Posts Tagged ‘rise above records’

Ghost – Roadburn 2011: Qualitly Fan Filmed Video Footage On Line!

Posted on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Last month, Ghost delighted an unsuspecting crowd of new devotees with a phantasmal performance at the 2011 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. The incorporeal beings were captured by a lucky attendee who – by posting the footage online – spreads the sect’s sacrilegious scripture to new and nescient minds across the globe. Stop what you’re doing and witness Ghost as they administer the ghastly grooves of ‘Con Clavi Con Dio’, ‘Elizabeth’, ‘Prime Mover’, ‘Genesis’, ‘Ritual’, and ‘Stand by Him.’

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Album of the day: Gentleman’s Pistols – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure

Posted on Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Uber Rock: Leeds’ finest retro rockers Gentleman’s Pistols will be familiar to those who frequent sweaty rock bars and clubs around the country, as they’ve been a welcome fixture on that circuit for a few years now. They’ve also pleasured the crowds at the last couple of ...read more

Album of the day: The Gates of Slumber – The Wretch

Posted on Friday, May 6th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: If you thought you were glad Saint Vitus is back together and touring, your joy can’t possibly compare to the trad-doom revelry on Indianapolis trio The Gates of Slumber’s fifth album, The Wretch (Rise Above/Metal Blade). A self-acknowledged “return to form” for the band, The ...read more

Album of the day: Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients

Posted on Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Praise for Blood Ceremony‘s Living With The Ancients from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: This Canadian doom-psych-prog-metal band’s 2008 debut was a big fave ’round here, we likened their female-fronted n’ flutey, Hammond organ driven occult heaviness to “Electric Wizard given a medieval, madrigal makeover” and compared ‘em to a hypothetical ...read more

Album of the day: Firebird – Double Diamond

Posted on Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: This latest offering from Firebird has been in the can for the best part of a year and has already seen a successful release through the band’s Japanese label but for some unexplainable reason is only just seeing the light of day in the ...read more

Album of the day: Steel Mill – Jewels Of The Forest (Green Eyed God Plus…)

Posted on Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Music Fix: Like every scene, the 70s British prog rock movement had its bands that came and went without creating a ripple – some justifiably, some inexplicably – and unfortunately Steel Mill were one such victim. Jewels Of The Forest (Green Eyed God Plus…) neatly brings ...read more

Album of the day: Bang – Bullets

Posted on Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Praise for Bang‘s Bullets (The First Four Albums Plus…) from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: All right! We’re happy to report that Rise Above Relics is back in business, with an impressive new batch of proto-metal reissues including albums by Steel Mill and Necromandus… gotta get ‘em all reviewed, but we’re ...read more