On The Verge Of Collapse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has become known for its high poverty, drug use, and violent crime rates. It is lesser known for … Continue reading On The Verge Of Collapse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has become known for its high poverty, drug use, and violent crime rates. It is lesser known for … Continue reading On The Verge Of Collapse
The sad news about the passing of Conway Savage prompted me to start to think about a tribute for the … Continue reading My Life On The Plains
Lets be honest here, some metal of a doom/death leaning is difficult to listen to, mostly in those cases where … Continue reading To The Night Unknown
Epic AOR proggy rock with a smattering of metal, with a big melodic voice from Diego Marchesi, and a definite stadium … Continue reading The Persistence
Impressive combination of art and noise rock with tons of energy and some exciting elements including a raw garage feel … Continue reading Who Do You Love
Death/doom group PULCHRA MORTE have released a limited-edition single featuring the haunting sounds of “Soulstench” on Side A and a rendition … Continue reading Soulstench
The cover to Emma Ruth Rundle’s fourth solo record, On Dark Horses, has a blurry photo of the songwriter obscuring … Continue reading On Dark Horses
Brooklyn-based quartet My Favourite Things have announced the new album ‘Fly I Will, Because I Can’, which is planned for … Continue reading Fly I Will, Because I Can
An eagerly awaited gig. For a band that has been around for ten years plus, it is some what annoying … Continue reading 12th May 2017 – The Coathangers – Night and Day, Manchester
ADULT. (Detroit’s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) released a new collaborative album, Detroit House Guests – their first for … Continue reading Detroit House Guests
As is typical with AMM recordings there are moments of quiet introspection, and indeed passages of silence, and then there … Continue reading Trinity
My good friend Dave Hammond has been playing tracks from this compilation album for some weeks now and I’ve finally … Continue reading Three Minute Heroes
‘Welcome Home’, Megafauna eschew the progressive rock stylings of their earlier work and reach back toward the proto-metal haze of … Continue reading Welcome Home
An intriguing change in direction for Hey Colossus on this their 2017 album release. In the past they would have qualified … Continue reading The Guillotine
If you really want to know about what is happening in the Manchester music scene, and I mean really happening, … Continue reading Rose and The Diamond Hand
If you want to fill the Lemmy shaped hole in your listening space then you need go no further than … Continue reading Nightmare Logic
Two hefty slabs of music arrived via the ethernet today. In the promo that always arrives with such offerings New … Continue reading Powerviolence or Grindcore?
SPC ECO (pronounced Space Echo) is the duo of alternative electronic producer Dean Garcia, originally of alternative rock band Curve, and … Continue reading If Space Is A Vacuum How Can You Hear Echoes?
If you name your band after a New Order song several things may well happen to you. You might be … Continue reading Stealing Your Ears
California technical death metal band and recent Unique Leader signees So This Is Suffering release their album Palace Of The Pessimist on February … Continue reading Optimism for the Pessimists
It’s that time again when Mr Fidler of the excellent Curry Quiche advises me they have a new waxing available … Continue reading Don’t leave it so long next time lads
Graney and Moore continue their run of excellent one-off single releases with a the laid back and steamy “I Need … Continue reading It’s Warm Down Under
Camilla George released her debut album Isang on Ubuntu Music on January 13th. Although this was her first album as … Continue reading Debut album from Camilla George
Wake in Fright, the second full-length by the New York City duo Uniform, is a harrowing exploration of self-medication. Following … Continue reading Second Uniform outing gets more Metal
SEE? is a “spontaneous” supergroup featuring bassist Jon Ehlers (Bangladeafy, Pseudo/Sentai), guitarist Brandon Seabrook (Seabrook Power Plant, Needle Driver, Die … Continue reading See? Not really…but then again