Napalm/Sound Pollution Danish thrash force HATESPHERE has released one single, two EP´s and seven albums, including this one, quite a lot. Founder Peter “Pepe” Hansen remains in the band, which has changed quite a few members over the years. Today the ranks are made of Jimmy Nedergaard, bass, Mike Park, drums, Jakob Nyholm, guitars, and…
Liljegren Records/Sound Pollution Alexander Oriz from Huskvarna, Sweden, formed his own band ORIZ in late 2009. The others in the band are guitarist David Mauritzon, vocalist Mattias Eriksson, drummer Emil Eriksson, and bassist Christopher Davidsson. The music is said to be heavily influenced by the seventies and eighties, and bands like DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW and…
Frontiers/BAM Italian guitarist/producer Dario Mollo and ex. BLACK SABBATH and solo vocalist TONY MARTIN are not new to each other. As the title states this is their third mutual effort, tailing on successes like the first and third cage. The first was releases in 1999 and their second mutual cage arrived at the scene in…
Drugstore Records Norwegian band HIMORA has released their first album. They are apparently not beginners, but they lean heavily on the likes of AEROSMITH, FRANK ZAPPA and BADLANDS. Quite an intriguing mix! The 70´s and 80´s meet in their classic rock and power pop shapes. Still the info says that they are not copycats but…
Uppsättningen trummor och gitarr börjar kännas bekant, först genom White Stripes och senare genom svenska Johnossi. Amerikanska The Black Keys har dock hållit på sedan 2001 och släpper nu sitt sjunde album. Känslan är verkligen amerikansk. Smått bluesiga riff och mycket körsång. Ibland är inte gospel-känslan långt bort. ”Gold on the ceiling”, ”Lonely boy” och…
Goregrindarna Razorrape från Malmö har släppt ny platta. Fredagen den trettonde januari kom bandets andra fullängdare sedan starten 2004. Någon större framgång på hemmaplan har de hittills inte fått och Martin Schönherr som är hjärnan bakom det här musikaliska projektet berättar att det egentligen aldrig varit riktat till en svensk publik. -Men tyskarna älskar det,…
Angel Air/Border JOHN DU CANN, born John William Cann in 1946, was most famed as lead singer and guitar player of ATOMIC ROOSTER. But there´s more to John than meets the eye. In 1966 he formed THE SONICS, who never took off. An amp tester by daytime, he became part of the music scene in…
The Music Box bring GENESIS’ THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY to the UK for 4 shows in March. THE MUSICAL BOX, the only band in the world to obtain the performing rights and access to the full original archives for ”The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” from Peter Gabriel and Genesis, will perform 4…
CRAIG FINN LIVE ROUGH TRADE EAST INSTORE + debut solo LP ’CLEAR HEART FULL EYES’ out 23rd January on Full Time Hobby CRAIG FINN, will play an intimate instore gig at Rough Trade East, London on Wed 25th January at 7pm in support of his debut solo album. http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=346597 And fans can pre-order the album,…
Quality thrash metal is not something that many people would expect to emerge from the Norwegian realm, yet, the guys playing under the name of Imbalance have delivered an outstanding full album until today, with a fresh pressed one to be released in few days. For an interesting fact, the new release will only be…
Massacre/Sound Pollution KAMBRIUM hails from Helmstedt in Germany, and debuts with this melodic death metal album. They go for everything from almost pop death metal, as in “Dewfall” to the melancholic “Hollow Heart”. Inbetwixt there is a lot of death and IRON MAIDEN-like guitar riffs. The majority of the songs are written by keyboardist Jan…
Bastardized/Sound Pollution Germany´s DYING HUMANITY arose in 2006, and soon released their first outing, a demo called “The Origins of DyH”. They did well enough to debut with Restrain Records in 2007, and their first opus was called “Fallen Paradise”. In 2009 their second official album, “Fragments of an Incomplete Puzzle” followed. For the all-important…