Clutch! Accelerate! Re-Release!
The mighty Clutch is re-releasing their first ever 7" EP, Pitchfork, and are adding an extra bonus 2 new songs to satisfy our pleasures as well! Like, awesome!»
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-Raz- has written the following articles:
Chimaira - Chimaira
One of the forerunners of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal has been Chimaira. Once the keen purveyors of the mighty coalescing force that is nu-metal, they realised over time that their particular scene had stagnated into a noxious and hackneyed musical dead end. This fine eponymous effort may prove to be the definitive moment of their career.»
Raging Speedhorn - How The Great Have Fallen
A telling title perhaps for the Corby metallers third album? Raging Speedhorn return with another gritty and gruelling collection of noisy riffs and strung out stoner grinds.»
Ilosaarirock: DiS mixes with the metallers in Finland
DiS has arrived in the bleak, snow-laden wasteland, packed full of sultry reindeer-munchers, that is Finland for a two-day (mainly) rock festival. The rock scene in Finland is quite simply incredible. Metallers everywhere! And nobody stands and points at them! It starts getting dusky outside at this point. It's 1am. Yes, that's right. 22 hours of pure, unadulterated sunshine. And it's over 30°C. So much for Santa. DiS has found its new spiritual home...»
Hulk - Cowboy Coffee & Burned Knives
This really ought to be one for fans of that infamous Desert scene. You know the one: Kyuss, Fu Manchu and QotSA have made sure that the region will go down in folklore along with the DC hardcore and Madchester scenes. Sadly this Belgian troupe don’t quite cut the Napa Valley mustard.»
InMe - White Butterfly
Just in case you can’t be arsed reading the rest of the review: they’re still f*cking crap. This music is competent like toilet water is a competent beverage and the rock they bring may never be surpassed in terms of cringe. He’s got rid of his purple hair though. Now he looks like my mate’s mum, Julie.»
Reuben, Engerica at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape), Wed 15 Jun
After releasing one of the albums of last summer, their debut Racecar is Racecar Backwards, Reuben return just over a year later to promote its follow-up Very Fast Very Dangerous. Kids go nuts for the rock...»
Hell Is For Heroes - Transmit Disrupt
Hell is for Heroes release their second album, 'Transmit Disrupt', on Captains of Industry records.»
Armor For Sleep - What To Do When You're Dead
Armor For Sleep release an album just before going on tour with Charlie from Busted. How exciting. It's proper 'mo.»
This Is Menace - No End In Sight
This Is Menace have come from the UK metal underground from the ashes of days gone. This is performed in that peerless brutal and uncompromising style of British metal. None more metal. Too much metal for one hand. Metal your face off. Whatever. Metal. Metal. Metal.»
Dead Fly Buchowski - Land of the Rough
Dead Fly Buchowski release their debut album through beggars Banquet Records on May 9th»
New Order - Jetstream
New Order release 2nd single off their 8th studio album, 'Waiting For The Sirens' Call'.»
The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives
Silverchair’s last album was not Silverchair. It was not the alarmingly tortured vocals of a disgruntled teen; it was the beginnings of a young man who had come to rest with his soul in some sort of magnificent musical splendour. The Dissociatives will be a necessary addition to your record collection.»
Swervedriver - Juggernaut Rides
Swervedriver are Oxford’s forgotten sons. While Supergrass and Radiohead burst out of there all guns and #1 records blazing, this band are the ones that almost might have been. Just over seven years after releasing their final independently released album, 99th Dream, this double-disked retrospective gives Swervedriver a lasting tribute worthy of their talents.»
Team Sleep release album, Deftones wait
Team Sleep, the band led by bearded Deftones singer frontman, Chino Moreno, are to finally release their debut album and tour America... and stuff. Deftones have recorded their new album with Bob Ezrin but are just waiting for Chino to stop poncing around with his new friends.»
The Boxer Rebellion - All You Do Is Talk
The Boxer Rebellion has returned with another vitriolic splurge of tuneful and emotional indie rock.»
Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming
Proper ‘mo: strong staccato rhythms with melody driven, heartfelt vocals. I think I’ve just covered a description of the sound and the lyrical content in one. Wonderful. Job done.»
The Lucky Nine - The Lucky Nine EP
Ooh this is more like it. The British rock massive should join forces to form supergroups much, much more often. Here is the next instalment of the British Rock Supergroup Collection. It’s like Narnia but there will be queens of metal rather than snow nearby.»
Emanuel - Soundtrack to a Headrush
Spluttering and charging out of the blocks, the youthful Emanuel slam down this fantastically gritty debut album. You dream of the day you can write a chorus as memorable and hard rocking as this. Fact: not gonna happen. It takes something and someone special. Emanuel is it.»
Homegrown - When It All Comes Down
The chap is jerking out some crap about putting needles in his eyes and ripping his heart out: events that might bring [her] to [him]. Stalk her. Go to a shrink. Stay in pissing California perhaps. Just bog off.»
hellogoodbye - hellogoodbye EP
You know this is Californian pop-punk after the first thirty seconds. Stop your cringing right now, kids.»
FR8 - In Cold Blood
UK metal always pulls a couple of good uns out the bag. FR8 hail from the decidedly metal northeast.»
Busdriver - Fear of a Black Tangent
Crazy mental underground jazz hop MC Busdriver returns with this new genius record.»
Big guns out for Hedonistic this Friday
Weapons Of Mass Belief join Ireland's great white hope for 2005 Gary Dunne, with Termites and Piranha Deathray in the most diverse clubHEDONISTIC bill yet. Free entry from 7pm this Friday with Club Seal afterwards until 3am.»
Million Dead, 65daysofstatic, Serotonin at Manchester Bierkeller, Thu 24 Feb
Here we are for the first monthly leg of the Brainwash circuit tour of England’s northwest.»
Fony - Nefer
Fony are veterans of the British underground rock scene, forever destined to be overtaken by all the newcomers.»
Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory
You know how the score from a good movie always gives a better feel of the atmosphere and the style than a mere compilation soundtrack, despite never selling nearly as many? Yeah, like that, except this is a video game… YA WHAT?»
Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower
When a member of the ultimate psychedelic prog-rocking band of our time joins forces with a ‘free-jazz sensation’ to create a lo-fi folksy affair, one feels obliged to take note of such a potentially exceptional collaboration, doesn’t one? This is music made on and for a dusty, dusky veranda, accompanied by a small glass of bourbon and a guitar.»
We Will Be Pilots - This Is What You Fight For
Making two-minute pop songs that sound like Sonic Youth is not easy. These kids are full of beans and are producing some highly energetic fuzzy indie punk rock that Idlewild would have been proud when they still spelt their name iDLEWiLD. OUT MONDAY.»
Charlotte Hatherley - Bastardo
This is a song about Charlotte Hatherley getting done over (and indeed done) by a man called Antonio or it could be about her beloved guitar getting nicked. Whatever. It's a wonderful slice of sugary sweet pop rock. Oh yes.»