From the opening track to the closing notes, there is not one tiny moment of boredom in this album. There are so many influences exposed on this, from grunge to heavy metal to solid rock – they’re all here, as David O’Neill explains…
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There Monk was, sitting slowly getting into the dense, grungy vibes of Wigan prog stoners Deepshade inviting him to eat their dust as they drove their bright shiny Camaro off into the sunset when… WHAM! Just as he got into cruise control and eased into the groove, coming the wrong way up the off-ramp, a ten-tonne truck hits his Mustang full on sideways… because all of a sudden, there’s a wee jazzy saxophone solo that suddenly wakes you from your reverie like a slap in the gob from Basil Fawlty…
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The death has been announced of Stephen ‘Gus’ Craig, founding member and bassist of Belfast punk band The Organ Grinders.
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If ever an album lives up to its title, then it is this, what could have been the notoriously difficult third album from Sheffield hardcore heroes Malevolence, as its intent is definitely, and defiantly, to deliver an aural beatdown that is done so maliciously and uncompromisingly. And, it has to be said, the quintet live up to their declaration, in every department, as this is one of the most declarative and emphatic generic albums you will hear this or any other year.
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The fact that the opening song on this, only the fourth album in these Geordie hallions’ storied 40-year career, is called ‘Battalions’, and that it is released on a label by the name of From The Vaults are both apt summaries of what to expect here. Because, back in the day (as us middle-aged hip kids say), Tysondog were one of the Brando-esque contenders on the nascent NWoBHM scene; but, like so many of their counterparts, they never quite made it past their first couple of albums – only to re-emerge three or so decades later and try to prove that they still have it… whatever “it may be”…
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