Another chance to see Shinedown at Download 2022 was an opportunity for David O’Neill to see if any new music from the forthcoming album was going to be played. Kicking off with ‘The Saints Of Violence And Innuendo’, the only other track was the title track, ‘Planet Zero’. So this was his chance to once again review the new release by the Florida foursome of Smith, Kerch, Myers and Bass.
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“I’M BACK FROM THE DEAD”, screamed by Lzzy Hale over an incandescent guitar chord, has to be one of the most defiantly declarative opening statements made on any album, especially in this new PC (that’s Post-Covid) era. Not that the woman delivering it has been anywhere near being “dead” during most of the down time we’ve all been forced to endure over the past two years of covidications. In fact, given the number of collaborations in which she’s been involved, it could be argued that the only person in the Überverse with whom she hasn’t duetted is, in fact, herself…
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German retro-rockers Blues Pills will follow their Download festival appearance this June with a run of four headline shows.
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Beth Hart has added four more dates to her rescheduled March 2023 tour.
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Kouta are a Finnish black metal band whose material centres around old Norse myths and folklore and is inspired by the malign nature of the northern forests and the iniquity of being human. Kouta, Bona believes, is a place in Finland although the band state that Kouta refers to the myth of the malevolent being and is at the heart of their music. ‘Aarnihauta’ refers to treasure grave and is the first release of this band. Thematically, the EP tells of the appearance of the mythological being Kouta, whose malevolence brings judgement and despair upon the treacherous mankind.
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