(((O))) Year: 2017
Guido Segers got in touch with the metal band AMakARtUS and asked them some questions about the music scene in Mauritius. As far as AMakARtUS is concerned, the scene may have humble beginnings. That doesn’t mean they’re not hungry for more.
Dirge | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Twenty years divide Infected Brain Machine, Dirge’s first demo, and 2014’s Hyperion, their sixth and latest album to date. While the first few releases delved into industrial and noisy textures somewhat similar to …
The Pink Diamond Revue are a three piece project from outer-space via Reading, they create a truly unique mixture of heady electro and vintage blues. PDR combine beats from today with riffs, samples and vocal harmonies from the 50’s and 60’s. Fea …
If you’ve ever wondered what the end result of throwing Melvins head honcho Buzz Osborne, circa ‘Ozma’, much-missed Voivod axtronaut Denis ‘Piggy’ D’Amour, the drumkit of Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake and an octopus into an atom-smasher and then decanting the remains into the Large Hadron Collider would sound like then wonder no longer, as Loincloth has you covered.
Airbourne, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, The WildThe Roundhouse, London, 15.11.2017 Photos by Adrienn Pucher Please do not use the photos without the photographer’s permission.
Ghost Kings of the Five Regions are the incendiary combination of Have a Nice Life and Death Grips you neither knew you needed nor expected that you’d want. Season One is the first instalment in their multi-media telling of a tragedy in the fictional F …
Tatty Seaside Town, AKA Papa C, AKA Colin Wakefield has been at the heart of the Brighton DIY music scene for well over a decade . . . This, his second all-dayer of the year, has been entitled ‘Friends & Favourites’ and it’s easy to see why. Regulars, familiar faces, and leading lights of the British underground are all in attendance.
This Patch of Sky don’t require introductions. They’ve been around for a while and are one of the most respected bands in the Post Rock spectrum. They don’t like to play it by the book and this time around they pushed their boundaries and released one of the best instrumental albums of 2017. We had a chance to ask Kit Day, guitarist of the band, about the new album, the past, the present and the future.
Bruce Cowie does Damnation 2017, watches Big Business do the business, discovers that Myrkur are more like peanut butter than Marmite, and wonders why pasties cost more in the evening. . . Oh, and did he mention Wren?
Steve Fallows managed to grab a few words with Implore guitarist Pedro to find out a bit more about the band’s first album for Century Media Records and how this multinational band came together.
Throughout the set, although there was so much going on both physically and sonically, I felt as though the band created space in their music. Leaving room to add even more layers, if they wanted.
As close to a perfect night of live progressive music as you’ll probably find. . .
Spook The Horses have sent a memo to the masses that they are not band who can be easily cast off into the margins and have authored what I believe to be their best work to date.
Headliners Abhorrent Decimation seem to have gone from strength to strength. . . The new line up, crammed into the small Star & Garter stage power through a brutal set that gives an extra edge to the new material.
Get ready everyone, Black Moth are back! Stocked up with riffs of massive raise-the-horns destruction. . . With the imminent release of their upcoming Anatomical Venus album they showcase an exciting new heavier sound for their ‘Moonbow’ single release at London’s Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen.
Steve Fallows managed to grab a few words with Ash Scott and Dave Archer from Abhorrent Decimation to ask about the new album, the new deal with Prosthetic Records and what this means for the future of the band.
The previously unissued recordings on The Mysticism of Sound and Cosmic Language is both mystical and cosmic.
On a level with Sólstafir’s ‘Ótta’ in terms of its depth, sophistication and near brilliance. Definitely high on my list of albums of 2017. Get a copy and immerse yourself.
Burden Limbs is the latest musical vehicle for the prodigious talent of Chad Murray. Moving away from the ambient excursions of Driven Like Machines, Burden Limbs explores lo-fi anti-folk with gothic tinges. “These lo-fi home demos were used to re …
A power trio raised on Sabbath and fuelled by Haribo they’re so young two thirds of the band are still at primary school. Yeah, it is a kid’s band, but don’t be too quick to dismiss them, they play a kind of charming punk doom that’s worth a listen.
