Reissue! Best known because of lead singer Feargal Sharkey's solo career and the O'Neill brothers later stint as That Petrol Emotion, Ireland's the Undertones fashioned smart power pop and punk sides during the music's late '70s and early '80s heyday. While not in the Undertones' classic Ramones-go-pop mold, The Sin of Pride does find them grafting the bounce of Motown and layers of sound to their lithe and cerebral brand of punk. To help with the expanded program, the group have included trumpet, saxopho...   [ read more ]

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Like the other volumes in Sanctuary Records' ambitious reissue project of the Undertones catalog, their final recording, The Sin of Pride from 1983, gets the deluxe treatment -- not only is the sound better than the Rykodisc reissues of the mid-'90s, but the liner notes feature quotes from John O'Neill, the band's principal songwriter, and tell the story of the band's dissolution. To ice the cake there are four more bonus tracks than the earlier reissues, giving a much more complete feel of ...   [ read more ]

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Just in case you happened to lose count, Nocturnal Rites helpfully named the eighth album of their near-two-decade career The 8th Sin, as if their resilience over so many years and releases were a true badge of a honor, defying any less faithful, enduring, or fair-weather power metal bands out there. More importantly, they put their money where their pride is by delivering one of their best sets of economical power metal yet. Heck, perfectly coiffed singles like "Call out to the World," {&"N...   [ read more ]

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