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Stone Sour – House of Gold & Bones Part II
The extent to which Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor's “other band” Stone Sour have evolved and matured over the years is undoubtedly impressive; t... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Wounds – Die Young
Though the bold album cover and title strongly suggest that an extreme brand of hardcore is on the cards, Dublin's Wounds actually tread much more palatabl... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Gaslight Anthem / Japandroids @ O2 Academy, 24 March
Japandroids still have a rising profile, but they're underdogs compared to tonight's stadium-fit headliners. Regardless, the Vancouver-based guitar and ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Hey Colossus – Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
Member changes aside (Tim Cedar from the dearly departed Part Chimp now assumes drumming duties here), the prolific Hey Colossus hold on to their strengths w... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Church of Noise – May 2013
An eclectic month starts as it means to go on as genre-mashing punks Sharks mix things up at the 13th Note (1 May) with a couple of danceable indie rock... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer
The Dillinger Escape Plan's fifth LP might not grip listeners with anything quite so visceral as throat-grabbing past staples like Fix Your Face or Panasonic... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Pitfalls of Perfection: Deafheaven on Sunbather
Though the more reductive aspects of its iconography veer towards the cartoonish and the macabre, black metal is a complex genre with a rich history and a co... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt
The influence of 60s and 70s drug music shows up a lot in Californian bedroom producer Morgan Delt's own sounds, but there's a modern aesthetic running throu... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Celtic Connections: Mogwai / RM Hubbert @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 28 January
As much a charismatic banter machine as he is an emotionally charged singer-songwriter, RM Hubbert has the vast hall completely captivated and respectfully s... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Evil Blizzard – The Dangers of Evil Blizzard
Menacing vibes engulf the soul on the maliciously titled debut from this UK-based, Mark E. Smith-approved experimental quintet. The quadruple bass-assault is... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Primavera Sound 2014
As we've been telling you for years now, the annual Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona brings a lineup featuring indie rock vets (real indie roc... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – best known for his work under the Polmo Polpo moniker – combines relaxing, intimate folk and long, meandering instrumental section... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Earth / Mount Eerie @ The Caves, 8 March
The Caves' tall arches provide stellar acoustics for an Earth gig, and Mount Eerie do a solid job of demonstrating the venue's sound enhancing properties. Ph... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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The Metal Column – February 2012
When you think about it, it's a pretty exciting time for metal: the Scottish scene's in rude health and 'hip' blogs are wisening to the fact that the term is... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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Anathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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La Sera – Sees the Light
'Kickball' Katy Goodman – better known as one third of the surf-punk group Vivian Girls – returns with this second solo album under the La Se... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
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OFF! / Trash Talk @ King Tut's, 21 June
Trash Talk open up a night of quickfire hardcore with the menacing dissonance of Hash Wednesday – a sludgy, doom-laden number far removed from the res... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Baroness @ Stereo, 10 July
Tonight's been a long time coming; when Baroness last rolled through Glasgow some two and a half years ago, Sleazy's patrons stood witness to their progressi... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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The Metal Column – September 2012
Creeps, it looks like Summer might just be over. Perhaps it's time to step out of the shadows and rear your ugly mugs under the comfortable camouflage of tho... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Converge / Touché Amoré / A Storm of Light / The Secret @ Classic Grand, 28 November
Italy's The Secret waste no time in blowing the doors open tonight.Their chaotic, nihilistic blend of hardcore, grind and black metal is simply unforgiving;... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Pseudo Nippon – Colorama
The main difference between London-based Pseudo Nippon's second full-length and debut Universal Pork Tai Chi lies in the project's membership, whic... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Ensemble Pearl – Ensemble Pearl
Instead of mirroring the primitive drone of early Earth, Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley takes a more majestic approach to experimental music with this collabor... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Cut Yourself in Half – Mekkanizm
Yorkshire's Cut Yourself in Half lift more than a few pages from Mastodon's book on this first set of recordings: the down-tuned, groove-oriented nature of t... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Attica Rage – 88MPH
Attica Rage's third LP since their inception in 2003 couldn't open in a less predictable way for the Ayrshire rawkers. It's only after a pastoral, Led Zepp... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Antikaroshi – In P.O.P. We Rust
The outsider art of pre-World War II German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn serves as The Antikaroshi's primary inspiration on this third LP, and – in a si... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Dinosaur Pile-Up – Nature Nurture
Energetic, anthemic grunge is still the name of the game on Dinosaur Pile-Up's follow up to their debut Growing Pains. Just like on that LP, band founde... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Star & Dagger – Tomorrowland Blues
Two-thirds of Star & Dagger's membership (White Zombie's Sean Yseult, Dava She Wolf from Cycle Sluts from Hell) should give budding listeners some idea o... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Deafheaven / The Secret / No Island @ Ivory Blacks, 7 May
No Island's simplistic approach to aggressive music is at odds with the heavily textured nature of our headliners, but these local noisemakers aren't fazed; ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago