Chris Ball

Black Mountain - Destroyer Album Cover Artwork

Black Mountain – Destroyer

Few bands in recent memory have so successfully harnessed the best and most beloved tropes of 70’s rock as Vancouver outfit Black Mountain. Over the past 14 years they have produced four fantastic albums, peaking with 2016’s IV. Bookended by the incredible Mothers of The Sun and Space to Bakersfield tracks, the bands fantastic melange…

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The Treatment - Power Crazy Album Cover

The Treatment – Power Crazy

Can you believe Power Crazy is The Treatment’s fourth album?! It seems like only yesterday they were bursting onto the scene like your annoying little brothers, in their newly minted denim & leather, excited to tell us about this heavy metal music they’d just discovered. Well they’re still just as in love with the classic…

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Megadeth – Warheads on Foreheads

Megadeth were in the room when I got my first writing gig. True story. That was a long time ago now and whilst my love of this here writing stuff has never dimmed my love for Megadeth has waxed and waned over the years. Partly that’s down to tastes changing, partly the bands output slipping…

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Hollow Leg - Civilizations Album Artwork

Hollow Leg – Civilizations

“What we’ve just witnessed, must surely be the end” Well, happy new year, Hollow Leg. That’s the opening line off the opening track ‘Litmus’ from the Floridian quartet’s new album Civilizations, soon to be released on Argonauta Records. Over the ten years of the sludge metal crews career they have slowly been honing their sound,…

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