Orbit Culture – ‘The Forgotten’ EP (Seek And Strike)

Orbit Culture – ‘The Forgotten’ EP (Seek And Strike)

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Swedish quartet Orbit Culture follows hot on the heels of their latest album Descent with this blistering new three-song EP. The EP is at its core a thanks to their die-hard fans for the unwavering support across 2023, a year that saw them not only release the bold and unrelentingly heavy album Descent, but embark on tours with metal giants such as Meshuggah and Trivium. An experimental continuation of the album, As Georgia S now explains, ‘The Forgotten’ EP serves as a reminder of the prowess of Orbit Culture, and a short, sharp promise that this success will follow them into 2024. 

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Electric Six/Donkey Kung Fu – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 23 November 2023

Electric Six/Donkey Kung Fu – Amsterdam, Melkweg – 23 November 2023

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The day of this gig had seen Jase W repeatedly listening to Electric Six’s debut album ‘Fire’ in anticipation of the show. This is an album that our man had on repeat for years as a teenager and 20 years on, they’re finally taking the entire album out for a set of live shows (with some other favourites) – and he couldn’t be more excited. These guys have pumped out an album more or less every year since 2003, all starting with ‘Fire’ and its initial raunchy songs which saw it get repeated radio and music TV play for nearly three years since their release. Our resident gigaholic managed to catch them a while back at Manchester’s Club Academy and had a great time bopping away to many songs he knew… and many he didn’t. No wonder he was looking forward to reliving the experience \m/

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Static Dress/World Of Pleasure/Bodyweb/Mercury – Manchester, Rebellion – 11 November 23

Static Dress/World Of Pleasure/Bodyweb/Mercury – Manchester, Rebellion – 11 November 23

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It’s quite rare a band make a significant impact in the scene they incorporate themselves in within the span of a year. For Static Dress however, this has come to fruition. Following the release of their debut album, ‘Rouge Carpet Disaster’, the four piece post-hardcore powerhouse have found themselves touring with amazing bands the likes of Sleeping With Sirens and Bring Me The Horizon, visited the ÜS for the first time, and as of most recent, signed to Roadrunner Records releasing a redux of their brilliant LP.

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Death Cult/Lili Refrain – Manchester, Albert Hall – 18 November 2023

Death Cult/Lili Refrain – Manchester, Albert Hall – 18 November 2023

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Two gigs in successive days meat another jaunt over to Manchester for the big lad known as DJ Astrocreep, this time to the Albert Hall, to catch The Cult, touring as previous incarnation Death Cult and, by and large, playing venues and places they did on their inaugural Death Cult tour in 1983. While quite different musically to the previous night’s shenanigans, a night of rather fantastic post punk and rock was on the cards…

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Klark Kent – ‘Klark Kent’ (Kryptone Records/BMG)

Klark Kent – ‘Klark Kent’ (Kryptone Records/BMG)

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Between 1978 and 1980, Klark Kent wasn’t the alter-ego of Superman, but rather that of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland, who released a series of singles and an album under that name, making him the first member of The Police to release solo material. That material is now all bundled together on a new self-titled release, including several previously unreleased tracks too.

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Black 7 – ‘The Second Chapter’ (SODEH Records)

Black 7 – ‘The Second Chapter’ (SODEH Records)

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We first came across the monicker Black 7 almost exactly two years ago, when we were invited to ‘Look Inside’ the musical mind of German guitarist Lars Totzke with his debut solo album. At the time Monk admitted – and will freely do so again – that he’s not a massive fan of instrumental albums, not being the sort of thing he tends to sit down and listen to out of choice. Like classical music,he tends to view them as background soundtracks to other aspects of life, such as researching his forthcoming book, because your concentration on such matters is not interrupted by having to do the same in regard to lyrics and meanings. But, the boss had to admit that, for the 70 minutes of that debut opus, his life temporarily stood still…Will this, the second chapter in Totzke’s story have the same effect? There’s only one way to find out…

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When We Were Young – Las Vegas, Festival Showgrounds – 22 October 2023

When We Were Young – Las Vegas, Festival Showgrounds – 22 October 2023

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Now that the jet lag has subsided and the bitter sting of the return to reality has sunk in, it’s about time that Jonny B tells of his time at the most extravagant day festival he’s ever been to. It’s a festival that has quite possibly ruined certain ÜK festivals for him and there’s plenty of things that could be learned by some of the big dogs in the ÜK that’s for sure! When our man saw the lineup of the 2022 edition of this festival, he remembers thinking that it couldn’t possibly be real, and then when the 2023 event was announced he knew he just had to find out for himself – he felt there had to be some kind of catch to counter the strength of the lineup… he means, having pretty much every band he loved as a teen in one place had to be pretty miraculous: Blink 182, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, the list goes on!

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