What do you get when you mix the unrivalled intensity of 80’s thrash metal with the blood-splattered gore of Dawn of the Dead? That would be Leeds based zombie crew Send More Paramedics, of course.
New album ‘The Awakening’ is yet another collection of monstrous riffs, jackhammer drum blasts and more head-caving screams than you can shake your own intestines at. From opening hammer blow of ‘Everything Is Not Under Control’ to the foot stomping grooves of curtain-falling ‘Transmission’ it drips, bleeds and oozes quality from every flesh-torn orifice.
Complete with a bonus disc of chilling soundscapes, this is one album you simply cannot be without this Halloween. Rip it out the bag and choke yourself to death with it.
Most unsurprising news of the year – Jay Z has come out of retirement. After releasing The Black Album, Jay had intended to stop recording studio albums and since then he’d become President and CEO of Def Jam, bought a slice in a basketball team, appeared on numerous artists’ albums and gone on a massive tour of the globe.
A tribute album to Nirvana is going to be released, but not just any tribute album, this will feature lullaby versions of the band’s tracks. The album will be put out by Babyrock Records and they have described it like this:
The band with one of the longest names ever, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, have announced details of their forthcoming album. The record will be titled So Divided and will be released on November 13th and will include a guest spot for Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer. The tracklisting is:
Ludicra have come out of the studio with their new full length, Fex Urbis Lex Orbis, in hand. The group are ready to unleash it onto the unsuspecting world with their own brand of screamy sludge metal and with a release date of October 31st, you know they won’t be messing around.
A new punk exhibition is being planned to celebrate next year’s 30th anniversary of the explosion of the music. The event will be called Panic Attack and will be held at the Barbican Centre in London from June 7th to September 9th next year.
Goodie Mob’s Cee-Lo Green, who has recently shot to mainstream fame with Gnarls Barkley, is going to be releasing a best of compilation at the end of October. The album is going to be called Closet Freak: The Best Of Cee-Lo Green The Soul Machine and will feature artists and producers such as Ludacris, Timbaland, Pharrell and Outkast. The track list is:
Los Angeles’ The Blood Arm have just released their new single, Suspicious Character, which is going to be followed by their debut album Lie, Lover, Lie which is due in early October. The single is out on CD and 2 varieties of 7″ –
The Pipettes release their new single, Judy, today [September 25th] and you can catch the band playing it and songs from their album live at one of the following dates:
The Motorettes have announced they will play some dates in the UK, starting this week. If you want to see them, then head on over to one of these dates: