{"id":7857,"date":"2013-10-16T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:48:56","slug":"new-music-revue-october-16-2013-issue-greg-macpherson-band-toxic-holocaust-dave-hause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/10\/16\/new-music-revue-october-16-2013-issue-greg-macpherson-band-toxic-holocaust-dave-hause\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: October 16, 2013 issue (Greg MacPherson Band, Toxic Holocaust, Dave Hause)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg MacPherson Band
\nFireball
\n<\/i>(Disintegration Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

Talk about underrated: Greg MacPherson is easily one of Canada\u2019s greatest singer\/songwriters. Yet, the guy gets no credit. He can lay down rocking party stompers like \u201cGoes Like This\u201d next to smooth, pensive cuts like this disc\u2019s title track as if both flow smooth like a river.<\/p>\n

And while the rockers are fun (here, opener \u201c1995\u201d is catchy, moving, and a good time all at once) it\u2019s moodier cuts like \u201cNew-Jazz Trios\u201d and \u201cTourists\u201d that really paint a picture and deliver a mood.<\/p>\n

On this album, MacPherson proves he\u2019s come a long way from his first couple, which were excellent in their own way and provided a wonderful soundtrack for that period of my life. This one, unlike his last two albums, recapture that vibe of his old material (nowhere moreso than on \u201cNew-Jazz Trios\u201d), but with a newer, more energetic and positive, edge. I look forward to it being the soundtrack to the next era of my life.<\/p>\n

-Greg Pratt<\/p>\n

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Toxic Holocaust
\nChemistry of Consciousness
\n<\/i>(Relapse Records)
\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n

Forget the multitude of metal genres and consider this for what it is: pure, unadulterated heavy metal. These are the kind of necro-blasts that made the children of the grave bang their heads to classic albums by Slayer, Discharge, Motorhead, Celtic Frost, Kreator, etc.<\/p>\n

Portland\u2019s Joel Grind has been toiling away in the crusty sewers of metal sludge since 1999, when he made Toxic Holocaust his one-man band (usually the death-knell of most metal bands, Bathory notwithstanding), playing every crash, bang, and distorto-twang the band churned out, until he finally found some metal brethren to play with in 2008.<\/p>\n

This is when Toxic Holocaust really took off, Chemistry of Consciousness <\/i>being the bloody evidence that Grind needed to focus his energy on writing barn-burners like \u201cSalvation Is Waiting,\u201d \u201cOut of the Fire,\u201d and \u201cDeny the Truth,\u201d instead of being responsible for every damn instrument.<\/p>\n

As a vocalist\/guitarist, Grind sounds like a dude possessed, growling and screaming along to riffs that implode all over your brain-hole.<\/p>\n

-Jason Schreurs<\/p>\n

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Dave Hause
\nDevour
\n<\/i>(Rise Records)
\n4\/5<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame that Dave Hause\u2019s name is so closely attached to punk rock bands, as the Philadelphia guitarist\/vocalist produces astoundingly high-quality music that goes way beyond the punk rock tag. Take this, his second solo album: songs like \u201cWe Could Be Kings\u201d have a sound and, importantly, a feel that brings the listener back to the early Bruce Springsteen albums. It\u2019s a feel that great things are happening… and they are.<\/p>\n

True, any reference to \u201chulking maniacs\u201d in a song as intensely nostalgic as this album\u2019s \u201cThe Great Depression\u201d is bound to pull at the heartstrings of any wistful mid-\u201930s dude, but it\u2019s more than cheap shots at emotions at play here.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the tune \u201cBricks,\u201d and the way Hause spits out the line \u201cSan Francisco would be fine.\u201d It\u2019s not even the way he delivers the line: it\u2019s the way he delivers the word \u201cfine.\u201d The power in these details proves that, like Springsteen, Hause is creating some timeless art here.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the world listens.<\/p>\n

-Greg Pratt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greg MacPherson Band Fireball (Disintegration Records) 4\/5 Talk about underrated: Greg MacPherson is easily one of Canada\u2019s greatest singer\/songwriters. Yet, the guy gets no credit. He can lay down rocking party stompers like \u201cGoes Like This\u201d next to smooth, pensive cuts like this disc\u2019s title track as if both flow smooth like a river. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-16-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}