Hailing from England, ALUNA is a very new band, which was formed in 2006. This is their latest three-song demo, but 'Higher State' will also appear on the 'Sound of The Catacombs' compilation, while 'Song of The Sun' will be featured on a split-7" , together with the Japanese band Queen Elephantine...
First, I like to thank the friendly people at Musik Research for sending me over a promo copy of this double-sided disc last year, that includes the "Magic Ritual" video and the album. The video is not only a short clip, but more like a whole movie with a total running time of about 55 + minutes and it underlines the fact that ANTONIUS REX are one of Italian's best occult progressive acts...
When a band comes from Sweden by the name of ASTEROID, I expect the next slab of 70's infected heavy fuzz rock, and that's exactely the music one can listen to on their latest release. I'm not sure, if this is "only" a demo or a proper release, but for the recordings of the four songs the band entered the semi-legendary Bombshelter studios, where also bands like Truckfighters have recorded their last full-length "Gravity X"...
When I bought ACID KING's debut EP ten years ago, I can't say that I became a great fan of their fuzzed-out 70's-infected heavy rock, and it didn't change over the last years. There were only a few songs I really liked, but I had altered my point of view after "Busse Woods" and the split-CD with The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight , both released by Man's Ruin Records...
This ambitious trio, hailing from Swansea, UK, have unleashed their second demo and one's for sure, musicwise they are destroying everything that stands in their way. And this is no exaggeration! Strongly influenced by legendary hardcore acts like Electro Hippies, Extreme Noise Terror or Ripcord f...
Before this Italian group released their full-length masterpiece "Ground" they come up with this MCD, released on Edgar, and it includes five tracks. To compare it with the album, ALIX were a solid heavy rock band at this state of their exsistence and nearly all of their trademarks like Alice's charismatic are here to find...
ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY / HALFWAY TO GONE Split 10"/MCD
Jul/23/2004
This EP is a co-release between GAME TWO REC and UNDERDOGMA REC. ATP are presenting us two new songs, titled "Heavyweight" and "Rabdos (the strangler)"...
This is no easy review for me, because on one side I'm very impressed from this very very low and dirty sound from this Dutch band, but on the other side I've got my problems with some vocal-parts and songs, especially when they sound like the SMASHING PUMPKINS, but that's my personal opinion. They use a lot of keyboards in their songs, but more in a effective Space Rock way...
What for a great band! Italy's ALIX is a heavy psychedelic rock outfit and my newest discovery. With melancholy bursts of beauty, spaced-out guitar patterns and a combination of 60's and 70's sensibilities the band sweep the canvas clean and paint a new picture of various and subtle contrasts...
