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Children Of The Sun – Roots (The Sign Records)

Swedish retro rockers, Children Of The Sun follow up their 2019 debut LP “Flowers” with another slice of late ‘60’s love culture worship in the shape of “Roots”. Taking inspiration from greats like Janis Joplin and fusing it up with… Continue Reading →

Wij – Dziwidło (Heavy Medication Records)

As always, when I don’t know anything about a band, I like to start by taking a look at the album cover. It this case, it’s all black with drawings in thin white lines. Two centipedes are forming a circle… Continue Reading →

King Woman – Celestial Blues (Relapse)

When I first saw the cover to King Woman’s sophomore album Celestial Blues, depicting mastermind Kristinia Esfandiari as the fallen angel Lucifer, photographed from behind, with a torn garment, in an outfit alluding to sex, the back featuring raw, open… Continue Reading →

Ricky Warwick – When Life Was Hard And Fast (Nuclear Blast)

Longevity is not something that Rock music was originally founded on, with established musical forms, and the establishment itself turning up their collective noses and dismissing what was new. As that sound continued beyond all initial estimations of demise, well,… Continue Reading →

The Death Wheelers – Divine Filth (Riding Easy)

When I read the…er…concept behind this lot of filthy Canadian bikers trapped in the seventies I was kinda intrigued. Visions of the musical soundtrack to some lost drive-in biker fodder about a drug crisis in Spurcity certainly appealed and their… Continue Reading →

Dead Lord – Surrender (Century Media)

Dead Lord are consistently churning out entertaining free flowing releases that simply roll out of your speakers. If you are a fan you know what to expect, for newer followers I feel they take their influence from the likes of… Continue Reading →

Döda Havet – Tod Och Rum (Gaphals)

This five piece from Sweden “play rock music”, was what I read on one of the sources I used to get some background. Whilst I agree that this unilluminating statement can be countered by “you’ll find out if you listen… Continue Reading →

Blues Pills – Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast)

I’m fairly lucky to have seen one of Blues Pills first UK shows, if not their very first, when in 2013 they played the Dingwalls in Camden third on the bill behind Scorpion Child and headliners Orchid (what a line-up… Continue Reading →

Maggot Heart – Mercy Machine (Rapid Eye Records)

What we have here is “a rock album about sex, death and the pursuit of freedom”. If you have no idea how the words above could be related, dear reader, and if you don’t find them appealing in the least,… Continue Reading →

Deathbarrel – Rebuke Revoke (Soulseller Records)

Who doesn’t like a bit of country music, or at least a bit of Johnny Cash? I like Johnny Cash a lot, especially his lyrics and his poetry (yes, he wrote poetry, too). That’s why I was not put off… Continue Reading →

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