Imagine. Imagine that you are the Captain Willard looking for Colonel Kurtz. Aboard your cockleshell, you are going back up that damned river in a mist-filled, claustrophobic,...
Not many bands can claim, having first gotten together in their formative years as mates at school, that more than ten years later they’ll still be powering away with five...
Frenzied rock veterans MONSTER MAGNET return with their eleventh album, and as a new release from the band is red-letter day, it will require all your attention instead...
I love cinematographic music. Whether it illustrates a movement in a song or highlights emotions, I can’t dissociate the visual world from the music I’m listening to. And I am...
So tell me: when have THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX ever let us down, ever stopped that boogie machine from a-rollin’, or ever even let us catch our breath? Never, that’s when, and from...
It begins, as it inevitably always does, with a riff. A smokey riff, a dark riff, a lingering riff; part downtrodden delta blues, part Mississippi muddied sludge. And even...
Last October, Nancy, France’s own WHEELFALL released their third album The Atrocity Reports. An album that is so intense in its sound and thematics that you...
We may be a bit late to the year-end list festival – slow and steady THC as always – yet it’s no less a resounding testimony of the incredible 2017 vintage we’re proudly...
December 2017. A lead-colored sky and rainy winter plunge me into an apathetic state, from which even the festive period and its excesses could barely extricate me. From my living...
Canada’s hairy, heavy-hitting beasties BISON are back! And they’re back as the plain and simple Bison, none of this Bison B.C. nonsense these days, which is nice for all...
Disclaimer: this review, as well as this record, are much likely to sweep away your idea of what violence actually sounds like. If you feel ready, then crank the volume up and...
First, let’s make things clear: Rescue Rangers do not play stoner, fuzz or desert rock, so it would be useless to weigh in on their music on that basis. With Join Hate,...
It’s always hard to weigh in on a band you’ve been into and respected for years, when the latter decides to turn a risky corner. Hard for me to judge the new...
