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Goo Goo Dolls – FanTracks Livestream – 24 October 2020

Goo Goo Dolls – FanTracks Livestream – 24 October 2020

Posted by | Oct 25, 2020 | ,

While he’s taken in quite a few live streams to get his music fix in the last 7.5 months he’s been shielded due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, this is the first DJ Astrocreep has actually reviewed one. Our normally travelling gigaholic caught the Goo Goo Dolls in Manchester not so long ago and was pleasantly surprised both by some of their catalogue he wasn’t otherwise aware of and the sheer uplifting atmosphere within the sweatbox of the Manchester Ritz, meaning the big lad had something tangible to compare the live stream setting to…

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Truth Decayed – ‘Modern Day Illusion’ EP (Self-Released)

Truth Decayed – ‘Modern Day Illusion’ EP (Self-Released)

Posted by | Oct 23, 2020 | ,

Billed as offering “a stark commentary on a world marred by decayed morals and skewed truths, where fakeness reigns supreme, adding to the ever-growing bouquet of terror plaguing a society already in turmoil”, this debut two-track EP comes to us all the way from South Africa, a country re-establishing itself in recent times as a hotbed of new metal sounds. Truth Decayed may be a new name, but their collective members have many years’ experience on the scene in the scene in that particular corner of the Überverse, and brought together by the need to bring something positive out of the darkness of the global lockdowns.

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Raging Speedhorn – ‘Hard To Kill’ (Red Weed Records)

Raging Speedhorn – ‘Hard To Kill’ (Red Weed Records)

Posted by | Oct 23, 2020 | ,

If ever an album lives up to its name, it is this, the sixth full-length studio offering from Raging Speedhorn… no, sorry, make that Raging FUCKING Speedhorn! Because, just as the combination of a global pandemic and government inaction are doing their best to kill off the music industry as a whole (but, it will survive, if in a vastly different way to that which we recognized previously), so ‘Hard To Kill’ is evidence that you can’t keep a good band down, at least not for long.

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Armored Saint – ‘Punching The Sky’ (Metal Blade)

Armored Saint – ‘Punching The Sky’ (Metal Blade)

Posted by | Oct 23, 2020 | ,

If you were asked to compile a list of, say, the dozen most revered bands in the history of American heavy metal, there would be no doubt that the name Armored Saint would feature pretty close to the top. While not the most prolific of bands – this is only their eighth studio album in their 38-year career – each release has always been something of an event in itself, eagerly anticipated by their legions of diehard, extremely loyal fans the length and breadth of the Überverse: and, it has to be said that ‘Punching The Sky’, their first new material in five years and an album more than two years in its creation and development, is most certainly no exception.

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Deathless Dogs – ‘Five Across The Eyes’ (Self-Released)

Deathless Dogs – ‘Five Across The Eyes’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Oct 23, 2020 | ,

They say that some of the best creativity comes out of adversity and trauma. The past nine months of various pandemic-infused global lockdowns has proven this point, with some great music having been produced in what could be seen to the most impossibly adversarial circumstances. But, it is also an ethos which has been exemplified by Wisconsin’s Deathless Dogs for the past decade, from when guitarist/singer Eddy Krogman started sharing lyrical ideas based on his experiences in the Iraq War with his childhood friend, drummer Dan Speer. In the intervening period, the duo have gone on to self-release three albums, with a fourth in the pipeline. In the meantime, they have presented us with this cathartic five-track EP…

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