'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kiss - Monster
If you find a certain degree of cynicism lingering after listening to Monster, and you will, just know that it is guaranteed to dissipate with the first blast of over-the-top pyrotechnics when KISS tour the record.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Bastardfest 2012
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cannibal Corpse, Disentomb, Entrails Eradicated
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Defeater, Blacklisted, Waiting Room
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Down - Down IV Part I: The Purple EP
Down IV Part I: The Purple EP sounds like five veteran head-bangers having a good time with the music they do better than anybody else around today.
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Album Review: Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil
There are a myriad more of these moments throughout Effigies..., and sitting down with the record, any fan of the genre will happily find them out for themselves.
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Album Review: Mono - For My Parents
The songs on For My Parents flow together as a single, lush sonic dreamscape – a floating, ethereal piece of music that you, and your parents, can enjoy.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: High On Fire, Shellfin
Reviews / Album
Album Review: JJ Doom - Keys To The Kuffs
As impressive as JJ’s beats are, ...Kuffs is about the thrill of seeing where DOOM will take his brilliant free-association rhymes next.
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Album Review: Grinspoon - Black Rabbits
Good on the Grinners for writing the kind of music that’s going to keep them interested in staying out on the road, playing shows for said insufferable fans.
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Album Review: The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts
Though this will undoubtedly incense their detractors, it makes for a pretty bloody good record.
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Album Review: Various Artists - Nick Cave And Warren Ellis present Lawless OST
Despite being a renaissance man who’s spent the last two decades ‘dabbling’ in all manner of creative expression, Nick Cave can still do things that make you think, ‘Holy shit! How is one dude involved in all these amazing projects?’
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