Bitch Falcon have been on Michael Smyth’s radar for a few years now after seeing them at the last ever show at the now demolished Mandela Hall in Belfast. He walked into a crowded hall to find a band shrouded in smoke and light, thrashing round the stage like it was 90s Seattle and making a noise equal parts face melting and floaty. Not much has changed since then, as he finds out on their new album…
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The original concept of ‘Imaginos’ dates back to the 1970s and was originally projected to be a trilogy of double albums with a story that weaves scripts and poems by the late producer Sandy Pearlman about an alien conspiracy that is brought to fruition during the late 19th and early 20th century through the actions of Imaginos, an agent of evil. It was also originally intended as a solo album by Blue Öyster Cult drummer, founding member and sometime songwriter and vocalist Albert Bouchard. The protracted stop/start recording of it was to last seven years and eventually surfaced, at the insistence of BÖC’s then label CBS, as a Blue Öyster Cult album in 1988, their last for the label. Having been fired from the band in 1981, Bouchard himself had less involvement in the finished product, but now all those years later, he gets his chance with ‘Re-Imaginos’, an album where he gets to re-visit and ‘re-imagine’ the concept album, perhaps more as it was originally intended.
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John B knows that Carcass have been around for a long time, and he knows he really should have listened to them before now. In his defence metal this heavy really is not that big over in the States. This means his exposure to metal is based mostly on what people recommend rather than natural discovery over the radio. People tend not to recommend well-known bands because they take it for granted that you probably already know them. So, now that our man in Kentucky has wasted time defending his own inadequacies, what does he think about his first introduction to Carcass?
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It may be only a week since the Singles Club opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks, But, after last week’s special seasonal selection of spooky tunes for your aural delectation, we’re back on the attack with another jam-packed selection of tuneage covering the entire rock ‘n’ roll spectrum…
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It’s our favourite time of the year here at ÜRHQ – Halloween weekend! Yes, we know All Hallow’s Eve itself was yesterday, but in true pagan tradition we carry on proceedings until the veil between the worlds closes once again at the end of All Souls Day – which means that, of course, we need some suitable audio and visual treats to accompany DQ’s rituals and ceremonies… And who better to provide the soundtrack to all things spooktacular than either the master of the grotesque, the one and only Rob Zombie, or the original duke of spook, Wednesday 13? Or even better – both of them? Yep, both artists delivered brand new songs, and suitably horror-filled videos, right on the cusp of the season, so we thought it only fair to include both of them in this week’s suitably themed feature…
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