Nite Songs

  30.     RISKEE & THE RIDICULE - "Platinum Statue" Grime-punks Riskee & The Ridicule continue to be one of the most fierce and uncompromising bands in Britain on their second album. Bristling with righteous anger,  Platinum Statue  is a viciously desolate howl of frustration on behalf of the youth of today which urges the downtrodden to pick up a pitchfork and take aim at those running this country into the ground before it's too late over a none-more-tight musical backing. Essential listening. *** 29.     THE MISTAKES - "A Good Hill To Die On" Hailing from Dorset, this is the fourth album by thrash-punks the Mistakes and sees them barging forward to take their place as one of the most promising bands of the genre today. Tipping its hat to Motorhead and GBH in its sound and with a lorryload of pent up anger about the state of the country in 2023, the likes of Chaos Theory , I Savage  and the title track are fine stuff indeed. Go and check...

  The name here might be a bit of a giveaway but Green Lung are a stoner rock band with their eyes firmly set on the '70s. I think it's fair to say that these guys may just have a very well worn copy of Sabbath's Master of Reality  and an Iron Butterfly best of in their record collection somewhere. Now I know in the past we've firmly set our stall out against the NWOCR "keep rock music trad" dullards in this here 'zine on numerous occasions but while there's been plenty of pound shop Led Zep impersonators muddying these particular waters, the heavier Sabbath influenced end of the genre is a bit less heavily populated and to be fair, Green Lung do a decent job of putting a 21st century spin on the thing. The concrete heavy riffs and Ozzy influenced vocals over the usual lyrical subjects of doom, gloom and destruction ( Reaper's Scythe , Graveyard Sun , Doomsayer , you know how it goes) might not be anything you’ve heard before but at least these guy...