Nails: Abandon All Life – album review
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This is brutal. The guitars and drums pummel you into the ground as the high raw throated screaming of the singer flays the skin from your nerve endings.
Read MoreMarnie Stern: Chronicles of Marnia – album review
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This album is all about the guitars, great big massive guitars mixed up with little noisy guitars and of course, Marnie’s trademark shredding guitars worked into and under and over the sounds here.
Read MoreAnd So I Watch You From Afar: All Hail Bright Futures – album review
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And So I Watch You From Afar are happy. They radiate good feeling and sunshine. This album is uplifting and bright and a welcome blast of warmth when, as I sit writing this, it’s started to snow again.
Read MoreWardruna: Yggdrasil – album review
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It’s a wild and wonderful sound. I suppose it could be called folk, except I never felt like I had to turn the lights on when I listened to folk. Nature flows through this music, the blood flowing from a bite. The moonlight on a leafless tree, the harsh and brutal life in a snow covered forest. The chants give you a sense of primal fear, of not knowing what life will bring next and having to coldly accept this.
Read MorePeloton: Unnatural Affection for Hornets – Album Review
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Peloton come out of Houston in Texas, they are the musical equivalent of poking a wasp’s nest with a stick, it might be all calm and serene right now but in a minute you had better start running…..The album title is very apt and made me smile.
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