FESTIVAL NEWS: Slam Dunk announces stage splits
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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Kings Destroy – ‘Fantasma Nera’ (Svart Records)
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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The Gentlemens – ‘Triage’ (Hound Gawd! Records)
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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Puppet Kings – ‘The Mountain’ EP (Self-Released)
Originally hailing from Brighton but now basked in Clapham, Puppet Kings are one of those growing number of bands who perhaps can best be described (and have already been so) as a “power duo”, in that they make a fucking big noise for just two people, in this guitarist/bassist/vocalist Tomas Cochrane and drummer/vocalist Harry Lehane. And it has to be said that this, their third EP, is an extremely accomplished offering indeed.
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Demon Head – ‘Hellfire Ocean Void’ ( Svart Records)
Having crawled out of the sewers of Copenhagen back in 2012, and describing their sound as “diabolic rock”, Demon Head’s name may suggest that they are positioned squarely front and centre of the Danish black metal scene. However, the evidence the this, their third album (but only the first Monk has encountered) suggests that something more akin to the new wave of classic metal revivalism meeting the original generation of space rockers, via the old guard of doom.
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