ALBUM REVIEW: Puscifer – Existential Reckoning : Rewired


Puscifer will always be best known as one of the many creative outlets for Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist Maynard James Keenan, and as an avenue for the most obscure depths of his musical creativity. But the band has always been a collaborative affair, with Keenan working alongside many different artists over the years, with their albums subsequently always providing an infusion of many different ideas and experiences. Existential Reckoning : Rewired (Puscifer Entertainment / Alchemy Recordings/ BMG) is the remix accompaniment to their 2020 album, which itself was a typically avant-garde electro-rock melting pot of futuristic and otherworldly sounds.

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A Perfect Circle Streams New Song – So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish


A Perfect Circle‘s new album Eat The Elephant is due at the end of this week, April 20th, via BMG. Yesterday, the band premiered ‘So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish’, via the BBC Radio 1‘s ‘Rock Show With Daniel P Carter‘. The band’s frontman Maynard James Keenan was also interviewed for the episode with that chat included below. For the actual song itself, skip ahead to 05:13.Continue reading


Corey Taylor Performs Acoustic Stone Sour Songs On BBC Radio 1


Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor visited Maida Vale Studios to record an in-studio session for BBC Radio 1‘s Rock Show With Daniel P. Carter. Taylor performed acoustic renditions of new Stone Sour tracks from the bands’new album Hydrograd, which was released June 30th via Roadrunner Records.Continue reading


Audio: Gojira Performs Four Songs Live On BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show With Daniel P. Carter


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Gojira is about to head back to Europe for a run of dates in support of Alter Bridge, as well as a string of special headlining shows in France. They recently stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show with Daniel P. Carter to get fans across the pond excited for their return, and you can now stream their in studio performance online. Continue reading


Enter Shikari Release DIY Video For New Single – Hoodwinker


Enter Shikari, photo credit by Thomas Pullen

Enter Shikari, photo credit by Thomas Pullen

 

Enter Shikari has released a video for their surprise single ‘Hoodwinker’, premiered last weekend on Daniel P Carter on the BBC 1 Radio Rock Show. You can watch the video for ‘Hoodwinker’ below:Continue reading


Krokodil – Nachash


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For the past few months UK based riff lords Krokodil have been making all sort of headlines, most involving people referring to them as “Slipknot’s new bassist’s other band”, which is completely unjustified and harsh as it is hardly judging the band on its own merits. With all the coverage, the eyes of the metal world are on Krokodil as they prepare to unleash their debut album Nachash (Spinefarm) so it’s a very good thing that the album is rather bloody brilliant.

The band, which contains members from a menagerie of great British bands such as Cry For Silence, Sikth, Gallows and of course the mighty A, as well as now Iowa’s own metal behemoth Slipknot, Krokodil sound like a well oiled riff making machine and from the sounds of Nachash the machine has been working overtime on this release. With a heavy dose of Mastodon in its veins, Krokodil are a groove juggernaut that pummels all in its path with its three guitarists of fury, a decision that usually over complicates the material but in this case triples up the guitar tracks, like Helmet making it sound as heavy as a ten ton rhino that’s thinking of gaining a few pounds.

With a formula that blends groove based riffage with a later day Cancer Bats bounce and groove is a fantastic mix which keeps up the pace till the bitter end, this on top of the high quality production of the album which makes it sound colossal. If the album does have a mild weakness it is that the vocals are a tiny bit one dimensional, the hardcore barks work well with the up tempo nature of the albums and work perfectly on the second track ‘Skin of The Earth’, but can come across as one note when the album gets into its final few tracks.

Overall, Nachash is a quality release from a band who deserve a lot more credit for their musical output and certainly do not deserve to be known simply as that other band with someone from Slipknot in, they’re not a DJ Starscream or Dirty Little Rabbits. As for this being the bands’ debut album, hopefully there will be even better to come from the band in the future, but for now Nachash is a cracking start to their career. Its high tempo, riffy and most importantly contains quality throughout.

9.0/10

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