Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent for Leather, and Unleashed In the East: The silver gleamed, the riffs rifled, and Halford was at his high-flying’ best.
Lead singer of Long Fin Killie, violinist for Mogwai, Luke Sutherland is all about whispered, disturbed vocals and lush harmonies with pointilistic drums.
Do they surf in Japan? The Ventures hit the country about a decade and a half after the U.S. Pacific Command and the kids dug ’em lots more, surfers or not.
My love/hate relationship with Benediction continues. Love cuz I’ve been a fan since their debut, hate cuz they’ve been stagnant now for over half a decade.
There’s something somber and sexy about a deep voice singing German. Eisheilig opens and closes their debut strongly, and they brush good points along the way.
He doesn’t mix “the hip-hop with the Southern rock” but mines a woozy out-of-time, out-of-space reality from the Eisenhower era with a similar black/white mix.
While now folks have the formula and can mass produce it, back then, it was oddball, irritating, and jarring off-the-wall unrock like nothing anyone had heard.