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So this is the playlist from Stuart’s Alternative Hour on what I believe will have been the 21st of March? This allows me to now be up to date in terms of posting things up and therefore from tomorrow I shall just be putting in on the site after the show itself. Hope you enjoy. You should all tune in at noon to have a listen! You can find it here.
The only song not on Spotify was, Marmozets – Collisions
This was the playlist from the second week of my show on Radio ENRG, which can be heard most Friday’s at 12. I will be putting the third week up on Wednesday meaning I’ll be up to date and I can just put the rest up after the actual show I’m playing the playlist on. I hope you all enjoy.
The songs not on Spotify can be found below.
Taking Back Sunday are one of those bands who a lot of people have some memories of enjoying in their teenage years, before they discovered that they really preferred head banging to Metallica, or maybe that’s just me. However, they are still a band and they are still very much on the go having recently reformed with their original line up and having now released their sixth studio album Happiness Is.
Entering the world of Truckfighters is always an interesting experience, despite originating in Sweden they sound like they’ve come straight out of Palm Desert, California in a fog of smoke. Their fourth album Universe came out in February and is a collection of stoner rock tracks drenched in the world of Kyuss and co.
Alright, as the whole every Monday thing has failed, I’ve decided to reinvent this. I am currently doing a radio show every Friday at 12 on Radio ENRG, which can be found here. So I figured from now on I’d just post up the playlist from my show after the fact! Now I’m a couple of weeks behind, so I will start with week one, but the radio station is off air next week so that will allow me to catch up and then I’ll slip another one in during the week at some point. So here is week one of Stuart’s Alternative Hour (inventive title isn’t it?)
The only track not on Spotify was GutterGodz – “All I Want to do is Rock ‘N’ Roll” which you can find here.
I have never hidden the fact that the recent Metallica output leaves me cold. From the total non-entity that is Death Magnetic back to St. Anger and lets not even talk about Lulu, the band that played as big a part as any in getting me into heavy music have continually disappointed when it comes to studio releases. So why then do I instantly get super excited when I hear that there’s a new Metallica song out in the world? Why do I keep going back for more pain? Why do I let myself be continually hurt by a band I truly love.
It’s easy to forget that Of Mice and Men are still relatively young in their career. It feels like you have been hearing about them for years, yet in reality they are barely five years old and Restoring Force is only their third album. It’s the album they will be hoping pushes them away from their peers, with a bit of change in sound away from their metalcore roots and an embracing of the chunky bouncy riffs that we all associate with that brand of metal we describe as nu.
In the last few years The Gaslight Anthem have been wheedling their way into people’s hearts with their big choruses and Springsteen tinged rock and roll. Therefore, it’s not really a surprise that there has been a slight cash in on this popularity with the release of The B Sides a collection of, unsurprisingly, B sides. The question then has to be asked whether this is worthy of inclusion in the Gaslight discography, or like many before them should this be a collection of B side that should have stayed in the vault.
Skindred should be the biggest band on the planet. I know I started my live review in the exact same way, but I’m going to keep saying it until it’s true. With the release of their 5th album, Kill the Power, Skindred look to continue proving me right (spoiler: they have) and continue their quest to try and capture their live energy on record, with their supposed failure to do so the one criticism that tends to be launched their way.
I imagine most of the people who find their way onto my blog would remember Alcest from their post-black metal early albums. Over the last few years however, much like a growing number of their contemporaries, Alcest have found themselves leaning closer and closer to the post part of their sound and in turn leaving the black metal far behind. So if you are reading this due to your interest in black metal it might be better to look away now. As in it’s wake they have become a shoe gazing post rock band, the likes of whom generate an aura of cool that I’ve never quite understood. Continue reading “Alcest – Shelter”
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