rock/metal tracks
Track: Cute Cute Death – Pockets
Taken them from the forthcoming mini-album, Vessels, which drops on Monday 10th August comes the new single from Kingston upon Thames five piece, Cute Cute Death. Describing their sound as like a monkey casually humping a lama that borrowed a cheese grater to chew on while they take to the hills on a kawasaki ninja, …
Track: Racetrack Gospel – Wiseblood
Racetrack Gospel is the new project from Sam Herlihy, ex-lead singer and songwriter from Hope of the States. He been joined by Martin Samuels, Max Backshell & Simon Goldring to form Racetrack Gospel and the band have released the first fruits of their labour in the shape of a new track – Wiseblood. Its taken …
Track: Nottingham alt-rockers Kagoule release new single, Glue
Nottingham alt-rockers Kagoule return with a new single, Glue, ahead of their debut album Urth, which drops on August 21st via Earache records. Singer/guitarist Cai Burns says of Glue, “[it]….popped into existence on New Year’s Day of 2014. The frame of the song was sat as a garage band file called ‘so damn stuck’ and …
Track: Vukovi – Boy George, plus tour dates
Taken from their forthcoming debut album, experimental Scottish rockers Vukovi have announced the release of a new track, Boy George due out on August 3rd and available to pre-order right now via iTunes. The band have been making increasing waves on the scene, sharing the stage with the likes of Don Broco, Lower than Atlantis …
Track: Eva Plays Dead – Sounds Of The Written Word
Fans of rockers Eva Plays Dead have reason to rejoice as the band have just announced the imminent release of their next EP the 5 track “Sounds Of The Written Word” which is the follow up to “Guilt Trips & Sins” and set for release on 17 July via Sound-Hub in both digital and physical …
Track: Dr Crow and the Forbidden Zone release album details
Dr Crow and the Forbidden Zone are a five piece rock band from Leeds. They gave me two of their CDs recently to listen to. Current line-up: Dr Om Crow – Vocals Glenn Shultz – Guitars Jas Nakhwal – Bass Andy Twigg – Keys Mark Thomson – Drums I must admit to being rather shoddy …
New Music: Whoop-Szo release the post-metal of Mirror North
Guelph, Ontario. Maybe not quite internationally recognized as a musical hotbed, but in Canada it is well known as a centre for the non-conventional. Enter Whoop-Szo. Even for Guelph this quartet is a little out there. Uncompromising, they make the music that they want to make — it’s what they believe in. Their latest, “Mirror …
Track: Phosgore – Pestbringer
German electro-industrial outfit Phosgore are set to dominate club dancefloors again with the imminent release of Pestbringer the follow up to 2011’s Warhead. Originally founded by Florian Dietz after years of experience as a DJ in the Electro/EBM/Industrial scene, he was soon joined by partner in crime Sonja and the pair have been making dark, …
Track: KIT – No Mercy
New York rockers KIT is actually the brainchild of former Scapegoat front man Kit Walters, who, apart from fronting prog metal bands, also was the featured vocalist for the Metal Gear Rising: Revengance video game. Whereas their previous EP Through the Fire showed the band at their electro-infused best, their new single ‘No Mercy’ is …
New Music: Falling In Reverse – God, If You Are Above…
The latter years of the first decade in the millennium were not Ronnie Radke’s finest hour. After leaving his role as vocalist in Escape The Fate, and spending some time in jail, many people probably didn’t have much faith in his return to the music industry. However, with his incarceration spent writing songs for his …