Hideous Divinity: Unextinct (2024)

Hideous Divinity: Unextinct (2024)

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Reviews

Between 2012 and 2019 Italian technical death metal act Hideous Divinity released four full-length albums, but it has taken five years for them to return with their latest, which is probably due to a certain pandemic, plus the line-up changed with the loss of both a...
Foncedalle: Foncedalle (2024)

Foncedalle: Foncedalle (2024)

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Reviews

This is the debut album by French act Foncedalle, who comprise Marius Mermet (guitar, vocals), JD Mimouni (drum machine, synth) and Clément Maltassat (bass, vocals, synth), they describe the album as a rock band making electronic music as opposed to the other way...
Crucial Velocity: Crucial Velocity (2023)

Crucial Velocity: Crucial Velocity (2023)

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Reviews

I must admit the reason I grabbed this album was due to some of the people involved as it sounded interesting. This band originally commenced as a project between songwriter Nate Bauer (guitar, bass, keyboards) and veteran mixing/mastering engineer Gary Long, owner of...
The Contractions: 1980 (2024)

The Contractions: 1980 (2024)

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Reviews

The Contractions (I don’t know why there is no “The” on the cover, but everything I can find on them has “The”) were an all-female punk trio from San Francisco featuring Mary Kelley (guitar & vocals), Kathy Peck (bass & vocals) and Debbie Hopkins (drums &...
The Brat: Straight Outta East L​.​A. (2017)

The Brat: Straight Outta East L​.​A. (2017)

by | Jun 2, 2024 | Reviews

I get offered a lot of albums to review on a daily basis, with most of the emails being filed in case I need to reference them later, but without downloading the music. For some strange reason I decided to grab this set from a band which broke up in 1985, releasing...