Published on February 4th, 2010 by The Editor
Follow The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior deep into the wind-swept dunes of Middle Eastern power metal with progressive Isreali dramatists Orphaned Land.
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Tags: metal, Middle Eastern, Orphaned Land, power metal, prog, progressive, The Never Ending Way of Orwarrior
Published on February 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
The Sections EP is the self-funded opening salvo from Young London tech-metal extremists The Safety Fire; I get a feeling it won’t be the last.
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Tags: extreme metal, metal, prog, progressive, Sections, technical, The Safety Fire
Published on February 1st, 2010 by The Editor
Blueneck are bigger than the term post-rock, so they say, but second album The Fallen Host is as canonical it could be, in all the best possible ways.
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Tags: ambient, Blueneck, post-rock, soundtrack, The Fallen Host
Published on January 27th, 2010 by The Editor
Another Belgian oddity from the Jezus Factory – if you’re looking for some dreamy summer-y psyche-pop, it’s time to grab a cold beer and say Hello Strumpets.
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Tags: art-rock, Hello Strumpets, indie-rock, pop, Strumpets
Published on January 25th, 2010 by The Editor
A second single from young grunge-revivalists Japanese Voyeurs fails to impress with its uninspired retreading of ground conquered two decades beforehand.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, Blush, grunge, Japanese Voyeurs, punk rock, That Love Sound
Published on January 22nd, 2010 by The Editor
Los Angelino indie-rock oddballs The Outline are more fey, more moody and more dramatic than before on Phantasmagoria. But can the kids see the curve coming?
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Tags: experimental, indie, indie-rock, Phantasmagoria, The Outline
Published on January 21st, 2010 by The Editor
Until We Are Outnumbered sees Danish bruisers The Kandidate combine the simple and punchy elements of thrash and hardcore to neck-shattering contemporary effect.
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Tags: hardcore, metal, The Kandidate, thrash, Until We Are Outnumbered
Published on January 20th, 2010 by The Editor
Yet more by-the-numbers box-ticking chart fodder from Young Guns, recently voted “band most likely to disappear up the collective arse of Lostprophets”.
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Tags: emo, metal, Mirrors, pop, post-hardcore, Young Guns
Published on January 15th, 2010 by The Editor
Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.
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Tags: Divinity, electronic, extreme metal, industrial, progressive, technical metal, The Singularity
Published on January 14th, 2010 by The Editor
This is The New Enemy: four Toronto guys with buzzcuts bringing back the vest-clad and swaggering toughness of early proto-hardcore on their Shakedown EP.
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Tags: hardcore, proto-hardcore, punk, Shakedown, The New Enemy