Martyn Coppack
I was raised out of steel in the swamps of New Jersey, well, at least I like to think so. The reality is a mundane town in North Wales called Wrexham. After years of trying to escape via the means of sex, drugs and rock and roll (well, two of them are right!) I eventually settled down to a life of nappies and office work. This wasn't enough though and that urge to be Keith Richards just kept creeping up…that's when I met Dan. Like a collision of two worlds, a grand meeting of minds or just pure luck, I pestered Dan with my rather basic scrawlings on unknown punk bands only for the reply to be, you are able…join us…and so it was. I love music and I love writing so to do both is a no-brainer really. I may be the resident old school rocker of E&D but the truth could not be further away. Put aside my Springsteen fixation and you will find a nice sweet person who, when put in front of a typewriter, becomes a cross between Bukowski, Thompson and Bangs. Beware any bands who try to mollycoddle me into a good review, I bite. All music is good but in particular it has to be Americana, psych and garage for me. E&D has given me the opportunity to push my beliefs onto other people and I am forever grateful. May this go on forever! As a side note, I stilll to this day do not understand what Post-Rock is. Â
Articles by Martyn Coppack
Within all this punk energy though, is the strong smell of patchouli oil as they embody an early 80’s Stonehenge festival vibe.
Death metal is alive and well in Cardiff on a Monday night, and as the tour progresses through the UK and into Europe you sense that each band will carry on picking up new fans
Not for them the gnarled and groove-ridden guitars, but instead a massed wall of sound that hits you like a sledgehammer.
This is music made to be played out at parties or concert halls though, with limbs flailing about and a high risk of some damage happening.
A band to keep an eye on, there is a lot here to keep the interest burning. In the main, the music is deeply satisfying and will certainly demand repeated plays.
A Pale White Dot feels less prog heavy than previous albums, although still retains those moments of technical prowess which set them apart from similar bands who play on the quiet/loud emotive style.
Two decades on from their last album, The Heads fifth is a heady stew of the sounds that make them such a vital force in psychedelic music.
If you like metal, then this album is for you. It’s unabashed in its delivery, and more fun than an afternoon eating pizza, watching Return Of The Living Dead 3.
It’s an album which towers tall over the recent death metal revival and shows how it should be done.
It certainly deserves to be heard and hopefully will find a home with Metal Church fans old and new.
Dank, atmospheric, gritty and gruesome, it’s the soundtrack to a 70’s seedy horror movie gone wrong
On this second album, Teratoma have developed exponentially from their debut, and show flashes that they might just be in this for the long haul.
That elemental feeling seeping into all your innate fears and exacerbating them as your response to the album. Fantastic stuff.
The greatest slam-death party loons that you could ever meet. Long may they reign in absolute silliness.
Echoes will hopefully find its way into more and more homes and record collections as it’s an album that any self respecting fan of heavy music needs to hear.
An album which contains all the elements which make death metal so much fun when done correctly, it’s almost as if the glory days are back again.
The band sound more than revitalised and with Goliath have made one of the albums of the year so far.
More doom than death, and with a fantastic classic feel to it, Temple Of Void have crafted an album which has more than enough twists and turns to keep you coming back for more.
It’s triumphal, melodic and completely over the top, as all great metal should be. Unlike any other metal album you’ll hear this year.
For those expecting the full on prog epics then you may come away disappointed but by now the majority of Motorpsycho fans will have accepted that you never know quite what to expect.
An unrelenting piece of work, but within the maelstrom of noise there is a lot going on which can only serve to enrich them further down the line.
