Hurricane Ruth LaMaster’s new album, Ain’t Ready for the Grave, was produced by blues great Tom Hambridge, who also played drums on the record. The album features 12 tracks. Most were penned by LaMaster, Hambridge, and Richard Fleming. One song was written by Scott Holt. Hambridge is a two time Grammy award winning producer. He took home the Best Blues Album Grammy in 2016 for Buddy Guy’s Born to Play Guitar, and won the Best Blues Album Grammy in 2011 for Guy’s Living Proof. He has produced albums for a “Who’s Who” of artists from Guy to Susan Tedeschi, to Delbert McClinton. Hambridge has had his songs cut by Buddy Guy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood, ZZ Top, Billy Ray Cyrus, B.B. King, Rascal Flatts, Johnny Winter, and many others.
Burial Ground is easily the best album to be unleashed from the Stockholm death metal vets in Grave since their 2002 reunion with Back From the Grave. Though Grave has never really been mentioned in the same revered breath as their contemporaries in Entombed or Dismember, the band have always been reliable, and have been delivering solid gold beatings since the late '80s
Full length debut album by AT THE GRAVE – featuring members of ILLDISPOSED, DAWN OF DEMISE and PANZERCHRIST. Considered to be one of Denmark's most brutal lineups, AT THE GRAVE combines the forceful powers of several experienced death metal musicians. All of them have written, recorded and released albums on big internationally renowned labels as well as played in front of thousands of people, both in- and outside Denmark. AT THE GRAVE embodies classic death metal as well as fast brutal death metal which at any time can be unleashed with great accuracy onstage.
As part of Liszt’s anniversary year Hyperion turns to some of the composer’s most underrecorded and underperformed works. Liszt’s piano music is so much in the foreground that his works for orchestra have been almost forgotten. Here we present a fascinating selection.