Want cake? Want the finest wines known to humanity? Want to install a jukebox? Then may we recommend a list of releases that we poor urchins at The Midlands Rocks reviewed during August to liven the stiffs up a bit?
As usual, there was a bunch of rock stuff and some melodic singalongy music that came our way. This is the stuff that doesn’t scare us:
- Ace Frehley – Space Invader
- Adrenaline Rush – S/T
- Ataraxis Vibration – S/T
- Lonely Kamel – Shit City
- Mark Lanegan Band – No Bells On Sunday
- Mike Tramp – Museum
- Miracle Master – Tattooed Woman
- Shakra – 33, The Best Of
- Spike – 100% Pure Frankie Miller
- Melodic Rock Roundup: Grand Design + Cinderella + 220 Volt + Niva + Chicago
We had some more proggy, jazzy fusiony type stuff that makes the old grey matter work just that little bit harder:
Anathema – Distant Satellites- Opeth – Pale Communion
- Rob Reed – Sanctuary
- Trioscapes – Digital Dream Sequence
We’ve been getting more DVDs of late and so, rather than going into a shop and watching as much as we could before being kicked out, we bought a DVD player so we could watch them:
Yet again we had the heavy stuff with lots of angry people shouting and screaming and smashing things:
Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age- Alone With Wolves – The End Of Nothing EP
- Body Count – Manslaughter
- Brimstone Coven – S/T
- Dragonforce – Maximum Overload
- Empress AD – Still Life Moving Fast
- Entombed AD – Back To The Front
- Evergrey – Hymns For The Broken
- The Haunted – Exit Wounds
- Heartist – Feeding Fiction
- Karma to Burn – Arch Stanton
- King 810 – Memoirs Of A Murderer
- Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun
- Overkill – White Devil Armory
And try as our in-house exorcist might, we could not rid ourselves of the demons from beneath:
Belphegor – Conjuring the Dead- Cradle Of Filth – Total Fucking Darkness (2LP Reissue)
- Hells Headbangers: Abysmal Lord + Mutilated Veterans + Cemetery Lust + Children of Technology
- Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions: The Great Old Ones + Paramnesia
- Midnight – No Mercy For Mayhem
- Black / Death Metal Split Releases: Fiends at Feast / Tragic Death + Throne of Sacrilege / Impurium + Destruktor / Throneum
