What a pleasant surprise it has been to receive LORD SHANI's 2013 debut release on Go Down Records, 'Progress Your Soul'! Hailing from Italy, this female fronted band is capable of writing songs that are not stingy with strong hooklines. Add to this the fact that LORD SHANI show openness by welcoming varied influences, ranging from hard rock to progressive rock, blues and soul...
Up until recently, Alexander von Wieding was the main supplier of cover designs for Small Stone Records. However, since last year, he joined the label roster with his own outfit LARMAN CLAMOR, and his one-man band fits well into the picture, because a lot of bands on Small Stone are strongly influenced by the good old blues...
LIBYAN HIT SQUAD / ROUND EYE (Full Circle) Split LP/CD
Mar/12/2013
When you look at the colourful album design of this split release, you could suppose that it's psychedelic rock. Well, China's ROUND EYE are somehow psychedelic, but more than anything they are deeply rooted in the aesthetics of punk...
Here we have the second official re-release of the legendary 'Wino Daze' demo, originally recorded in 1988 after LOST BREED hooked up with Scott 'Wino' Weinrich. But this time the demo did get the appropriate packaging, or more precisely At War With False Noise did a hell of a great job in terms of packaging, unlike Helltown Records...
Hailing from Möchengladbach, Germany, LORD OF GIANT deliver bluesy, 1970s-tinged heavy rock on their self-titled debut album and I must say that this is a pretty promising start. This is mainly because these guys know that a good rock 'n' roll song needs some good hooks or it will sunk into oblivion...
Without doubt, 'Green Vapour' is one of the heaviest albums I have heard in 2012. The second full-length of Switzerland's LORD OF THE GRAVE is relentlessly, massive, and thick, and it feels, when listening to it, that a hole could easily crack in the ground...
Hailing from Italy, LES BONDAGE try desperately to be the new New York Dolls, but this undertaking results not to be completely smooth and successful. In terms of craft, they do everything right and yet, despite this, 'Adios Miss Bordello' leaves much to be desired...
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, LORD FOWL belong to the sort of bands which love the hard rock of the 1970's. That does not mean however that they try to mimic that music at any cost...
From the remains of hardcore punk band Annihilation Time, Oakland's LECHEROUS GAZE came into being in 2009 and released two years later a self-titled 4 song EP via Tee Pee Records. Regrettably, I missed that EP as well as their first European tour, what annoys me even more after listening to this red-hot debut record...
