Category Archives: Music

The Hummingbirds, Knocking On My Door. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It is perhaps a standard that many of us are loathe to do, the action of being able to say to someone with no uncertain terms that their company is not wanted because they make you feel ill, inadequate or they fill you with the a type of unhealthy fear of being aside if they weren’t there to bug you. It is the action of fore and after thought that some people are able to get under your skin, make the surface layer of your very being feel as though it crawling with the sign of the desperate need to be liked that we forget that in their non-handshake, their snide remarks and back-handed compliments, that in the end they don’t need us, don’t even like us, so why persist?

The Hummingbirds, Knocking On My Door. Single Review. full post

(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Sanguine, Social Decay. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

When anyone thinks of Devon, arguably the last thing that will go through their minds as an answer is the world of Metal, unless of course they are into the study of ancient Archaeology and then that perhaps is a step too far for even the power and carnage that awaits the gentile and patient as the music of Sanguine fills the air and the passion of Social Decay kicks the sand and dig sites away and replaces it with raw and undiluted anger.

Sanguine, Social Decay. Single Review. full post

(308 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

We Came As Romans, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

At times it feels as though there has been a large glass ceiling put between what has happened before and the 21st Century bands trying to break through and at least assert some measure of modern day experience and the seeking of truth in every music genre across the board.

We Came As Romans, Album Review. full post

(475 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The Beatles once mused that all you need is love, an anthem perhaps of a lost generation to whom the words echoed and made much more sense after losing so much in the senselessness of a war that ripped what it means to be human, apart.

Perhaps in an age where a different evil lurks, one not just intent on destroying a world, but one that tears at the fabric of society and pits neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and Government against its people, jealousy, the ever vigilant emotion that feeds and sucks a person dry till even the shell is digested and no trace of the former personality is left; perhaps what is needed is Love Love.

Love Love, Love Love. Album Review. full post

(489 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Ghost, Meliora. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

What would the world be like without a glimpse, the near voyeuristic delve, into the heart of darkness? Life cannot be simple, it must never err into the whiteness and permanent undisguised completeness that is offered by the pure and the noble, for nature in all its fury would surely see to it that something even worse, even more terrifying would come along and make us stare forever at the pit that would open up before us all.

Ghost, Meliora. Album Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Forthaven, Thorns. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

They are the symbol of the mocked and the scoffed at, they were alluded to as a punishment from God in the book of Genesis and they offer perhaps a more humid reflection on the way humanity treats its fellow man when they believe that imitation is not a sincere form of flattery but one that needs to be controlled and dispatched, to be held at arm’s length and to be kept within a prison of its own diabolical making. Thorns are there to remind us that whilst the going gets tough, the thorn can bite harder into the skin than any person who doesn’t understand or even want to try can ever do.

Forthaven, Thorns. E.P. Review. full post

(367 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Royal Southern Brotherhood, Don’t Look Back. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Looking back can play havoc on the mind, the peace and solitude ruined by reflection and deliberate thought on where you might have gone wrong. The angst of knowing that whilst you were right the pain it may have caused others gnawing at your breast and all the while the chasing of the tick that followed tock a constant reminder that the new beginning you have carved out for yourself is one that easily could become the same boggy rut.

Royal Southern Brotherhood, Don’t Look Back. Album Review. full post

(404 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

David Grubb, High Rise. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The bow stands quivering upon the first note and the static electricity starts to flow with the type of snorting, bellowing irritated expression one would normally expect to see on a half tonne bull asked to manage a china shop for the day whilst running on a treadmill. It is the electricity of a long held desire to bring something beautiful into the world, something of one’s own true reflection and worth; something that might have people look upon as being pure and worthy. In Scotland’s David Grubb’s debut album High Rise, the innate beauty is matched by the scorching intensity of someone ascending up the musical ladder with greatness ready to be attached.

David Grubb, High Rise. Album Review. full post

(390 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Lamb Of God, VII: Sturm Und Drang. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There’s a lot to be said for the way that Lamb of God go about their business. Two or three decades earlier they even would have arguably been placed in the exclusive grouping that held Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth as the American bombardment to the British Metal invasion that was aiming their mighty guns at world domination. However as the band’s latest album VII: Sturm Und Drang clearly shows, the New Wave of American Heavy Metal and their acolytes have made it their business to keep the flag flying on a genre that has lost out heavily to the resurgence of the European, and in particular the Scandinavian element, in recent years.

Lamb Of God, VII: Sturm Und Drang. Album Review. full post

(430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

The Falling, Women And Children First (Burst/ The City). Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It was the maxim of honour, the unshakable code that respectable people lived by and in times of war, disaster or even the offerings of pleasure, it was the denial of self-interest that kept an ideal alive; the notion of Women And Children First, the chivalric tone of reverence to those that were thought defenceless and one of the only good things to come out of the Victorian hangover that has been in place despite the changing face of Britain since the end of World War Two.

The Falling, Women And Children First (Burst/ The City). Single Review. full post

(345 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)