Texan blues rock trio Quaker City Night Hawks, who release their third studio album, ‘QCNH’, via Lightning Rod Records on 7 June, have confirmed a short run of dates around the Über Kingdom of Rock ‘n’ Roll this November.
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The 2000 Trees line-up has grown even bigger with the announcement of a whole host of bands today, including Saturday headliners Deaf Havana.
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With Slam Dunk festival all-but fully booked (save for a couple of as-yet unannounced special guests TBC), the festival has today dropped a poster which details the stage splits.
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Hailing from Brooklyn and described as an ‘atmospheric grunge doom unit’, without hearing a note you’ll likely already have the idea of Kings Destroy as a band who owe much allegiance to the likes of A Pale Horse Named Death and Life Of Agony. In many ways, you’d be right. Fantasma Nera does evoke the doom-grunge adjacency of APHND, and the soulful alt rock inclinations of Life of Agony, but the band also seem to owe a fair deal to riff-happy radio rock and the textual layering of the stoner scene, the band utilising a variety of tones and styles to create a cohesive sonic collage.
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This aptly, and cleverly titled third album from Italian garage dwellers The Gentlemens – released through one of ÜR’s favourite labels – is proof positive that the underground rock ‘n’ roll scene is not even suffering breathing difficulties never mind approaching condition critical, but is, in fact, very much alive and kicking, and looking like remaining so for some considerable time to come…
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