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Quinn The Brain – ‘Open Wide’ (Self-Released)

Sometimes we have interesting stories about how we discovered the bands we love. Gerald S went to a local show to check out the brilliant Pretty Vacant (more on them in the future) and saw this person walking around a bar in Houston wearing a Hands Off Gretel jacket. Obviously, he had to find out more about this person as he thought he was the only HOG fan in south Texas. Discussion turned to bands like The Wildhearts, and our man knew he had found someone with a kindred musical spirit. He soon found out she was a member of another band, and she asked him to give this upcoming release a review. Our G-man thinks he can just write ‘EP of the Year’ in ink and call it a 2020…

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Hearts and Hand Grenades – ‘Adrenaline’ EP (Self-Released)

Gerald S recently reviewed the last Hearts and Hand Grenades EP and knew this one was right around the corner. According to our resident Texan, the band has continued to increase the aggression in their music with this EP being heavier than the ‘Nothing Left’ EP was. Hearts and Hand Grenades are not chasing trends and are focused entirely on their music. This allows them to appeal to fans of multiple rock and metal genres., as you’ll discover on the other side of this link…

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Werewolves – ‘The Dead Are Screaming’ (Prosthetic Records)

Described in their press release as “a supergroup of sorts, who would no doubt argue that there’s rarely anything super about them”, Werewolves came about as a result of one of those “let’s form a band” conversations between drummer Dave Haley (of Psycroptic, Ruins and King) and The Berzerker/The Antichrist Imperium guitarist Matt Wilcock. From there, things moved quickly – very quickly indeed. Within two days, Wilcock’s band mate Sam Bean was on board, and three weeks later this, the new project’s debut album was written, recorded, mixed and ready to go… all it needed was a record company to get out it out there. Another couple of weeks later, they inked a three-album deal with Prosthetic Records – et voila… two months from beginning to end… None of the long, detailed production schedules the trio were used to with their other bands, just something more in keeping with their collective desire to create “something nimble and idiotic… blackened caveman death-metal without any pretension whatsoever…”

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Everyday Heroes – ‘A Tale of Sin and Sorrow’ (Self-Released)

Davud O’Neill has been waiting for the debut album from these guys since he first saw them at Steelhouse in 2016.  And our valleys correspondent can’t believe it has taken them this long to get enough material together to complete this project.  However, they have been writing and recording and releasing material at regular intervals during this time. What they have been doing, however is building up the hard yards touring and getting known on the UK rock music scene with appearances up and down the length and breadth of the country.

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