According to the press release, concept album “Kleptocracy is looking around and suddenly understanding what Orwell meant. Kleptocracy is mind control told by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Kleptocracy is the distaste ensuing and the attempt to destroy all,… Read More ›
Month: December 2015
Immension – Love Never Dies
Earlier this year British metallers Immension released their highly anticipated and impressively enjoyable debut album In Vain. It was an encounter wearing the Sheffield band’s influences openly on its sleeve whilst tempting ears with their own specific craft in songwriting… Read More ›
Maybe We’re Dead Already – Shrapnel
Scottish rockers Maybe We’re Dead Already have just released their new EP On The Way Down, a six track roar of alternative and hard rock led by lead track Shrapnel. Sent over to us as a teaser and presumably the… Read More ›
Sittin’ Pretty – Twenty Four Seven / Hopeless Annie
Sittin’ Pretty is an alternative/blues rock band from the North West of England and a proposition, if their new single is a sign of things to come, we are all going to hear a lot more about in coming months… Read More ›
Shaving The Werewolf – The Pissing Link
Always partial to a dose of bracing noise rock, it did not take Shaving The Werewolf long to spark our attention with new EP The Pissing Link; subsequent listens only inciting a greedy appetite for the four track animus of… Read More ›
Lithium Dawn – Tearing Back The Veil I: Ascension
Whether people describe Lithium Dawn as progressive rock or progressive metal, the Californian band’s sound somewhere in between, neither suitably describes the sonic kaleidoscope that turns new album Tearing Back The Veil I: Ascension into one of the year’s major… Read More ›
Soundscapism Inc. – Self Titled EP
As for so many, a definite loss was felt when Portuguese / Finnish project Vertigo Steps went on a ‘hiatus’ with no indication of whether it would ever return. This was band which never quite hit the spotlights it deserved… Read More ›
Conquer Rio – Be My Lady
Taken from their recently released self-titled EP, Be My Lady is a stirring and magnetic lure into the melodic prowess of UK band Conquer Rio. The new single is a blaze of pop rock as infectious as it is evocatively… Read More ›
An Elegy unveil new “Ghost” Video
UK metalcore band An Elegy have unveiled the new video for their track Ghost. The song comes from the band’s debut EP, Embrace The Rain which is available now through their Bandcamp account. The quintet are certainly causing some serious… Read More ›
Jess & The Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
After an impressive introduction through their self-titled debut album back in 2012, there is always a potent twinge of excitement when whispers and news of something new from Finnish psychedelic rockers Jess & The Ancient Ones comes forward. It happened… Read More ›