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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Gig review: THE QUIREBOYS – The Garage, Glasgow, 20 November 2014
Mid November is a time when you can count on a few things, shops will have their decorations up, the latest ridiculous Christmas ads will hit your TV screens and Spike and his merry men will be in town ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 November 2014, blues, Brian Hogan, gig, Glasgow, Guy Griffin, javier Vargas, Keith Weir, live, Paul Guerin, Preachers Son, review, rock, Spike, The Garage, The Quireboys, Vargas Blues Band
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Album review: CARL CARLTON – Lights Out In Wonderland
Caroline International [Release date 24.11.14] Carl Carlton is an American based German songwriter, musical director, producer and triple Grammy Award nominee whose credits include Robert Palmer, Eric Burdon, Herman Brood, Mink Deville, Joe Cocker and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Bob Dylan, Carl Carlton, Dave Davies, Eric Burdon, Herman Brood, Jaqueline Kennedy, JJ Cale, JOE COCKER, Levon Helm, Lights Out In Wonderland, Mink Deville, review, Robert Palmer, Steely Dan, Udo Lindenberg
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Album review: PHILM – Fire From The Evening Sun
UDR – Out Now. Of the four musicians that make up Slayer’s classic line-up, Dave Lombardo has always stood out as the most artistically gifted and restless. Want proof? Well, apart from the fact that the Californian Thrashers always end … Continue reading
Album review: MUTILATED VETERANS – Necrocrust Warhead
Hells Headbangers – Out Now. Mutilated Veterans are a recently formed Spanish Death/Crust Metal duet which hail from Madrid and whose members have participate in a number of underground projects that large, that this review is unable to accommodate. The … Continue reading
Album review: ELUVEITIE – Origins
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Originally conceived by vocalist Christian “Chrigel” Glanzmann as a purely studio project, Swiss Melodic Death/Folk Metallers Eluveitie have gone a pretty long way since their inception back in 2002. It only took the release of … Continue reading
Album review: ENTOMBED A.D. – Back To The Front
Century Media – Out Now. Funny story; a couple of months ago, I was browsing through the internet when I came across the cover artwork of an album called “Back To The Front” from a band whose name was Entombed … Continue reading
Album review: ENGLISH DOGS – The Thing With Two Heads
Candlelight – Out Now. First formed in October 1981 and performing at the same UK sweaty venues with the likes of GBH & Discharge, Grantham-based Hardcore Punk/Crossover legends English Dogs have experienced numerous member changes over the years. Most fans, … Continue reading
Album review: EASTERN FRONT – Descent Into Genocide
Candlelight – Out Now. Located on the estuary of the River Orwell in beautiful Suffolk, Ipswich is not the kind of place that can openly compete with cities like Birmingham and London in terms of its overall significance in the … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES PILLS – Blues Pills
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Retro Rock is currently the flavour of choice and no other country in the world has embraced and best represented the sound of 70s Rock than Sweden – the very Scandinavian nation that brought us, … Continue reading
Album review: SACRIFICIO – Sacrificio
Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now! – Out Now. Anonymity, it seems, has become a much desirable form of advertisement for bands these days – one that the Spanish Thrash/Death Metal trio Sacrificio seems to have definitely subscribed to. The … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN GARCIA – John Garcia
Napalm Records – Out Now. I have to admit that I was initially quite puzzled by the idea of John Garcia releasing a solo album at this moment in time. Why? Well, since the mighty Kyuss decided to disband in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, John Garcia, Kyuss, review, stoner rock
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Album review: ENTRAILS – Resurrected From The Grave
Metal Blade – Out Now. Death Metal reached its commercial peak in the early 90s and, at that time, it was Sweden which became the epicentre of the said movement in the ‘old continent’, mainly due to the very existence … Continue reading
Album review: EMPYRIUM – The Turn Of The Tides
Prophecy Productions – Out Now. When Markus Stock, otherwise known as Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, decided to put his Dark Symphonic Folk Metal project Empyrium to rest back in 2002 he did so by claiming that the band needed to “move … Continue reading
Album review: KING OF ASGARD – Karg
Metal Blade – Out Now. Sometimes, the choice of an appropriate name is really worth its weight in gold. Take, for instance, the Swedish Melodic Death/Viking Metal quartet King Of Asgard. I had absolutely no clue whatsoever what these lads … Continue reading
Album review: UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN – Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath
Iron Bonehead – Out Now. If you were to ask me to name one good reason why I chose to review the third studio release of the Death Metal quartet Unaussprechlichen Kulten my response would be that I find the … Continue reading
Album review: DEMONIC RESURRECTION – The Demon King
Candlelight – Out Now. Coming from a country as tradition-orientated as India and playing Extreme Metal cannot be an easy thing but this is exactly what the six members of the Blackened Death Metal outfit Demonic Resurrection decided to do … Continue reading
Album review: GOATWHORE – Constricting Rage Of The Merciless
Metal Blade – Out Now. It is a well known and universally accepted fact that people understand and appreciate music in different ways – something that, I am sure you agree, makes this beautiful form of human expression such an … Continue reading
Gig review: THE TEXAS FLOOD, Hard Rock Hell, Pwllheli, 14 November 2014
The opening slot on any of the stages can be daunting but for The Texas Flood it’s even more so as these young guys take on their biggest gig yet. After going to Glasgow and winning the top slot at … Continue reading
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Tagged 14 November 2014, gig, Hard Rock Hell, Pwllheli, review, rock, The Texas Flood
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Gig review: VARDIS – Hard Rock Hell, Pwllheli, 15 November 2014
Band reformations always form differences of opinions but the few thousand people watching Vardis on the main stage at Hard Rock Hell delivered their overwhelmingly positive verdict. After being apart for almost 30 years, drummer Gary Pearson, after a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged 15 November 2014, gig, Hard Rock Hell, heavy rock, NWOBHM, Pwllheli, review, Vardis
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Gig review: SANTA CRUZ – The Barfly, Camden, London, 17 November 2014
A whole generation after grunge was supposed to have killed it, the sleaze and glam scene continues to thrive with younger Scandinavian bands leading a revival. The likes of Hardcore Superstar and Crash Diet have already made a mark and … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 November 2014, Amorettes, Camden, Dirty Thrills, gigt, glam, London, review, rock, Santa Cruz, sleaze, sleaze rock, The Barfly
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Gig review: NINE BELOW ZERO – O2 Academy, London, 19 November 2014
Wham bam. For about an hour, this was a fearsome, supercharged r ‘n’ b pummelling. Nine Below Zero, classic line-up back together to tour their first three – and most influential – albums, came out pumped and with all guns … Continue reading
Album review: CHASMA – Omega Theorian
Candlelight – Out Now. First formed in Portland/Oregon back in 2008, Black Metal outfit Chasma are one of the hundreds of young bands of their generation that began performing extreme Metal in hope of achieving one thing; making a career … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Metal, Chasma, Omega Theorian, review
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Album review: POWERWOLF – The History Of Heresy I (2004-2008)
Metal Blade – Out Now. It’s been eleven years since my career as a music journalist began and, to this day, there are times that I still find myself baffled by some of the decisions made by even of the … Continue reading
Album review: CORROSION OF CONFORMITY – IX
Candlelight – Out Now. Corrosion Of Conformity, the Sludge/Hardcore Punk band first formed in Raleigh/North Carolina back in 1982, may have never quite made it big but, throughout its long and turbulent career, has managed to gain the appreciation and … Continue reading
Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Live You To Death 2 – American Punishment
Steamhammer / SPV – Out Now. One can only assume that it is through sheer determination and/or stubbornness on the part of guitar maestro Geoff Thorpe that the US Metal powerhouse Vicious Rumors is still with us three and a … Continue reading
