Tiberius Archives - NO CLEAN SINGING

(Andy Synn presents three more varied examples of shining British steel)

So here’s the thing… I almost didn’t manage to get this column written and published this week.

Not, I need to state, due to any issues with my motivation or time management, but because a particular album that I’d eagerly been looking forward to turned out to be incredibly mediocre and overhyped (here’s a tip: if you’re going to try and sell something as a progressive piece of cross-genre pollination it’s probably a good idea to not just deliver a bunch of interchangeable Nu-Metalcore tracks that quickly go in one ear and out the other) leaving me with a gaping whole in my usual three album format.

Thankfully it turned out Leeds-based Tech-Death types Pravitas also just put out their debut album, and so have ended up slotting into this article quite nicely, not only saving the day but also giving me another promising new band to talk about.

Speaking of which…

OHHMS

(Andy Synn wrote this trio of reviews, covering just-releqsed albums by bands from his home country.)

This edition of “The Best of British” – my long-running column where I take a look at some of the best-kept secrets and flawed-but-fascinating gems coming out of the UK underground – is a particularly timely one… or, at least it was meant to be, since it was originally intended to be published on Friday last week, the same day that all three of these bands released their new albums.

Sadly the twin pressures of my day job (which remains reliably, sometimes excessively, busy) and some important band business (which I’ll hopefully be able to talk more about soon) meant that I didn’t manage to get the column fully finished until far too late in the day, at which point our beloved leader convinced me that we’d be better off waiting until Monday (i.e., today) instead.

So, here we are, better late than never, with three new albums straight from the bountiful bosom of the British music scene. Continue reading »

BEST OF BRITISH: PRAVITAS / TELEPATHY / TIBERIUS

BEST OF BRITISH: OHHMS / TIBERIUS / WREN