If nothing else, 2020 has been an absolute crackerjack year for lovers of stoner and psych rock. There have been many surprises, with new acts emerging with total bangers, up and comers making good on early promise and trusted veterans still bringing the riffs. I guess, at this point All Them Witches fit into the…
Code Orange are such a spectacular band that the world is running out of superlatives to continually describe them. Even by their own standards they continue to set impossibly high bars for themselves to clear over and over again. In March they released the Album of the Year candidate Underneath before revolutionising the way content…
Napalm Death’s penchant for noisiness is well documented. From their grinding, genre-creating debut LP, Scum, to the groove that has defined much of their post-millennium career, the band’s harnessing of auditory terrorism has seen many facets wrangled into borderline perfection.
For the legions of Metallica fans across the world, S&M(1) in 1999 was a seminal moment. Die hards and new fans alike marveled at the power of the marriage of the power of Metallica’s brand of thrash metal married to the skill of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Live albums and concert DVDs would literally…
Contrary to popular belief rock music is thriving in 2020 and there are a slew of bands primed to make that leap into the mainstream consciousness, and Dead Posey might just be at the front of that queue. Despite having a relatively limited back catalogue the California based duo are getting all the right pushes…
For those not familiar with Kamelot, the US / Euro power metal stalwarts are among the biggest names in their particular niche of metal. Outside of the arena thrilling skills of Sabaton and the wizardry (pun intended) of veterans Blind Guardian, Kamelot are about as big as it gets in power metal, with a huge…
As if the prospect of a new Misery Signals album after seven years wasn’t exciting enough for fans. Ultraviolet also sees the return of original vocalist Jesse Zarasaka for the first time since their cult classic debut Of Malice and the Magnum Heart. With all this in place is this album a classic return to…
Steve Von Till is a man deserving of the legendary status. From his work with post-metal progenitors, Neurosis, to his experimentation in Tribes of Neurot, his eponymous work as well as that as Harvestman, Von Till commands respect with his deep understanding of the musical styles.
Theatricality in rock music has long served as a means for bands to make themselves stand out from the crowd and draw listeners into worlds of their own creation. Whether it be the campy almost-pantomime horror of Alice Cooper, the falsetto wails of King Diamond’s macabre opus Abigail, or the conceptual fairytale-like world-building of Avantasia, the…
If 2020 was an album title, it would be Into The Raging Sea. In fact, this review needs to drop soon otherwise the world may well have fully dissolved before our very eyes before you get chance to read me waxing lyrical about the new Broadside album. That’s right, there’s no suspense here, this is…
