I love trip-hop – and if you’re on the same page, you need to check Alyusha out ASAP.
Black Butterfly is a seriously self-assured masterclass in songwriting and composition. I’m struggling to move on, as all music journalists must, to the next act on my listening list even after an hour’s worth of Read more…
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For close to two decades, Cult Of Luna have laid claim to the throne of the post-metal kingdom, and few have disputed their right to the top spot. Whether carefully crafting five studio albums over the course of ten years, taking an extended creative break, or returning to the fray with 2013’s Vertikal and Vertikal II, Cult Of Luna have proven their worth over and over again.
For the past several years, Cult Of Luna albums have been thin on the ground. Begrudging Read more…
The Safety Fire, Tesseract, Architects, and The Faceless would have made a great co-headlining tour a few years ago. Fast-forward many moons, an assortment of splits, and an Avengers-style assembly later, and Good Tiger have not merely emerged, but exploded into the metal world’s consciousness. Made up of former The Safety Fire guitarists Derya “Dez” Nagle and Joaquin “Jo” Ardiles; ex-Tesseract vocalist Elliot Coleman; drummer Alex Rüdinger, previously of The Faceless; and one-time Architects touring guitarist Morgan Sinclair on bass, Good Tiger crowdfunded A Head Full Of Moonlight to the tune of almost $48,000 last year.
Listening to A Head Full Of Moonlight, it’s clear that Good Tiger’s fans were Read more…
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Asking Alexandria have never been my thing, as much as I’ve wanted them to be. To be honest, most modern metalcore bands send me rushing back to The End Of Heartache by Killswitch Engage. Until now, Asking Alexandria have always been lumped in with the others.
The Black is literally a whole other story.
With Asking Alexandria having parted from former frontman Danny Worsnop, his shoes filled by Read more…
It may be almost April, but with Visions’ new album wrapped up in my inbox, it feels like Christmas again.
Listening to Shake The Earth unpack itself is an absolute pleasure. It may be covered in scalpel-sharp spikes on the surface, but there’s plenty of substantive, tasty, bass-flavoured cake under the none-more-black icing and razor-edged tech-metal decorations. Modern metal bands often forget that there’s more to a mix than just a knob marked “TREBLE,” a fader marked “VOLUME,” and an onscreen icon labelled “COMPRESSION,” but Visions avoid that particular pitfall.
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Not many musicians can say they’ve been in the game for close to half a century – but Rick Nielsen is one of the rare few who have made it. Over the past several decades, Nielsen has driven the streamlined musical sports car named Cheap Trick through a bewildering string of twists and turns to arrive in 2016 with a new album, Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello!
Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello! happens to be Cheap Trick’s seventeenth studio album – and that is Read more…
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The average band doesn’t make it past their first album. Sometimes the sophomore slump hits hard, sinking careers as that difficult second long-player either never gets released, or just blows instead of blowing up. Rarely, you’re talking three to four albums – but you’re talking really rarely.
Keeping the flame burning after ten albums is an impressive feat – and with Distortland, The Dandy Warhols have hit an all but unbelievable career landmark.
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A jack of all trades is a master of none.
Or so we’re told. It sounds like common sense – and it is. But common sense isn’t always accurate.
Between them, Klaire de Lys and Sara Rose have almost every art, craft, and entertainment-related outlet covered. From comedy writing and lifestyle blogging to award-winning YouTube makeup tutorials, fantasy novels, webcomics, sculpture, visual art, and a head-spinning range of future projects in the pipeline, Klaire and Sara are both pretty busy, to say the least.
So, that makes them jacks (or Jills?) of multiple trades. Following the apparently immutable logic of common sense, Malumi and their debut album Monsters And Fireflies should be mediocre at best. This review, in turn, should be Read more…
It’s 2016, and attention spans are at an all time low. We don’t want to wait for great stuff to happen; we need it immediately.
There are positive and negative points to this fact – but one major plus point is that it forces creatives to get to the point without faffing around.
Clocking in at just under fourteen minutes, Home Is Where My Heart Dies is an EP custom-made for Read more…
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According to the press release that accompanied my review copy of Derangeable, Aliases are “for fans of tech-progressive metal and heavy bendy guitars that go WEEAAAAOORGGHHH CHUG CHUG”.
I can’t argue with that – but I would hasten to add that Derangeable will also satisfy your cravings for guitars that go “BEEADOODLEBEEP,” time changes that would give Stephen Hawking a migraine, and the kind of screams you’d normally associate with Read more…