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Picture Credit: Claudio Bergamin   Poor Little Things - Deal Breaker Release Date: September 30, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 32:27 Genre: Heavy Rock / Glam Rock Origin: Brisbane ,  Australia "Deal Breaker" is the second full-length by Australian Retro Rock duo Poor Little Things. Band members Tina and  Dave  invite us on a sonic time travel to the Golden Era of Hard and Heavy Rock. The album transfers us to a time when there were no mobile phones, no social media shit storms, and no autotune vocals. Instead, "Deal Breaker" tastes like petrol-driven cars, telephone booths, cold beer, and sweet freedom. Retro fans, turn up the volume! If you loved "Stranger Things" for its soundtrack, Poor Little Things' sophomore album will please you, too. The recipe for these ten songs is simple but successful. Dynamic Hard Rock riffs roll forward like the wheels of a pickup truck on the highway, glammy motifs provide extra catchiness, and Tina Ja...

Picture Credit: Bare Beets   Bare Beets - I Bet Release Date: September 24, 2021 Length: 02:49 Genre: Alternative Rock / Post-Grunge Origin: Brisbane / Sunshine Coast , Australia There are those magical moments when you see that something is about to fail. And then there are those even more special occasions when you immediately realize that this mistake is going to happen again. The lastest single 'I bet' by Bare Beets deals with this exact phenomenon. Bare Beets, by the way, are a real family band like Berlin's Die Scholtys . Bare Beets · I Bet On the selftitled debut EP which was released earlier this year, Bare Beets joyfully mixed Rock, Pop, and Electronica. The latest single though goes in a slightly different direction (although the opening contains strong Dream Pop vibes). Inspired by the Foo Fighters, the Australian band has hereby created a moving Alternative Rock anthem that embraces the Millenium era Post Grunge sound. Boppy, dynamic, and yet gloomy the atmo...

Picture Credit: Darklore Darklore - The Evil of Man Release Date: January 29, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 70:07 Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Folk Metal Origin: Brisbane , Australia Fans of fantasy fiction, listen up! Brisbane's Sarklore might have came out with the album you all were longing for. "The Evil of Man" is a folky and melodic journey through some of the most famous places in fantasy narratives. Thus, the band pledges their oath to Saruman  in the song 'The White Hand' and concerns the major form of communication among the seven kingdoms in "The Ravens Return". Fitting the fantasy-themed narratives, the music is very melodic and atmospheric. Darklore play an epic version of Melodic Black Metal with a certain Death Metal input and an omnipresent Nordic Folk theme. You might categorize the music on "The Evil of Man" somewhere between Katamenia, Amon Amarth, Falkenbach, SuidakrA, and Ensiferum. Lyric-wise, the a...