The Birthday Massacre

Well one of my favourite bands have hit out hard with a new album worthy of you time.

As you may know from reading my blog page, The Birthday Massacre have been a favourite of mine for many years!! I got into them back in 2005 after hearing about them on a forum site and quickly listened to their album Nothing & Nowhere.



It mixed fantasy sounds, 80's new wave pop and nu-metal to create something very original and yet so very familiar!!



I quickly got a copy of Violet (an ep that was lengthened into an album release) and got the Blue music video dvd.



By the time Walking with Strangers hit in September 2007 I was fanatical about the group and finally got to see them live last year in Glasgow as reported in my Violet Prison 15 July 2009 blog.







With my purchase of their Show & Tell dvd at the end of last year it was only a matter of time before they released another album....and it's finally here.



Pins and Needles is the quintessential Birthday Massacre album...huge synths, 80's new wave, goth pop and fantasy sounds are all mixed into a seamless soundscape.



To top it all off I get to seem them again on 13 October 2010 at the Classic Grand in Glasgow.



If you haven't had the pleasure yet...do something about it...you wont be sorry you did!!!

Carpark North

Few things in life make me as happy as when I find a band I've never come accross before and they are just so honestly in the right place for my heart to skip a beat....with this in mind, when I came accross Carpark North and listened to 'Berlin' from their first album 'All Things to All People' I knew I had heard something a bit special.



Its clear that this Danish three piece from Århus (I place I have actually visited when auditioning for the mighty Hatesphere) are all about stadium filling rock songs with hints of new wave synths. In fact listening to them makes me feel that 30 Seconds to Mars could easily copied their newer sound right off a Carpark North album.



I love pimping things I really like to people so check them out!!

All Things to All People



Grateful



FrEaK xXx

Mose Giganticus

Gift Horse (2010)

Oh how I love this band...epic like early Mastodon with quirky synths and vocoders this album is all kinds of good :)

Check it out if you havent yet!!

Well im officially off the market :p

Thats right people I am engaged :)