With the quarantine blues most definitely setting in, we wanted to do our best to brighten everyone’s mood as we went hunting through the latest batch of almost 100 submissions for our latest ‘Video Of The Week’… and there’s probably no one better equipped to do just that than Captain Christopher Bowes and his motley crüe of rapscallions by the collective name of Alestorm!
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Monk knew there was something not quite right when he first cranked up the volume on this, the fourth full-length album from Lucifer Star Machine, and the first to cross his path. The distinctly London drawl of Tor Abyss did not sit with what else was going on behind it… it sounded different… so our chief pack mule did a little digging, and, lo, the light was switched on: for the past six years the band has been based in Hamburg, with yer man being the only émigré in the line-up. So, that would explain why this exudence of Lucifer’s exhalations sounds more distinctly in the mien of European turbo rock than Cocknabilly strut ‘n’ roll…
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Having covered Hawkwind and Dozer as his last couple of reviews, it’s a short hop on to the space doom bus for our man by the name of Astrocreep to cover Mancunian trio Astral Bodies with their debut full length, ‘Escape Death’. Despite catching a lot of bands on the local circuit, they have somehow passed the big lad by so far, so this will prove how much harder he needs to keep on looking. A mix of post-metal, space rock and doom-pop awaited his ears on another voyage into the nether…
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The title of this, only the second album in 18 years from German speed rockers Sidebürns, is obviously something of a misnomer. Indeed, you could say that it is a phrase that is strictly verboten in the rock ‘n’ roll Überverse, as you can never have that volume level turned up to “too loud” – and, if you do, then you obviously just need to fuck off and listen to the likes of Pathetic Monkeys or Snore Patrol for the rest of your mundane existence…
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So as the self-appointed Space Wizard of Über Rock, Astrocreep felt it only appropriate that he should turn his attention to mighty space rock progenitors and overlords Hawkwind with the remastered version of the 1976 compilation ‘Roadhawks’, which covers the years 1970-1975 and was curated by the sole remaining founder, Dave Brock…
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