Northern Irish Rockers Trucker Diablo are back! New single “The Rebel”, from the forthcoming album "Songs of Iron", sets the tone that the Trucker boys aren’t messing about. Hard hitting, full of passionate vocals and heavy guitars, “The Rebel” hits you between the eyes and rubs them better all in the 5 minutes of its entirety. Grab a beer and enjoy!!
The boys took 2012 by the throat and played a massive 40 shows, which included some key highlights from playing Hammerfest with Anthrax, supporting Foo Fighters at Tennents Vital, supporting Terrorvision on their UK tour, rocking crowds on the main stage at Hard Rock Hell festival and topping off 2012 by supporting their heroes Thin Lizzy in Belfast.
Trucker’s second album “Songs of Iron”, will be released in May 2013 through Ripple Music. There’s a big open road in front of Trucker Diablo, jump on board, be a part of the convoy and catch them on tour in the U.S and U.K in 2013.
German heavy metal brigade SACRED STEEL has posted another track off their forthcoming album, The Bloodshed Summoning.
This newest song to be offered off of the album is titled "When the Siren Calls" and can be heard at cruzdelsurmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-bloodshed-summoning-2.
The Bloodshed Summoning comes out on February 16th via Cruz Del Sur Music. The record will be offered as a compact disc with three bonus tracks (including one Misfits cover), as well as on limited edition vinyl and digital formats.
For a complete history on SACRED STEEL visit www.sacredsteel.eu/html/history.html
"Sacred Steel always had more melodic elements than a lot of their peers, and with The Bloodshed Summoning, they continue their melodic ways, but make no mistake about it, Sacred Steel is all about the riffs." - Wicked Channel
"SS have created a solid and effective album that won't disappoint those of you out there that feed from many stylistic troughs." - Worm Gear Zine
"In a nutshell, SACRED STEEL became fiercer and unrelenting with a cracking production on this charming orchestrated horror show. Fusing elements of Thrash Metal into their old pattern made this release a cause of interest and there are examples to prove that, yet even so, the Thrash elements remained under the same level." - Metal-Temple.com
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Kai Schindelar /Bass Jens Sonnenberg / Guitars Mathias Straub / Drums Jonas Khalil / Guitars Gerrit P. Mutz / Vocals
Where oh where do I start with this band? They're certainly one of my favorites. I found them, how all great discoveries are made, by accident a few years ago when I was eleven. The Youtube player was on shuffle and they popped up right after Spectrum-X. The video was for "Breathe For Me" off of their self-titled debut. It was moving, wonderful, and totally captured that helpless, I-just-need-something-to-believe-in angst. I was instantly captured by how rough, and yet melodic their sound was. Deadstar Assembly's second album Unsaved came out shortly after that, and you best believe I went right out, bought it, plunked myself down in my room, and didn't take those headphones off for days.
Deadstar Assembly is a strange culmination of all that's great about industrial metal, with touches of goth rock thrown in to create this hard-edged, enigmatic wall of sound that roars (quite literally) listeners down from the first notes of the album to the last verse of the last track. Their sound is completely unique, you know instantly when you are listening to a DSA song. I challenge anyone to find another band that is as innovative in the industrial metal scene today, or that has a better relationship with their fans.
I meet people all over that see my DSA buttons and go on and on about how they went to a concert, met the guys and they were so cool, and down-to-earth. In my personal experience, I asked them on Facebook if I could do a review, and I wasn't expecting to hear back for a few days, if at all, and they got back to me within an hour. From someone who has had her fair share of being disappointed and/or ignored by rockstars, that's pretty cool.
Their third album, Coat of Arms, is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. It's brash, it's completely different than anything else I've heard, it's in-your-face, it's "D"-all-of-the-above on the freakin' awesome scale. To list all the great songs from the album, I'd have to list them all. The first song I ever heard from DSA, "Breathe For Me" is on this album too, which is sort of confusing, but enjoyable all the same. My favorite track off of the album has got to be "F.Y.G." standing for, "Fuck Your God." This song does make me laugh, because, come on, when is the last time there was a band with enough guts to be like, "Yeah, we just said that, this is what we think, it doesn't matter what you think!" so blatently in a song? Now, before you jump on the "they hate christianity, attack!" bandwagon, from the band themselves, "FYG is about celebrity worship, nothing to do with religion. It pokes fun at the media making celebrities out of people that have no merit and contribute nothing. The prerequisite being money, beauty and a scandalous sex tape. Fascinating how people find Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian interesting."
Mid-January, Deadstar Assembly released a clip of a brand new song, "Blame It On the Devil." Holy fuck, hell was just unleashed through my speakers. It sounds fresh, different, and like it moves in a slightly different direction than past albums, but still has that innate DSA feel. Deadstar Assembly is still in the writing and recording stage of their fourth album, Adorned In Thorns. There is no specific release date right now, but according to the band's Facebook page, the album will be out sometime in 2012.
I really don't know what else I can say about this band besides they are phenomenal at what they do, and they are very special to me. Their music has helped me out in hard times, and still there to rock out to when I'm happy. I keep trying to think of bands that sound like DSA, but there really aren't any. If you like music that is brutal, hard-hitting, with goth overtones, and a strong backbone of electronic, this is definitely a band you will love, just like I do.
The Kut, after facing a busy year in 2010, ended with a bang by headlining the 800 capacity Santa’s Xmas Ball at Proud Camden. Having been making slow but steady progress the girls are now set for an exciting 2011 with the pending release of their new video for track ‘Closure’. Set to be released at the end of March the release itself initially appeared on the bands’ recent debut single ‘Doesn’t Matter Anyway’, however the b-side amassed a great deal of support that lead to the track being re-recorded at Cartel Studios. Earning support from fans of Incubus, Korn and Nirvana, ‘Closure’ demonstrates a darker and more mature side to the all female band, broken beats and dynamic emotive power. Having already been reviewed as “the best all female band the UK has ever produced,” the progression has been slow, but finally appears to be worth the wait.
The Kut themselves, are a trio of accomplished female musicians, with a dark indie rock sound. In 2008 their self-recorded demo ‘The Vision’ gained the band a great deal of attention from the credible sources, but more recently their support has spanned from Radio 1 Introducing in Northern Ireland, BBC Tees, BBC Liverpool and a number of key regional radio stations, but now also to high profile FM stations in the USA. Interest was amass towards the end of last year, when ‘Doesn’t Matter Anyway’ was shortlisted for inclusion in a US Ralph Lauren advert and cult series ‘The Good Wife’, while latest news includes negotiations with ‘Rock Band’ following the Marshall endorsement of lead guitarist and vocalist, Maha. With comparisons describing frontwoman Maha as a Slash/Linda Perry hybrid, the band combine sultry vocals, basement rock licks set against solid bass and drums to make their own original sound. Having featured alongside big names like 50 Cent on US Channel Pax TV, it is hoped the new video will help UK will start to support this London band in 2011.
Reviews:
“If your interpretation of girl power favours a Lynchian landscape crossed with Edward Scissorhands and fishnet stockings, and you have dreams where the Sugababes are locked in a cell for crimes of
aural assault while you crowdsurf in a sweaty venue to hard edged indie rock, then The Kut are definitely for you” Ken, Strummer Online, UK
“The Kut lay down a matchless melodic vibe that oozes edginess and attitude from every pore. If you are in search of a true rock band and not a pop band trying to sound like one, then look no further because the Kut is just that: a rock band and a damn good one” Drago, Froglix.com, UK
“From a smoky cellar club tucked in a back alley somewhere in London, enticement beckons and hypnotic lures. Hip cats aware of the sway; have flocked to take in the newest group that procures the latest basement rock sound... females grace the tiny stage hawking their musical wares. They go by the moniker of The Kut” Lucky, Sugarbuzz Magazine, USA
We couldn't be more excited about this. In fact, we're so thrilled, we're giddy. Like kids in a candyshop.
Ripple Music is proud to announce that last week we sent in the art and fully-mastered tracks for a killer new 7" split vinyl single featuring the masters of retro-70's rock, Stone Axe and stoner cretins Mighty High. The single should be ready for your consumption mid-June.
Featuring some mindboggling, fold-out, Mighty High inspired artwork, this 7" is sure to leave em stunned. Stone Axe contributes a monster rock burner, "Metal Damage," featuring Tony Reed's blistering guitar attack and staggering vocals from Dru Brinkerhoff. Mirroring 1978-1980-era Judas Priest, this song is everything that Classic Rock Magazine has been raving about when they declared Stone Axe to ". . . conjure a guttural, soulful hard-rock cauldron. "
Mighty High contributes "Don't Panic It's Organic" with a blistering high energy feel that sounds Rose Tattoo in bed with MC5. Quite possibly the best thing to come from Mighty High yet.
The split will be extremely rare, limited to 500 and each one hand numbered. Stone Axe will have some for their West Coast Tour this summer with Saint Vitus and Mighty High will be displaying some at their gigs as well. The rest can only be bought here, at Ripple Music. Don't miss out.
6/25 - EL CORAZON - Seattle 6/26 - SATYRICON - Portland 6/27 - DNA LOUNGE - San Francisco 6/28 - ORIGAMI VINYL -Los Angeles(no Vitus) 6/29 - VIPER ROOM - Los Angeles 6/30 - THE CASBAH - San Diego 7/01 - WASTED SPACE @ HARD ROCK HOTEL - Las Vegas 7/02 - THE ZEPHYR - Reno(no Vitus) 7/03 - THE ALIBI - Arcata(no Vitus)
Nothing we enjoy more, here at the Ripple, than giving away free (legal) music to all you devoted waveriders. So when garage rock legend Mark Sultan contacted us asking if we'd spread the love on a new single, we couldn't help but quiver with glee.
For those of you who may not be entirely sure who Mark Sultan is -- he's the legendary BBQ with The King Khan & BBQ Show. This new track we've got for your fearless waveriders, "Misery's Upon Us," has that same garage rock with a side of doo-wap sound that made you fall in love with King Khan and the BBQ Show in the first place.. Never to be accused of being lazy, Mark has also been a member of Les Sexareenos, Mind Controls, The Almighty Defenders and was the singer for infamous Montreal punk band The Spaceshits.
Enjoy the free download, and if you like it, please support the artist.
Happy Valentine's Day, waveriders. To bring in the day of love and smooshy feelings, we wanted to share with new the newest video by Ripple favorite, Neil Nathan.
Neil's goal with this project was to make the ultimate interactive Hallmark card for the ultimate Hallmark holiday, so he asked his friends and fans to send their best unconditional love photos and they really delivered! Some of the photos, are cute, some are special, and some may just take your breath away.
We're really excited about this it as it's a very touching display of the love that resides in each of us. And in this day and age of killing, war, and hatred, can't we all use just a little bit more love? Sappy, we know. Not the hardest rock and roll sentiment, but damn if it isn't true.
The video edited by Vaj Potenza ("My Brightest Diamond Freak Out Gold Chains Remix") who also directed Neil's "Darling Friend" video. It's for my song "You're Mine," off Neil's latest EP, The Nearest Future. That EP also includes the song "Glide," which was featured in the disturbing Rosario Dawson flick "Descent."
