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Cymbals Eat Guitars’ much-lauded debut album (“Why There Are Mountains”) gets a full UK release in October, nearly 10 months after its Stateside one - self-released initially by the Staten Island four-piece. In advance of that here is a taster by way of single “...And the Hazy Sea”. However it is... The third release from Nathaniel Pearn’s (aka Kano-1) personal pet project Natural Self finds Pearn once again doing what he does best. A lil’ funk, some dubstep, and brass like a soul band. While Pearn has been keeping himself busy contributing to various notable artists work (Quantic, MC... I've always wondered how the Scandinavians might review British music (Adopts Swedish Chefs accent): "dose Kaizer Cheevs make a grate rackett, it sounds like Big Ben shagging Maggie Thatcher. Maybe the qveen listens to them whilst riding her horse to Buckingham House". Or something of that ilk. ...

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Diskjokke - Rosenrod [Single]
Moshi Moshi Music
In a recent interview with Kerrang, in the “Introducing” portion of the magazine, Goes Cube front man, David Obuchowski, uttered these words about his fellow band mate, Kenny Appell, “…he just didn’t give a shit”. Now Obuchowski was referring to the time when Goes Cube’s drummer willingly let a... The received wisdom is that certain labels can do no wrong. Factory, Creation, Warp, Sub-Pop: these were / are surely more cultural bastions than commercial enterprises, forging ahead on the good ship of impeccable taste, never failing to spot genius in the making and doing it all for us so we... There is no better way to prepare for your independently released debut album, than by unleashing a snippet of dawdling reflection that’s backed to the hilt by hanging guitars and rubbing percussion. This helps to draw out Jordan Spiers’ heartily yearning vocals that at times, mirror those of...

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Flood Of Red - Home Run (1997) [Single]
Dark City (05/10/2009)
Los Albertos are a band that’s never let the party die early, and “Dish It Up” certainly goes down smooth with a pitcher of beer and a sunny day. I’m not looking for emotional depth or a soulfully moving experience from an album like “Dish It Up”. Man, I’m just looking to shake my ass and have...

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Los Albertos - Dish It Up [Album]
Chief Recordings

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 There’s a serious call these days for a banjo and mandolin to entertain the youth. The emergence of classical folk and country is both inspirational and dirty. I say inspirational because country/folk here in America has by and large become a stale top 40 game of wannabe rock stars and fake ass...

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The Crux - Now, Ferment [Album]
Bite The Hand Productions

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 Pleasantly brash. Dr. Slaggleberry are a band that are filled with the joys of spring and portray this through technical metal that sounds as though it was found in an alleyway. Slightly sludgy without being too messy. Technical without being confusing. They take the key aspects of instrumental...
From Adam's Attic's own web-site: '...penned more than fifty original songs with the promise of more compelling hits to come.' I certainly hope so, for their sake. This kind of music always makes me feel uncomfortable. It just doesn't ring true. Adam's Attic sing emotional pop rock songs the...

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Adam's Attic - Skylines and City Lights EP (BMI)
Hell is being trapped in Adam's Attic.

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 Track one “Shut The Fuck - Uppercut” is an explosive start to the new album from South Wales’ finest The Blackout. The song showcases the bands best screamo core credentials. The song is a strong opener complete with "woahs", the track makes you want to move to its relentless beat. The energy... Will somebody please, for the love of God, take those fucking sticks out of that Prowse blokes hands. I swear, this drummer reminds me of Bart Simpson marching up and down outside a pregnant Marge Simpson's room screaming, "I am so great! I am so great!" whilst banging a pan on his head. All...
Anything released on a DIY indie pop record label dedicated to delivering “wee tactile packets of lo-fi POP!” is not necessarily going to impress with its production values or by sounding like Muse. But first song on "If The Wave Loves Two Suns" EP, 'These Are Golden Times' does surprise with its... Let me take you back to the last Gallows tour, the location being the Stoke date… The place was packed having people being turned away (which considering it’s Stoke is a rarity) and the crowd were just ready for pure intensity of a night of hardcore punk (and Bizzle… yes… Bizzle!). Cue...

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Blackhole- Dead Hearts [Album]
Search And Destroy Records (Out Now)

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 Alternating between heady mathcore, sweeping symphonic metal, and a groove flexible metalcore, The Ocean offer razor-filled ear-candy with the album "Fluxion". A commune like collective of musicians living out of a World War II aluminium factory in Berlin, The Ocean has been creating beautifully...

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The Ocean - Fluxion [Album]
Metal Blade

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Once upon a time, bands such as Megadeth were considered to be “evil” by conservative American parents. The reason being was that they were one of those “rock” groups. More specifically, they were one of those dreaded “metal” groups. Had I have been into the “metal” music during my youth, my... A furiously explosive blend of prog and modern rock ethos pervade Opus Dai’s EP “Touch The sun”. New vocalist Tim Neighbors strides confidently into the role of front man. Strikingly reminiscent of Tankian, Zavala, and Bellamy, yet still finding his own voice amidst the dynamic roar of this...

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Opus Dai - Touch The Sun [EP]
Fantom Limb/Acropolis Records
Holy Shit! This is awesome! I could end it there, but it’s generally better to say a few things, get us all on the same page, that sort of thing. No Made Sense? Where the hell have they been? Here I am, skimming through metal day in, day out. Always looking for the new rad for the station,...
As much as I love to fine dine on delights such as sautéed Sigur Ros or pan-seared Sunset Rubdown with a Pink Floyd Roux, it’s always comforting to know there’s the fast, easy options of The Black Lips burger or The Strokes sandwich...and now - Nodzzz noodles. Need to rock on the run? Nodzzz’s...

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Nodzzz - Nodzzz [Album]
What's Your Rupture?
Blase, glitzy, self-promoting, urban edged, London hip-hop has been given the seal of approval by Pete Doherty and radio glitterati such as Zane Lowe. This flavour continues into ‘Going Out Tonight’, A boastful single taken from upcoming third album, ‘Go Hard’. It continues Bizzle’s trend of... Not many mainstream artists can claim to have written over three hundred and fifty songs this decade. This year alone the West Virginia musician Jason Ward has released two albums, two EPs and seven singles, yet he is far removed from the mainstream music industry and remains unsigned. He is Kurt...
In 1980, after a 5 week tour of the USA, I flew into Manchester airport, picked up my tent, sleeping bag and ticket and headed straight down to Reading for the Festival. There were a lot of bands on that year that I really wanted to See. Iron Maiden, Gillan, UFO, Whitesnake and many others. For... Pouring out of the sub comes fast paced, glossy, brassy, soul-sounding, glorious DISCO! Nu-Disco to be precise, the kind whose home is in East London rather than Milan or Detroit, and which started breathing again from maybe 2002 onwards/ It's world-wide and a wide-ranging genre, so if you want...

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Shèna - My Fantasy [single]
No Prisoners Records
The Black Dahlia Murder has long held a pole position amongst American Death Metal and “Deflorate” once again shows us why. Heavy and brutal as always, “Deflorate” cracks your spine and rends your flesh with every track. Strnad’s vocals can invoke imagery of pain and mutilation, while Eschbach and...
Utterly vile and disgusting! Violent and depraved! This is everything I’m looking for in a sludge-death metal band. Fuck yeah Nekkrosis! I love watching the live Nekkrosis videos. There’s this caged intensity from the vocalist Griff. Like a rabid badger. The eyes of Nol the bassist get all... On Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall" included a track called "Vera". At the time, I suppose Vera Lynn had really disappeared from the spotlight but 30 years on I can report that Vera Lynn is in fact both alive and well and is challenging the likes of Kings Of Leon and Arctic Monkeys for the... Given that most of the metal output from the sunshine state sounds like a bag of satanic nails being dropped down a windtunnel, Shinedown represent something of a paradox. Virtually unknown in Britain, the Jacksonville quartet sure look like they'd eat your mum's tootsies with a nice Chianti, but...

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Shinedown - Second Chance
Warner Brothers
This single - Every Step - is smooth R/n/B with a high gloss production. What it simply lacks is any grit, and remember that's what creates the pearl. Not that 'Every Step' is bad - just really unmemorable. There's a bit of my brain that I have to work on to stop it filtering out this kind of... I went to see the Canvey Island Rhythm and Blues band Dr Feelgood, at Hartlepool Town Hall at about the same time that this album was originally released and a few days before Motley Crue embarked on the British leg of their world tour. There was the usual Feelgood fans, mainly bikers in their... Disreflect is an artist with which I was not previously familiar and I have had trouble finding much information on them. Neither their MySpace page nor their website list much biographical information, other than they are from Germany. Also, it looks like the band may be just one guy and not a...

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Disreflect - Mnemophobia [Album]
A Different Drum
Honestly, where would soundtracks be without the films of Quentin Tarantino? For a time, just about any film soundtrack would be comprised entirely of incidental music cues or songs that producers paid handsomely for. Then Tarantino came along and said, “Nah, I’d like to do something else... Even some 26 years after this album initially came out, the name Motley Crue is still a controversial name in rock circles and not just because they simply refuse to die in a fashion that even a Kryptonite-proof Superman would feel the green bite of jealousy over. Now with the band back on flying... Dire Straits was what made him pick up the guitar, a Robert Cray song was the inspiration behind the band name and Joe Satriani named him as his new favourite modern-day bluesmith. Davy Knowles, along with drummer Ross Doyle and bassist Adam Jones, certainly was a pleasant surprise when he entered...
I love the way the opening track 'All This Time' repeats the key line 'All This Time' over and over again. It's hypnotic like the Country & Western version of a strobe in a techno gig. Drug-like it numbs one part of the brain to let other parts that enjoy the unexpected freedom. The song is the... "The Black Box Revelation might not be reinventing the wheel" their PR chirps, "But one thing for sure..they're certainly adding to it". Aside from their child-like grammar and sentence construction - they are in PR I guess - I'm also left wondering how exactly you add to a wheel. Chrome Rims? ... I saw Matisyahu in 2005 at the music festival Moe Down, before 'King Without a Crown' was a hit. I didn’t know what to expect, having heard only that he was an orthodox Jew rapper. At the very least, the novelty factor was likely to be interesting. Happily, I was blown away. Matisyahu is...
First of all, I'm gonna lay this down on the table, and then move on swiftly before the pitchforks get sharpened. I quite like Papa Roach. Their previous album "Paramour Sessions" was a bit of a rather damp squib, as was "Lovehatetragedy" before it, leading into what I'm now referring to as...

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Papa Roach - Metamorphosis [Album]
Interscope Records
“To me, just seemed like a quiet, hippy loon…in bellbottoms. I remember him always having a can of Bud in his hand, quietly bumbling around like Shaggy from Scooby Doo! He is sadly missed: rock in peace, dude” – Jeff ‘Mantas’ Dunn, ex-Venom I wasn’t even a year old when Cliff Burton died in... Well I could be tempted to complain about a gig in which the main part of the set comprised of only 11 songs. But when those songs are so exquisite and so gently expansive that it felt like time stood still whilst listening, you can’t complain at all. In front of a packed, but deeply reverential...
Dear heavens, I'm surprised that Utada has a record company behind her. Her debut album is in fact released on Island Def Jam which should be some sort of guarantee, but this IS NOT the case. Utada comes complete with cheap devices of pseudo-classical intros seguing into cheaper synthesizers and...

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Utada - This Is The One [Album]
Island Def Jam

This album is Trash Can Fodder and should be avoided
 It is often said that we live in a sanitised world; one where technology is constantly developed to assist us to live our lives more comfortably. From electric can openers to twitter, we embrace anything that eliminates, or at least reduces, any effort involved in us living our everyday lives. ...

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Kong - Snake Magnet [Album]
Brew Records

We Recommend you buy this CD
 Mapei is defiantly making a name for herself in the music world. At only 24 years old this female rapper seems to be causing waves with her R&B / Hip-Hop / Rap / Techno mix. Her debut EP ‘Cocoa Butter Diaries’ was released this summer and is an impressive four track body of work. I know what...

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Mapei - Cocoa Butter Diaries [EP]
Alt Delete Records
Brazenly taking the early 90s grunge formula and adding an abundantly transparent radio friendly sheen, 'Slaves To Gravity' have struck out with their EP release 'Doll Size'. There is nothing gravely wrong with either of the 3 tracks to be found here, the production is crisp and well balanced, the...

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Slaves To Gravity - Doll Size [EP]
Spine Farm Records
Fans of old 21st century pop-punk are in for a real treat as 8th Time Luckie give us their latest release. The Surrey based 4-piece deliver their very own blend of distorted punk guitars, layered with vocals sure to have anyone singing along. This release is their second and self titled EP and is... What can I say about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart that I haven't already spewed forth into the world? Not a lot really but I'm going to try and conjure up some new feelings towards this most delightful of musical groups. So lets talk 'Come Saturday' the final single to be lifted from their...





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