Retro

Album & EP Reviews D 

Doublestone ‘Wingmakers’ LP/DD 2013

7th February 20143rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Digital, Doublestone, Heavy Rock, Levitation Records, LP, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Stoner, Wingmakers

Another day another retro rock band. This time Doublestone don’t hail from Scandinavia but from Denmark…which is as near as

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Horisont ‘Time Warriors’ CD/LP/DD 2013

20th November 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Alex Varley, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Horisont, LP, Metal Blade Records, Retro, Review, Rise Above Records, Time Warriors

Horisont are yet another shining example of just how good the modern music scene is in Sweden. Presumably Richie Blackmore

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Album & EP Reviews V 

Vidunder – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

13th July 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Blues Rock, CD, Crusher Records, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Self Titled, Vidunder

OK, as I see it, here’s how the music industry works. There are a few bands who do their own

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Brutus ‘Behind The Mountains’ CD/LP/DD 2013

8th July 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Behind The Mountains, Blues Rock, Brutus, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Svart Records

Now there are certain indicators when looking at a picture of a band that give me some clues as to

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Orchid ‘The Mouths Of Madness’ CD/LP/DD 2013

7th July 20133rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2013, Andrew Sloan, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Nuclear Blast Records, Orchid, Retro, Review, The Mouths Of Madness

I’m too young to remember the seventies, to have had my world and mind blown apart by this immense new

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Ape Skull – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

5th July 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Ape Skull, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Self Titled

As music technology progresses at an alarming rate and any old Tom, Dick and Harry can be thrown into a

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Ape Machine ‘Mangled By The Machine’ CD/LP/DD 2013

18th June 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Ape Machine, Blues, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Mangled By The Machine, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Ripple Music

“There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” Sorry for hitting you with some Shakespeare in

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Katla ‘I Will Hunt You’ 7″ 2013

16th April 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, 7", Foaming Waters, Heavy Rock, I Will Hunt You, Katla, Ollie Stygall, Psychedelic, Retro, Review, Who Can You Trust Records

In much the same way as the police use dogs to sniff out drugs, the folk at Who Can You

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Heavy Eyes ‘Maera’ LP/DD 2013

29th March 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Bilocation Records, Blues Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, Kozmik ArtIfactz, LP, Maera, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, The Heavy Eyes

Well, Kozmik Artifactz records from Germany have pulled off a significant one two punch of late in the retro rocking

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Dirty Streets ‘Movements’ LP/DD 2013

26th March 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Bilocation Records, Blues Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, Kozmik ArtIfactz, LP, Movements, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, The Dirty Streets

In its near 60 year history many “movements” have come along that have tried to derail rock and roll, and

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats ‘Blood Lust’ Reissue CD 2012

22nd January 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Blood Lust, Blues Rock, CD, Pete Green, Reissue, Retro, Review, Rise Above Records, Sleaze Rock, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

CD reissues usually come about for a small number of clear reasons: labels cashing in on niche and cult bands

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