Author: UberAdmin

Brian Downey’s Alive & Dangerous – Isernhagen, Blues Garage – 3 February 2019

Brian Downey’s Alive & Dangerous – Isernhagen, Blues Garage – 3 February 2019

Posted by | Feb 12, 2019 | , |

For those of you that do not recognise the name, Brian Downey is one of the world’s most underrated rock drummers. Along with Phil Lynott on bass, they provided the bedrock that supported the now famous twin guitar sound of Thin Lizzy. Why Brian isn’t in the Rolling Stone’s top 100 drummer’s list is beyond belief, and hard to swallow, especially for any diehard Thin Lizzy fanatic like me. Thin Lizzy was the band I grew up listening too, so this review may be a bit biased.

Read More
The Sonic Dawn – ‘Eclipse’ (Heavy Psyche Sounds)

The Sonic Dawn – ‘Eclipse’ (Heavy Psyche Sounds)

Posted by | Feb 12, 2019 | , |

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.

Read More
Delain – ‘Hunter’s Moon’ (Napalm)

Delain – ‘Hunter’s Moon’ (Napalm)

Posted by | Feb 11, 2019 | , |

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.

Read More
Corroded – ‘Bitter’ (Despotz Records)

Corroded – ‘Bitter’ (Despotz Records)

Posted by | Feb 11, 2019 | , |

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…

Read More