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RUNNING WILD releases New Single, ‘Ride On The Wild Side’, New EP Coming This December

RUNNING WILD has released a new digital single entitled ‘Ride On The Wild Side’. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming EP Crossing The Blades featuring three brand-new studio recordings and one cover version. ‘Ride On The Wild Side’ is a song, which – thanks to its powerful pace and high compositional quality – would almost have made the shortlist for the upcoming album. Now it enhances the Crossing The Blades EP, particularly because Rock N’ Rolf recorded the guitar solo on a Fender Stratocaster – instead of his tried and tested Gibson Explorer – to do justice to […]

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Album Review: Blackqueen – The Destructive Cycle

Seattle’s BLACKQUEEN returns with its all-important Album Number Three here, summarily getting down to the business of ‘The Destructive Cycle’, sludge reminiscent of the much-missed RABIES CASTE in moments, the angular slash ‘n’ burn of early QUICKSAND in others. Surprisingly, most of all, is that this instrumental introduction didn’t bore the ever-loving crap out of me as the majority of such things are wont to do. ‘Feed The Worm’ is the antithesis of the opener, staccato riff attack and a (possibly subconscious) nod to the heshers in the triumphant 0:29-0:44 section, all anchored by a rhythm section reminiscent of CRETIN […]

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Legendary doom metal forefathers Candlemass nominated for Grammy

Listen to Nominated Track ‘Astorolus – The Great Octopus’ Featuring Tony Iommi & Watch the Official Music Video HERE CANDLEMASS are truly the manifestation of pure doom metal! Early 2019 saw the release of their latest album, The Door To Doom, via Napalm Records – an offering that features an unforgettable pairing with legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on the track ‘Astorolus – The Great Octopus’. The song has now been nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award in the Best Metal Performance category. This is the first nomination for the band and the first nomination for Napalm Records! The […]

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COIL: Cold Spring Records To Reissue Stolen & Contaminated Songs Including First-Ever Vinyl Pressing; Album Streaming + Preorders Posted

Cold Spring Records is proud to present the long-awaited reissue of COIL’s out-of-print album, Stolen & Contaminated Songs, presented on CD and, for the first time, on vinyl. As the new edition of the album is being prepared to see release next week, the entire album has been made available for streaming, and preorders for all versions are posted. Stolen & Contaminated Songs was recorded and produced by British esoteric/electronica/experimental outfit COIL in 1992. It is comprised of over sixty minutes of outtakes and unreleased songs, evolved during the recording sessions for their prior album, Love’s Secret Domain. A wealth […]

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Album Review: Strigoi – Abandon All Faith

VALLENFYRE is no more. The crusty death metal project of PARADISE LOST’s Gregor Mackintosh has breathed its last. But rushing in to fill the gap is STRIGOI, named after demons of Romanian folklore. The differences between VALLENFYRE and STRIGOI are not extreme, but they are there and it’s a good bet that fans of both VALLENFYRE and PARADISE LOST will enjoy the murky gloom of Abandon All Faith. Though the debut has the same grimy feel as VALLENFYRE, Abandon All Faith is a little more varied and, on occasion, more sophisticated. ‘Phantoms’, ‘Carved Into Skin’ and the title track all […]

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SPK: Cold Spring Records Reissues LP By Australian Industrial Music Pioneers; Several Tracks Streaming + Preorders Posted

Cold Spring Records presents a reissue of Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers), the long out-of-print album by Australian industrial/modern classical music pioneers SPK. As the record makes its reemergence next Friday, November 29th, several tracks from the album and preorders have been posted. Stream selections from SPK’s Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers) RIGHT HERE. Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, Zamia Lehmanni (Songs Of Byzantine Flowers) was the third (and final) core SPK album and was Graeme Revell’s first truly solo project. He was in a period of transition, somewhere between the industrial noise of the early […]

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HARMAA GETTO to release new album thru SVART – includes members of PAAVOHARJU

Distorted sounds. A fever-dream caused by faith and an alcohol overdose. Howling echoes from dying rural areas. Lo-fi trip-hop from Finland’s eastern border. HARMAA GETTO is a Finnish band formed by Lauri Ainala and Joose Keskitalo. Both are better known from the musical collective Paavoharju. Their new album, Ovenvartija, is released by Svart Records on November 29th. Best known for their “drunken rap aesthetic”, HARMAA GETTO’s new album takes the duo towards melancholy and sadness, often sounding like Portishead tormented by alcohol-withdrawal symptoms. This time, there are new members involved. Revon Akan Poika (loosely translated as “Boy of da Repo […]

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Album Review: Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean – Tell Me What You See…

This is the third release by CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN preceded by a full-lenghth and initial EP over the past two years. To my jaw- dropping surprise the first track, ‘I Will Possess Your Heart’, is a DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE cover, which of course they slaughter it in the best way possible. Gritty guitar and gritty vocals, i couldn’t ask for much more. Yet another welcome surprise is Paul Degrandpre’s clean vocal delivery at one point during ‘Out, Brief Candle’, and not for nothing, I happen to think he has a lovely voice. Truth be told, […]

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NUCLEAR WAR NOW! to reissue LOITS’ first two albums on vinyl

Nuclear War Now! Productions sets February 28th, 2020 as the international release date for vinyl LP reissues of LOITS’ first two albums, Ei kahetse midagi (2001) and Vere kutse kohustab (2004). For more than two decades, LOITS has been producing some of the most meticulously crafted and unique black metal. Hailing from the tiny nation of Estonia in northeastern Europe, LOITS draw upon the history of their proud people for inspiration, particularly the Estonian underground guerilla resistance movement—often referred to as “the Forest Brothers”—that struggled against Soviet occupation during and after WWII. With its 2001 debut full-length, Ei kahetse midagi, […]

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Album Review: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – Very Uncertain Times

Yes, these are very uncertain times indeed, but fortunately we can rely on the good ADMIRAL SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL to blast our brainwaves with greasy, gritty retro-rock on a fairly predictable basis. This is getting to be one of those “never fail” bands and I can’t think of anybody doing the early ’70s proto-metal/blues rock shtick with more authenticity and good humor than the good ADMIRAL. It is tedious to repeat in each successive review of ASCS, but these guys are able to channel the rugged, raw and loud sounds of the early 70’s blues rock scene with amazing fidelity. […]

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