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Review: Narrow Head – 12th House Rock

25/08/202018/08/2020 Chris Nee

When Narrow Head released their debut album the USA and the UK were both on the cusp of insanity now fully realised. The world was shrinking until it wasn’t and political attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic have gone the other way.

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Features

On music fandom and the nature of trust

11/08/2020 Chris Nee

We live in a disposable world. Our attitudes towards physical products have rewarded us with landfill mountains and polluted oceans, and that’s just the items we’re told are being recycled.

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Review: Statiqbloom – Beneath The Whelm

08/07/202030/06/2020 Chris Nee

With their 2019 album barely cold in the ground, Brooklyn post-industrial duo Statiqbloom are back with a follow-up just halfway through 2020.

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Slipknot Podcast

You Can’t Kill Me: Conjurer Special

30/06/202030/06/2020 Chris Nee

This is You Can’t Kill Me, the podcast that talks about every Slipknot song one by one. Usually.

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Reviews

Review: Trivium – What The Dead Men Say

23/04/202023/04/2020 Chris Nee

Metal needs Trivium. For all the hybrids and subgenres that keep our scene vibrant and progressive, it’s imperative that the bands who walk a more traditional path do so with quality.

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Reviews

Review: Milk Teeth – Milk Teeth

30/03/2020 Chris Nee

Milk Teeth have become an important band for me for reasons musical and otherwise. So I’m always inclined to root for them and never more so than on the release of their second album.

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Features

Ride The Lightning: Metallica and the sound of Sweet Silence

21/03/2020 Chris Nee

By the time they arrived in Copenhagen in February 1984 Metallica were established as thrash metal pioneers.

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Review: Code Orange – Underneath

14/03/2020 Chris Nee

In February 2018 Code Orange released a single as part of a series put together by Adult Swim.

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Reviews

Review: Then Comes Silence – Machine

10/03/2020 Chris Nee

In some ways the original gothic rock scene couldn’t have happened anywhere other than right here in the United Kingdom.

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Reviews

Review: Loathe – I Let It In And It Took Everything

09/02/202009/02/2020 Chris Nee

“Someone’s been listening to Deftones!” Yes, someone has. Someone’s been listening to Gore in particular.

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Revisiting

Revisiting Blackened Sky by Biffy Clyro

09/02/2020 Chris Nee

They say there are two types of Biffy Clyro fan. Old and new. Before and after. Pre and post.

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Albums Of The Year

Chris Nee’s Albums Of The Year 2019: 10 to 1

29/12/2019 Chris Nee

Scraping in on three wheels before New Year arrives, we have revealed our Albums Of The Year.

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