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The first time I heard 3 Inches Of Blood was probably the same as most people via some sort of media (in this case Tony Hawk's Underground) which used 'Deadly Sinner' as a track. The first 3 Inches of Blood album was a good one to listen to if you were a fan of stories about myths (Orcs) and...

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3 Inches Of Blood- Here Waits Thy Doom [Album]
Century Media (Out Now in Europe, September 8th in USA)
I’m just going to come right out and say it. Whatever inspired Surfaces in their lives to write this kind of music must have been pretty damn horrible! Surfaces heavy and twisted style is pure scream metal energy. From the first seconds of the opening track ‘Voices and Lies’ the listener is... Today’s music industry is full of great songs there is no denying that for a second and covering these great songs has become an ever increasingly popular move for most artists, the most famous use of this idea here in the UK would probably be the ‘Radio One’s Live Lounge’ series. More often than...

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Christopher Bell - Covers [EP]
Silent Home Records
The London duo of Samuel ‘Blob’ Gough and Amir Alam moved to Los Angeles to soak up the west coast rays and form Blind Boris. Obviously inspired by the melodic rock scene of the late 70s and 80s, the debut album sounds like it was made thirty years ago in the glory days of The Eagles, at the start... There's something about the moments when Rachael Kichenside pauses for a microsecond, looking half upwards, small smile playing, that encapsulates the act of making this particular magic. This is a great place to see Run Toto Run. Performing a gig on a terraced roof garden, the place small enough...

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Run Toto Run [Live] at the Canvas Lounge
Knutsford 22 August 2009

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 Biffy Clyro have spent longer in the indie ghetto than most. They released 3 full albums of progressively tinged, hardcore indebted aggro-pop before they saw the golden, gleaming spotlight and became essentially a British version of The Foo Fighters (...only good). Last year's monumentally...
Gerald Clayton has been praised by the LA Times and the New York Times, he has collaborated with New York City's Jazz Gallery and England's BBC Orchestra and he has already received several awards. The piano skills of this young jazz musicians aren't worth a discussion - he is very good - but you... Well hello Mr.Guitar! What you are about to experience is roughly 3 minutes 13 seconds of quite blistering in your face guitar. Some of it will make your head nod in quite unforgiving approval whilst some of it will create a kind of mushy fuzz in that space between your ears. Generally it's all...

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The Hot Melts - Red Lips [Single]
Epitaph Records - Out 31st August
Sweet tasty Lord Jesus this is absolutely bonkers and brilliant. 100% in your face grab you by the jugular brilliant, thrashed and hoarse Cuddly Shark deliver an absolute gem of a follow up to their equally brilliant single 'Woody Woodpecker'. 'The Sheriff Of Aspen Bay' screams like me, like me,...

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Cuddly Shark - The Sheriff of Aspen Bay [Single]
Armellodie Records - Out Now
There has to be something special and certainly intriguing about a band that before really releasing anything locked themselves away in the studio for 18 months to perfect a debut album that doesn't really have any hype as the band haven't been heard of for that lengthy time. Look at the calibre... The Chemists began life in a pub and you would possibly assume that this really isn't the environment to start a creative force what with the pork scratchings breeding behind the bar and the sticky floor thwarting your efforts to get home; but, on the flip-side it says that there could be something...

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The Chemists - A Love Like No-One Else [Single]
Distiller Records - Out Now
First you guys should all listen to this single, I wasn’t impressed. It struck me as fairly unimaginative slab of retro synth-pop. On second listen I started to get annoyed. It felt clinical AND cynical: an aiming-for-across-the-board-appeal, radioplay-courting Frankenstein’s monster, bolting...
9 times out of 10 when actors decide to try their hands as musicians the results are pitiful. The list is long and shitty, be it Keanu Reeves's grunge band, Russell Crowes folk group or Jamie Foxx's cheesy r&b abortion, there are many precedents and they are all resolutely awful. Hoping to buck... Having never encountered Australian pop nuggets 'The Veronicas' before this afternoon (my younger brother tells me I'm pretty out of the loop on this one) I honestly had no idea what to expect. Roughly 20 seconds into the song I was struck by an inestimably grim thought though.... I would have to...

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The Veronicas - 4 Ever [Single]
Warner Records

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Blasting out of the speakers like a modern James Bond theme, 'The Never Ending Why' certainly makes an imposing first impression. Placebo appear to have ditched the 'less is more' aesthetic that worked so well for them on their 'Sleeping With Ghosts' album (an album I rate as their best) and have...
Ivyrise. One can only presume that this southern quartet named themselves this after the way that Ivy, rises. Obviously not a literal meaning for the band, but a metaphor on which direction this band wish to go. Having already supported Bon Jovi on tour in 2008 alongside none other than Brit... Not content using customary glowing reviews to sell their release, Homelife instead quote a Japanese visitor to Manchester in 1993: "Your houses, they look like cakes!" What that says about the music is, quite a lot actually. Homelife are a stripped down duo playing and recording all the laid... The gap between superstar DJ and software geek seems to narrow every year: Toronto's Joel Zimmerman may now be one of the planet's premier crossover techno artists, but his roots lie in tweaking 8-bit programs and doubtless staying up way after bedtime. For a change however the hype is well...
Picture a blank page, not even one of a big size, and you'll start having an idea of my knowledge of MGMT prior to approaching their album "Oracular Spectacular". Having no expectations sometimes is good, as there is no pressure of "previously-heard" or "previosuly-described". Based on this, a...

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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [CD]
Columbia/SonyBMG

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 It’s been a long time since I listened to Thrice, I remember listening to "The Artist In The Ambulance" album and then for some reason they dropped off my radar, not in a case of I suddenly didn’t like them, I just had moved on trying to find other bands and kind of forgot about Thrice. So...

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Thrice - Beggars [Album]
Hassle / Vagrant (Out Sept 14th)

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 This is my first encounter with Alberta Cross' music, and I have to say that this sort of stuff is right up my street! Not knowing much about Alberta Cross, I did a little research - MySpace, official website, Google, Twitter. There was very little biographical information on these sites, but...
Every year there’s one album that comes along and makes me just stand up and declare this as the record of the year. 2009 has been a weird year in that ideal has changed about three times for me so far: firstly came Mastodon’s "Crack the Skye" then "Lungs" by Florence And The Machine and now "The...

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Porcupine Tree- The Incident [Album]
Roadrunner (Out Sept 14th)

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 Preston may not have been well know at all, a few music fans may have known him as a member of the British group ‘The Ordinary Boys’, but he was far from a house hold name at this point. A lot of people now associate him with Celebrity Big Brother, an ‘All-Star’ version of the British Channel 4...

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Preston - Dressed to Kill [Single]
B-Unique Records
Well this came as something of a pleasant surprise. Italy's Ofeliadorme have released their debut EP "Sometimes It's Better To Wait" on their own label and have very much let the music do the talking. This is darkly tinged acoustica informed very clearly by the aesthetics of post-rock and...
Some albums start with a note that captivates you, a lyric that makes you take notice, a riff that tingles your spine. "Master of Reality" makes you notice with a coughing fit brought on from smoking weed. Such begins one of the most classic Black Sabbath and rock albums of all time "Master Of... Face The Unkown's self titled EP represents one of those moments where it’s slightly difficult to find any information on the band in question. Leaving me with the only option being to look at the booklet, which had many pictures of band members looking moody and the song titles being ‘Devoid’,... Set the controls on the WABAK Machine for 1976, Sherman (From BBC TV show The Rocky & Bullwinkle show? Watch Peabody’s Improbable History to get this reference.) YouTube - Peabody and Robin Hood "Fundamental Darkness," the latest release from Nico’s Alchemy, takes us back to a time when arena...
Knowing that Charm City Devils are signed to Nikki Sixx’s Eleven Seven Records will give you a massive insight in to their sound. It’s rock with a touch of more rock and an element of even more rock thrown in for good measure. As the opening, and title track ‘Lets-Rock-N-Roll (Endless Road)’... Leeds Festival, 22.10pm and a packed tent is ready and waiting to see Marmaduke Duke who, despite being formed six years ago, are only now starting to enjoy real commercial success. The buzz for this band is mainly due to the fact that one half of this exuberant and brightly coloured two-piece, is... Mike Batt has a keen ear for talent. Not content with working with the hugely successful Katie Melua and helping to shape her into a unique and interesting musician, Batt has now turned his craft to Florence Rawlings. Having toured with Batt on his ‘Songwriter’s Tale’ promotional tour, Rawlings...
Narrows is a band that consists of many members from many other bands, most notably is Botch vocalist Dave Verellen. Alongside him is These Arms are Snakes guitarist Ryan Frederiksen as well as a host of very seasoned musicians who have been in many a fine band. See Narrows website for the full... Jon Allen spent his formative years growing up in South Devon. "Dead Mans Suit" is his debut full length release. The album kicks off with the title track 'Dead Mans Suit' and the first impressions are good, it's a catchy tune, and there's a nice Hammond organ solo near the end. Jon's vocals are...

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Jon Allen - Dead Mans Suit [Album]
Monologue Records

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 Oh come on. How cool is this? So Altsounds sends me this CD, right? It's a compilation titled Moondust. An incredible compilation. I haven't even stuck it in the CD player yet, and I'm already trying to figure out what to say about this incredible set of songs, apparently compiled by the People...
Subverting and subversive, Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beats starts off pretending to be straight mid western country folk and it almost succeeds. "It shakes and it splits me - that you could forget me," is the defining line of the opening song 'Rose'. Defining because that's the moment you...

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Castanets - Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beats [Album]
Asthmatic Kitty. Ships in USA 22 Sept, in UK 5 Oct

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 Originally released in 1978, "Never Say Die" was the last studio album to feature Ozzy Osbourne as vocalist. It was my favourite Black Sabbath album to feature Ozzy, which I am sure will surprise a few readers also of surprise is that the music on "Never Say Die" is not entirely what you might... ZAO have been around a long time, since 1993 in fact, and in that time have had a multitude of line up changes to the extent that there are no original members left! That by no means implies that the members are new, with vocalist Daniel Weyandt and guitarist Scott Mellinger joining back in 1997. ...

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ZAO - Awake? [Album]
Ferret Music
Sometimes an album comes along that knocks you sideways; an album that hits your heart and your head and redefines everything that’s gone before. An album that’s so personal you want to keep it for yourself but so sweet you have no choice but to share it with others. Geoffrey Gurrumul... The Devil Wears Prada are a band that have become something of a Marmite act, in that, you guessed it, you either love them or you hate them. If you had introduced me to them after their first release I would likely have hated them but, "With Roots Above And Branches Below" shows that The Devil... Mind Odyssey, founded back in 1993, is a German progressive metal band. They released several albums back in the 90’s but disbanded towards the end of the decade. 10 years later and a reformation has resulted in "Time To Change It". cMind Odyssey are very self indulgent as "Time To Change It" is...
Cosmopolitan Breed 77, The Prodigy and System Of A Down mingling metal and synthesizer rock parading is topped off with a quirky, Amy Lee rehearsing with Queen Adreena flavoured backing kick. It renders ‘Resistance Now’, a mood and tempo flitting saunter. Heitham Al-Sayed’s philistine vocals... To start the review I like to mention a phone conversation I had with a friend last week, the friend had decided to ring me at 1am and proclaim to me that 'Constellations' by August Burns Red was probably his favourite record of 2009 so far. Considering that friend is a bigger fan of metalcore...

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August Burns Red- Constellations [Album]
Hassle Records (Out Now)
Man Raze is the current project of Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen, Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Simon Laffy of the glam metal band Girl, whose members went on to such projects as L.A. Guns and tours with Yngwie Malmsteen. Their album Surreal is the culmination of a four-year...
Like most up-and-coming American emo / pop-punk bands, Echo Screen got noticed by the seminal Drive-Thru records in the US before the release of their debut album "Euphoria". The band signed to Rockout and such is the life of young bands these days, Echo Screen has already replaced a guitarist and... With her wild hair and mock-goth outfit, leaning away from the old fashioned microphone stand, Florence Rawlings looks more like Alison Mosshart than Katie Melua. But this is another artist who seems to be embarrassed to be associated with such a mainstream commercial sound. Either that or... Occasionally, I can’t quite think of anything to say. It irritates me, to say the least -- although my verbal constipation is probably not half as annoying for those around me as opposed to the occasions when I do tend to speak. It’s especially bothersome when I’m attempting to review something....





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