Welcome to a different, aurora-themed version of Tracks Of The Week, during which we rejoice the majesty of the skies, and thank the heavens that we did not enjoy anything else just like the Carrington Tournament of 1859.
On that celestial observe, we will continue with this week’s large information, which is that final week’s large winners had been Courageous Rival, who bravely beat out their rival Carol Hodge to safe victory, with Black Nation Communion waaaaaaay again in 3rd.
This week, it is an extra-special variety, just because we are saying so. However first, this is the ones Courageous Rival girls and boys once more.
Under you can to find this week’s stars. Revel in their spectral majesty.
Battlesnake – The Key Of Solomon
“So it continues,” the Aussie seven-piece claim, by the use of advent to this cackling, hard-riffing thunderdome of a track, generously spiced with exuberant 70s solos and NWOBHM crunch. “A ghastly sorceress who dwells within the catacombs of the Motorsteeple. Brewing potions on sprawling pentagrams as she recites ‘The Lesser Key of Solomon’. She is the abbeys navigator. Lengthy Are living The Dungeon Witch!” Be expecting sorcery, gallons of faux blood and heavy fucking steel.
The Mysterines – Sink Ya Tooth
Constructed on a pounding, hypnotic one-note hook and waves of ‘moody celebration’ vibes, the London rockers’ new unmarried sounds just like the apex of the most productive overdue nights out of your wildest days – that golden duration simply ahead of the solar begins to upward push, when the track and no matter you’ve ingested and whoever you’re with really feel like the one issues that exist. All of which is captured within the video, as singer Lia Metcalfe explains: “Mainly, [we] were given our label to pay for an enormous celebration with a whole lot of loopy characters. It was once like a fever dream.. I went house sooner or later”.
Troy Redfern – Van Helsing
Possessing a ragged depth lacking in numerous his bluesy guitar-toting contemporaries, Troy Redfern digs right into a juicy, pensive position between Delta blues and sleazy glam in this spotlight from his newest report, Invocation. “That is one in every of my favorite tracks from the brand new album,” says Troy. “It’s darkish and heavy from the outset, musically reflecting topics of those instances of uncertainty. The dystopian verse narrative is juxtaposed via an uplifting refrain that feedback on the truth that we’re all on the lookout for our personal ray of sunshine on this lifestyles to get us thru.”
Orange Goblin – Cemetery Rats
Don’t be fooled. The primary little while of Cemetery Rats may well be all vampiric keys and lumbering steps like bovver boots thru treacle, however from there all of it will get a lot louder, madder and speedier. For those who’ve noticed Orange Goblin are living, you’ll recognise the power captured right here – a laugh, heavy, rapid and sharp as a knife during the face (in an effective way) with a now-gym-honed/sober Ben Ward roaring their ghoulish stories with renewed glee. Be careful for his or her subsequent album, Science, Now not Fiction, which comes out in July.
Mom Vulture – Wreck Me
Simply one of the vital bodily, explosive are living bands in rock as of late – with ft in steel, hardcore and Hives-y turbo-rock territory – Mom Vulture bottle that ferocity within the aptly titled Wreck Me. “Looking to ‘make it’ within the track business most commonly seems like you might be banging your head towards a brick wall,” the Bristolian four-piece say, “and we’ve been doing simply that, so much, very demanding. We would like the arena to understand, we’re no longer going any place. Whether or not that wall breaks first, or we do.”
Mike Campbell & The Grimy Knobs – Dare To Dream (feat. Graham Nash)
Mike Campbell is harmonised via none rather than Graham Nash in this gorgeously contemplative new Grimy Knobs song. With this sort of rootsy flecks and sharp but sunkissed Americana you’d be expecting from a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers alumnus (who was once additionally a bandmate of Petty’s in countrified rockers Mudcrutch), it made us call to mind the ones guys’ affect on as of late’s non-purist southern contingent – Blackberry Smoke, The Cadillac 3, Tyler Bryant, Larkin Poe, Robert Jon & The Break and so forth and so forth. Campbell’s subsequent album, Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits, comes out in June.
Fuzzrider – Nightfall Until Daybreak
Kicking off with a restrained bass riff and drum phase that might come from post-rockers Slint or Tortoise, Nightfall Until Daybreak – the brand new unmarried from Greek heavy blues traders Fuzzrider – slowly becomes the slowest of ZZ Best-meets-Foghat jams, with a video that comprises motorbikes a-plenty and a obviously bad femme fatale. We suspect it is a tribute to the Robert Rodriguez film From Nightfall Until Daybreak and that scene with Salma Hayek, however what do we all know? Both method, it oozes with thriller, darkness and seduction, so the place no longer complaining. The band’s self-titled debut album was once launched final 12 months.
Mount Rushka – Weathervane
Mount Rushka say Weathervane was once impressed via Alabama Shakes, Nuno Bettencourt, The Beatles and Alice In Chains, and for as soon as this seems like a fairly sensible description quite than unrealistic hyperbole. You’ll be able to pay attention Nuno in that stuttering opening riff and the Shakes at the track construction, and you can to find The Fabs and Alice in one of the crucial melodic shifts in different places. It is all very slickly put in combination, and there may be extra of the similar kind of factor at the band’s new EP What is This Time For?, which is to be had by means of your native streaming platform now. Are Mount Rushka the 3rd largest Canadian band with “Rush” of their title? It is imaginable Alex Lifeson is aware of, for he was once born in Fernie, the small town in British Columbia that Mount Rushka name house.
