The trans-Atlantic surf-punk supergroup, which sees SoCal punk veterans Alfie Agnew and Sean Elliott re-united with ÜK counterparts, and soulmates, Paul Gray and Rat Scabies, return with their first new music in almost six years and the opening course from their upcoming fifth album.
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The OC OGs are in reflective mood as they continue momentum towards the release of their eighth studio album – their first in 15 all-too-long years, with singer/lyricist Mike Ness revisiting his hell-raising youth on a bruised, nostalgic anthem in the vein of classics ‘Story of My Life’ and ‘I Was Wrong’.
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Venom (should) need little introduction. One of the most influential bands in metal, their legendary status was assured with just their first three albums in the early 1980s. They’ve endured in one form or another ever since, not without controversy of course. The current line-up of Cronos, Rage and Dante has been together for 17 years now, and new album ‘Into Oblivion’, Venom’s 16th studio offering, marks their first new recordings since 2018’s ‘Storm The Gates’. As it turns out, it has been well worth the wait…
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The New Jersey stoner doomsters, or doom stoners if you prefer (it’s your choice), will be preaching their brand of HEAVY metal to choirs of the converted in this little corner of the Überverse very shortly, and they set the scene for what to expect with this latest extract from their upcoming album, which will follow later in the summer (if that ever comes around!).
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In the year now known as CE791, longships containing fierce, long-haired warriors from the far-off northlands of Scandinavia first appeared off the coast of Ireland, their occupants seeking what they had sought and found elsewhere around the periphery of the North Sea and beyond – plunder and prisoners. Over the course of the next half a century or so, the raiders gradually transitioned into settlers, founding the island’s first permanent settlements in the likes of Dublin and Limerick, and by the time their Norman descendents likewise came calling, some 200 years later, they had integrated seamlessly into the local population. Now, a millennium further along the timeline, a new band of raiders, wanderers and warriors have appeared on the horizon, descending from the north west of the Emerald Isle to pillage our hearts, souls and eardrums with equally lethal intent, their axes creating music rather than spilling blood but their war drums still sounding loud and proud, a defiant declaration.
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