DJ Astrocreep is pulling the pumps for this session of our Singles Club, scouring through a broad collection of the latest rock, metal and punk singles to provide you with what he sees as the cream of recent and forthcoming releases. Time to sit down, put your feet up and crack a cold one to discover some new music!
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Our latest, highly coveted ‘Video of the Week’ goes to heavy blues rock artist Ulysses Wells and his visual presentation for his new single, ‘Back With The People’.
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UK thrash pioneers Onslaught have become the latest of the original generation “old school” bands to prove that they can still kick the butts of young pretenders into the middle of next month with the release of the video for ‘A Perfect Day To Die’, the first track to be released from their forthcoming new album.
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Was there ever a marriage more mutually beneficial in metal than that of the symphonic and extreme metal canons? Possessing the epic grandiosity of the former and the sheer aggression and power of the latter, symphonic extreme metal is a subgenre that is truly coming into its own this decade, particularly as more bands appear to be adopting it as a tool in the creation of enormous-sounding records. Which brings us to Meadows End, a Swedish quintet who owe more to the likes of Dimmu Borgir and Amon Amarth than to the usual Nightwish/Within Temptation influences that overwhelm so many other symphonically inclined bands.
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It never ceases to surprise David O’Neill when bands he has seen at local small independent venues in south east Wales start to climb up the production ladder and make a name for themselves. This has happened with the likes of Florence Black, Buffalo Summer and Those Damn Crows lately. he doesn’t know if it’s the air or the venues, but we are very lucky to have some killer venues and promotors working in this area. At The Sun may not be from this area but they have played at the Doll’s House, promoted by our good friends at Rock N Roll Circus and are coming back on their album release tour. So once again or man in the valleys gets the chance to review a new album of a band I have seen live.
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