it seemed like it as I listened… Continue Reading →