Archive for the ‘Albums’ Category

Daylight Robbery : Cross Your Heart

Posted: 18th December 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Midlands Rocks, www.themr.co.uk November 2011 The significance of Birmingham, and its environs, in the development of heavy metal is, of course, both well known and longstanding.  Metal Gods, Rob Halford and Tony Iommi, have often spoken of the region’s grim satanic mills, foundries and factories and the role they played in the birth of [...]

Voodoo Johnson : Black Powder Mother Loader

Posted: 18th December 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Midlands Rocks, www.themr.co.uk October 2011 Folk hanging around on the off-chance of Voodoo Johnson releasing a naff record are advised as follows: pull up a chair, bring some sandwiches and get yourself something to read. You’re in for a looooong wait… The contributory elements that make them everyone’s Next Big Thing coalesce [...]

Machine Head : Unto The Locust

Posted: 26th November 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine, November 2011 http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2838-machine-head-unto-the-locust It’s a rare band that sticks to its guns while, simultaneously, bringing something new to the party (and if you like your metaphors mixed, how’s that for an opening line?). The Oakland steel string quartet is such a band. Yeah, there is here much that is standard [...]

Megadeth : THIRT3EN

Posted: 26th November 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine, November 2011 http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2835-cd-review-megadeth-th1rt3en-the-heaven-version It can’t be easy being Dave “mouth” Mustaine. The sort of dude who, seemingly, delights in making life as hard as possible for himself, the number of corners into which he’s ostensibly painted himself, over the years, would make weaker men cry. Apart from anything else, the sheer [...]

Rush : Time Machine. Live In Cleveland

Posted: 26th November 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine, November 2011 http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2854-cd-review-rush-time-machine-2011-live-in-cleveland So, another day with a ‘Y’ in it and another live Rush album. In other news, the sun rose in the east today. Yeah, a bit snidey, maybe. Reasonable though, surely, given the plethora of live Rush product currently available, to shrug and succumb to an entirely understandable [...]

Reasons To Be Cheerful : Parts 1 to 4

Posted: 17th October 2011 by Harry in Albums, Blog, Gigs
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There are very few reasons to be cheerful on a Monday morning. The soul-sapping purgatory of the five-day span that links the weekends has only just started and most of us labour under its soul-crushing weight. Today, however, is a little different as perfectly formed golden nuggets of good news, from a variety of sources, [...]

Staind : Staind

Posted: 28th September 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2519-cd-review-staind-staind September 2011 So; they’re back, then. Popular young persons’ beat combo, Staind, have arrived with album number seven. Intending, according to Mike Mushok on the band’s website, “…to explore some of the things we did on the last record and take them somewhere new for us”. It’s safe to say [...]

Toxic Federation : Distance

Posted: 26th September 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Midlands Rocks www.themr.co.uk September 2011 On October 17th Toxic Federation will release their third album. Ah, yes. The Difficult Third Album… The one a band is supposed to make to show the world that they are the finished item. The one that proudly unveils their sound, sans influences, and the clumsy fumbling homage [...]

Officers : On The Twelve Thrones

Posted: 26th September 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Soundsphere Magazine http://www.spheremag.co.uk/reviews/54-cd/2405-cd-review-officers-on-the-twelve-thrones September 2011 One of the year’s more eagerly anticipated debut releases, ‘On The Twelve Thrones’ arrives promising much. The release of Officers’ most recent EP ‘Co-Education’, gave notice that electronica had some new pretenders to its digital throne. The four cuts on that platter were a satisfying kaleidoscope of [...]

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band : How I Go

Posted: 26th September 2011 by Harry in Albums
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First published by Midlands Rocks, www.themr.co.uk September 2011 Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, Gary Moore, Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa and a great many more have all, in their own ways, helped answer one of the burning musical questions of our times: can a white man play the blues? The answer, of course, is [...]

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