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
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ALBUM REVIEW: In The Company Of Serpents – A Crack In Everything
Since their inception in 2011, Colorado Sludge trio In The Company Of Serpents have slowly but noisily gone about making a serious name for themselves in the Stoner Doom scene. With four albums already under their belts, the fifth comes in the shape of an independently released behemoth, A Crack In Everything.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution
Having already dropped a handful of short-form studio releases, Massachusetts Progressive Death Metal act Ancient Death finally unleash Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore Records), their full-length debut album. Having already built up a well-deserved reputation in just a few short years, the four-piece from Walpole throw their psychedelic hat into a ring occupied by such luminaries as Gorguts and current darlings of the scene Blood Incantation.Continue reading
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 220 – Pink Floyd, Culture Shift and “Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London”
Nik and Keefy of Ghost Cult Mag to discuss Pink Floyd’s involvement in the swinging sixties in London, the gravitational pull of the art, music, and fashion. The stuff of legends and earning the band the moniker “space rock” we discuss the dual blessing and curse of this possible misnomer.Continue reading
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 219 – The Doors – “Live in Detroit ” Deep Dive Review and Unboxing
Nik and Keefy of GhostCultMag do a “bonus edition” chaser episode reviewing Nik’s new “Live in Detroit” Record Store Day boxed set from The Doors (Rhino Records). Nik loves the band and Keefy likes them a lot. We do some Doors history leading up to this full concert review/document and all the great and bad choices the band made here.Continue reading
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 212 – Nik, Keefy, and Don’s Epic Trauma Dump, and Vinyl Shopping Master Class
Nik and Keefy of GhostCultMag are joined again by Talking The Talk With Don’s Don De Leaumont for a vinyl dump shenanigans as well as a breakdown of our different record shopping philosophies and pointers!
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PODCAST: Glacially Musical 211 – Obituary – “Cause Of Death” Reviewed
Nik and Keefy of Ghost Cult tackle the second album from Obituary, “Cause of Death!” The album cover rules, but the music has nothing to do with it. Discuss!
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 207 – Foreigner Messes with Our Minds on “Head Games” (Review)
In this episode #207, Nik, Keefy, and guest host Don De Leaumont of Southeast of Heaven and Talking The Talk With Don review Foreigner’s third album, “Head Games!”Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Flotsam And Jetsam – I Am The Weapon
Beginning life as Paradox, Dogz, and slightly more embarrassingly, Dredlox, Flotsam and Jetsam has enjoyed/endured somewhat of a staggered career trajectory since 1984. Taking the Metal world by storm with Doomsday For The Deceiver in 1986, the Arizona thrashers delivered the equally impressive No Place For Disgrace a couple of years later, and the world, as they say, looked to be their oyster.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Sunbomb – Light Up The Sky
Continuing the groundwork laid down by their 2021 debut, Evil and Divine, L.A. Guns ead guitarist Tracii Guns (a.k.a. Tracy Richard Irving Ulrich) and Stryper (and former Boston) frontman Michael Sweet return with Sunbomb for second album Light up the Sky (Frontiers Music Srl). Continue reading