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Kingbathmat – Overcoming the Monster – 2013 – Review by Brad Birzer
Kingbathmat – Overcoming the Monster – 2013 – Review by Brad Birzer
Amen, amen, amen. New Album “Arcade Messiah” Incoming Hi, everybody, I have a new album coming out next month, called Arcade Messiah. After the last years KingBathmat album and this years acoustic solo John Bassett album “Unearth”, I decided I wanted to make an instrumental album that was quite heavy, bleak, full of riffs and that …
A note this morning from the mighty John, regarding the forthcoming acoustic album. Enjoy. *** “Parasomnia Acoustic Looping Version” Heres a 7 minute live acoustic version of “Parasomnia” from “Overcoming The Monster”, first time out using a Looping Pedal. The John Bassett acoustic album is nearly finished musically, just the album artwork and the …
Tomorrow (or, for those of you not in the western hemisphere, today), Kingbathmat releases its seventh album, OVERCOMING THE MONSTER. Reviewing CDs has its privileges (many, actually), and one of the best is the early arrival of review copies. I don’t want to sound like a gnostic in some mystery cult, but there is something …
Continue reading Slaying Evil: Kingbathmat Overcomes the Monster
Enjoy this brand new video from Kingbathmat. Excellent graphics, and the song has a wonderful hard, prog sound.
Just as we started progarchy last fall, I received a note from Chris of Stereohead Records in the U.K. asking me if we’d be interested in reviewing a cd by a band named, amazingly enough, Kingbathmat. Well, of course, we would. Who could resist checking out a band with such a name? These guys MUST …
Continue reading Riffing with Perseus: Kingbathmat Challenges the Gorgon
Sometimes a band comes along that defies categorisation. KBm are such an animal. From the first listen the album aroused my curiosity and I strived in vain to ‘place’ it in my comfortable world of musical genres. That I failed to do so after repeated attempts is a testament to the diversity within Truth Button. …
“Live From The Byre” New John Bassett EP is released today! You can hear it/get it now at https://johnbassett.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-the-byre Its a 4 track EP, recorded in a derelict byre (cowshed) in County Sligo Ireland. It was recorded in one take using 3 microphones, 1 for vocals, 1 for guitar and 1 for ambient sounds such as the …
ALBUM PREMIERE: Arcade Messiah dish out a dose of instrumental perfection with “III” http://thesludgelord.blogspot.ie/2016/11/album-premiere-arcade-messiah-dish-out.html Sludglord Blog are exclusively premiering the Full Album Stream of Arcade Messiah ahead of tomorrows release date, Arcade Messiah III is released on November 25th Arcade Messiah III Album Preorder – https://arcademessiah.bandcamp.com/album/iii John Bassett the singer, songwriter and producer of UK Progressive Metal Band KingBathmat) has …
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