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Brimstone Coven – ‘The Woes Of A Mortal Earth’ (Ripple Music)

Brimstone Coven – ‘The Woes Of A Mortal Earth’ (Ripple Music)

Posted by | Aug 17, 2020 | ,

Back in 2016, Jim R was asked to review Brimstone Coven’s second album ‘Black Magic’, which was released on Metal Blade. He was immediately enchanted by the sound of these Ohio melodic occult rockers, and the album ended up as my choice for album of the year that year. It was an excellent album that should have propelled them onto a whole new level, and certainly deserved to. Instead, circumstances stopped the momentum and they fell under the radar, but now they’re back with a new deal with Ripple Music and a new album ‘The Woes of a Mortal Earth’.

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Divided by Design – ‘Stages To Osiris’ (Self-Released)

Divided by Design – ‘Stages To Osiris’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Aug 17, 2020 | ,

There’s a very splaylist called “Prog Me Harder” on Spotify – and that’s because he can’t get enough of the experimentalism and unorthodox nature of prog metal. He loves the way that the songs are structured in such a way that they seem to suck you out of your body and into an almost dreamlike state, then suddenly you’ve listened to a 20 minute track and it feels like no time has passed at all. So, when the debut album from the progressive trio from Leeds, Divided by Design, landed in front of me for review, he knew it was time to see if it passed the Jonny Bakes prog playlist test…

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Robby Krieger – ‘The Ritual Begins At Sundown’ (The Players Club)

Robby Krieger – ‘The Ritual Begins At Sundown’ (The Players Club)

Posted by | Aug 13, 2020 | ,

Robby Krieger is probably most well known for his stint as guitarist in The Doors. Born in LA, his early love was for classical music but after an initial attempt to learn to play the trumpet, he found the piano and used it to play mostly the blues. Krieger joined The Doors in 1965 after the departure of co-founder Ray Manzarek’s brothers, Rick and Jim from the original band, ‘Rick & The Ravens’. The Doors never replaced the bassist as they felt this gave them a unique sound, and it is this piece of information that hints at the talent that existed within The Doors.

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Nana – ‘Selfish Propensities’ (Rum Bar Records)

Nana – ‘Selfish Propensities’ (Rum Bar Records)

Posted by | Aug 13, 2020 | ,

Jonny B will be the first to admit that he’s particularly up to speed with the comings and goings of the Boston music scene. When he thinks about the scene in Boston, he’s always assumed that it’s all Irish bars and Dropkick Murphys clones, but obviously that’s not the case as this “new” release shows. Why “new”, we hear you ask? Well ‘Selfish Propensities’ is perhaps the only documented evidence that the band Nana existed in mid to late ‘90s which has recently been uncovered in a box of CD and written by Tom Baker (not the Doctor Who one, The Dirty Truckers one). So, while this may be new to most of us, this is certainly a bit of a relic of its time…

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