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Well, I'll be... I really can't remember the last time I read such a load of bollocks in picking up a label's info sheet about one of their bands!

You might've heard about this Chinese Folk/ Folk Rock band recently, as they've been on a short European tour to coincide with the release of their third album, Baifang, playing select venues in the UK, Holland, Belgium (the AB Club in Brussels), Germany and Denmark.  And if indeed we're able only now to post the album's review, please keep in mind that we dó review an awful amount of albums, some of which take precedence over the others for a multitude of reasons (business-related, or because a hard copy was sent to us).

In spite of my rather varied experience as a music listener, I keep coming along occasional surprises, usually of the pleasant nature!

Blitzkrieg Baby is the electronic Industrial music project of one Kim Solve (an Oslo based Norwegian musician also known from the bands K100, Swarms, Manimalism, and Three Winters), which he apparently founded back in 2001.

John Wesley, also known as Wes Dearth, is an American singer, songwriter and guitar player. His career began in the early 1980s. Played many time as opening act for Peter Frampton / Lynyrd Skynyrd / Marrillion’s tour. He played with Marillion as their live guitarist and joined them in their European tour in May 2013.

Three years have passed since the release of Iron Savior’s previous album ‘The Landing’, but now they’re back with their latest masterpiece ‘Rise Of The Hero’ .

If you need a good portion of True Heavy Metal Iron Knights will deliver you the goods. This is straight forwarded Metal that will be responsible for the pain in your neck after a few listens.

If I'm reading my info sources correctly, this Chicago based Blackened Sludge-Noise act was founded in 2003 by the trio of singer/ guitarist Dylan O'Toole, bassist Ron Devries, and drummer Brian Lynn, and in that line-up not only self-released their 3-track 11-minute debut EP God Slave, but also their (11-track, 54-minute) debut album The Unquiet Sky, issued in May 2005 on the Seventh Rule Recordings label.

To my great surprise, the history of this Geneva based Swiss EmoCore act goes back to 1996, when a line-up comprised of brothers Michael (vocals & guitar) an David Schindl (drums) alongside brothers Thierry and Didier Baertschiger (respectively guitar and bass) recorded the band's self-released and self-titled debut single.

When Nathan Gray (also in the like-it-or-leave-it formation Boysetsfire; personally I am part of the ‘leave-it’ trend) formed I Am Heresy in 2011, he wanted to express his passion for complex Extreme Metal. He wrote and recorded a first (self-titled) album shortly after, with assistance of his son Simon, who did the main guitar parts.