Picture the scene. The sun hangs high in the sky, blazing the eyes and distorting the landscape with its intense heat. Ahead of you the road cuts a swathe through the dunes and mountains, rocks lie static and the occasional…
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Acid rock for the sludge generation. Yes, it was with an almost sexual joy that I stylishly flipped the disc into the player and hit the play button. If you didn’t know by now pop-fuckers, Ufomammut are an Italian psychedelic…
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Medamaki won’t be a name too familiar with many of you hailing as they do from the rock and roll capital of Evesham but hopefully with the release of their “Warbird” EP on Fury 76 Records this may change pretty…
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“Hello Evesham, you guys rock!!!” Hmmm, it doesn’t really have much of a ring to it does it? I can’t really imagine these words falling from the lips of Steven Tyler, James Hetfield, Bono or Bruce Springsteen. The very name…
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The Star & Garter, Manchester 28/08/08 The UK’s premier ‘purveyors of metal and doom’, Future Noise, were six years old tonight (which coincided with the release of the new Blackstar EP), and what better way to celebrate Dave and Paul’s…
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Sweet Mary-Jane!! Life is pain – drown me in riffs!! Dust off the Amstrad music centre, kick yer Para-boots off, skin-up a fat ‘un, crack open a Tartan bitter and close the curtains. A brand new extended play from everyone’s…
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First we had Scott Kelly and now Steve Von Till, I’m guessing there was a break in the Neurosis schedule last winter, as here we have a another solo album by a member of the infamous Neurot tribe. This time…
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What does the term Punk Rock mean these days? It’s a genre so watered down by lightweight, pop star-aspiring posturing, and if were honest it never meant much in the first place anyway. The Sex Pistols were just a 70′s…
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A newly released album by electronic avant-experimentalists I Klatus was available as a free download, this collection of nine tracks (forty six minutes) was originally recorded between 2003-2005. I Klatus are a deliberately obscure and mysterious collective of several people,…
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I’ve been sat here for twenty five minutes listening to Scott Kelly’s second solo album wondering how I can possibly put any critique of the Neurosis mans record into words. Like his main venture this music is so elemental, so…
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