The Editors Picks: The best releases of 2020 (July-December)
13.03.21 | Alex Sievers
Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
Having a powerful opener is sometimes all you need. And few opening songs in 2020 come as powerful as ‘
Open Wound‘ kicking off
Svalbard’s third album. What is overall a familiar, expected and perhaps unadventurous record for this U.K. band still cannot hope to diminish what a solid offering it was. Following an esteemed style of melodic hardcore, shoegaze, black metal and post-metal in the same school of thought as bands like
Envy,
Oathbreaker, and
Alcest, it’s a fucking consistent listen. Generating some of their best songs to date. It’s an impassioned album that can be read as either being about feeling like death might cure one’s own mental anguish; individuals – artists, actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians, your mate down the road – getting placed upon tall golden pedestals once they shuffle off this mortal coi
Mike Patton is alt-metal s man of a thousand voices. Beyond his far-out work with Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, the singer has flexed his impressive pipes collaborating with Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, Odd Nosdam, Foetus, Björk and so many more.
He s recently added another totally rad line to his resume with his fresh take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song. Patton s rendition arrives with the gameplay trailer for
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder s Revenge, a new retro-style four-player co-op side-scrolling beat em up game developed by Tribute Games. The world is ready for more from the heroes in a half shell! wrote Patton in an Instagram post announcing his involvement.
Alice in Chains Jerry Cantrell announces first new solo album in nearly 20 years thelaseronline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelaseronline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell has confirmed that he is finished working on his third solo album, his first ful l-length solo effort since 2002.Cantrell's debut album Boggy Depot was released in 1998; In 2002, his second album Degradation Trip came out. He dedicated the record to Layne Staley, who had just died a few months prior to its release. Since the death of Staley, Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney were joined by William DuVall on vocals, and this rendition of Alice in Chains has released three albums 2009's Black Gives Way to Blue, 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and 2018's Rainier Fog.Cantrell shared news of his third solo album on Instagram, along with a photo of himself, former Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato and studio engineers Paul Fig and Joe Barresi. The photo was captioned: "Finished my record tonight one year to the day from when we started recording it," the guitarist wrote. "What a crazy journey.