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ALBUM REVIEW: Night Resident – Total Obscurity

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Total Obscurity is the third album from the Greek proto-Metal band Night Resident. They flirt with a similar brand of saccharine melodies to offset the rock edge. The double-tracked vocal harmonies are effective at times; for every song, they create a uniformity to their sound that is hard to shake, but first, let’s clear the air about something: these guys are marketed as being a “dark” rock band. As someone whose name is associated with being a purveyor of dark music, it would be a betrayal of trust for me to say anything that implies there is anything dark going on here.Continue reading →


EP REVIEW: President – King of Terrors

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Anonymity is the new metal. Wait, or is anonymity the new nu-metal? Hold up, anonymity is aesthetic, metal is a sound that invokes a certain feeling, no matter if it is wearing corpse paint or bell-bottoms. Now that we have cleared up, we can proceed into the new album by buzz-band President, who are dropping their debut EP King of Terrors (ADA/Warner Music). The lead single, “In the Name of the Father” opens the album. It’s a great pop song that was a big hit with kids who are fans of other pop acts like Ghost, and Sleep Token. Unlike Ghost, these guys do not draw influence from ABBA or Andy Gibb, whose song “Love is Thicker Than Water” pretty much encapsulates the sound of Papa Emeritius and his band of trick-or-treaters.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Alice Cooper – The Revenge of Alice Cooper

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The Revenge of Alice Cooper (earMusic) is the first album with the original Alice Cooper band since Muscle of Love. Making it the band’s 8th album together, and Cooper’s 30th. Bob Ezrin is handling production duties to help them remember what they did back in the day. It opens with the lead single “Black Mamba,” which is slinky and theatrical. Rather than try to recapture the fire that was burning when they recorded Muscle of Love, they are side-stepping this favor of touching on a more “Schools Out” style of borderline Broadway-drama mixed with the Garage Rock sound Cooper has been dipping his boots in the past few albums. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Electric Citizen – EC4

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“Mire” slow and moody guitar and Laura Dolan’s soft yet mournful vocals, both of which burst into life toward the end, open Electric Citizen new record EC4 (Heavy Psych Sounds). EC4 is the Cincinnati quintet’s fourth album, and it is fuzzy 70s Rock with psychedelic touches and Uriah Heep and Deep Purple influences throughout. Continue reading →


EP REVIEW: Freeze the Fall – The Red Garden

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Spoiler alert, this is one of the best albums released so far in 2025. If you do not know this young power trio, Freeze the Fall, from Canada, it’s time you did. This is the band’s second EP, but the path from gaming and internet buzz to the Rock perfection achieved here on The Red Garden (604 Records) found Freeze the Fall coming into their own as songwriters along the way. They went from being known as the kids who covered The Warning to being a superior band to their early inspiration in a short time. Most of this growth came thanks to the depth Quinn Mitzel sings with, in order to nail uncanny hooks in every anthemic chorus she utters.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Strawberry Fuzz – Miller’s Garage

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Venice Beach punk natives Strawberry Fuzz share their new album Miller’s Garage (CandyShop Management). The new album directly follows the band’s 2023 LP Strongs Dr. Ever since making their musical debut in 2021 with the album Fuzz Tapes, Vol. 1, Strawberry Fuzz have cemented themselves as an unprecedented force to be reckoned with among the Los Angeles surf/skate punk scene.Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: The Darkness – Dreams On Toast

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With their debut album Permission To Land, The Darkness enlivened a rock music scene dominated by the likes of The White Stripes, The Strokes, Evanescence, and Linkin Park amongst others. Their goofy lyrics and AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, and Queen sound struck a chord and twenty-two years later they are still at it with the release of their eighth record Dreams On Toast (Cooking Vinyl).Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon

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Retro-flavoured Swedes The Night Flight Orchestra (ft. Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Mean Streak members) are still at it with their seventh album Give Us The Moon (Napalm Records). With an insanely catchy AOR style, with an unabashedly high level of seventies and eighties-style cheese front and centre. Half the tracks here sound like they belong in some long-forgotten, coming-of-age film from 1985.  Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: SKAM – From The Depths

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SKAM are a trio from Leicester who make a big noise. Their new album From The Depths (Self-Released/Earache Digital Distribution) is their fourth offering and follows the time travelling concept of 2017’s The Amazing Memoirs of Geoffrey Goddard with straight-up, high octane Hard Rock.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Seether – The Surface Seems So Far

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South African rock band Seether are back with their ninth studio album, The Surface Seems So Far via Fantasy Records. Continue reading →