Having spent the last couple of weeks digesting the rattlingly good album from Mexican neo-grunge funksters, Ikkarus. All of which made us think – from a continent so huge, why are there so few successful rock bands? IKKARUS Well, since they inspired us, where better to start? Their debut album, Stains & Echoes is an […]
Even though, by any stretch of the imagination, Satan’s in Heaven isn’t a full-on metal mosh-a-thon, we didn’t think twice about featuring it. The slightly gospel mantra that runs hypnotically throughout feels slightly like the brainwashing chants of a clandestine cult. Though it feels on the surface like a jolly sing-a-long ditty, there’s a strange […]
We’ve been much taken by the new release “In Bloom” by Brit abroad, Julia Mascetti, whose career as a freelance harpist has seen her perform not only her own songs in her adopted home of Tokyo but also video game themes and metal covers. Here she is playing some Cradle of Filth: https://tokyoharp.blog Do you […]
Fancy a night out? Of course you do. For sheer value for money alone, you’ll be laughing with Steampunk Record’s tour, which is entering the stage where everyone will be firing on all cylinders. On offer is a smorgasbord of musical offerings, from the demented cabaret of Feline and Strange, the grizzled rock of BB […]
Never really exploding in a meaningful commercial sense, shoegaze and the various off-shoots came and went in the blurry fog of drowsy feedback, only to rear its head politely in the sound of the stoner rock movement which sprang up in the early 90s. It seems that only this year bands and reintroduced themselves to […]