Category: Music
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Überchriist don’t mess about with trivialities like intro tracks. There is no self-indulgent noodling or atmospheric mood setting at the start of Dæmonic Apotheosis. Überchriist just get straight to the fucking point and start slapping you around like a red-headed stepchild, with the opening track, Anti-Phoenix Descent. It’s refreshing. For far too long, black metal…
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Before I get into this review, I want to tell you a story. A couple of months ago I was at the end of it all, from a writing perspective. I wasn’t making any money, I was burnt out, and felt that I was just banging the same drum. Music news. Music reviews. Music news.…
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Pâenil Era don’t hold you hand with A Wilting Fountain. They don’t offer you an easy road in, with helpful signposts to point you in your way. Instead, Pâenil Era just drop you in the middle of a very big and very dark forest, wish you the best of luck, and sod off to the…
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Yeah, alright. I know I said I wouldn’t be doing news going forward, but come on, this is Hanoi Rocks and I love Hanoi Rocks. BMG are dropping a massive box set on November 13th called The Complete Collection 1981-1984, pulling together their entire legendary initial run across either 6LPs or 6CDs. You get all…
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I like this record. A lot. It completely refuses to be pigeonholed, and it’s different from anything else I can think of off the top of my head. The UK outfit first reared their heads in 2021 with the Great Migrations EP, even turning up on Channel 4’s Britain’s Most Historic Towns to scream through…
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There are a lot of people currently online gnashing their teeth and wailing about how the new Slipknot single, Arsenal, isn’t as good as their older material. How it doesn’t sound like Slipknot. How Corey Taylor’s simplistic chant of “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go” is a terrible chorus. I am not one of these…
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I was nine. My cousin, who had up to that point been a biblical asshole, decided to bequeath me his entire AC/DC album collection, including the recently released For Those About To Rock… I have no idea why. Not then. Not now. But, by doing so he helped cement my love for loud guitar music.…
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I am old. Like, really fucking old. In fact, I turn 54 in around two months and, as is my want this time of year, I’ve been looking back over the past twelve months to see what is what. It hasn’t made for great reading. Not the writing, of course. That is excellence of the…
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Swedish heavy psychedelic rock band Domkraft have shared Void Runner, the first single from their forthcoming fifth album, Night Songs, due out on November 20 through Magnetic Eye Records. Vocalist and bassist Martin Wegeland describes the track as a response to the feeling of reaching rock bottom, only to discover that the world still has…
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Texas metalcore band The Light Superior will release their debut full-length, Dayspring, on October 2 through Rottweiler Records. Formed in Amarillo in 2018, The Light Superior quickly established themselves as a live act, sharing stages with We Came As Romans, Of Mice & Men and The Browning during their early years. The band’s first EP,…