MOON'DOC, fronted by erstwhile CHINA WHITE and LANZER vocalist Chris Bay, was the mid 90s vehicle showing off the talents of ex-ACCEPT, SINNER and VICTORY guitarist Herman Frank. In between recording with his MOON'DOC project, Frank also appeared on the 1995 ECHOPARK album 'Pretty Lies'. Vocalist Chris Bay and bass player Ilker Ersin created the successful Melodic Speed Metal act FREEDOM CALL in collusion with former GAMMA RAY drummer Dan Zimmermann in 1998…. Great powerful rock and the vocals are not hard on the ears.
Alien Sex Fiend return with their ferocious new album. Packed with pounding rhythms, speaker- shredding guitars, squelchy synthesisers and, of course, Nik Fiend’s latest chainsaw-psychiatry outpourings, ‘Possessed’ puts the Fiends back where they belong, at the top of their own rotten pile.
"In 2016, 21 years after Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. were founded in Osaka, Japan, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the bands name. We now view the first 20 years of the bands career as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. In 2018, it's time to re-record our classics with this new line-up, we just opened the door to the next stage!” (Kawabata Makoto 2018)
Oslo bluesy quintet THE DEVIL AND THE ALMIGHTY BLUES unveil details for their third album ‘TRE’, coming March 29th on Blues For The Red Sun. The band also announced a European tour, including Desertfest appearances and dates with Stoned Jesus and Earthless.
The instrumental, multimedia Montreal group Godspeed You! Black Emperor creates extended, repetition-oriented chamber rock. The minimal and patient builds-to-crescendo of the group's compositions results in a meditative and hypnotic listen that becomes almost narrative when combined with found-sound splices and the films of their visual collaborators. Collection includes: 'F#A#∞' (1998); 'Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada E.P.' (1999); 'Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!' (2000) 2CD; 'Yanqui U.X.O.' (2002); 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!' (2012); 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' (2015).
Mediatrix is an exploitation strike at the right wing neo-conservative spiritual right by placing rape, boobs and sex to get its point across. Focusing on the devious Mary Ann whom is a grasp manipulator on all things religious, she seduces the minds of the ultra dumb while demanding the status quo of a priest hell bent on revealing the girl.Exactly what you end up with in Mediatrix is an odd black colored humor exploitation drama that has screwball characters and a pure persistent sinful move, comparable to seeing a car crash during a funeral progress. It's just amusing in a fucked up sort of means.