But Listen: 027: Coreline – Please Keep Moving Forward
Little snippets and teaser EPs had slowly but surely got the interest rolling in Chris McCall’s Coreline project, and the release of PKMF really should push this even further.
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I’ve written a lot of reviews over the years. This is the home of pretty much all of them since about 2003.
Into the Pit: 032: The Birthday Massacre – Live at the Cockpit Leeds – 18-July 2006
Something around 40 minutes behind time, the Screaming Banshee Aircrew appear and waste no time in getting on with it. Maybe it was just me, but it seemed that something wasn’t quite right last night. I’ve seen SBA a lot over the past year or two, and they have been much better than this. Off-nights […]
But Listen: 026: Front Line Assembly – Artificial Soldier
It’s been a tough few years being an FLA fan. Every release in, oh, the past five years has been touted as “the best one since…[insert your favourite FLA album here – me? I’ll lay my cards on the table now and say Tactical Neural Implant]”, when they patently haven’t. Epitaph was well, ok, but […]
But Listen: 025: Bring Out Your Dead – 2006 demo
A local grindcore band, so let’s be honest – I wasn’t expecting a long CD. I got, in fact, six minutes and 23 seconds spread over four tracks. Which is pretty long, really.
Into the Pit: 031: Apoptygma Berzerk – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 21-May 2006
This was one of those gigs that really took me by surprise. I mean, Apop are no longer the draw they once were, right?
Into the Pit: 030: The Dresden Dolls – Live at the Leadmill Sheffield – 07-May 2006
Frankly, I can’t think of a single band that sound anything like the melting pot of sound that DeVotchKa boil up. A truly unique mix of eastern-European folk music, indie rock and tinges of a mariachi feel, not to mention rather proficient with their instruments (we counted about fifteen – played by just four of […]
Into the Pit: 029: The Dresden Dolls – Live at the Leadmill Sheffield – 07-May 2006
Frankly, I can’t think of a single band that sound anything like the melting pot of sound that DeVotchKa boil up. A truly unique mix of eastern-European folk music, indie rock and tinges of a mariachi feel, not to mention rather proficient with their instruments (we counted about fifteen – played by just four of […]
Into the Pit: 028: Covenant – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 06-May 2006
We arrived to hear “Thank you, goodnight…“, confirming that we had indeed missed Revolution By Night. Oddly, I heard nothing from anyone telling me how good/whatever they were.
But Listen: 024: Autoclav 1.1 – You Are My All And More
“Noise” in the industrial sense is a very broad church – and perhaps a definition that is nowadays overused. It nowadays seems to me that it is used as a lazy definition for anything remotely “difficult” that can’t really be pigeonholed anywhere else, and thus notionally similar artists are often anything but.
Into the Pit: 027: Zeitgeist All-Dayer – Live at The Shed Leicester – 30-April 2006
First off, I am going to mention the logistics and organisation, as both were seriously lacking. My girlfriend and I decided that we wouldn’t rush into town (we were staying at her dad’s in south Leicester anyway), and when we got to The Shed we were glad that we did – despite doors being 1400, […]
Into the Pit: 026: Mortiis – Live at Corporation Sheffield – 28-April 2006
I’ve been waiting to see Gothminister for a while, and they really didn’t disappoint last night. Little room, of course, for their legendary stage antics and costume changes, so the Gothminister himself stuck to just the one outfit. No real problem, as it was still a treat visually, and even better was the music.
But Listen: 023: 3ulogy – 2006 Demo
I wasn’t going to review this, initially. As it is, it’s an unmastered demo, clearly unfinished. However, the band decided to give out a number of copies of this at a recent gig, and after just one listen the review started to formulate. So here we are.
But Listen: 022: In Strict Confidence – Where Sun And Moon Unite
They’re back, and still evolving. Moving further along from the more darkwave feel of Holy, this “EP” (10 tracks, over 50 minutes!) is a taster for the forthcoming album Exile Paradise. And what a taste. The sound of this is fresher, more alive than before, and perhaps more straightforward sounding. The one criticism, perhaps, in […]
But Listen: 021: Red20 – Citizen Stain
Right, I’ll own up now. I’ve never been a fan of concept albums. Although the album is loosely based around a story, it has many parallels in our current time. And with the recent releases of films about dark future worlds (Aeon Flux and V for Vendetta, of course…), it perhaps could not arrive at […]
Into the Pit: 025: 3ulogy – Live at Quarantine Sheffield – 14-March 2006
…What did surprise me first off was that the Hubs venue seems better suited to live bands than club nights – the cavernous rooms do nothing for club sound, as I have found in the past.
Into the Pit: 024: 65daysofstatic – Live at the Leadmill Sheffield – 03-March 2006
Through the ice and snow I got to the Leadmill by 1925, and was still there late enough to miss the start of The Mirimar Disaster‘s set. Which was a shame, as I really like this lot. Clearly influenced by many of the more ‘intelligent’ metal bands like Neurosis, Isis and perhaps even Tool, you […]
Into the Pit: 023: Goldfrapp – Live at the Octagon Sheffield 23-February 2006
I’ve not been to the Octagon in a long time – and like many other university “halls” that are used as larger gig venues, it is cavernous, soulless, and as a friend pointed out, the acoustics are really not good.
But Listen: 020: Various Artists – Modern Destruction
I got this compilation sent to me by the guys from Cyanotic – it is a sampler, effectively, for their label Glitch Mode Recordings, 16 tracks of industrial, drum’n’bass and electro. Many of the tracks are mixed in together, but not in a way that hinders using them for DJing, and the variety on here […]
But Listen: 019: Modulate – Dystopia
The noisier end of the Industrial scene seems to have taken two different routes of late. Either to head further and further into the avant-garde, or to head straight back to the dancefloor in an avalanche of beats and samples to give those who like their industrial rather heavier than EBM something to dance to. […]
But Listen: 018: Dyspraxia – 2006 Promo
Another of my friends providing the industrial goods right now is this, part of the Infekted Sound stable.