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ALBUM REVIEW: Green Lung – Necropolitan

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British Neo-Classic Rock band Green Lung perform the ultimate tribute to Black Sabbath and NWOBHM pioneers with Necropolitan, the latest from Nuclear Blast Records – and it’s a banger.

“Open the Helmouth” slowly brings you into the album, a spooky chant on slow riffs, building to “Dance to the Grave,” an upbeat Sabbath-esque rant against what AI and far-right technocrats are doing to us and the planet. Excellent sing-along with a monster guitar solo (I think so, it ends a bit Theramin-y as it ends. Continue reading →


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 →


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 →