Having just returned from a mammoth European tour supporting Brant Bjork, Danish fuzz rock trio the Sonic Dawn unleash ‘Eclipse’, the band’s third album. Despite this being 2019, The Sonic Dawn are firmly ensconced in the late 1960’s. They look like it and sound like it. Indeed the first track on this album, ‘Forever 1969’, opens with the line ‘Forever 1969, some say that we are out of our time’, which is extremely apt.
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US thrash legends Sacred Reich, who are currently recording their first studio album in 23 years, have announced a full European tour, kicking off in November and including six shows in the UK and Ireland:
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The upcoming release from Denmark’s most notable symphonic metallers works on a number of levels. Firstly, with ‘Hunter’s Moon’, Delain are capping off a trilogy which began with the ‘Lunar Prelude’ EP and was continued by their 2016 full-length, ‘Moon Bathers’. As well as bringing their thematic appreciation of celestial bodies to an apparent climax, the four new studio cuts featured here act as a tantalising precursor to a future LP due later this year. The rest of the album’s ten tracks are live recordings from Delain’s 2017 ‘Danse Macabre’ tour, which were also filmed for a Blu-ray release in order to fully depict the opulence of their stage show.
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Someone else will probably hear this album and absolutely love it. Gerald S is not that person though as this album just leaves him cold and uninterested. ‘Bitter’ never moves him and just starts to feel like a monotonous exercise with each song every time that he plays it. Giving each song a one-word title seems a little silly and ultimately unimaginative to him. Some of that may also be his own subjectivity as he is just not personally getting any kind of depth from these songs…
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Ahh, technical death metal, the widdliest and guitar wankery-est of all non-prog genres. When a TDM heavyweight such as Obscura are touring fairly nearby, it would be rather rude not to accept an invitation from Tapestry Promotions to attend, especially when Allegaeon, First Fragment and Fallujah are their tour mates. So, off to Manchester again for our resident gigaholic for an evening of brutality…
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