Category: Album Reviews

AVRALIZE ‘LIMINAL’ (ARISING EMPIRE)

AVRALIZE ‘LIMINAL’ (ARISING EMPIRE)

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The musical world that Jase W exists in at the moment seems often dominated by Australia and more recently Denmark for producing proggy metal that digests vast swathes of pop, funk and sometimes soul elements. Yet recently I feel like there’s this growing monster lurking in Germany where younger bands are deciding to stick their fingers up at established convention and turning the approach to what can be considered heavy music totally on its head with doing more than just elements and going full send with bridging the gap between where the fat riff is and sounding like a full on Eurodance song.

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OF MICE & MEN ‘ANOTHER MIRACLE’ (CENTURY MEDIA)

OF MICE & MEN ‘ANOTHER MIRACLE’ (CENTURY MEDIA)

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Okay so Jase W won’t lie, he feels like he’s had a somewhat difficult relationship with Of Mice & Men since their rather infamous split with Austin and the subsequent fall out from that. Not that he specifically wants to draw attention to that but their material since has often been quite hit and miss at times because it always felt like the band were pulling in different directions with some songs feeling like they wanted to potentially replicate Wage War and others with more pop-based core such as Caskets or more recent Bad Omens. Anyway with that out the way, he really cannot overstate how much ‘Another Miracle’ has made him go “fuck me!” throughout listening to it for the first few times.

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BEN QUAD ‘WISHER’ (PURE NOISE RECORDS)

BEN QUAD ‘WISHER’ (PURE NOISE RECORDS)

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“You’re gonna need a glass of water, we’re gonna be here for a while.” Jase W thinks that’s the first line Ihe really heard from Ben Quad that stuck with him pretty hard, and they became part of this steadily building interest in Midwest emo that became ever greater as a love alongside bands like Arm’s Length and Sweet Pill. With the forthcoming tour of both of these and the chance to see Ben Quad do their stuff live, it’d be daft if JW didn’t have a huge interest in their new album, ‘Wisher’, dropping in the cold months of November but immediately warming his heart.

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AVTT/PTTN ‘AVTT/PTTN’ (THIRTY TIGERS/IPECAC)

AVTT/PTTN ‘AVTT/PTTN’ (THIRTY TIGERS/IPECAC)

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Being something of a Mike Patton aficionado, hearing he has a new project is something that will always immediately catch DJ Astrocreep’s interest. Finding out that his latest effort is with roots rock troubadours The Avett Brothers, now that is something he had not expected, though it’s not like Patton hasn’t done something completely different before! The big lad took a dive in and had a proper listen before starting to make his notes, letting the focus sit squarely on the music.

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Drink The Sea – ‘I & II’ (Sunyata Records/Sony Music)

Drink The Sea – ‘I & II’ (Sunyata Records/Sony Music)

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Drink The Sea, a new supergroup uniting some of the most acclaimed musicians of the last three decades from bands like REM, Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age and Mark Lanegan Band, head over to Europe at the end of this month for their first ever ÜK and European tour. Ahead of that, the band’s first two albums, simply titled ‘I’ and ‘II’, have just been released simultaneously.

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SABATON ‘LEGENDS’ (BETTER NOISE MUSIC)

SABATON ‘LEGENDS’ (BETTER NOISE MUSIC)

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Anyone who has been with us a while will know that Jonny B is a pretty BIG fan of Sabaton and has been since he stumbled across them at Hammerfest in 2011. The combination of historical lessons and epic metal music managed to scratch an itch that he didn’t know he had, the songs are catchy as hell and the subject matter is simply fascinating! If you’ve somehow been under a rock for the last decade, it’s pretty hard to miss that Sabaton have become one of the biggest successes in power metal, with multi-platinum albums under their belt, their own history channel on YouTube, their own cruise and even their own festival, Sabaton Open Air (although this has been on hiatus since the last event in 2022). And now they have their 11th album with rich to regale us with more tales…

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