10 SLIP ~ TENSE LIP .... review
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4d ago
  Introspective, thought provoking lyrics are all well and good, especially when set against musical backdrops that reflect the seriousness of those lyrics, but there are also times when all you want to hear is some chunky power chords and funky rhythms framing lyrics that look at the world not so much from under a microscope but more from the bottom of a beer glass. Enter 10 Slip a Canadian power trio from Sydney, Nova Scotia with their new release "Tense Lip". an album that in the bands words is "best enjoyed after 4-5 cold drinks" and "with a 6th in hand". "Tense Lip" opens wi ..read more
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EARTHWORKS ~ EARTHWORKS .... review
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1w ago
Guitar and bass tones drenched in enough distortion and fuzz to drown a small village driven by sedate yet unbelievably busy drumming is what is on offer today and the band doing the offering go by the name Earthworks. Earthworks, Mercedes Macomber (vocals); Reilly Tennesen (guitar/sitar): David Bell (bass) and Garrison Kadau (drums, percussion), first came onto Desert Psychlist's radar via their Bandcamp released demo "Volume 1", and what caught our attention on that demo was the contrast between Macomber's clean clear vocal tones and the absolute onslaught of distorted heavin ..read more
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CENTER OF THE EARTH ~ AS ABOVE, SO BELOW ...review
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1w ago
There are a lot of things you can do in twenty minutes, some of them legal, some of them illegal, some of them pleasurable, some of them not so much, today we are bringing you something that sits very much in the legal and pleasurable range and one you need only to use your ears for. The twenty minutes we invite you to indulge yourself in today comes in the form of two humongous tracks of weighty groove brought to you by a Danish combo going by the name Center of the Earth, Aksel Brammer (drums); Frederik Holm (guitar/vocals); Jesper Laugmann (guitar/vocals) and Sebastian Wils ..read more
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HEXJAKT ~ HEXJAKT ...... review
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2w ago
Desert Psychlist has for a long time had an unhealthy obsession with Sweden's sludge/doom behemoths Ordos, so much so that not a week seems to go by without the bands self-titled debut, their mind-blowing follow up "House of the Dead" or their excellent third album "The End" are not heard blaring out through the halls of Stonerking Towers. The trouble with this obsession is that Ordos are not the most prolific of bands, they've been promising new material for what seems like an age, and there are not that many bands out there whose blend of atmospheric doom and sludge hits our sweet spot in ..read more
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BLACK SADHU ~ ASHES OF AETHER ..... review
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2w ago
Those of us of a certain age will remember those days when space rock pioneers Hawkwind would bookcase their jamming on a chord musical endeavours with passages of prose and poetry, something that would prove especially effective on albums like "Warriors On The Edge Of Time" and the iconic live album "Space Ritual". Now you may be asking why Desert Psychlist are opening a review, analysing the merits of a present day album, with mention of the UK's mighty Hawkwind, well the reason is that said album utilizes many of those same spoken word/music/spoken word properties that were Hawkwind's for ..read more
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RUST BUCKET ~ RUST BUCKET .... review
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3w ago
  If music that is raw, raging, raucous and rocking is your jam then Minnesota's Rust Bucket, Tom K. (vocals); Adam (bass); Gene (guitar); Pete (guitar) and Luke (drums), deliver everything you could possibly ask for with their self-titled debut album "Rust Bucket" (Glory or Death Records), a collection of songs that are mix of distorted swampy bluesiness, stonerized mid-west metallurgy and dirty dank doominosity.  If you want fuzz then these boys have a shitload of it and they trowel it on thick and meaty all over each and every one of the ten tracks they prese ..read more
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DUNES ~ LAND OF THE BLIND .... review
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1M ago
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK outfit Dunes, John Davies (guitar/vocals); Ade Huggins (bass/vocals) and Nikky Watson (drums) have been around for a while now but for reasons unknown to us, and probably to them, the band have not quite achieved the attention internationally that they and their music deserve, which is strange because the grooves they create together are tailor-made for fans of the present days global underground scene. Hopefully this state of affairs will be resolved with the release of the bands third full length album  "Land of the Blind" a release that sees the migh ..read more
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RIGOR SAMSA ~ SEVERANCE .... review
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1M ago
Music termed "progressive" be it rock or metal, is often approached with a certain amount of trepidation, many still connect the word with the overblown, overcomplex and over-polished music of 70's giants like ELP, Yes and early Genesis despite the fact that bands like Opeth, Anciients , Tool and Mastodon have shown us that you can still be progressive and be gritty. One band who fall into the latter category are Poland's Rigor Samsa, Jacek Berentowicz (vocals); Dawid Molenda (guitar); Jakub Ściślak (bass) and Krzysztof Zając (drums), a quartet whose music is a perfectly balanced blend of co ..read more
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BLOOD LEMON ~ PETITE DEATHS ... review
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1M ago
Blood Lemon's 2021 debut, the self-titled "Blood Lemon", garnered many plaudits on its release so its a little surprising that the buzz around the trio, Lisa Simpson (guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, synth, piano); Melanie Radford (bass, vocals, upright bass, synth, piano) and Lindsey Lloyd (drums, percussion, vocals), has frankly not been deafening. Some might suggest that the bands music being tagged with the far too easy Indie/Riot Grrrl label (in some quarters) has hindered them somewhat and has seen comparisons being made with the likes of Sleater-Kinney, L7 and Hole while ..read more
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MIND WOLF ~ CHALET ... review
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1M ago
Grunge, or alternative rock, emerged in the mid-eighties and proceeded to blow away everything in its path but like so many of the musical movements before it grunge soon became diluted thanks mainly to record labels signing up every band or solo-artist with a hooped pullover and a drug habit, regardless of their talent. Some of the scenes bigger bands did survive, and still continue to make important music, but many fell by the wayside or altered their sound to accommodate shifting tastes. Grunge/alt.rock's core sound never fully went away though and it can still be found raising its unkemp ..read more
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