The Sound Of Fighting Cats # 1
Monday, 19 March 2012

Guru Guru - Guru Guru (1973)

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Now I get the reference to the good old Bo Diddley on one of their previous albums. While that album only included one reference to t...

Maldorer - L'Arbre Cimetière (2004)

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A French band taking up the legacy left by Ange and the 1970s French symph prog scene. The comparison with Ange is obvious. L'Arb...

Arktika - At Zero (2010)

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A new name to me, but also a free download album. So no risks taken, then. The band is listed in the post metal category. As this alb...

Treeburning - This Is What Happens When Nothing Else Can (2011)

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A hell of a racket. Treeburning from Canada is trying to add a new dimension to the music scene, the PA profile bio says. Maybe that...

Zebulon - Zebulon (1980)

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Das Boot aside.......... Zebulon is a German band who only released one album and then sunk without a trace. The music on this self ...

Eneide - Uomini Umili Popoli Liberi (1972)

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Another one of the RPI one albums band. Eneide came, saw and disappeared again. The album was released long after they disbanded as p...

Venegoni & Co - Rumore Rosso (1977)

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This band is Luigi "Gigi" Venegoni, ex guitarist of Arti E Mestieri, new band after leaving that band. This album is the Vene...

L'Impero Delle Ombre - I Compagni di Baal (2011)

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The third album from this Italian heavy metal band. Released by Black Widow Records, they are most definate operating on the dark sid...

Cleveland. Barry - Volcano (2004)

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An album now re-released as a free download on Barry Cleveland's website. His 2010 album Hologramatron has been praised a lot aro...

Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn Of Dreams (1992)

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The debut album from this band and an album who created quite a stirr back in those days. This album is by no means straight death met...

Triumvirat - Russian Roulette (1980)

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10 000 polar bears would never venture into a record shop to buy this album. Therefore; 10 000 polar bears cannot be wrong. Triumvirat...

Arktika - Heartwrencher (2011)

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The debut offering from these icebreaking Germans. .....Although they are not breaking any new ground. Ice is per definition frozen w...

Damenbart - Impressionen '71 (1971)

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Krautrock can mean a lot of things. From jazzy melodies to rock to avant-garde to noise. Damenbart is one of the many one-album wonde...

Maneige - Maneige (1975)

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The debut from this great Canadian band. Maneige is a very slow starting album which takes it's time to really get going. The emp...

Deep Purple - In Concert With The London Symph Orchestra (1999)

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If you are a symphony orchestra, stealing money from a starry eyed heavy metal band is far easier than stealing money from a newborn ba...

Altair - Altair (1990)

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The debut album from this Spanish band. The music is instrumental. The instruments are drums, keyboards and synth-bass. And that alon...

6LA8 - Music Observatory (2011)

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I have to admit Progressive Electronic is by no means my favorite music, this being my only second review ever in this genre. But this ...

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross (1989)

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The band previously known as the godfathers of heavy metal returns again. Gone is their good style from the 1970s. Bands like Trouble...

Dreams Of Sanity - The Game (2000)

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The final album from this rather underrated band. A band that drowned in the masses of female fronted goth metal bands at that time. ...
Saturday, 17 March 2012

Finch - Glory of the Inner Force (1975)

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The debut album from this highly regarded Dutch band. Finch has stolen a lot from Yes on this album. Most of the sound in fact. They ...

Malmsteen. Yngwie - Double Live! (1998)

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The second live album by this larger than life character Yngwie Malmsteen. What hits me first is the pretty horrendous bad sound on t...

Akinetón Retard - Akinetón Retard (1999)

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The debut album from this avant-garde chamber rock band from Chile. Akinetón Retard has drawn a lot of inspirations from the early Ki...

Nightsky Bequest - Keep The Lonely Trees (1997)

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The debut album from this Bulgarian doom metal band. A band who were a part of the very active Brutallica mag/Counter Active Records sc...
Friday, 16 March 2012

Beatles. The - Let It Be (1970)

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The final Beatles album. And a pretty controversial one too. Mostly because Sir Paul McCartney think it was pretty much destroyed by ...

Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten (1991)

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Suffocation is one of the main bands within the death metal genre. Their music and sound has been pretty much copied by the whole scene ...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Cal - Cal (1980)

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The one and only album from this Spanish band. Think about Spain and their music. Think about all the cliches. The flamenco. The male...

Nema Niko - Meccaniche Di Pensiero (2007)

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I know next to nothing about this Serbian band, but I got a handful of their albums from Lizard Records, Italy. So I will in an unorgan...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Gazpacho - London (2011)

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Hmmm......... two live albums in two years. Dubious. I have to admit I have been struggling with Gazpacho's music since I discove...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Magma – Udu Wudu (1976)

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The French band Magma is the pioneers of the music genre called zeuhl. It is probably the most eclectic type of music we have ever seen....

Gudars Skymning - Morka Vatten (2010)

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A Swedish blues album released and distributed by Black Widow Records. Black Widow Records is a prog/occult/metal label. But this alb...
Monday, 12 March 2012

Prudence - 11/12/75 (1976)

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Prudence is probably an unknown name to most of you, even you Norwegians. But this Norwegian band released four studio albums and were b...

Little Tragedies - The Cross (2008)

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This Russian (mostly) one man band has released some albums during their time. Most of them sounding like a mad professor doing Keith E...
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Mascarada - Urban Names (1999)

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A Spanish band which I know absolute nothing about. This is their debut album and perhaps their only album too. I got this album as an ...

Soft Head - Rogue Elements (1978)

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The name Soft Head and this live album was a one of deviation from their group Soft Heap. The original drummer Pip Pyle had to pull out ...
Sunday, 11 March 2012

Machiavel - Eleven (2011)

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This band from Belgium made their name in the 1970s with some good album, which I got but never listened to. This album is my first ever...
Saturday, 10 March 2012

Seconda Genesi. La - Tutto Deve Finire (1972)

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My hopes for an Italian Genesis copy band was dashed during the first minute. The album starts like a rocket, fueled by some jazzy diese...
Thursday, 8 March 2012

Graal - Legends Never Die (2011)

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An Italian hard rock band with a good vintage 1970s sound. I got this as a promo from Black Widow Records and thought this was some d...
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Whiplash - Ticket To Mayhem (1987)

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In the thrash/speed metal wave at the end of the 1980s, this album stood out from most of the crowd and has been hailed as a semi classi...

Hemina - Synthetic (2012)

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The big great white hope from Australia. Hemina is really being pushed hard these days and with good reason. Their sound and music is...
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Monday, 5 March 2012

Thinking Plague - Decline And Fall (2012)

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This should really be something I loved....... Thinking Plague is a band who straddle the chamber rock and zeuhl genres. One of their...
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Trurl - Do Not See Me Rabbit (2011)

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Trurl is a couple of members from Glass Hammer branching into fusion, if I am not mistaken. Perhaps I am. This is their debut album an...
Sunday, 4 March 2012

Delta Saxophone Quartet - Dedicated to you... (2007)

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Delta Saxophone Quartet with their take on the music of Soft Machine. I am a big Soft Machine fan and laps up everything by them. Tha...
Saturday, 3 March 2012

Disgorge - She Lay Gutted (1999)

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I generally got a morbid curiosity. That makes me go out and check out bands from the gospel, pop, zeuhl, jazz and the metal scene. Som...

Birds And Buildings - Bantam To Behemoth (2008)

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One of Dan Britton's projects and perhaps his best one too. Released in 2008, this album hit the scene like a bomb. And with good...

Airportman - Nino e l 'Inferno (2011)

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For some reason, I have received a lot of electronica/ambient promo albums which got stucked at my office until now. Airportman is a ban...

Camel - Moonmadness (1976)

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Camel got two pretty big hit albums in their two previous albums Mirage and The Snow Goose. Moonmadness is their fourth album and the f...

Leitmotiv - Entangled (2007)

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Another retro prog band from Canada. Retro prog is the game here and the piano based songs is what I will remember this album for. Th...
Friday, 2 March 2012

Thumpermonkey Lives! - Alpha Romeo (2003)

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The debut EP from one of the weirdest bands from England. So weird that they are very difficult to label. But take a slice of Faith No...
Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Savoldelli. Boris - Biocosmpolitan (2011)

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The second album from this Italian jazz vocalist and my first ever meeting with him. We are talking jazz and we are talking doo-wop h...

Dr Hasbeen - Signs (2008)

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Gosh. A double CD pack with spaced out Hawkwind adulation is a heck of a mouthful to take in. 138 minutes long and comes in a great dig...
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