Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Nov 2, 2009, 2:25 pm
Calling British three piece TrippyWicked doom seems a little beside the point. Here there be big riffs, a singer that sounds like Ozzy bathed in the fountain of youth and given back his balls, and thu...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 29, 2009, 8:32 am
Supergroup. Say it out loud “Supergroup”. Does that word leave a bitter taste in your mouth? So many enterprises of exquisite promise, so much shattered hope. Approach all supergroups with sceptic...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 27, 2009, 4:55 pm
What I spent my hard earned cash on recently. Completely failing to do the honourable thing, Alice in Chains released the controversial comeback-after-loosing-a-key-member album and managed not to of...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 21, 2009, 7:39 am
I was in the unenviable situation this past week of not having a copy of the new Baroness album. This sort of situation is not usually a big issue, but this particular time it left me in an existentia...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 19, 2009, 2:14 pm
I found myself recently lecturing a non-metal fan, who harboured a preconception that metal is a narrow and one-dimensional genre, on what a diverse bunch we metalheads are. And boy does this show on ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 13, 2009, 8:09 am
Apparently there are trace elements of metal in bottled water... Still the filesharing battles wages on, despite the fact that there is no war. Dom Lawson’s entertaining article on this subject app...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 12, 2009, 7:49 am
No Abbath, not that sort of campaign So your adoring fan base has swarmed to your website and signed up to your mailing list. You also got a bunch of email addresses at your last gig. Before you star...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 9, 2009, 12:44 pm
1 band, 5 questions, 1 minute per question... Profile Name: Mr. Necro D. Mortimer Band: Necro Deathmort From: London, UK What you do in Necro Deathmort: Take up 50% of it Label: Distraction Web...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 7, 2009, 1:56 pm
This is the second release from German label Ván this year that’s got me really excited. Whereas The Devil’s Blood take a playful approach to pagan rites, Griftegard cast an epic pall of quasi-re...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 5, 2009, 6:54 am
Even more technomologically advanced than this! While I seem to have found myself in the position of giving advice to aspiring bands on how best to use and abuse these new-fangled interwebs, I’ve y...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Oct 1, 2009, 7:22 am
AIC+CRM=WIN There was an excellent example of CRM building up to the release of Alice in Chains’ new album Black Gives Way to Blue. Here’s what they did: Introduced some teaser videos onto the i...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 30, 2009, 6:49 am
The classic rock revival, for the most part, has left me cold. Bands like The Answer and Stone Gods indulging in big riffs and big balls show such a lack of imagination. Dutch classic rockers The Devi...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 30, 2009, 5:39 am
This is perhaps the best summary I’ve seen on the file sharing debate. As I stated previously, there really isn’t a debate at all, merely those who are adapting to the changing environment...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 29, 2009, 3:46 pm
Your #1 sales reps You’re heading out to a gig. On go the AC/DC socks and pants set (in case you pull, you’ll shake them all night long), Iron Maiden trainers with Eddie’s face on them, that co...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 25, 2009, 7:31 am
Techniqes for getting inbound links #1: Immortal politely request that you link to their myspace So you’re in a band. You’re probably young, internet savvy and have a profile on every social netw...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 24, 2009, 7:29 am
Heavy Do you ever get those “did I miss something?” moments? Perhaps you were still under the impression that the word ‘gay’ still meant ‘happy’ until you announced you were ‘feeling ga...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 24, 2009, 4:02 am
This billboard speaks the truth Here’s a thought for unsigned bands who a) are feeling a little squeamish about giving away tracks for free or b) still think filesharing is bad for them. So when y...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 23, 2009, 7:29 am
We want email! Whether you like it or not, if you’re in a band (unsigned or otherwise), you are a business. You have ‘customers’ (the fans), you generate revenue (the 10 quid you made from that...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 22, 2009, 4:43 am
1 band, 5 questions, 1 minute per question... Profile Name: James “Rambo” Pearce Band: Stone Circle From: Brighton, UK What you do in Stone Circle: Bass and Manager Label: Unsigned ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 18, 2009, 8:05 am
Pagerank diagram or Death Metal band logo? I’ve mentioned this mystical term ‘pagerank’ in my previous articles and probably made it seem like manna from heaven. It’s not that important in th...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 16, 2009, 11:36 am
It’s still happening you know. Just as the majority of the world ignores the unfolding inevitability of global warming, the music industry continues bury it’s head in the sand with regards to the ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 15, 2009, 2:42 pm
It’s perhaps suprising given my constantly developing taste for ever more complex and ponderous music that this album arrived into my life several weeks ago and was filed in the “too damn dauntin...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 14, 2009, 3:08 am
1 band, 5 questions, 1 minute per question... Profile Name: La la monkey Tasker and Rumble monkey Taylor Band: Thracia From: Northampton, UK What you do in Photonic: Singist and basserer Label: ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 11, 2009, 3:35 am
Matanza - Countrycore? A common misconception, when people first become conscious of their presence to the search engines, is that just be getting inbound links and acquiring page rank (of the type f...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 10, 2009, 6:02 am
Necro Deathmort’s name suggests “death death death” and their Myspace classification is set to “grunge/grunge/grunge”, however their music is not even remotely either. In fact, if you dig de...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 9, 2009, 6:21 am
1 band, 5 questions, 1 minute per question... Profile Name: Craig Scott Band: Photonic From: Aukland, New Zealand What you do in Photonic: Sing, play guitar, write the music and lyrics Label: Un...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 8, 2009, 2:21 pm
Some bands are amazing on record, but can’t pull it off live while others are spectacular live, but don’t manage to capture this magic on record. Electric Wizard tend towards the latter ca...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 7, 2009, 4:00 am
I’m going to start at the beginning, with one of the first things that a band does: Choose a name. Now, this may be redundant in most cases, as you probably already have a band name that youR...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 6, 2009, 11:51 am
This is the first of a series of articles on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for metal bands. In my experience most new bands don’t know or care about SEO or perhaps assume that the record lab...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 3, 2009, 7:47 am
Another couple of UKMU unsigned reviews for your delectation. The frenetic Tharcia: The legacy of what once was punk has been blurred by an array of mutations and countless stream of frequently turg...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 1, 2009, 7:36 am
Norway’s Virus are described on their Wikipedia entry as “avant-garde jazz rock”, a lofty description, and I will say this, they don’t sound much like the British thrash band of the same name....
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Sep 1, 2009, 2:00 am
Fun, comfortable, unchallenging. Should these words be applied to something calling itself Thrash Metal? It’s not easy to say this, but that’s how I perceive Municipal Waste. Harking back to the ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 28, 2009, 7:33 am
I stand (well, sit, slightly reclining to be more accurate) before you a broken man. But I laugh in the face of addiction and say to you all now I will fight this blight and become, once again, the ma...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 26, 2009, 4:42 am
While on my recent excursion into the murky world of Drone (more on this to come, in about 3 years time, which is how long it’s going to take me to plough through Earth and Sunn O)))’s back catalo...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 24, 2009, 2:22 am
Radiohead performed this hypnotic new track at Poelten Festival in Austria. It’s not a radical departure from their current sound, but it does stray into psychedelic territory with it’s re...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 20, 2009, 3:49 pm
The Good Devin Townsend nonchalantly Tweets: @dvntownsend counting down…late nights, great progress…suddenly very happy about record 2. Released around Nov 20. and unleashes more verbos...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 17, 2009, 10:13 am
The vast majority of unsigned bands out there are either shit, superfluous, disposable or just copies of another band. Unfortunately, the race for a record deal is usually won by those bands sprouting...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 14, 2009, 2:43 am
Another couple of UKMU unsigned reviews for your existential enrichment. The brutal Skull of a Mammoth: First impressions are deceptive. Skull of a Mammoth’s name lead me to expect lumbering doom ...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 12, 2009, 3:52 pm
This may be a “sure we all knew about this Alex, we were just keeping it a secret from you” moment, but it came as a surprise for me that there are no less than 2 rich digital media formats be...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 6, 2009, 6:29 am
Since the hot topic of the moment is unsigned bands giving their music away free, I thought I’d mention one of my favourite bands at the moment, Cloudkicker, who are doing exactly that. Cloudkicker...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 5, 2009, 3:53 pm
iPhone - making people seem smaller the world over (in this case, Alice in Chains) I wasn’t sure whether I’d bother going to Sonisphere, it all looked too commercial to me, like V festiva...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Aug 5, 2009, 7:36 am
It’s not coincidence that the vast majority of the bands and musicians we see most frequently are also pretty well off financially. This privileged clique has billion pound corporations behind them,...
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Alex Loveless posted an article on The Inevitable nose - Jul 30, 2009, 2:32 pm
Metal is such a frenetic genre. It’s also frequently brutal, angular, angry and most of all noisy. Every now and again, purveyors of the true faith settle down, break out the bong and forget all abo...
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