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Sergeant Thunderhoof Gift Your Earholes, Deliver Bonafide Desert Rawk Record Of The Year Contender With This Sceptred Veil

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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?

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Savage Republic Create A Dark Yet Joyous Delightful On Post-Punk Triumph Meteora

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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.

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SPICE Avoid The Sophomore Slump, Skip Straight To Legendary Status With Viv

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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.

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Cave In Hone In On Space-Rawk Roots, Create A Cathartic Crusher With Majestic Heavy Pendulum

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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.

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Child Bite Find Crushing Cousins On Another Continent For New Split 7″ EP With Black Rheno

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Whenever we get a promo with barely a week or less to go before a release it tends to get pushed to the bottom of the “must cover” pile as there’s usually a bunch of other stuff that’s had our attention for some time (Again, we listen to EVERYTHING that comes our way regardless of timing). Obviously, there are some exceptions…like when we get anything from Child Bite. And how could we not drop everything for the barely 5 minutes total of “new” music from Child Bite on this Split 7″ EP (4:42 to be exact) which managed to put the biggest shit-eatin’ grin on our faces and immediately moved this release up to the the top of our “to do” list!

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The Nika Riots Read You The Riot Act On Raucous Debut Derelict

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Like Greg Puciato simultaneously fronting The Kinison, He Is Legend, and Refused circa The Shape of Punk to Come, The Nika Riots immediately stand apart with the righteous Rawk they bring forth on the incendiary Derelict. Barring those comparisons, the music itself is simultaneously textured, divine, and unrelenting and with Derelict, The Nika Riots has delivered a debut record that’s definitely demanding of your attention.

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FOZZY Bring A Bodacious Bombast Filled With Banger After Banger On Eighth Full-Length BOOMBOX

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Easily one of our most anticipated releases for about 2 years now, FOZZY return with their 8th full-length this May and it is well worth the wait after the unexpected banger-maker that Judas turned out to be. In fact, you know what? I’m just going to come out and say it: BOOMBOX is the absolute BEST FOZZY record to date! Yep, better than Judas! Are you intrigued yet???

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Tombstones In Their Eyes Get Fuzzier, Trippier, Transcendier With A Higher Place

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If you were over the moon for Tombstones In Their Eyes’ last release like we were then we’re pretty sure, like us, that the follow up EP that hits soon is really gonna blow yer socks off. Or whatever you put on your feet because not everyone wears socks. But anyway! TITE is back with a neat little follow up that takes the groundwork laid throughout 2021’s Looking For A Light and builds a veritable sonic skyscraper from it. A Higher Place might only be comprised of six tracks but it’s a bountiful blast of titanic textures that unequivocally solidifies Tombstones In Their Eyes’ place amongst the fuzzed out Alternative elite.

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Singles! Idler Wheel, “Matches”

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Boston’s Idler Wheel is back with a new single ahead of a new album arriving in late May and if the rest of the rekkid is anything like “Matches” then fans are in for a treat and then some. Actually, we’ve heard said album that “Matches” is the lead single from and we know it is indeed a treat and then some so apologies on the misdirect to create some drama/mystery. Our bad!

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Singles! Tysk Tysk Task, “Colors”

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Wow, Lowell is really bringing it lately! Within the last month or so alone we’ve covered artists from the city in Middlesex County who are exquisitely brandishing variations of Darkwave, Alt-Folk, and more with Tysk Tysk Task arriving and adding to that list with their self-described “Indie Grunge Rock”. Read on to find out why we think they’re a whole helluva lot more than that.

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