Album Review: Tortuga

[Album: The Kings Of Albany]
[Label: In At The Deep End Records]

Tortuga’s ‘Kings Of Albany’ is a short blast of noisy doom and post-hardcore. At 11 tracks and 30mins long, it’s certainly going to be more of the hardcore end than a barrage of 7min doom tracks. After listening to this album a couple of times […]

Album Review: Dungen

[Album: 4]
[Label: Kemado Records]

Kemado’s penchant for the weird and wonderful continues with the fourth studio album by Swedish psychedelic band Dungen. This release marks a change in previous releases with a division of labour between raw guitar psychedelia and a change of focus for multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes towards the piano. The compositions are dipped with […]

Album Review: Earthless

[Album: Live At Roadburn]
[Label: TeePee Records]

San-Diego psychedelic rock band Earthless are not the sort of band to sit down and take time out, meticulously studying album concepts and spending laborious recording sessions shaking hands with a metronome and Pro Tools. They are a band, however, who have an incredible locked-in sense of rhythm and function. […]

EP Review: Shy Of The Depth

[EP: Shy Of The Depth]
[Label: Basick Records]

Although a relatively new band, Brighton based Shy Of The Depth have had a few breaks on the tour front, having supported titans Meshuggah and thrashers Malefice amongst notable others this year. And with such reputable headline bands, it seems that this influence has been put to good use. […]

Interview: A Textbook Tragedy

Although they formed in 2004, it wasn’t until three years later that A Textbook Tragedy got “serious” and decided to take on a new band member to further their live show. Their latest album, ‘Intimidator’, is due to be released in the UK and with the band eager to play the UK for the first […]

Album Review: TK Webb & The Visions

[ Album: Ancestor]
[ Label: Kemado Records]

Brooklyn-based Thomas Kelly (TK Webb) and his “Visions” have delivered his latest album ‘Ancestor’, a fuzzy and overdriven hard rock blues throwback to the 70s, yet still maintaining a path to today’s revisionists.
TK Webb’s decision to form his “Visions” occurred during his own progression through songwriting and touring, in which […]

Album Review: A Textbook Tragedy

[Album: Intimidator]
[Label: United By Fate Records]

Yes! A band that isn’t scared of a bit of feedback on their albums! Too many metal/hardcore bands have album production that is a little too clean and sterile for my liking, and it loses that “live” feel to a band which I feel is, though not wholly, important when […]

Interview: The Mirimar Disaster

Sheffield’s The Mirimar Disaster have taken the UK music press by storm with their latest offering ‘Volumes’. It is an album that should be heard, from a band that should be seen. Sonic Dice traded e-mails with Frank Forman (guitar/vocals) to find out about ‘Volumes’ and more.
Your latest release, ‘Volumes’, has had some fantastic reviews. […]

Album Review: Gelka

[Album: Less Is More]
[Label: Wax On]

It’s the Mercury Awards tonight, but most of you out there will probably know that already. Looking through the shortlist for this year’s event, I think my choice for a winner would be Burial for his second album ‘Untrue’. My reasoning is because he is the only one to really […]

EP Review: Animosity / Drumcorps

[EP: Altered Beast]
[Label: Man Alive Records]

The other day I finally got my hands on Aaron Spectre’s latest Drumcorps incarnation: a 3-track EP consisting of a few remixed tracks from Animosity’s last album ‘Animal’. Out on Man Alive, ‘Altered Beast’ is a limited vinyl release (1,000 copies) and comes in various OTT combinations—keeping it true to […]