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Album Review: Rangda – The Heretic’s Bargain

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Track: Paves – ‘Dancing ’til The End Of Time’

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A beginners’ guide to Peter Gabriel

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Francis Dunnery’s (FD It Bites) latest musical venture, “Return to Natural,” takes listeners on an evocative journey through an eight-track captivating album. An analogue recording inspired by the renaissance of vinyl, featuring an exceptional lineup of musicians, including Paul Brown on bass guitar, Chad Wackerman on drums, Tony Turrell on keyboards, and Dave McCracken creating …

By Anthony Moore Underoath are out on tour with Periphery and Loathe in support of their most recent album Voyeurist. Backseat Mafia’s Anthony Moore was in attendance at The Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon to get some photos. Underoath’s most recent album Voyeurist currently available on all major streaming platforms. Tickets for upcoming shows are …

Two old friends are set to reunite in celebration of their new albums, Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins, and their respective bands, The Twin Set and The Fat Rubber Band. It’s and East Coast run of dates in February 2023 for two of Australia’s much-loved musical icons and raconteurs have a long history together, sharing …

Shared with the world the beginning of this month, ’Bound’ is Only The Brave’s latest single. The first single to feature new vocalist Jack Bennett following the departure of David Jakes back in 2018. Reminiscent of Pearl Jam vibes echo throughout this highly anticipated song with the quintet keeping their rock energy going from start …

In these unsettling times, Relapse records have done something for fans missing live shows. They’ve trawled the archives and are releasing an unreleased live concert onto their socials every week from legendary Florida Death Metal pioneers, Death. The full statement from the record company reads: Relapse Records is proud to present Death: Non Analog – On …

I’m only gonna write this once: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are ready to release this their 2nd Full Length, the first being the massive and ground breaking “King Of Cowards” back in 2018.   For the purposes of not wearing out my keyboard they’ll be referred to forthwith as Pigs x7, and …

Two of the hardest working men in garage rock / psych, Ty Segall and Mikel Cronin, are to have one of their long out of date 7” records – ‘Pop Song’ b/w/ ’So I went to beach, melody’ and ‘Kit Carson’, re-released on Italy’s Goodbye Boozy imprint. All three tracks on the EP are short, …

Rock royalty Papa Roach have released a new video for the track ‘Top fo the World’, about which they say, “Isolation can be a scary thing. It can lead us to a lot of dark thoughts. It can make you think about going back to the bottle, or suicidal thoughts. Although most of us are …

It’s been 29 years since Pearl Jam first released ‘Ten’ to the world. 16 million copies is an overwhelming amount of sales for any young band to handle. To then continue to flourish under that kind of shadow is paralysing for many. Just surviving the drugs, self-loathing and all-around anguish of the Grunge era would …

Taken from their much anticipated ‘The Kingdom’ album, due out (all being well) in May, muti-platinum rock band Bush have revealed a new video for lead single ‘Flowers on a Grave’. It’s typically muscular, packed with these angst guitar lines and a dark, almost melancholy (unsurprising given the subject matter perhaps) melancholy about it, echoing …