ALBUM REVIEW: Rock Band From Hell – Music For Late Night Activities


 

There was either a miscommunication with the final product, or Rock Band From Hell made a head-scratchingly curious production decision as Music For Late Night Activities (Universal/Central Line) sounds like half of it was recorded on Windows Media Player with those calculators that stand themselves up hydraulically.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tjære & Lil Snus – NikotinTapen


Norway’s very own Sandvika and Finnmark-bound newcomers Tjære and Lil Snus have been doing an impeccable job in representing a consistent branding of an anti-authoritarian death cult that is against bogus, ingenuine, mass-produced capitalist systems in the industry. They strongly aspire to show people who understand their values and what they’re aiming for and to advocate what they stand for.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Turmion Katilot – Omen X


 

When I was young and brash and had two working knees, I used to visit the high street in Camden, London. Me and my mates would dance ourselves into oblivion at the Electric Ballroom, take the night bus home, hit a Tescos for sausage rolls, and eat them right out the package – cold, before returning to Surrey Quays just before the sun rose.

Those were the times!

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Dogjoy Shares a New Music Video – “Super Glue”


Prolific Floridian Hardcore Punk duo Dogjoy has dropped a new video for their single “Super Glue.” Ther track comes from their late 2020 EP Hardcore Fun, released in December 2020, which followed their full-length debut Sober Nights in October 2020. Both releases are out now via Mission Two Entertainment. As a change of pace, “Super Glue” flows over your earholes with spastic Trap-ish beats, atmospheric, brooding bass, and vocals from Robots. The video is cool with a dark narrative to tell.

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Linkin Park – One More Light


It’s a tricky thing growing up and playing music. I don’t mean “former child stars gone bad, next on TMZ”. Most bands that hit the mainstream have something catchy, visceral, and often a magic quality about their talent. The problem is that once you’ve gotten a taste of that hot hot spotlight, usually a band or artist ends up uncompromising to stay in front of it. The few that don’t ever sell out, fight an uphill battle the rest of their careers. This is the fight Linkin Park have been in since about album three, and now they are in it again on album seven in almost 20 years, One More Light (Warner Bros.)Continue reading