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Bayside is an American punk/rock band from Queens NY formed somewhere in the winter of 2000. Current members are Anthony Raneri (Vocals, Guitar), Jack O’Shea (Lead Guitar), Nick Ghanbarian (Bass) and Chris Guglielmo (Drums).

Although this Heavy Psych Rock band is based in London (England), there isn't one Londoner among its members, one being an Hungarian, another being of Canadian extract, and the two Britons in the band hailing from the South and Midlands of England.

Leader of this new band is none other than Alexander Oriz, who’s the guitarist in Reinxeed, but has also founded  a band named after his own name Oriz.  Other musicians in this band are Chris David on bass, also known from Reinxeed, aswell as Simon Jonsonn, who toured with Reinxeed and finally Emil Eriksson, known from Oriz and JD Miller.

25 years ago, Axxis released their ‘Kingdom Of The Night’ album on EMI Records.  To celebrate this, they’ve released ‘Kingdom Of The Night II’, and even made two versions, a Black Edition, that contains heavier tracks, and a White Edition, that contains quieter songs and ballads.  Both albums are separately available. I cannot say anything about the black edition, since I didn’t get a copy of it, so let’s stick to the white edition instead.

Another of these bands that seem to have existed forever, and despite not receiving much attention in the regular press nor on the mainstream airwaves, continue to record and release new albums.  And on this album, there still are three of the four original band members giving acte de presence.

Ancient Ascendant are an English four-piece that recorded two minis and one full length before. When it comes to the latter, that full length, which was called The Grim Awakening, I would kindly like to ask you to search for the review done by truly-yours-undersigned, posted on October 2^nd 2011 as part of the ‘Siege Of Amida Records Special 2011” I did.

Fellow countrymen, rejoice, for a new star (could be born)…15 Reasons are a Belgian band, hailing from Brussels, and this is already their third album.

Why do I state a new star could be born.  I’ll explain myself.  It’s not that often in our beloved genre that I’ve had the chance to hear a band that could stand it’s ground against any other foreign band.  There are exceptions of course, like Channel Zero and a few select other bands.  But this band certainly is a serious contender.

This is a recording of an exclusive show W.E.T. played at the Debaser Club in Stockholm, Sweden, to celebrate the release of the ‘Rise Up’ album.  The album contains songs of both albums W.E.T. has released so far. The double album opens up with ‘Walk Away’, and immediately you get the feeling that this must have been one hellluva show.  With top musicians like Jeff Scot Soto, Robert Säll, and Erik Martenson who’d have thought otherwise.

Kyng a new band founded in Los Angeles in 2008. You can compare their sound with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and The Sword, yes Heavy metal, Stoner Metal and hard Rock. Only three members counting band: Eddie Veliz (vocals/guitar), Pepe Clarke (drums) and Tony Castaneda (bass/backup vocals).

Finally! Finally! Finally! It was a promise to have a full album ‘soon’, but it took too long! Anyway, finally here it is…

What I mean is this. Irish act Killface did release the mini-album Faceless via on January 1^st 2011. Undersigned was enormously enthusiastic about this stuff (see update of January 4^th 2011 within the Archive-tab). Said was, via bio and the band itself, that this mini wasn’t ‘but an appetizer’ for the upcoming full length, but indeed, it took three years, three awfully long, empty years…