Thursday, December 10, 2009

Reptiles At Dawn - Naked In The Wilderness



Back in the late eighties while staying in Taupo with a great aunt, I first read of Reptiles At Dawn in the UK Heavy Metal magazine, Metal Hammer, in an issue which came free with a huge foldout poster of Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson holding a box of the game Risk whilst surrounded by topless women. The review stated that they were a New Zealand band who had moved their reptile house to France. Back then, I had no idea they were the same band as The Henchmen and The Dum Dum Boys whose records I would often see for sale new in the local second hand record and book shop. The Stooges sound stayed and a dedication to Radio Birdman mixes things up just a little. All the references to reptiles and lizards would have made Jim Morrison's leather pants tighten as the blood rushed from his brain to another place or at least made him smile. Jimmy Dean would just drive his death machine.

Get this cold blooded creature

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Dead Wrong

Vorpal Blade are a hardcore from Christchurch, New Zealand. They really like American bands such as Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan and some guys from years back who called themselves Black Flag. Vorpal Blade made a video for their song "Sticks and Stones"






This year they made an album entitled "Dead Wrong"this year and made it available for download.

Get it here.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Dum Dum Boys - Let There Be Noise




As you can probaly tell from their name alone, New Zealand's Dum Dum Boys wore their influences on their sleeves. This '81 release was possibly the first NZ release to be more influenced by US punk than the UK stuff. The story goes that the band sold their beds and whatever else they owned and could sell to get this vinyl record released. These guys liked The Stooges a lot and there's certainly nothing at all wrong with that.

Get their noise.

Beastwars - IV

After over a year off for various reasons, we have returned solely because we wanted to review the new Beastwars album. I really w...