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Posted on June 19, 2013 |
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Some new music feels as though it’s been kept in a time capsule: Maybe you hear something on the radio. Maybe you stumble onto an artist while sifting through an iTunes or Amazon web store or the like. Regardless of how it came to you,...
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Posted on June 18, 2013 |
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Touring Australia following the local release of their long-awaited debut album, Los Angeles/Brisbane band The Red Paintings took to the stage at The Espy in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, where they performed with support from Rouge Foncé and Solkyri. There were big differences...
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Posted on June 18, 2013 |
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Despite being one of the pioneers of the legendary ‘Gothenburg sound’, Dark Tranquillity have never really ascended to the higher branches of the Metal tree, seemingly destined to dwell somewhere in the middle order on festival bills and forever in the shadow cast by the...
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Posted on June 17, 2013 |
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Before disbanding in 2010, it was well-publicized that each album in progressive metal outfit Isis’ discography was thematic in nature and that the artwork for each was as indicative of their respective themes as the compositions contained within. In contemplating the cover for Palms, the...
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Posted on June 17, 2013 |
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Sannhet are one of those bands that I’ve somehow only seen live, alongside some of my favorites like Bison B.C. and Primitive Weapons at Saint Vitus and Elitist and Sea of Bones at the Acheron a few years back. To digest them further and finally...
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Posted on June 13, 2013 |
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The cover of Sons Of Aeon’s self-titled debut album shows waves crashing against a lighthouse, the black and white imagery almost Bergmanesque in its stark beauty. It is an enigmatic image and not one you might expect to find on the cover of a death...
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Posted on June 13, 2013 |
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Delain have always been something of a second rate Nightwish in my book and although I enjoy them (and singer Charlotte Wessels has a spectacular voice) they have never really stamped a trademark sound over an entire album with any real authority. Their second album...
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Posted on June 12, 2013 |
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To say Queensrÿche have had a turbulent year would be a strong misconception. With discrepancies between the main body of the band and Geoff Tate and a lawsuit yet to be resolved, the band are on precarious shores. The former lead singer Tate has formed...
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Posted on June 12, 2013 |
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Those familiar with The Pineapple Thief may realise the title of this EP is taken from a track on their 2012 release “All The Wars”. This EP however contains three brand new tracks, alongside the aforementioned ‘Build A World’, including a ‘Dirty HiFi’ remix of...
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Posted on June 11, 2013 |
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To say that this album has been long-awaited would be something of an understatement, but despite the setbacks and the personal troubles it’s finally here – the first Black Sabbath studio album to feature Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler together since 1978’s “Never...
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Posted on June 11, 2013 |
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Released on Vinyl through Hypaethral Records (a Toronto based label who also puts out Titan, who are the shit,) Ramlord’s second full length album, “Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom” is an unfiltered blend of the most raw and blackened notes you could imagine, crammed into one...
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Posted on June 10, 2013 |
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No disrespect intended but who’d have thought back in 1999 that My Ruin would still be a going concern in 2013, and not only that but also that they seem to be getting better with each album? Back in the dark days of the late-90s...
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Posted on June 10, 2013 |
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In these cynical and jaded times, conspiracies are big business. Millions of people believe that high ranking members of the establishment are shape-shifting murderous lizards, people question if we really landed on the moon, and Scientologists lurk in every corner, just waiting to ensnare the...
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Posted on June 9, 2013 |
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Last week we published part one of our interview with Trash McSweeney from The Red Paintings. We talk about the way he views music, what The Red Paintings really is, and his love/hate relationship with his debut record. If you haven’t already, I suggest you have...
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Posted on June 9, 2013 |
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“Oh Fluttery … how could I have ever doubted you?” These were the exact words that went through my mind this morning as I began to listen to “Enlighten Yourself While You Sleep” by Monochromie … released on Fluttery Records. After the disappointment that was “Sekai”...
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Posted on June 8, 2013 |
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Bears on Parade‘s latest album – “Said My Fist To The Sky, Said My Hand to the Ground” – is an interesting listening experience … one I am glad to have received. Their particularly unique brand of lo-fi, shoegazing post-rock is deliciously dark and despondent …...
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Posted on June 8, 2013 |
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A few years ago, the thought of a meeting of minds between Katatonia and Pineapple Thief alumni would have sounded an implausible prospect. Even with the former’s recent gradual prog leanings, the initial idea of such a marriage is quite an unusual prospect. But in...
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Posted on June 7, 2013 |
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With the shows early start time, I just managed to make it into the Arena in time for the opening chords of ‘Dirty Love’. Like a lot of the crowd, the early start time had slightly caught me out having to get their straight from...
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Posted on June 7, 2013 |
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Addictive. Not in a destructive, heroin-esque way though. Scaramanga Six are more like the Ferrero Rocher of the rock-opera…no, the art-rock…no, the punk rock…the indefinable rock world. Initially, this album rang aloud with overtones of Queens of The Stone Age, but without Josh Homme’s brooding vocals....
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Posted on June 6, 2013 |
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When we heard that West Yorkshire’s favourite bouncy nutter, and Terrorvision front man, Tony Wright, was teaming up with bandmate and chief keyboard tinkler, Milly Evans and going acoustic for the Download Festival 2013, our interest was peaked to say the least. It’s not just Download...
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