Evergrey – Torn – Review

January 1, 2009

Keys massaged in properly, down-tuning mixed with bright major chord stadium rock, and melancholic melodies glowing from the whole impressive machine.

Blood Ceremony – Review

January 1, 2009

Dreamy, dirt-gaze doom with female vocals, ethereal flute, and spooky organ. Blood Ceremony owe a dept to black & white horror movies from the pre-rock era.

Bionic – Black Blood – Review

January 1, 2009

Tense, wound-up, rocked-up gunk to draw in anyone with the a taste for the Who/Yardbirds ’60s Mod nerve through the MC5/Stooges/Simply Saucer/Devo ’70s.

Burden Brothers – Mercy – Review

December 1, 2008

Todd Lewis sang for the Toadies. Taz is the former skin-beater for the good Revered Horton Heat. Mercy is a bit more subdued than I’m used to.

Plastic Crimewave Sound – Review

December 1, 2008

I still place these guys as gobbling Pere Ubu’s pre-LP stuff, as well as other crude-aggo-outsider shit from the fair city of Cleveland when Carter was President.

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