Swiss newcomers Exess gleefully admit that they have deliberately sought to blend genres on this, their debut nine-track album. And they certainly have succeeded, as ‘Deus Ex Machina’ references a number of miens – although quite what they mean by “common metal” still escapes Monk at the end of it…
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It’s always nice for Jase W when he gets passed an album along that has “for fans of Vola, Leprous, Voyager, Caligula’s Horse and Between the Buried and Me” in the description; we mean it’s quite literally a list of his favourite bands right now, so there was no doubt that our resident proggie would ever decline a chance to listen to something along those lines.
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Hailing from the ever febrile breeding ground of Über Rock’s original homeland, south Wales, And The Sky Darkened have taken almost three and a half years to deliver us of their second recorded offering, this nifty little four-track EP – the first to feature their now solidified line-up.
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As the C-19 pandemic continues to grip the Überverse, and with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel for the foreseeable future, more and more summer festivals are predictably falling by the wayside, with the latest to be cancelled being UK Tech-Fest, which was due to take place over the weekend of 6-10 July.
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Does anyone remember the PledgeMusic scandal that gripped the Überverse around this time last year? Among the hundreds of bands badly affected by the crowdfunding platform’s apparent inability to pay the artists who had signed up to it were Brighton hard rockers The Rocket Dolls. Somewhat like the current C-19 crisis, many bands were forced to re-evaluate their positions, with a lot having to restart more or less from scratch. Which is exactly what TRD did, smashing through their original fundraising target when they moved their campaign over to their own merch store… now, a year down the line, the reward for that perseverance has been out, with the release of the resulting album…
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