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Daily Archives: February 14, 2013
Album Review: LORDI – To Beast Or Not To Beast
AFM Records [Release date 04.03.13] Lordi came to many people’s attention after winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Hard Rock Hallelujah’ and of course their eye catching onstage costumes. This is their sixth studio album … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM Records, LORD OF MUSHROOMS, Lordi, To Beast Or Not To Beast
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Album review: OCTOBER TREE – The Fairy’s Wing
(Canvas Productions, 2012) If there’s one thing in life that really gets up my nose it’s indulgence. Self indulgence is bad enough, but pandering to somebody else’s indulgence is just plain wrong. And this is what has … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Lounsberry, October Tree, prog rock lite, review, The Fairies Wing
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Album review: SAILOR FREE – Spiritual Revolution
(Tide Records, 2012) This is definitely an album of ‘despites’. Despite not having English as their first language, despite this being a concept album and despite having a band name like a John Inman sit-com – this … Continue reading
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Tagged Italian, Progressive Rock, review, Sailor Free
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Album review: X11 ALFONSO – Charles Darwin
(Self-release, 2012) Every so often an album like this appears, that is so left-field, so out of kilter with the way things are, that it is extremely difficult to listen to and be totally objective. Not that it is totally … Continue reading
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