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NEWS: SLAM DUNK ANNOUNCES STAGE TIMES + THREE NEW BANDS
It’s just three weeks until Slam Dunk Festival kicks off on Saturday 25th May at Temple Newsam Park in Leeds! This will be the festival’s first move out of its Central Leeds location and into a more open space. Stage times have been announced and three new acts have been added to the lineup: Pop-punk …
Track: MARTYRDÖD – “Pharmaceoticon” and New Album news
MARTYRDÖD – Soon to release their seventh studio album “Hexhammaren” on May 10th, 2019 via Century Media Records, Swedish metal crust punks MARTYRDÖD are releasing their newest single “Pharmacepticon” via a lyric video here: MARTYRDÖD checked in with the following comment: “We’re pleased to finally show off this other mid tempo side of …
Track: THRONEHAMMER – “Thronehammer” and New Album news
THRONEHAMMER unites british and german musicians Kat Shevil Gillham (Uncofined/Winds of Genocide/Ex-BlessedRealm), Stuart West (Ex-Obelyskkh/Ex-The Walruz) and Tim Schmidt (Naked Star/Seamount). „Usurper of the oaken throne“ is the debut full-length born of this union of notable extreme music perpetrators, rending nearly eigthy minutes of purely epic metal, bridging low-end heaviness with melodic destruction.They’re a powerful …
Track: HAMMERFALL – (We Make) Sweden Rock + New Album news
HAMMERFALL will release a new album titled DOMINION on 16thAugust 2019 via Napalm Records. The group unleashed “(We Make) Sweden Rock” – the first single off DOMINION today. JOACIM CANS describes the creation of “(We Make) Sweden Rock,” “This is a glorious tribute to the Swedish hard rock and metal movement with a …
Track: Dead Slow Hoot – An Island Keen To Float
You should never skim through music judging it’s first 30 seconds alone. Let “An Island Keen To Float” be a cautionary lesson for both listeners and writers, myself included. The latest single from Sheffield quartet Dead Slow Hoot may seem to be going down a meandering, C30 style path of earnest presentation and emotive content. …
Track: Heavy Rapids – “Paisley Pattern” plus tour dates.
Bratty punk rock is the call of the day when it comes to Glaswegians Heavy Rapids. Don’t let the term “bratty” allude to negative connotations though – punk is meant to be bratty at times. Isn’t that when it’s at its best? See Descendents, Angry Samoans and even IDLES for a modern comparison. It’s that frantic …
Track: The Keys – Black and White
NEW SINGLE FROM THE KEYS – BLACK AND WHITE Over four Albums, Eps and countless singles the KEYS have become a presence on the Welsh musical landscape. The quality of the band’s music, touches on the wide eyed wonder and boundless possibilities of the sixties pop song, West Coast harmonies, Motown backbeat and the aggression …
Say Psych: News: Stonefield Announce New Album & 37 Date Tour
Australian, psych-rock luminaries Stonefield have announced their new album, BENT (out June 14 via Flightless Records). Produced by Joe Walkerand Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the album was recorded in-between tours, in just five days. Written largely on the road, the songs on BENT are filled with reference and reflection – the kind that comes from months spent far from home, living on …
News: CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC New Album, ‘EVIL EYE’
Instrumental Post-Doom quartet CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC releases their fifth album on April 30, 2019 (Walpurgis Eve). Entitled ‘Evil Eye’, the new record features two 20-minute songs on two sides of vinyl and is the first of two CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC records coming out this year The second album, ‘Second Sight’, features two more …
Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up singles, off the EP ‘Singles’ further enhanced my love of the band. Smooth clean jangly psych pop with the most elegant harmonies and the indelible. …