Wasn’t there a character called Baroness in Action Force? Sorry, ‘G.I.’ ‘Joe’. Kinda makes it sound like a show about a bloke trying out special diets. ‘No bread for me!’ I was always more of a Transformers fan in my youth. That was tops. Inhumanoids too, actually, but mainly Transformers. I had tons of theContinue reading “Baroness packaging fetish”
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Susanna K. Wallumrød – Flower of Evil
(2009, Rune Grammafon) Susanna has dropped her ‘magical orchestra’ for another solo jaunt. Flower of Evil is mostly cover versions: originally sad songs mix with ostensibly surprising choices for this Norwegian doyenne of the melancholy. The record opens with Thin Lizzy’s ‘Jailbreak’. It is a song that could easily have been reduced to ‘look, aContinue reading “Susanna K. Wallumrød – Flower of Evil”
Darkest Hour packaging fetish
Hey! Darkest hour is a metalcore band that I haven’t listened to yet. They won’t be as good as Carcass or At The Gates, but they share a member with the lovely Verse En Coma. And… what’s this? Ooh, the mighty John Dyer Baizley painted the cover for them. I guess this means the latest,Continue reading “Darkest Hour packaging fetish”
While I’m here
I just did that rare thing and read a blog post from start to finish in one go. I know, whoopee-do. But it’s good for me. All too often, I will scan and/or read some, deciding ‘yep, I’ll read that later’. Sadly, ‘later’ all too often turns out to be the twelfth of never. WhatContinue reading “While I’m here”
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