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Ithaca – ‘They Fear Us’ (Hassle Records)

Ithaca – ‘They Fear Us’ (Hassle Records)

Posted by | Aug 3, 2022 | ,

Rarely does a band suddenly get talked about so much in Jase W’s social circles so quickly like Ithaca has. He’s known of these guys for a reasonable length of time, but the lead up to the new album ‘They Fear Us’ has somehow managed being the subject of so many of his friends’ lips that it’s actually pretty amazing. Not only that but seeing posters for this forthcoming release splattered all over multiple festival walls in the lead up was also very noticeable.

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Shinedown – ‘Planet Zero’ (Atlantic)

Shinedown – ‘Planet Zero’ (Atlantic)

Posted by | Jun 28, 2022 | ,

Another chance to see Shinedown at Download 2022 was an opportunity for David O’Neill to see if any new music from the forthcoming album was going to be played. Kicking off with ‘The Saints Of Violence And Innuendo’, the only other track was the title track, ‘Planet Zero’. So this was his chance to once again review the new release by the Florida foursome of Smith, Kerch, Myers and Bass.

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Halestorm – ‘Back From The Dead’ (Atlantic Records)

Halestorm – ‘Back From The Dead’ (Atlantic Records)

Posted by | May 6, 2022 | ,

“I’M BACK FROM THE DEAD”, screamed by Lzzy Hale over an incandescent guitar chord, has to be one of the most defiantly declarative opening statements made on any album, especially in this new PC (that’s Post-Covid) era. Not that the woman delivering it has been anywhere near being “dead” during most of the down time we’ve all been forced to endure over the past two years of covidications. In fact, given the number of collaborations in which she’s been involved, it could be argued that the only person in the Überverse with whom she hasn’t duetted is, in fact, herself…

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