By Stewart
There’s cult.. and then there’s true cult. Besides the otherwise disparate likes of Kip Winger and Cephalic Carnage, Denver Colorado ain’t exactly known for heavy music… but Denver natives Black Lung have been plying their trade of viciously dark hardcore punk for over two decades. Read more…
By Stewart
There’s been a bit of a trend recently towards metal supergroups (the heavy music community is practically salivating at the prospect of Killer Be Killed), but Mutation is one that may slip under the radar. Well I’m gonna do my best to see that it doesn’t. Read more…
By Stewart
…The Canadian indie heroes have been pretty quiet of late… the only murmurs that have permeated our newsfeeds were allegations of pop diva Delta Goodrem ripping off their classic track “Rebellion (Lies)”… Until they announced they were releasing a double album! Read more…
By Stewart
…it contains everything great about Pearl Jam. Infectious riffing, driving beats, melodic inflections and a magnificent vocal performance from Vedder that could shatter glass… Read more
by Andrew
The return of Marshall Mathers III’s better stuff has been long in the making. Not that he’s been silent, but the rap industry has been chewing up and spitting out crap mainstream rappers since the last album ‘Recovery’, so its good to see someone capable walking back into the fray. In the last couple of years we’ve seen the rise of Kanye West and others, but Eminem is still the master of brilliant writing, disturbing and conversely hilarious lyricism and a style unique in this day of homogeny and carbon copy hip-hop. Does ‘MMLP2’ live up to the hype or does it show whether Mathers should have stayed in semi-retirement? Let me take you on a journey…
By Stewart
In the current musical climate of an incalculable number of bands spawning an inconceivable number of heavy sub-genres, a group widely perceived as irrelevant has-beens or never-weres releasing an album entitled ‘Paradigm Shift’, is either a really brave, or really fucking stupid move. Which is it? Read on, dear reader….
By Ben
The ‘K’ Word…It is unavoidable I’m afraid…
Vista Chino is not Kyuss (mostly for legal reasons) but there is enough Kyuss present in their personnel and sound for them trade off the aforementioned legacy. But in doing so they potentially risked mortally wounding a mythical monster, and as a huge Kyuss fan I was worried that may turn out to be the case. Read more…
by Andrew
Holy fucking shit! Who would have thunk it?! My nuts are all a quiver anticipating listening to this after more than 10 years of waiting. Is it worth it? Hell fucking yeah! …Continue reading…
By Stewart
Goldfrapp have spent the past decade teasing us. Their 2002 debut ‘Felt Mountain’ is rightly regarded as indispensable, but since then the London duo have bounced uneasily between electro-pop, ambient melancholia and trip-hop without ever quite delivering the baroque masterpiece we know they’re capable of. Read more…
by Andrew
The Bloody Beetroots are interesting. Or should I say, Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo is interesting. The Italian born and classically trained musician/producer is an enigma. Aside from the rather obscure tattoo “1977” on his chest (his birth year and the birth year of punk) and his signature donned Venom mask, not much is really known about Rifo. He has been in and around the post punk scene throughout Europe and even his foray into electro was fairly low key. Originally being picked up by Steve Aoki and Dim Mak Records, he has now released only his second album under the Ultra Records label out of the US. And boy is it fucking good…Continue reading…
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