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Double Experience – ‘Alignments’ (Drakkar Entertainment)

Double Experience – ‘Alignments’ (Drakkar Entertainment)

Posted by | Apr 14, 2020 | ,

Back when the talent shows like ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ or ‘American Idol’ were still new and people were hoping that they would change the way new stars broke into the industry or infuse some new styles into the radio playlists, there would be a lot of great talent and we would all vote for our favourites and at the end, they would all go off with the promise of making a full album. It finally would come out and it would just be yet another generic pop album with only a hint of what they were back when you voted for them. John B doesn’t know if Double Experience was ever on one of those talent shows but ‘Alignments’ is that generic pop album that always resulted. Sure, he can hear that they have talent and that they probably would have been great covering other people’s music, but, honestly, the originals that ended up on the album just seem uninspired.

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Fearing – ‘Shadow’ (Funeral Party)

Fearing – ‘Shadow’ (Funeral Party)

Posted by | Apr 14, 2020 | ,

A coldwave label releasing something a touch away from their general radar is sometimes enough reason to give something at least a quick listen. Funeral Party have their own fans rightfully so, for a lot of their output so hearing that they are putting out the debut album of a dark post-punk act from the Bay Area, obviously better known for its thrash output over the years, is certainly enough to pique the interest. Labelled as a mix of French coldwave, European post-punk and early shoegaze, it was time to see if that mix lived up to its billing…

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Shitfucker – ‘Sex With Dead Body’ (Hell’s Headbangers)

Shitfucker – ‘Sex With Dead Body’ (Hell’s Headbangers)

Posted by | Apr 14, 2020 | , |

Once one of the metal underground’s best-kept secrets, Detroit scum-crew Shitfucker burst into the public’s consciousness with utter and unrelenting rudeness with their debut album ‘Suck Cocks in Hell’ in 2013 courtesy of those fine purveyors of filth at Hells Headbangers. Prolific before that album and prolific after, the power-trio kept apace with salacious split recordings with the likes of Bonehunter, Japan’s Abigail, and the mighty Midnight. It’s been a long wait, but the band’s second album, ‘Sex With Dead Body’, is finally here, spewing a mixture of black thrash and toxic hardcore punk, pumped full of bile, disease, degradation, and devil worship over forty furious and filthy minutes.

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La Moxie – ‘You’ve Burnt Your Bridge, Now Lie In It’ (Real Ghost Records)

La Moxie – ‘You’ve Burnt Your Bridge, Now Lie In It’ (Real Ghost Records)

Posted by | Apr 13, 2020 | ,

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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Winterfylleth – ‘The Reckoning Dawn’ (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)

Winterfylleth – ‘The Reckoning Dawn’ (Candlelight/Spinefarm Records)

Posted by | Apr 13, 2020 | ,

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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