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Nickname: descentoftheredsun
Location: Manchester
In My Own Words:
Top ten favourite albums at the moment (7th June 2009);
• Enablers - Tundra
• Bad Religion - Suffer
• Truckfighters - Mania
• Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists
• St Vincent - Actor
• Kylesa - Static Tesions
• Portishead - Portishead
• Martyn - Great Lengths
• Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
•Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth
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Reviewer Rank: 2,143 - Total Helpful Votes: 222 of 262
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
I can safely say, right off the bat, that Kylesa have knocked out one of the albums of the year with Static Tensions. It's a fairly bold statement considering we're only a quarter of the way through 2009 but this album really is a stormer.
Kylesa's sound is pretty hard to pin down - they use elements of stoner rock, doom, hardcore, metal and good old fashioned psychedelic rock to paint a Jackson Pollock-esque musical landscape. At first Kylesa's music seems messy as it jumps around all over the place, they have two vocalists (three on past albums) and their songs do seem to blur together somewhat. If you give them the time to sink in, you realise everything is so finely crafted… Read more
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I read a fair few reviews of `This Face' before I bought it, yet after the first couple of listens, I realised that every review I've read failed at actually giving you the information you essentially want from a record review - "is it any good?".
I'll cut to the chase - No. It's not good. In fact, it's pretty terrible.
The main selling point and appeal of Gnaw is the vocalist is one Alan Dubin, who's pedigree in extreme music is impressive - handling vocals for O.L.D. in the early Nineties and up until their split in 2007, for Khanate.
O.L.D. and Khanate were both creative, broundbreaking extreme metal bands and for me, Khanate are almost unsurpassable in the doom… Read more
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Rage have had a lot of influence (musically) on my life. I was introduced to them via MTV of all places where I witnessed People of the Sun maybe 10 years ago. What a song! It was like nothing I'd heard before, or since for that matter. It smashed, devoured and danced over the graves of everything I'd heard previously. So much energy, intensity and anger, so much groove. I was undoubtedly and unquestionably hooked and Rage became my favourite band up until I discovered Kyuss a few years later when the features of my musical landscape shifted once again.
There was something untimely special about Rage & their intense political leanings; even if you didn't exactly agree with De… Read more
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Total Helpful Votes: 27 of 29
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