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  1. #LYDSYN from #Denmark:
    Uffe Lorenzen (Lorenzo Woodrose) of Baby Woodrose, On Trial and Spids Nøgenhat fame has formed a classic powertrio including his old friends Palle Demant (The Sledge) on bass and Jens Eyde on drums. The band was originally formed out of boredom due to Covid 19 lockdown and was meant as a backing band that would make it possible for Uffe Lorenzen to play songs from his recent solo albums live. As several tours went down the drain and was postponed also due to Covid 19 the band kept on rehearsing and ended up making their own material.

    https://badafrorecords.bandcamp.com/track/kat-ser-kat-2

    #music #μουσική #UffeLorenzen #BabyWoodrose #SpindsNogenhat #heavyRock #PsychedelicRock #ERisNowPlaying #nowPlaying #παίζειτώρα

  2. Beastwars – The Ship // The Sea Review

    By Saunders

    Kiwi stalwarts specializing in thick, atmospheric sludge-doom goodness, Beastwars boast a strong track record, remaining a dependable force within their field. Sharing loose stylistic similarities with acts such as early Leviathan-era Mastodon, High on Fire, Crowbar, and Boss Keloid, Beastwars continue blazing their own battered trail. Displaying resilience and determination to navigate various personal and career challenges, Beastwars march onwards with sixth album, The Ship // The Sea. Despite being a fan of their past work, especially Blood Becomes Fire and The Death of All Things, I missed their 2023 covers album, Tyranny of Distance, and on reflection, I was surprised I had awarded their 2019 album IV with a coveted 4.0 rating, as I haven’t revisited it often when a Beastwars fix has spiked. Nevertheless, Beastwars is never less than solid, often operating a rung or two above that level across a consistently engaging, if underappreciated career. Now over half a decade removed from their last LP of original material, can these Wellington heavyweights muster something special?

    The striking cover art, a beautifully rendered oil painting from artist Nick Keller, illustrates the stormy, heaving turbulence pulsing through the belly of this mighty beast. The Ship // The Sea packs the raw, burly punch and requisite emotional power to simultaneously wrench hearts and bang heads. “We Don’t Say Fear” warmly welcomes listeners back into the comforting grip of the Beastwars experience. Its signature stomp of infectious, hard-rocking, and oh so chunky sludge-doom finds the four-piece in fine form. Beastwars deliver top-notch performances and heart-on-sleeve passion through a decidedly dark, melancholy collection, reflective of personal hardships and current global concerns inspiring the album’s conception and lyrical themes. Beastwars pack power and emotion into concise timeframes, stripping back to their heavy, more straightforward roots without abandoning their sense of progressive adventure.

    Amidst bleaker tones, shuffling between the raw, gloomy misery of the ominous, soul-jabbing doom of standout cuts, “Guardian of Fire” and “Rust,” to slightly more uplifting closer “Light Leads the Way,” Beastwars also bring the rocking, sludgy thunder to the equation. More urgent, traditionally infectious songs create welcome structural and pacing variety on such hooky delights as “Levitate,” bustling, psych-stoner surge of “The Storm,” and heady, aggressive throes of “Blood Will Flow.” Listeners from the band’s early days will no doubt enjoy the album’s raw, swaggering edge, amped aggression and immense heaviness. Although The Ship // The Sea boasts many standout songs and a satisfyingly deep, resonant emotional punch, not everything comes together smoothly. While never exactly losing steam, the second half of the album experiences some pacing issues and lulls, not quite matching the hookier rockers and doom-laden highlights of the front-loaded first half. That is not to say the album’s second half is lacking in potency, attested by the bruising grooves and hypnotic flow of “The Howling,” and grinding riffs, catchy groove, and anguished howls on the slow-burning intensity of “You Know They’re Burning the Land.”

    Thick doomy rhythms and beefy down-tuned grooves are laid down by the imposing rhythm section of James Woods (bass) and Nathan Hickey (drums), while guitarist Christian Pearce unleashes proggy flourishes and gloomy melodies through a dense filter of sludgy riffcraft, tasty stoner grooves, and punishing, morose doom. Meanwhile, Matt Hyde’s distinctive, gruff roars and anguished bellows remain a key focal point and feature of the Beastwars formula. From overcoming a serious health battle and dealing with life’s inevitable tough times and obstacles, Hyde also uses troubled world events as fuel for an intensely emotive, standout performance. The passion and intensity behind Hyde’s vocals and raw, unvarnished sonic makeup lend the album its gritty, thumping edge.

    Recorded in a studio by the ocean, Beastwars fully embrace the album’s spiritual and symbolic themes and connections to the ocean’s unpredictable, turbulent, and unforgiving nature. The production lends the songs a rough, organic crunch and weightiness, perfectly syncing to the band’s tough and gritty delivery, muscular rhythms, and piledriving riffing of the sludge, doom, and stoner varieties. Beastwars consistently write quality songs that fit snuggly in the sludge and doom domains, featuring rich depth, compositional subtletie,s and bleeding heart emotion. While perhaps not the band’s most consistent or instantly hooky album, The Ship // The Sea is a grower that packs a hefty wallop, largely maintaining Beastwars stellar track record of pumping out high octane, harrowing, and sonically booming tunes.

    Score: 3.5/5.0
    DR: 7| Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
    Label: Destroy Records
    Websites: beastwars.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/beastwars666
    Releases Worldwide: November 7th, 2025

    #2025 #35 #Beastwars #BossKeloid #DestroyRecords #DoomMetal #HeavyRock #Mastodon #NewZealandMetal #Review #Reviews #Sludge #TheShipTheSea

  3. Ravenstine – 2024 Review

    By Mystikus Hugebeard

    If you were to ask me how I began 2024, my answer would be, “Why, with 2024, of course!” More specifically, 2024, the sophomore outing of the German hard rock outfit Ravenstine. A silly album title to be sure, but it piqued my interest, and I was in just the zone for a cut of Jorn-ish hard rock. Something that stuck out to me in the marketing around Ravenstine was the focus on them being first and foremost a group of friends. Could that mean 2024 is a pile of well-meaning but messy jams by a gaggle of lads taking the piss? Or is it perhaps a collection of great songs by artists all on the same wavelength, like the gents from countrymates Vanden Plas? Turns out it’s somewhere right in the middle. Slap on those novelty 2024 glasses and let’s rock n’ roll.

    2024 is something of an oddball, like a sonic midpoint between Jorn and Bon Jovi. Lead singer Žanil Tataj gives a righteous vocal performance that blends heavy rock Masculinity™ and a Tobias Sammet-esque sensitivity. That sensitivity instills 2024 with a certain kindness that’s unusual to the genre, and the instruments further enable that kindness. Whether it’s the groovy riffs and keys in “Easy Come Easy Go” or the 80’s rock guitar in “Killing Spree,” Ravenstine is always more interested in rockin’ and rollin’ than being aggressive, even veering towards Journey territory in “In the Light.” 2024 is supported by a clean mix that doesn’t give the guitars a whole lot of crunch, instead placing the vocals front and center. With a voice like Tataj’s, that’s the right choice. The clash of borderline power metal vocals and gentle-leaning heavy rock is one with the potential to fail, but in Ravenstine’s hands, it’s kind of a blast. Everything together makes for a unique style stew that’s something like road trip dad rock but for dads who go to therapy.

    Ravenstine’s greatest strengths are catchy choruses, groovy melodies, and an outstanding lead vocalist, and when they lean into those strengths, 2024 kicks ass. I’m a real sucker for well-done climactic choruses, and when the guitar solo drops and silence accompanies Tataj belting out the chorus in “Fly Eagle Fly,” or when he goes buck wild on the final chorus of “A Long Way Home”, I feel like I’m in the stratosphere. Tataj brings so much power to 2024, and while the musicianship supporting him is more focused on efficiency rather than flashy indulgences, it gets the job done perfectly well. Mystic Prophecy’s Hanno Kerstan keeps the drums at a clockwork head-nodding pace, and the guitars comfortably riff away with just enough gusto to never get lost in the noise. Look to “Easy Come Easy Go” for Ravenstine firing on all cylinders: a simple, effective acoustic intro, launched into an infectious dance between electric guitars and backing synths, followed by a heartfelt chorus that demands to be sung along to.

    It’s when Ravenstine ignores their strengths that 2024 begins to falter. Everyone in Ravenstine besides Kerstan is credited as a vocalist, and it’s fine when they provide support in a track like “Fly Eagle Fly.” The problem is when they completely sideline Tataj’s unique character. Of the two ballads in 2024, “Signs by the Roadside” suffers from angsty, weightless vocals that sorely lack the oomph of the more grandiose singing, in contrast to the far more engaging “When I’m Dead and Gone” where the vocals are at their most bodacious. The instruments aren’t guiltless, either. The few guitar solos in 2024 are harmless if a little uninspired, but the solo in “Killing Spree” is a brief, bizarre tonal shift that annihilates the song’s pacing before sheepishly going back to normal. Transgressions like these are infrequent, but it’s sad to see Ravenstine get in their own way when they’re capable of writing some great stuff.

    2024 has plenty of issues, but it’s got all the heart it needs to deserve a recommendation, and at 39 minutes (45 if you count the live bonus track) it’s an easy listen that moves at a real clip. Quite frankly this album is worth your time for the lead vocals alone, but there’s enough to like besides. I’d love to see Ravenstine flesh out their stupendous vocals and groovy rock n’ roll sensibilities while cutting away the chaff that bogs some tracks down for their next release. If this group of friends can do that, we might have a real winner on our hands.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    Dr: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps
    Label: Massacre Records
    Websites: ravenstine.com | ravenstine.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/ravenstine
    Releases Worldwide: January 12th, 2024

    #2024 #30 #BonJovi #GermanMetal #HardRock #HeavyRock #Jan24 #Jorn #JornLande #Journey #MassacreRecords #MysticProphecy #Ravenstine #Review #Reviews #TobiasSammet #VandenPlas

  4. Ravenstine – 2024 Review

    By Mystikus Hugebeard

    If you were to ask me how I began 2024, my answer would be, “Why, with 2024, of course!” More specifically, 2024, the sophomore outing of the German hard rock outfit Ravenstine. A silly album title to be sure, but it piqued my interest, and I was in just the zone for a cut of Jorn-ish hard rock. Something that stuck out to me in the marketing around Ravenstine was the focus on them being first and foremost a group of friends. Could that mean 2024 is a pile of well-meaning but messy jams by a gaggle of lads taking the piss? Or is it perhaps a collection of great songs by artists all on the same wavelength, like the gents from countrymates Vanden Plas? Turns out it’s somewhere right in the middle. Slap on those novelty 2024 glasses and let’s rock n’ roll.

    2024 is something of an oddball, like a sonic midpoint between Jorn and Bon Jovi. Lead singer Žanil Tataj gives a righteous vocal performance that blends heavy rock Masculinity™ and a Tobias Sammet-esque sensitivity. That sensitivity instills 2024 with a certain kindness that’s unusual to the genre, and the instruments further enable that kindness. Whether it’s the groovy riffs and keys in “Easy Come Easy Go” or the 80’s rock guitar in “Killing Spree,” Ravenstine is always more interested in rockin’ and rollin’ than being aggressive, even veering towards Journey territory in “In the Light.” 2024 is supported by a clean mix that doesn’t give the guitars a whole lot of crunch, instead placing the vocals front and center. With a voice like Tataj’s, that’s the right choice. The clash of borderline power metal vocals and gentle-leaning heavy rock is one with the potential to fail, but in Ravenstine’s hands, it’s kind of a blast. Everything together makes for a unique style stew that’s something like road trip dad rock but for dads who go to therapy.

    Ravenstine’s greatest strengths are catchy choruses, groovy melodies, and an outstanding lead vocalist, and when they lean into those strengths, 2024 kicks ass. I’m a real sucker for well-done climactic choruses, and when the guitar solo drops and silence accompanies Tataj belting out the chorus in “Fly Eagle Fly,” or when he goes buck wild on the final chorus of “A Long Way Home”, I feel like I’m in the stratosphere. Tataj brings so much power to 2024, and while the musicianship supporting him is more focused on efficiency rather than flashy indulgences, it gets the job done perfectly well. Mystic Prophecy’s Hanno Kerstan keeps the drums at a clockwork head-nodding pace, and the guitars comfortably riff away with just enough gusto to never get lost in the noise. Look to “Easy Come Easy Go” for Ravenstine firing on all cylinders: a simple, effective acoustic intro, launched into an infectious dance between electric guitars and backing synths, followed by a heartfelt chorus that demands to be sung along to.

    It’s when Ravenstine ignores their strengths that 2024 begins to falter. Everyone in Ravenstine besides Kerstan is credited as a vocalist, and it’s fine when they provide support in a track like “Fly Eagle Fly.” The problem is when they completely sideline Tataj’s unique character. Of the two ballads in 2024, “Signs by the Roadside” suffers from angsty, weightless vocals that sorely lack the oomph of the more grandiose singing, in contrast to the far more engaging “When I’m Dead and Gone” where the vocals are at their most bodacious. The instruments aren’t guiltless, either. The few guitar solos in 2024 are harmless if a little uninspired, but the solo in “Killing Spree” is a brief, bizarre tonal shift that annihilates the song’s pacing before sheepishly going back to normal. Transgressions like these are infrequent, but it’s sad to see Ravenstine get in their own way when they’re capable of writing some great stuff.

    2024 has plenty of issues, but it’s got all the heart it needs to deserve a recommendation, and at 39 minutes (45 if you count the live bonus track) it’s an easy listen that moves at a real clip. Quite frankly this album is worth your time for the lead vocals alone, but there’s enough to like besides. I’d love to see Ravenstine flesh out their stupendous vocals and groovy rock n’ roll sensibilities while cutting away the chaff that bogs some tracks down for their next release. If this group of friends can do that, we might have a real winner on our hands.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    Dr: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps
    Label: Massacre Records
    Websites: ravenstine.com | ravenstine.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/ravenstine
    Releases Worldwide: January 12th, 2024

    #2024 #30 #BonJovi #GermanMetal #HardRock #HeavyRock #Jan24 #Jorn #JornLande #Journey #MassacreRecords #MysticProphecy #Ravenstine #Review #Reviews #TobiasSammet #VandenPlas

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    #BLABBERMOUTH
    Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
    Once upon a time, a dead Scottish prince decided to rise from the grave. He travelled back through the depths of hell, drew the mighty sword "Sixcalibur" from its stony prison and then roared back into existence with an album full of giant, fantasy-via-videogame-influenced power metal anthems.

    blabbermouth.net/reviews/angus

    #AngusMcSix #SwordOfPower #PowerfulMusic #ThrashMetal #HeavyRock #HeavyMetal #MetalReview #Blabbermouth