There’s something inherently timeless when listening through The Chariot from Cincinnati’s Valley Of The Sun. That’s it, that’s the opener! Timeless is tantamount to classic so by that logic y’all should go out immediately and pre-order your new favorite Desert Rawk album of 2022. And we’ll get to a comparison or two in a few but to be honest, experiencing Valley Of The Sun’s originality for the first or fiftieth time makes a strong argument that comparisons are not needed. At. All.
[Read more…]Ex-Hyena Take Listeners On A Futuristic Sonic Odyssey With Sophomore Outing Moon Reflections
You’re not likely to find a more original outfit in the current Boston music scene than Ex-Hyena. A ridiculously hard to pin down outfit that’s part TV On The Radio, part The Faint, and part Massive Attack put through some futuristic Cyberdyne-fueled filter within the sonic odyssey that Daft Punk created in Tron: Legacy. Still with us? Well, that descriptor barely scratches the surface of what the rest of Moon Reflections holds!
[Read more…]Druids Put Their Mighty Metal Magic On Display With Magnificent Shadow Work
Shadow Work, the upcoming fourth album from Iowa’s own Druids, is big grooves entangled with a pointed heaviness entwined with a mystic kind of primal tribalism to make this one of the most unique records to drop in quite some time. Got all that? No? Well, you better put your helmet on, buckle up, and wrap your head around it soon because you’re about to take one helluva ride!
[Read more…]Idler Wheel Conjure A Kaleidoscope Of Sonic Delights With Run Straight Down
You’re not likely to find a better record that encapsulates ’90’s fuzzed out, moody, Alt Rawk better than the latest from Boston’s Idler Wheel. With Run Straight Down, the Boston-based outfit offer up a modern spin on sounds that maybe you grew up with (Like we did!) or are just discovering for the first time. Whatever your experience may be there’s no denying that what Idler Wheel is creating with their music, and especially on Run Straight Down, is both exciting and enduring.
[Read more…]Besvärjelsen Deliver Divine Doom And Desert Rawk Delights On Atlas
We can think of a number of records and artists in recent years that graced the covers of some of our most favorite Metal mags, had glowing reviews for that much anticipated/much hyped about record, and maybe ended up at the top of any number of year end “best of” lists only to just fall flat on our ears. And hey! It’s all about your personal taste which is subjective so no need to discredit the work put into creating or promoting some of those misses for us. Which brings us to Sweden’s Besvärjelsen whose name has been kicking around for a bit in that hyped space and whose upcoming Atlas record, for us at least, is one that we urge you to believe all the accolades being hurled its’ way.
[Read more…]Sergeant Thunderhoof Gift Your Earholes, Deliver Bonafide Desert Rawk Record Of The Year Contender With This Sceptred Veil
It’s a real special kind of album that, at barely three tracks in, we’re already searching for our in progress “Best of 2022” draft and adding it to the list. This Sceptred Veil, the latest from Bath’s Sergeant Thunderhoof, is that kind of a special album. The kind of album that, the moment you press “play”, just immediately emits a kind of aural glow. Like, if you were in Supernatural or some Ghostbusters movie with all their gadgets and gizmos and held one up while any of the tracks from This Sceptred Veil were playing you’d get some major readings that’d probably break said gizmos and gadgets with their sheer power is all we’re trying to say. Got all that?
[Read more…]Savage Republic Create A Dark Yet Joyous Delightful On Post-Punk Triumph Meteora
We don’t know what we ever did to deserve the kind of greatness being hurled at our earholes seemingly on the regular lately but we’ll take it all! Especially when it comes in the form of Los Angeles’ own Savage Republic and their upcoming album Meteora.
[Read more…]SPICE Avoid The Sophomore Slump, Skip Straight To Legendary Status With Viv
It’s not even fair to call Viv, SPICE’s sophomore effort, a more mature record because this Los Angeles-based band made up of veterans of the industry sounded like seasoned pros on the their debut as is. So what is Viv? Boss level SPICE? A new evolution? Well, however you want to describe this ten track affair there’s no denying that it’s a powerful collection of poignant Alt and on par with the upward trajectory that SPICE has been traveling since debuting on the scene just a few short years back.
[Read more…]Cave In Hone In On Space-Rawk Roots, Create A Cathartic Crusher With Majestic Heavy Pendulum
I try to stay away from other reviews when it comes to any album I already know that I’ll be reviewing myself here but after hearing the latest Cave In record all the way through for the first time I got a little overexcited to see if people felt the same way I did. That said, I’ve gotta hand it to Decibel Magazine’s Shawn Macomber who was so on point in describing Heavy Pendulum as “the best stadium-ready modern Metal record” because, in a nutshell and at its’ core, it’s exactly that. And obviously so much more.
[Read more…]Premiere! No More Blue Tomorrows, “Chaperone”
In the grand tradition of U2’s “Where The Streets Have No Name” video treatment and many a guerilla rooftop concert moment caught on tape a la The Beatles and Limp Bizkit comes a different sort of moment captured by Nashua, NH’s own No More Blue Tomorrows. A moment at the top of a parking garage. Where (mostly) no one shows up (Insert bug-eyed emoji here). But in a good way.
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