Send More Paramedics
The Final Feast
Independent (2021)
When Send More Paramedics announced a brief reformation to play a handful of shows celebrating 20 years of reanimation no one expected them to chuck out a brand new 9-track album but they surprised us all by doing just so. The Final Feast is their first studio album release in 15 years, the last being The Awakening (2006). Listening to this new release you would not think that much time had elapsed between the two as it is the perfect follow-up. Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered in July/August 2021 at the Stationhouse Studio in Leeds, UK by James Atkinson (Voorhees/Gentlemens Pistols). The Final Feast showcases Send More Paramedics blend of thrash/punk with their signature '80s zombie, B-movie theme in perfect style, much like their previous offerings. Sporting distinctive, catchy intros into the fast-paced thrashing of "Mortify", "She Lives" and "Splatterpunk" which portray the visceral rage of the infected to "Malfacteur", told from the zombie's point of view with a catchy signature riff becoming momentarily bilingual as vocalist B'Hellmouth spits out some French! "Totenkopf" is one of their more anthemic sing-along tracks (which became the single from the album and was the first track most of us heard). Based on Jesus … Read more
Robby Krieger
Set the Night on Fire: Lying, Dying and Playing Guitar with The Doors
Hachette Publishing (2021)
Within the canon of American countercultural rock bands of the 1960s, there is hardly one that stands out more than … Read more
Light Field Reverie
Another World
Avantgarde Music (2020)
I’m always on the prowl for dreamy music, especially metal. It’s harder to find things that fit that descriptor in … Read more
