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Hit The Ground Runnin’ – ‘Lost In Translation’ (Pride & Joy Music)

Hit The Ground Runnin’ – ‘Lost In Translation’ (Pride & Joy Music)

Posted by | May 17, 2022 | ,

Having reviewed (and quite liked) the re-release of their long out-of-print debut, ‘Sudden Impact’ in January, Monk thought David O might like to take another listen to this compilation of previously unreleased songs from the band. His original comments about the music being of a time still stand. However, having listened to this selection makes him wonder if the band really knew what they wanted to be at the time. The press release calls it “an eclectic mix of genres”. That it most definitely is and some of it should have remained unreleased. David doesn’t like to be wholly negative, but he’s sure the band must have realised before this release that it was as disparate as Madonna and Meat Loaf.

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Serpentent – ‘Ancient Tomes Volume I: Mother Of Light’ (Svart Records)

Serpentent – ‘Ancient Tomes Volume I: Mother Of Light’ (Svart Records)

Posted by | May 17, 2022 | ,

‘Mother Of Light’ is the epic first album by dark folk songstress Anne K. O’Neill, under her Serpentent banner. In the accompanying press blurb, her label, Svart Records, say: “As Serpentent, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Anne K. O’Neill weaves a deep cinematic spell of gothic folk, combining elements of European folk music and neoclassical influences. Transfigured by her extraordinary, evocative vocal style, Serpentent’s Mother of Light is a lush saga”. From what Bona P can gather Anne is new to the scene but appears to be a very talented artist, indeed, samples of her art are included on this, her debut offering. He was intrigued and excited to get into it.

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Xentrix/Sinocence/Animator – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 May 2022

Xentrix/Sinocence/Animator – Belfast, Voodoo – 14 May 2022

Posted by | May 16, 2022 | , ,

This was supposed to be the second of two dates on the island of Ireland by Lancastrian thrash veterans Xentrix, making a welcome return to these shores after far too long away… but the curse of Friday the 13th had put the kibosh on the first show in Dublin, after their van took it upon itself to lock all their gear in the back. Fortunately for the Belfast crowd, however, their quest to find a locksmith north of the border proved a lot more fruitful than that down south and so, in the best showbiz tradition, this three-band thrash fest went ahead, thus warming the cockles of our hardened metallic hearts on what turned out to be a surprisingly chilly spring Saturday night.

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Al-Namrood – ‘Worship The Degenerate’ (Shaytan Productions)

Al-Namrood – ‘Worship The Degenerate’ (Shaytan Productions)

Posted by | May 16, 2022 | ,

If ever an album was appropriately titled, it is this one. To use the term “degenerate” about this one-man anti-Islamic black metal project from the devoutly Islamic Saudi Arabia, a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world when it comes to religious intolerance, is possibly one of the biggest understatements in the global history of understatements when it comes to how its progenitor would be regarded in his homeland. And yet, here we are, with the latest album from an artist who takes the term underground to a whole new level that not even Lara Croft could unearth, having never played a live gig or even revealed his true identity because to do so would result in summary execution.

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