(review) Midwich Cuckoos – Going Nowhere:Lockdown Sessions (Onslaught Music)

Midwich Cuckoos started as a fun project between international bunch of friends evolving into real band with real full line-up. This one was recorded during lockdown due to reasons unfortunately known to us all as an e.p. to serve as a release before new full length arrives. There are five songs on this e.p. As the title say, three acoustic songs, one dance remix and one reggae version hehe. You will have to listen and discover your favorite for yourself. I was not a fan of acoustic music when I was an angry metal and hardcore kid growing up, now I learned to appreciate the beauty of punk rock played acoustically. Listen to my personal favorite Call The Nurse with that melancholic and haunting melody and fantastic voice of singer Tanzy Velayne instantly becoming one of my favorite voices in the punk rock scene. Also Dirty Love in that reggae version is superb and my highlight on this e.p. So, go listen and discover your favorte song on this one. I love it.

https://onslaughtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/going-nowhere-lockdown-sessions

(news) Finnish melodic metal band Scars Of Solitude releases new single ‘No Riddance’!

Photographer: J-V Hintikka

Finnish melodic metal quartet Scars of Solitude has released a new single. No Riddance is the second single taken from the group’s upcoming EP called If These Walls Could Talk to be released later this year.

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/E5e9ZyOtOYQ 

Listen to the single:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3uMj2N8
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2Q2nvfN
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3mMnnNm
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/218072432
Tidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/178609899


According to the band’s singer/guitarist Tuomo Laulainen“No Riddance is a explosively energetic and vitally melodic metal anthem with a catchy chorus of which’s energy and straightforwardness is borrowed from pop-punk. The song used to go with the working title ’Paramore’ for a long time. The song’s lyrics were written during the sleepless nights accompanied by arrythmia and anxiety as if it were the exact opposite of the song’s musical side.”
The music video for No Riddance was filmed during the “busy gigging year” of 2020 and it is filled with the band’s hearty spirit and its live energy. Luckily the band could go and play most of their planned shows safely even during the weird year and only had to cancel two of them.
The EP still has no release date but it should see the light of day during the second half of the year. More details will follow once the release date has been set. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScarsofSolitudeFI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarsofsolitude/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcH4O8CN_X0BJfQj26E44fg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scarsofsolitude

(news) Polish progmetallers FACTOR 8 release the official video for – Insomnia!

Polish progressive metal band FACTOR 8 release the official video for “Insomnia”.

“Insomnia” is the second single off the yet-untitled EP which is planned for late 2021. “The Valkyries”, the debut record of the band from Bydgoszcz was released in 2016.

Factor 8 are:

Bartek Wojciechowski (vocals)

Mariusz Lemański (guitars, backing vocals)

Kamil Robaczewski (bass)

Peter ‘Lestath’ Leszczyński (drums, samples)

Daniel Pradella (keyboards)

Video: Peter “Lestath” Leszczynski ( Red Sun Studio ) – project direction, cameraman, lights, fx, video edit, post-production

Radosław Górski ( RADVISUAL ) – art direction, 3D modeling, animations, graphic

Video Edit : Peter ‘Lestath’ Leszczyński

Dariusz Głuchowski: Camera assistant