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ALBUM REVIEW: Pop Evil – ‘Skeletons’

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  • Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023

With radio-rock that leans a bit heavier and hooks that strike with more consistent force, Pop Evil’s newest is far from revolutionary but it’s still an improvement.

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ALBUM REVIEW: BIG|BRAVE – ‘nature morte’

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  • Posted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023

A harrowing, heaving new album from BIG|BRAVE cracks open musical experimentalism and produces a wholly gripping experience.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Last Ten Seconds Of Life, Circles, Letters Sent Home

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  • Posted on December 1, 2022December 5, 2022

In the final Review Round-Up of 2022, we take a look at metal successes in recent EPs from The Last Ten Seconds Of Life and Circles, as well as Letters Sent Home’s new EP that falls drastically short of that.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Clean Cut Kid, Young Culture, Pryti

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  • Posted on November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

In this Review Round-Up, Clean Cut Kid and Young Culture prove decent (but little more) in indie-folk and pop-rock respectively, while Pryti’s new album struggles to catch much fire.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dead Cross – ‘II’

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  • Posted on October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

Mike Patton’s Dead Cross returns with a sophomore album of alt-metal insanity that’s seldom still, but proves all the more magnetic for it.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Gogol Bordello, The Beths, The Darling Fire

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  • Posted on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

In this Review Round-Up, new albums from Gogol Bordello and The Beths prove impressive, while The Darling Fire struggle to hit any similar heights on theirs.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Stick To Your Guns, Anberlin, Banks Arcade, blacktoothed

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  • Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

In this Review Round-Up, strong new albums from Stick To Your Guns and Banks Arcade find themselves against releases from Anberlin and blacktoothed, themselves split between underwhelming and outright bad.

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REVIEW ROUND-UP: Moodring, Creature, Future Palace

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  • Posted on June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

In this Review Round-Up, Moodring impress with their new album and Future Palace show off a lot of promise, while Creature’s new EP winds up shaped by inopportune circumstances.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Thornhill – ‘Heroine’

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  • Posted on May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

Sidestepping from tech-metal to headier alt-metal shows immediate improvements for Thornhill, even if they’re still off from realising the optimum way to pull it off.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Puppy – ‘Pure Evil’

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  • Posted on April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

It’s a step down from their tremendous debut, but Puppy continue to channel a classic approach to riff-making with an irascible pop streak to deftly avoid a sophomore slump.

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