TOUR NEWS: There’s no escape from Alcatrazz this Autumn
The current version of Alcatrazz have confirmed a rune of dates across the UK and Ireland this Autumn.
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FESTIVAL NEWS: Supersonic Day Tickets Go On-Sale: More Acts Added
Birmingham’s premier festival of experimental music and art, Supersonic is an institution unto itself more akin to the diverse experiences of a festival like Roadburn than to your Reading and Leeds or even Download type events. With Neurosis already heading up the bill on the Friday night (and tickets having sold out for that event at the Town Hall), Supersonic has just got even bigger – and infinitely madder – with the announcement of day splits, and a whole host of new acts to check out.
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Stone Leaders – ‘Stone Leaders’ (Vanity Music Group)
Stone Leaders trace their origins back to early 2016 when renowned session drummer John Macaluso – known for his work with Ark, Yngwie Malmsteen, TNT, Symphony X and James LaBrie, among others – was contracted to do a drum clinic in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. But he needed a band, so the promoter hooked him up with guitarist/vocalist Ivan Mihaljevic and bassist Marko Karacic, from local band Side Effects. The trio, and especially Macaluso and Mihaljevic, clicked immediately and so began the long road towards the release, three years later, of this debut studio offering from the project.
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Asomvel – ‘World Shaker’ (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Heavy metal trio Asomvel released their debut album ‘Kamikaze’ in 2009. With a healthy buzz surrounding the band and the album being critically well received, it seemed that they were poised to go on to great things. Then a tragic turn in 2010 saw founding front man Jay-Jay Winter killed in a car accident. With resilience and a gritty determination to continue, Asomvel vowed to push forward and recruited Jay-Jay’s nephew Ralph Robinson. 2013 saw the release of the album ‘Knuckle Duster’ and widespread touring for the band including extended dates throughout Europe, South America and a number of festival slots. Now 2019 brings forward eleven new tracks for ‘World Shaker’. With their brand of traditional styled heavy sound what do Asomvel have in store?
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Wet Dreams – ‘Wet Dreams’ (Black Pop Records)
It’s a case of another month, another great rock n roll discovery from the continent in the self-titled debut by Norwegian punks Wet Dreams. Taking a sonic lineage first set by acts like The Stooges and later Buzzcocks, Wet Dreams play a brand of fuzzy punk which is best heard loud, preferably blaring out of a stereo whilst drinking copiously and jumping around like a lunatic. Sounding rawer than a live fuse dropped in a bath-tub, ‘Wet Dreams’ has been mixed to perfection by Øystein Braut to evoke the buzzsaw energy of early punk, with added flair that seems so massively inherent to the Scandinavian rock scene as of late.
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