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Bones UK - Soft

BONES UK – SOFT (Album Review)

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When most of what comes out of the machine these days is mundane, there are anomalies like BONES UK. Consisting of Vocalist/Rhythm Guitarist Rosie Bones and Lead Guitarist Carmen Vandenberg, as a duo, their roots were planted a decade ago, but they significantly received more ... Read More

Chaos Walking (Movie Review)

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Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star in the inter-planetary Sci-Fi event Chaos Walking, which arrives in theatres and IMAX on Friday, March 5, 2021 thanks to Lionsgate. Based on the 2008 best-selling young adult novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first in the ... Read More

Interview – Tom Shear of Assemblage 23

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Some bands use their platforms to say virtually nothing, while others allow their music to create a cycle of catharsis. Such is the case for Electro-Industrial’s Assemblage 23, the sonic guise of singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tom Shear. With over 22 years beneath his ... Read More

Assemblage 23 – Mourn (Album Review)

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EBM meets Industrial, Electro-Industrial, Futurepop. Call it what you will, but the genius behind Assemblage 23 is an absolute master of his unique craft. Beginning to build a name for himself in 1998, singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tom Shear would make his official full-length ... Read More

Boston Manor – GLUE (Album Review)

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Change has to begin somewhere and it needs to happen now! Inspired by the violent noise of our brave new world, British Rock outfit Boston Manor find themselves discussing identity, desensitization, toxic masculinity and more, on their latest, GLUE. Pure Noise Records delivers the genre-bending ... Read More

BONES UK – BONES UK (Album Review)

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Back in March 2018, Cryptic Rock sat down with BONES UK Vocalist Rosie Bones to discuss creating music with a message alongside her partner, Guitarist Carmen Vandenberg. Well, that innate need for artistic expression has finally given birth to the highly anticipated, full-length debut album, ... Read More