Archive - Trebuchet

Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

10/06/2015

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

09/06/2015

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

07/06/2015

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

Jaz Coleman Spoken Word Tour

06/06/2015

Letters from Cythera...

A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

06/06/2015

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

Something of a mixed bag: Food Chain [London Afrobeat Collective]

05/06/2015

I can hear this on an sunny afternoon whilst the crowd are still working out the kinks from the night before, but headlining material it ain’t....

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

‘Meat is just like dog food to me’ [The Picturebooks]

03/06/2015

We had a bassist but he tried to Yoko Ono us....

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Hanging Offence: Kristin Hjellegjerde

02/06/2015

I think it is often necessary for art and literature to touch on subjects that can be difficult. If people in arts don’t do it, who will?...

Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

01/06/2015

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

31/05/2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]

30/05/2015

If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume's emphasis on emotion is clear from the start....

Loitered Lens : Theory of a Deadman

29/05/2015

So much rock awesomeness on the stage, it almost spilled outside...

Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

28/05/2015

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

Ethno World at Tandem Folk Festival

27/05/2015

Ethno World returns to the UK to host one of their globally renowned music camps ...

June Gigs, London [Thunder on the Left]

27/05/2015

Makes you want to jump behind the wheel of the Mustang and hit the road on a prolonged killing spree. ...

Dark moods and Militaristic Airs : Мир [Bedlam]

26/05/2015

There's a residual warmth in the superbly-produced bass but this can only be the prelude to or aftermath of some bleak scenario....

Hanging Offence : Viktor Wynd [Museum of Curiosities]

25/05/2015

I hope to see things that perhaps others neglect, so if everyone's momentarily interested in an artist I will look elsewhere....

Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

24/05/2015

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

22/05/2015

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

Craving acceptance [Dir En Grey]

21/05/2015

'I think that it’s really up to the listeners to determine what we are, not us.' ...

Make Better Music 75 : The Producer

20/05/2015

It is a rare gift indeed to successfully carry your own music throughout the entire creation process....

Grunged Up and Greasy, Beast of Eden [Beasts]

19/05/2015

Beasts have the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom softened by catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Loitered Lens : Marc Almond

18/05/2015

Joined by guitarist Neal X, formerly of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it was as if the past 30 years had just been a bad dream' Marc Almond...

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015

Bright's voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish...

Why David Cameron is a Massive Loser

16/05/2015

Cameron is so indebted to so many people, it's hard to actually say he's 'won' anything....

Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]

15/05/2015

His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished....

A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

14/05/2015

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....