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The Dirty Truckers – ‘Second Dose’ (Rum Bar Records)

The title of this, the latest offering from Bostonian countrified garage punks Dirty Truckers, could be seen to be somewhat misleading, as it is not, as it might suggest, the band’s second album. In fact, Messrs Baker, Overbaugh and co have been kicking around the rock ‘n’ roll Überverse since the end of the last millennium and have already presented us with three albums, an EP and a career-spanning ‘Best Of…’ compilation. Where the title is an accurate summation of what we have here is that it is actually a follow-up to aforesaid compilation…

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ILS – ‘Curse’ (POGO Records)

ILS hail from the Pacific northwest of the good ol’ ÜSofTrumpton – a region of the Überverse perhaps best known as the birthplace of grunge, the subgenre that in the mid-Nineties did its best to kill off rock ‘n’ roll as we knew and loved it at the time, only to be ultimately, like so many pretenders before and since, subsumed and overtaken by other fad trends, such as nu-metal. This particular quartet – made up of members of various other Oregon bands of various repute, including Black Elk and Passerby – echo some of that initial aural decimation which Cobain and his counterparts wrought on the music business some three decades ago, with their self-styled brand of “disaster chic”.

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Damnation Angels – ‘Fiber Of Our Being’ (Self-Released)

Following a line-up change after their previous album ‘The Valiant Fire’, UK symphonic metallers Damnation Angels are back with nine brand new tracks on ‘Fiber Of Our Being’. With new vocal duties taken up by Iggy Rod and the rhythm section completed by the addition of bassist Nic Southwood, the four-piece are looking to hit hard with a powerhouse sound and epic tracks.

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FESTIVAL NEWS: HRH announce new classic rock themed event for 2021

With a large degree of uncertainty remaining around when live music may be able to return in any shape or form, and it looking like it being 2021 before any sense of normality as we previously knew it could be restored, the team behind the Hard Rock Hell brand have announced their intention to kick off the new year in style, with a brand new festival weekender dedicated to the New Wave of Classic Rock, as it has become known.

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