Category Archives: Music

Accept, Blind Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Sometimes you just have to let the bull rage, let the colossus of the animal world snort and devastate even the most delicate of china shops in the cause of smashing a few plates. That bull, the beast that can rip open a refusing ear at 200 yards, stares out from the front of the latest, and phenomenally brilliant, album by Accept and the Blind Rage of lyrical fury and crazed wrath crashes through the barrier between stereo and thought and holds the soul hostage till it realises that anger is not a fashion statement; it is deep, honest and fruitful.

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(368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

King 810, Memoirs of A Murderer. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Controversy aside, of which there is arguably plenty, the debut album from Michigan’s King 810 is a monster, a Metal python waking up in a spring loaded battering ram with the biggest headache possible and an attitude problem to match.

King 810, Memoirs of A Murderer. Album Review. full post

(426 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Neal Morse, Songs From November. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The latest album from Neal Morse, one of the four maestros behind Progressive Rock’s Transatlantic, is perhaps one of the most personal of his entire career.

Songs From November has all the feel of a man making peace with the world, acknowledging the past and arguably all the faults, the successes and victorious accomplishments that a life can have but which can be viewed from a distance as being less than perfect as the true victory is in the surviving and what you do and how it inspires others. Neal Morse reaches through the songs on the album a type of reflective armistice, a lasting harmony between the thoughts of the past and the hope of the future.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

The City of Music: K’s Choice 2013, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

They say there is strength in unity; it can, however that strength can be a double edged sword for in a lot of places the pride in which the artistic scene clubs together is all well and good but it doesn’t flourish because the nature of the sprawling city is not geared up to recognise the distinctiveness that resides at its heart.

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(537 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

The White Widows, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To sneak a peek at an artist’s interior, be it in a Freudian or Jungian manner, or just simply to take an interest in the way they present themselves between the notes of joy, despondency, truth, unconscious anarchy and ultimate rebellion that surround the lyrics, is one in which all art should be considered for at least a while.

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(457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Buckle Tongue, A King In All Of Us. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

There are groups, sets of musicians that are captured so well on stage, their huge sound overwhelming and intense that when they finally bring together their growing catalogue of songs to an E.P. or album it can on the whole seem slightly muted, the voice, the growl and the thrill of the vocal chase, surrendered for the smoothness offered in the vacuum of sterility.

Buckle Tongue, A King In All Of Us. E.P. Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Sinéad O’ Connor, I’m Not Busy, I’m The Boss. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Revolutions come and Revolutions go, commitment to change over and over again, to grow and transform, to iron out the wrinkles of the life and acquire new habits, perhaps even destructive ones that will get up the nose of some that once preyed upon your mind can be a good thing as long as you are true to yourself and central core beliefs. Revolution is desirable; revulsion should be rejected as quickly as an uninvited guest at your wake, for Sinéad O’ Connor and her blistering new album, I’m Not Busy, I’m The Boss, Revolution is once more hand and at times there is not person you should rather have by your side fighting your corner.

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(451 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Machinae Supremacy, Phantom Shadow. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The invasion from the Scandinavia continues and long may it do so, for the realm of Metal needs acts and music from the lands of Norway, Denmark, Finland and music in its entirety from all the group of nations that encompass the thoughts and reasoning of the people there. In amongst the land of plenty you can and should also add Sweden of course and Swedish band Machinae Supremacy to the multitude, for failing to do so is surely an act of Metal heresy.

Machinae Supremacy, Phantom Shadow. Album Review. full post

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

Kobra and The Lotus, High Priestess. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is nothing quite like being disclosed the name of a new band to your mental collection and finding out just how good they sound and wondering just how come you haven’t heard of them before. The world is a huge place, you can never hear everything, the simple act of breathing quietly in a darkened room often gets in the way of that, however when the name conveyed of Kobra and the Lotus and their new album High Priestess appears out in soft spoken but hurriedly excited tones, all you can do is listen and then exclaim unashamedly loud that they join fellow Canadian’s No Sinner as being two of the great bands of the era from that large expansive country.

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

Music For Voyeurs, The Curtain Are Opening. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If there is something that binds us all at some point in our lives, it is the feeling of the fractured nature of society, the self, or our place within the two. The distressed nightmare that few will ever admit to for fear of seeming weak when in truth they are the most courageous of all, for they at least admit that life at times is nothing more than a cosmic joke played out on a poker table that has been tilted and stacked against their favour.

Music For Voyeurs, The Curtain Are Opening. Album Review. full post

(407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)