Live Review: Opus Kink At Base Camp With Support From Travis Shaw and Undivine Telephone Line
An excitement was built for this gig after having doing some research into Opus Kink. The Brighton band are described as Horn-fueled filth-funk, where punk and jazz combine in grimy circumstance. The night was a packed affair with three bands on the list. The young rockers Undivine Telephone Line and Northern troubadour Travis Shaw. After …
Live Review: Anna Ash at Base Camp With Support From Elaine Palmer
First gig back, after the Covid nightmare, at one of my favourite venues Base Camp in Middlesbrough. A quaint venue with huge potential. The tables where laid out with candle burning for what is to be a special night of gentle country rock courtesy of local lass Elaine Palmer and American country girl Anna Ash. …
Album Review: Venus Grrrls – Potions EP
Venus Grrrls have released their new EP, ‘Potions’ on November 5th 2021 via Monomyth Records. The EP is a collection of songs that digress into integral parts of human emotion and consciousness. Exploring themes such as friendship, body image, and love, the band showcase their most intimate body of work yet. The band are also …
Premiere: Private Agenda Share Video For Track ‘Neo-Nostalgia’
Private Agenda’s have created a brilliant new video for their track ‘Neo-Nostalgia’, the lead track from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘A Mannequin’ due next year via Lo Recordings. The video is a collaboration with Kat Kemsley and J. R. Dawson (a.k.a Tough Honey) with whom the pair previously created a series of stunning mixed-media visuals for their debut album, Île …
Track: i Helvete – Sairaan Mielen Sinfonia
Finnish extreme metal band, i Helvete have released the second single “Sairaan Mielen Sinfonia” from their upcoming debut album ‘Sinisten Puiden Niitty’ Singer-guitarist Aleksi Mäkelä tells about the song: “The song was written for a long time before the lyrics were completed. We had to choose between this and another track, which one will be the second single. …
Track: Venom Prison – Judges Of The Underworld
Five-piece Venom Prison have shared ‘Judges Of The Underworld’, the first song and video taken from their upcoming album ‘Erebos’, due 4th February, 2022 via Century Media Records. The band comment, “’Judges Of The Underworld’ deals with the crippling reality of people who face incarceration, who oftentimes are followed by violence over a lifetime. This violence can …
Track: The Risen Dread – Silent Disease
Irish quartet The Risen Dread debut album ‘Night Hag’ is set for release on January 28th 2022 via Wormholedeath records. ‘Night Hag’ is a concept album with mental illness as its central theme, with all the tracks focusing on a particular illness or a historical figure that had multiple disorders. A whirling mash of heavy guitars …
Track: Breed Of Aggression – Unmasked
Hailing from the Midwest, Breed Of Aggression is a new heavy metal project founded by Scott McClellan and Susie Hoffman Beahm. Breed Of Aggression have released the for their first single “Unmasked”. Scott McClellan talking about the single ‘Unmasked’, “When Unmasked was written, I had the idea of Painkiller by Judas Priest in my head, …
Track: Gojira – Sphinx
Gojira have shared the official music video for ‘Sphinx’ a standout track from their acclaimed new album Fortitude. (read our review here) How can you not be affected by that heavy powerful riffing and the harsh vocals that sound almost unworldly. Directed and animated by Zev Deans, the music video sees Gojira delivering a pulverising performance at the feet of …
Track: Spoon – The Hardest Cut
Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. According to frontman Britt Daniel, “It’s the sound of classic rock as written by …