Darkthrone – Blacksmith Of The North (Keep That Ancient Fire)
“Sound of iron, hard at work” You want riffs. And they don’t get much better than the angular, thrashy guitar intro that kicks off Darkthrone’s Blacksmith Of The North (Keep That Ancient Fire). Taken...
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Rush – Grace Under Pressure Tour (Album Review)
Rush – Grace Under Pressure Tour (Anthem – 2006) I’ve been listening to Rush quite a bit recently and you can’t have a Rush kick without taking in a live album or two. It’s been a while since I’ve...
View ArticleMy Dying Bride – The Cry Of Mankind (Song Review)
“You can’t expect to see him and survive” On The Cry Of Mankind, Yorkshire’s My Dying Bride take an extremely simple but eerie guitar motif and build a monumentally dark, symphonic beast of a song out...
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (Album Review)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (Polydor/Track – 1967) I went through a period of being obsessed with Axis: Bold As Love when I was a teenager, listening to it nearly every night. I...
View ArticleTed Nugent – Great White Buffalo: Double Live Gonzo! Version (Song Review)
“It happened a long time ago, baby” Ted had been yanking and cranking his Gibson Byrdland guitar so hard that by the fifth song on his 1978 live album Double Live Gonzo!, it had gone out of tune. But a...
View ArticleGWAR – Maggots (Song Review)
“How to describe such vileness on the page?” I’m all for humour and wit in music but actual comedy bands or records have limited appeal for me. They might make me chuckle but I’m not going to need many...
View ArticleAlice Cooper – School’s Out (Song Review)
“We can’t even think of a word that rhymes” I adore Alice Cooper’s School’s Out album and listen to it a lot. But the majority of the time I skip its opening title track. It’s such an overplayed song...
View ArticleDeep Purple – Mandrake Root (Song Review)
“It’s some thunder in my brain” Deep Purple’s 1968 debut Shades Of Deep Purple has only a hint of the explosive contribution that Purple would make to metal’s birth a couple of years later but it can...
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HMO Diary: 27th October 2024
I finally got my hands on the new Blood Incantation album Absolute Elsewhere yesterday. I had ordered the deluxe box set and the supplier I used kept putting the shipping date back so had to cancel and...
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Blasphemy – Fallen Angel Of Doom…. (Album Review)
Blasphemy – Fallen Angel Of Doom…. (Wild Rags – 1990) Fallen Angel Of Doom…. is the seminal 1990 debut album from a notorious band whose beer you most definitely do not want to spill: Canada’s...
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