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ALBUM REVIEW: Truck Violence – The Weathervane is my body

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Canadian Folk-Punks Truck Violence built a great deal of buzz with their 2024 debut, and their sophomore release, The Weathervane is my body (The Flenser),  finds them scaling back some of the backwoods folk that colored their first album and digging deeper into the Noise Rock side of the equation. This brings a more angular dissonance to the songs. The vocals are a mix of moans and howls over the boozy attack of guitar with a precise ugliness to create something beautiful. Some of these moments might not be as overtly metal as a band like Chat Pile, though this album would appeal to the less metal-minded members of their fan base. It is a different shade of the dark corners of an unsettled mind through a more pastoral lens. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction

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This review is going to break from the normal narrative we normally use here at Ghost Cult, where we steer away from how we feel personally about an album and try to stick to objective facts since Hangman’s Chair is one of my favorite bands. If you think that this will be a gushing love letter only fueled by my fandom, let’s correct that notion. My favorite bands are held to a much higher standard. My expectations here are exalted since I am emotionally invested in them. Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Bush – The Art of Survival

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Since relaunching Bush in 2010, the Gavin Rossdale and Chris Traynor partnership (Traynor taking on the right-hand role in the band once Rossdale resumed performing under the Bush banner in the stead of the retired Nigel Pulsford) have, in an understated way, added to the band’s legacy, producing five albums, and a slew of consistently decent tunes. 

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