John B loves debut releases. He finds that it is when bands tend to be their most honest. Before things get over produced, before people are talking trash online, before the fairytale melts into reality. This debut EP from west Midlands skater punks La Moxie is very raw in the best way. It still has that recorded in the garage feel. There is a passion that so many bands tend to lose later on.
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Pioneers of the British black metal sound, Winterfylleth have returned with their sixth studio album in ‘The Reckoning Dawn’. The band have stated the album represents the culmination of hard work over the previous two years. Looking to develop their now well-established sound, the eight new tracks still incorporate the thematic layering, emotive expanse and sweeping atmosphere that fans have come to expect, yet they’ve sought to push the boundaries and use a further injection of passion to press this album further. What with the current climate of uncertainty and uneasiness now permeating everyday life, could this be an ideal time for a dark, extreme record from a band now honed to a fine point to take hold?
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Surely, it’s time for Bullets And Octane to make a comeback? They were touted as “Next Big Things” back in 2006 on the strength of their (excellent) second album ‘In The Mouth Of The Young,’ but any hopes of arena stardom were derailed when they got dropped by RCA. Fast forward a decade and chances are most rock fans will have forgotten them, but they’ve been quietly releasing albums on minor labels all this time and despite some significant line-up changes, never really went away. They had the spotlight taken off them is all.
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We have only one selection for you this week, as this is a song, and a video, that needs space to breathe, space to inhabit itself, and you, space to be absorbed, enjoyed, and enveloped…
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It’s something of twist on our ‘Über Rock Introduces…’ feature, as this edition features a band with whom we have been more than familiar for quite a number of years now… but that’s exactly what we have here with the phoenix like re-emergence of Alunah! Since the departure of founding vocalist and guitarist Sophie, Sian Greenaway stepped quickly into the void left and the sound has blossomed from a female-vocalled Black Sabbath into a groove ridden stoner monster.
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