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Unburied

First discussion: full length or mini? Nearly thirty minutes, not fully.

Second discussion, and much more important: what to think about this material? The band consists of highly experienced musicians (Mark Riddick, Brian Forman and Matt Pike), so the expectations are high. Is it satisfying, does it fulfil one’s morbid nightmares?

Sleeppers

Incredible, that this French Post-Hardcore Noise band has been around for almost 25 years! Indeed, the band formed during 1989 in the village of Jonzac, but moved South some 80 km to put up homebase in Bordeaux in 1991. Since then, the band went through enough antics, and still this is the first time I heard from 'em! What follows below, is a free translation of the band's biography, as can be found on their Wikipedia page, and the info sheet we got along with the promo copy of the album (both in French).

Molly Hatchet

What band could be better suited to make a record where they are paying tribute to other great (Southern) rock bands, like Thin Lizzy, ZZ Top and others, all bands that in one way or another have influenced Molly Hatchet’s sound.  The album starts of with a fantastic cover of ZZ Top’s ‘Sharp Dressed Man’, and is followed by an equally impressive version of Thin Lizzy’s ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’.  Follows a slow, almost – but not really acoustical version of ‘Desperado’ a song by The Eagles

High Priest Of Saturn

Svart Records holds especially Finnish acts on its roster, yet there are a couple of exceptions. This goes, for example, for High Priest Of Saturn. This band hails from Trondheim, Norway, and consists of three permanent members: Merethe Heggset, Martin Sivertsen and Andreas Hagen.

Heaven’s Cry

The original version of this album was released back in 1996 in Japan by Hypnotic Records, and reached Europe the next year.  As you can guess the original album has long been out of print, and if you had the chance to find a copy on Ebay, the price was usually rather high.

But Prosthetic Records have had the ingenious idea to rerelease this album, but with re-worked artwork, as well as have it re-mastered by Jens Bogren

Dark Salvation

The number of Metal bands that I do know from Liechtenstein, a country sweetly floating in between Switzerland and Austria, is very limited, especially when it comes to ‘my kind’ of Metal. There are a couple of acts I do like within the Dark Goth / Ambient / Classical genre (WeltenBrand and the likes), and we do / did have bands / projects like Elis / Erben Der Schöpfung, but when it comes to Death / Black / Funeral Doom / … material, this country remains quasi-virginal. Liechtenstein isn’t but a very small country, of course.

Charlie Jones' Big Band

Charlie Jones is apparently the alias of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium born all-round artist Jan Verstraeten. An alias under which he shows quite some versatility : he makes paintings, he sculptures, “installations” (as to whàt kind of installations, the info source I have is somewhat vague), and of course also music.

Toy

Having heard rumors about Belgian Pop Rock act Toy (released albums, now classics in the genre, in 1979 and 1981, both in my possession) working on a comeback album (as a follow-up to the release of the 2012 single “Walking Backwards”), I kinda mistook this London based band's debut album for that. A deception which lasted as long as the time between my editor-in-chief's handing the info-lacking download, to the first minute I was listening to the CD when I got home from an afternoon of work at ConcreteWeb's headquarters.

Moss

Moss’s Horrible Night is grim, bleak, desolate, distorted, sombre, painstakingly slow yet the infernal pandemonium Chris Chantler-drums, Dominic Finbow-guitars and Olly Pearson-vocals/bass whip up is intoxicating.

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