London progressive rockers The Osiris Club have kept themselves busy recently, inking a new deal with Bad Elephant Music and preparing to release not one but two new albums this year. Ahead of the label releasing the band’s third studio album ‘The Green Chapel’ later this year, BEM have taken the opportunity to release ‘Blazing Worlds – Live At Roadburn’ first.
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Phoxjaw could have been described as a little ‘out there’ already. Known for their divergent and rule-breaking music, the titles of their first two EPs, the debut, ‘Goodbye Dinosaur’ and the wonderfully named ‘A Playground For Sad Adults’ enhance the impression that what we are about to hear may not be your typical middle of the road album. Oh, and Lesley Mac can imagine herself in that playground… With ‘Royal Swan’, their first full length contribution having been recorded in a wee stone box called ‘Devil’s Bridge Cottage’ in Wales, the fourpiece of Danny Garland (vocals/bass), Josh Gallop (guitars/keyboard), Kieran Gallop (drums) and Alexander Share (guitar/vocals) are unlikely to have tamed their unusual ways…
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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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When discussing the best power metal bands of the last decade or so, David S doesn’t think anybody compiling such a list could leave out the name of German power metal legends Powerwolf. The band have proven over the years to be a constant force on the power metal scene and have been at the forefront of the genre for many years.
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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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