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Friday, April 30, 2021

 Go Go Killers

House of Mysterious Secretions                    (Down At the Nightclub Records)


Cruelly distorted demolition-chording chugs and rockets; a primal beat resounds insistently; Alabama Sharp's gutter-blast caterwauling rages and implores crowds in hedonistic euphoria, its febrility a thing of ghastly wonder.

Bodies strewn across hardwood jerk spasmodically. The walls drip with echoes scarlet.

This hysterical-like-Hasil disc will be issued in the EU later this year, Alabama Sharp told the present writer.

Recommended: "I Got the Bug," "Do the Caveman," "The Manster," "I Want a Woman," "Wreck N Roll Music," "She Loves Stitches," "My Wicked Heart"

Audio: "I Got the Bug"


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 Ghoultown                                                          Curse of Eldorado (Angry Planet Entertainment))




Organic evolution is afoot in the stark, desolate range. Always redoubtably guitar-lashed and trumpet-streaked, the Ghoultown sound now incorporates even greater swagger and ferocity. 

Recommended: "The Badlands," "Bullets Don't Argue," "Leave You In the Dust," "The Worm," "Night of No Tomorrows," "Eldorado," "Adios, Gringos"

Video: "Bullets Don't Argue"


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The Meteors                                               Dreamin' Up A Nightmare (Mutant Rock)    Skull N' Bones (Cleopatra)

No less uncaring than ever, and more splenetically blistering than milquetoastian pedestrians could ever stomach.

 Recommended: (Dreamin') "Dreamin' Up A Nightmare," "Unholy Roller" (These two were the only tracks available for review.)

Recommended: (Skull) "Dateless Nights," "Get Back In the Swamp (and Jump)," "Skull N' Bones," "The Curse I Am," "More Demons Than Most," "A Night In the Tombs," "Changeling"

Video: "A Night In the Tombs"



Friday, April 9, 2021

 Dictators

Getting the Band Back Together (self)

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Without Manitoba. Lacks characteristic presence.

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