Posted on May 17, 2013 |
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There is no UK band out there at the moment that works harder than the guys in Mad Hatter 2.0. Since forming in 2010, they have toured relentlessly; released 2 incredible EP’s and are currently on the verge of releasing the mother of all groove...
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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 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 12, 2013 |
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Hailing from Falmouth, KaiDekA are a groove/thrash metal five piece who have been rocking the UK metal scene since 2008, releasing their debut album, “False Idols and Pyrite Thrones” via Rising Records back in 2011 and touring it constantly since then. Now in 2013, they...
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Posted on April 9, 2013 |
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Occoeur may not a be a name that you’re too familiar with but if you get yourself to the Glastonbudget Festival in Leicestershire this May than you may find their name becoming part of your vocabulary. Hailing from Birmingham, Occoeur are described as pop-rock/alternative in...
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Posted on April 8, 2013 |
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Context is everything. According to his biography Ashley Reaks abandoned academia at an all boys public school after hearing the Ramones “Rocket to Russia” album and seeing Gee Vaucher’s artwork for Crass. After failing his art exam by tracing the cover of the first Ruts...
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Posted on April 2, 2013 |
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If you’re looking for depressing or gloomy, The Carnival Kids debut album is definitely not what you want to listen to. Adam Ciminello, from Poughkeepsie, NY, has compiled piano driven music and lyrics that make even the morose sound lovely. Although they classify themselves as...
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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 12, 2013 |
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The eagle-eyed amongst you will have probably already noticed the palindromic album title of this album, consisting of the same word twice, only frontwards and backwards…or vice versa, depending on your point of view. There is a reason for this, as this Italian sextet, Sunpocrisy, have...
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Posted on March 3, 2013 |
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I don’t listen to the radio. Scratch that. I only listen to sports talk radio. Scratch that. I only listen to sports talk radio, and Top 40 crap when I’m in the car with my family. 95% of the time, I’m listening to music I...
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Posted on March 2, 2013 |
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So, you like extreme music with a lot of speed and intensity? Well, South Africa hardcore maniacs Conqueror are at it again with their latest EP titled “Reality Check”. This a is a follow up to their previous one titled “Truth Seeker”, which from the...
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Posted on February 28, 2013 |
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Over the past several years, the North West have spawned forth some of the UK’s hottest rock and metal bands, a fine example being The Goddamn Electric – a Manchester based fourth piece who although may have been on the scene for a number of...
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Posted on February 20, 2013 |
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What happens when you combine geekery, the great north of the United States and a love of extreme metal music, you get Frosthelm. Self proclaimed lovers of all things MMORPGs and cheese, the Minot natives let loose their EP “The Northwinds Rend Flesh”. I wasn’t...
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Posted on February 19, 2013 |
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One of the little joys in life is getting something unexpected for free. Whether it is free food, free beer, or free music, it is greatly appreciated. However; one of the pitfalls of said free goods is its quality. That being said, it is pretty...
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Posted on February 14, 2013 |
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First off let me get this off my chest – have we run out of cool names for rock bands? I know calling yourself anything is fraught with potential dangers, but really, is Waking Theo the best we can do? Well I guess if you’re...
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Posted on February 13, 2013 |
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The Fuzz Drivers are a hard rocking quartet who have been around for a couple of years and have built up a bit of a buzz, which should be beneficial with regards to the release of their self-titled debut album. Taking their inspiration from 60s...
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Posted on February 11, 2013 |
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For most, folk is a prefix – a form of acoustic indie, a rootsy outlook on Punk Rock; a more legend-focussed or nationalist Metal. And unless you’re willing to go out and look for it, that’s how it stays –as an appendage, or the perceived...
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Posted on February 10, 2013 |
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The Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner’s vocals combined with the organ-grinding of The Horrors, in an amp-filled Sheffield room already inhabited by The Kills and Queens of The Stone Age. If it sounds cramped in there, that’s probably because these talented chaps play at least eight...
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