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adamJune 2, 2014June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 140: 3TEETH – 3TEETH

I’m beginning to wonder if the internet age has actually begun to do good things rather than being simply a drain on music (and the money involved). At least in the so called lesser corners, those where sales were less important, perhaps, and where creativity is paramount.

adamApril 22, 2014June 13, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Memory of a Festival: 020: Resistanz 2014

Christ, 2014 is passing by in a flash. With Easter so late this year, it has resulted too in Resistanz and Whitby being on back-to-back weekends, which has left a number of us fearing for our livers during April, never mind an attempt to get any sleep. As I write this, the first of those […]

adamMarch 30, 2014June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 139: Seeming – Madness & Extinction

Reviewing music is sometimes an exceptionally difficult task. On some occasions, the words will flow immediately, and the whole review can be completed quickly (something that actually I find easier with bad albums). On others, it might sit on the back burner for a while while I listen again and again trying to find the […]

adamMarch 30, 2014June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 138: Laibach – Spectre

Whatever your opinion on Laibach, it is perhaps hard to disagree that even after over thirty years active, anything they release is at least worth talking about. Over their career they have cast their critical eye over mainstream pop music, covering fixtures in the pop canon with, er, surprising results, uncovered hitherto unnoticed totalitarian leanings […]

adamMarch 16, 2014June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 185: February Gig Round-up (Anna Calvi, Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Monster Magnet, St Vincent)

After a bit of a slow start to the year gig-wise, into February and all of a sudden there is a short spell of a number of gigs. Time constraints and other distractions have meant I've struggled to finish full reviews, so here is a roundup of the gigs I attended during February.

adamFebruary 28, 2014February 4, 2022/But ListenLeave a comment

/The Rearview Mirror/004 /Skinny Puppy/The Greater Wrong of the Right

Of all of the top echelon of industrial bands, none perhaps gain such polarised views as Skinny Puppy. Right from their early days in the eighties, they’ve pushed boundaries with their sound, avoiding the obvious routes of dancefloor approval, creating nightmarish musical visions densely packed with samples and a visual image almost as impressive. This […]

adamFebruary 9, 2014June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 137: Jensen – Zero One [Redux]

I've been a big fan of Armalyte's output for some time, with a whole string of great bands to get excited about (Je$us Loves Amerika, Concrete Lung, i!, Paresis, not to mention Interlock once upon a time), so it's always good when I get contacted by them with another promo to check out.

adamJanuary 26, 2014February 3, 2022/Reviews1 Comment

/The Rearview Mirror/003 /Dark Star/Twenty Twenty Sound

My fellow partners in crime in this music blogging lark over at I Die: You Die have mentioned recently about the origins of their website name, so here is my tilt on the same idea, as my domain nears its tenth birthday (early in February). Theirs comes from Gary Numan, mine comes from…Dark Star.

adamJanuary 26, 2014June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 184: Mogwai – Live at Royal Festival Hall – 25-Jan 2014

Every year I seem to be starting my live gig attendance that little bit later. Last year I began with easily the best show of 2013 in mid-January, with a trip to Germany to see Kraftwerk, and this year we are into the last week of January before I attend a show. And this time, […]

adamNovember 26, 2013February 10, 2022/20133 Comments

/Countdown/2013 /Disappointments

Regular readers will be well used to this by now – at the end of each year, I round up my year in music over the course of successive weeks. This year there will be five posts, the dates of which are shown below. I’ve not had the time to write as many reviews as […]

adamNovember 9, 2013June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 183: Alice In Chains + GHOST – Live at Alexandra Palace – 09-November 2013

After a period with only one gig in a month, this was a return to gigging again, the first of ten shows or so between now and Christmas. And for this one, it was my first ever visit to Alexandra Palace for a gig (somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit), and while well organised – […]

adamOctober 12, 2013June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 182: Teeth of the Sea + Esben and the Witch – The Lexington N1 – 07-October 2013

The Lexington is one of those gig venues that I’m seeming to revisit more and more. This is a good thing – a good-sized venue, great acoustics, good booze, and it’s easy to get to. Not to mention a habit of putting on great bands time and again. Although judging on the few questions I […]

adamSeptember 28, 2013June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 181: Keith TOTP and Blindness + supports – Buffalo Bar N1 – 20-Sep 2013

For this night, back to the Buffalo Bar for Guided Missile's latest presentation, with some familiar music and one band new to me, and offering proof once again that the North London live music scene could be seen as in rude health.

adamSeptember 25, 2013February 4, 2022/ReviewsLeave a comment

/The Rearview Mirror/002 /Rico/Violent Silences

What happened in the nineties – a feeding frenzy involving major labels the world over, trying to find the next big thing from a seething mass of disparate Alternative bands – from industrial rock, to metal, to thrash, to grunge, to nu-metal, to EBM (etc, etc) is something that we will never witness again. Of […]

adamSeptember 15, 2013June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 136: Two Different Ways – Factory Floor and Youth Code reviewed

September 2013 has seen two debut albums released from bands on opposite sides of the Atlantic, that perhaps have more in common than might first be thought. Both are industrial-influenced bands, that have come from outside the “scene”, or at least that’s the way it appears (and, not to mention, both albums are self-titled, oddly […]

adamSeptember 1, 2013June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 180: Filter – Live at O2 Academy Islington – 28-August 2013

The years haven’t been especially kind to bands that came to popular attention from the nineties industrial rock boom in many ways, with few bands surviving the late-90s as the bubble burst – either they fell victim to alcohol and drugs, the mass of record label consolidations at the end of the decade, volatile inter-band […]

adamAugust 31, 2013June 16, 2017/Into the PitLeave a comment

Into the Pit: 179: Front Line Assembly – Live at The Garage – 21-August 2013

It has been noted recently that there have been a dearth of “club” shows in the industrial scene, at least in the UK, of late, with pretty grim predictions for 2014, too. But in the meantime, there have been the odd show to restore faith somewhat that strong bills can occur, with support acts as […]

adamAugust 27, 2013June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 135: Front Line Assembly – Echogenetic

Of the industrial scene’s great survivors (FLA, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, KMFDM), all four have now been active for over 25 years, and aside from 242 (who seem happy with revisiting their past with admittedly amazing live shows, which is no problem for me – I’ve seen them five times in the last five years […]

adamAugust 27, 2013June 13, 2017/Into the Pit1 Comment

Memory of a Festival: 019: Infest 2013

For the tenth time – I started writing a seemingly ever-expanding review of the annual festival in 2003 – here goes with my coverage of Infest rundown for 2013. As usual this is mainly covering each of the bands in turn from my point-of-view, with a few other opinions as we go, and I’m well […]

adamAugust 13, 2013June 20, 2017/But ListenLeave a comment

But Listen: 134: THE .INVALID – The Aesthetics of Failure

It's always interesting when a new artist jumps out to popular attention. Séamus Bradd's The .Invalid has been the latest project to do this just recently, with a fair amount of ecstatic comment online from "the scene" once the album – apparently two years in the works – finally saw the light of day in […]

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