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 6, 2013 |
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Ever seen a mangled car wreck and wanted to look away but been morbidly drawn to it? Ever smelled something foul and recoiled, but had to take another sniff just to check it really was that repugnant? Ever picked a huge scab and it hurt,...
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Posted on May 9, 2013 |
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Ash Borer has been on my radar since 2011 though I can’t quite recall its origin. Regardless of how they made an imprint, the dark, cold and isolate vibe Arcata, California’s Ash Borer gave, has followed me ever since and I was stoked to hear...
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Posted on May 9, 2013 |
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Limb, (Rob Hoey – vocals, Sam Cooper – bass, Pat Pask – guitars and Jodie Wyatt – drums) are a four-piece from ”all over the place’, based in London who declare a love for Kyuss and classic doom metal. This three track was originally put...
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Posted on May 2, 2013 |
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I first became aware of Lair Of The Minotaur when the guy at my local record shop slapped “The Ultimate Destroyer” album on the counter back in 2006 and said “You’ll love this – it’s RIDICULOUS!”. He didn’t mean silly or daft – he genuinely...
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Posted on April 27, 2013 |
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Something a bit different here, a split EP from Oxford’s self styled doom folk quartet Coma Wall and their obscenely heavy alter ego Undersmile. Although both bands differ greatly in delivery, they both use the spectacular vocals of Hel Sterne and Taz Corona – Brown,...
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Posted on April 23, 2013 |
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Ara is a Milwaukee based death metal band, coming together around 2012, after they all wanted a more aggressive outlet. All the members have been playing around the Milwaukee metal scene for some 12 years. So, although Ara may be a new incarnation, the members...
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Posted on April 22, 2013 |
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There’s something a lot of math rock bands forget to do, and that is to write songs that sound like music made by humans. Luckily there is Alright The Captain who manage to create interesting, progressive and heavy tunes that are full of life. Coming...
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Posted on April 21, 2013 |
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Falling at the heavier end of the hardcore spectrum where the likes of Integrity and The Hope Conspiracy hang out, Leeds 4-piece Seagraves are giving away their debut EP “Weight of the World” as a ‘pay-what-you-want’ download from Bandcamp, but they don’t seem too all...
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Posted on April 18, 2013 |
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Aristotle wrote, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” He probably didn’t have Pyrithion’s debut EP, “The Burden of Sorrow”, released worldwide on Metal Blade Records on April 16th, 2013, in mind, but it sure fits. Pyrithion is the collaboration of As...
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Posted on April 16, 2013 |
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It doesn’t seem five minutes since Yorkshire gloom merchants My Dying Bride released the none-more-miserable “A Map of All Our Failures” and here we are again with another new release. With four tracks running just short of half-an-hour, “The Manuscript” is quite an intensive listen...
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Posted on April 13, 2013 |
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Last year saw the first full-length album, “Metaphere” from solo experimental rock/metal act Trillion Red. At the time Patrick had four tracks left over that didn’t quite fit the record and rather than shelve them he has released them on this EP “Echo Road”, subtitled...
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Posted on April 13, 2013 |
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A storm of happiness? That’s quite a claim from In Search of Fire. I wouldn’t say these six songs completed my life in a dramatic way. There was no overwhelming feeling of peace and Buddha-like enlightenment. I did quite like the EP though. Like early Muse...
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Posted on April 6, 2013 |
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In the olden days, when a band released a song from their new album and then supplemented it with a few other tracks, it was called a ‘single’. These days it seems, the trend is to refer to these releases as ‘EP’s’. I’m sorry, but...
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Posted on April 1, 2013 |
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Mexican death metallers Zombiefication, a duo comprising of Mr Hitchcock on vocals and Mr Jacko on bass (ably assisted by Messrs. Kim & Brain on guitar and Mr Hammer on drums) offered up this EP as a precursor to their “At The Caves Of Eternal”...
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Posted on March 30, 2013 |
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My five-year-old daughter is obsessed with the movie “Pitch Perfect”. I did not think I would be a failure as a father quite this early. Anyway, being the push over that I am, I have downloaded the soundtrack and purchased the movie for her so...
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Posted on March 29, 2013 |
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I read a quote the other day that said, “Music is what feelings sound like”. How true! Music can transport you to another world or take you on a stroll down memory lane. Music can invoke certain feelings in you when you listen to it...
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Posted on March 27, 2013 |
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Hailing from Yorkshire, England, Beneath The Eclipse are a new band with a remarkable amount of talent and energy for such a young four piece only just unleashing their debut EP, entitled “Effort”. Opening with the title track, a myriad of layered vocals, guitar pyrotechnics and subtle...
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Posted on March 26, 2013 |
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Jarrad Will is one of those musicians who gets as excited about other bands’ music as his own. Not only that, he’s the first one at a gig jumping in and helping others. So it’s no surprise to see his band Xenograft team up with...
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Posted on March 25, 2013 |
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Reading four piece Ancient Ascendant have followed up their debut album “The Grim Awakening” with the “Into The Dark” EP. Five tracks combining old school thrash with elements of classic and blackened death metal brought to life by producer Dan Swanö. Opening up with the...
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