RIP Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts, drummer with The Rolling Stones and arguably the greatest rock ‘n’ roll drummer of all time, has died at the age of 80.
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Author: Team Uber
Vinegar Joe – ‘Finer Things: The Island Recordings 1972 – 1973’ (Esoteric Recordings)
Vinegar Joe, it could be argued, were one of those bands whose sum of their parts was greater than their whole. After all, they are the band who gave us both Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer, both of whom went on to enjoy greater success than with the band with which they initially made their name. It was a band whose flame shone brightly, as this re-issue of their entire back catalogue of three – yes, just three – albums proves.
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Graveland – ‘Hour of Ragnarok’ (Inferna Profundus Records)
Norse mythology has provided us with a rich source of inspiration for metal music for almost as long as metal has been a thing, with some bands even basing their entire image around it. The only issue with that is that there are certain bands who have done this so well that they tend to overshadow smaller bands who draw from the same inspiration, however this tends to lead to those bands getting creative with their musical stylings and stray away from melodic death metal so as not to be labelled a “bootleg Amon Amarth.” One such example is Graveland, who are a band who have taken the myths of the Norsemen and taken them in a darker direction with their epic, yet blackened, metal take on the end of the world with ‘Hour of Ragnarok’.
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Summoner’s Circle – ‘Chaos Vector’ (Blood Blast Distribution)
Having sat on ‘Chaos Vector’ for the past year, Summoner’s Circle have been itching to share their collective creative juices with you. And many juices there may be as the band seems to have a massive line-up. The third offering from the conspicuous death metal band from Knoxville is a concept album, a cosmic horror story from the active imagination of lead vocalist Blind, no doubt inspired by the science fiction and fantasy novel of the same name.
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Witchcryer – ‘When Their Gods Come For You’ (Ripple Music)
Witchcryer are a band DJ Astrocreep both good and bad memories of – being the last band he remembers covering before his father’s death, but a band he absolutely loved the music of on their debut. The big lad still remembers vividly being sat on a coach, en route to a gig, and knowing almost word for word what his review was going to be when I was halfway through the album, finding himself that enthralled he barely registered the picturesque landscapes he was being driven past, which almost always raises a smile from him. This is that awkward sophomore record though, where bands are stuck between sticking to what they already did and experimenting – to varying degrees – with their sound. Curiosity to find out what they did got the better of me, and he put it on for his first listen…
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