Moonlight Haze’s debut album ‘De Rerum Natura’ has an impressive lineup both in the band itself and in the guests. You can definitely hear an influence from Chiara Tricarico’s time with Temperance as the sound here is similar to the things she was doing back then but more developed and evolved. ‘De Rerum Natura’ takes far more advantage of her vocal range and musically has a much more aggressive and passionate tone.
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Cockney Rejects are to celebrate their 40th anniversary year with a new book, a limited edition signed DVD, both released in October, and a career-spanning show in December.
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Bern-based power trio The Jackets are one of a slew of widely diverse acts who have been placing the land of mountain-shaped chocolate bars and cuckoo clocks very firmly on the rock ‘n’ roll map and establishing this seemingly otherwise quiet little country as a true powerhouse of creativity and talent. In the case of The Jackets, their chosen mien of expression is garage-infused psychedelic fuzz of a kind that is hypnotic and trancelike, but equally energetic and enervating at the same time.
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Having been a self-confessed “surn rawk” fan for many years the opportunity to do a review on the archetypal band of the genre was too easy a choice for our man from the valleys, who contends that anyone who knows anything about this genre would hold Gov’t Mule up there with the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd and any of the other super groups of the style.
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Quick – what’s the best thing about winter festivals? If you said “they’re indoors and there’s no fucking mud” you’d be about 80 per cent correct, but also a little wrong when considering the kinds of sludgy filth premier metal fest Damnation Festival has managed to swing over the past few years (just check out Inter Arma from this year’s line-up if you don’t believe us). The latest announcement for the Leeds based festival trades in the mud and filth of the summer for more arctic fury and bleak foreboding with the addition of a further four bands to the line-up.
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