Category: The Wrock Wreview
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The Wrock Wreview: Muggles Ahoy
The Album Avast and ahoy, ye landlubbers! Today ye get a real treat from Daniel Kelly, a singer/songwriter/filker from Yass, Australia. We recently discovered Daniel’s music when he started releasing one wizard rock shanty at a time, and we fell in love with this incredible folk singer! I am very pleased to be reviewing Muggles…
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The Wrock Wreview: A Tale We’ll Tell Of What Hath Been…
The Album Los Angeles wizard rock band Slytherin released this seven song album on July 9, 2020. Slytherin combines a wide variety of sounds in their music, from screaming vocals to soothing keyboard melodies, which makes this band unique among the wizard rock world. A Tale We’ll Tell Of What Hath Been… is Slytherin’s first…
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The Wrock Wreview: Unicorn Blood
The Album Album cover designed by Stacy Sunsleeper Unicorn Blood, a six song EP by Josh Slunk, was released on August 1, 2020. As of writing this review, Josh has thirty EPs on his bandcamp page and twenty-nine of those came out in 2020. Talk about prolific! This incredible artist specializes in metal instrumental music,…
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The Wrock Wreview: I Ate My Frog (Again)
The Album Happy Saturday y’all! Let’s fly across the pond today to visit France! This EP by French wrock band The Basilisk in Your Pasta was originally released as part of the 2008 Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club on November 1st of that year. It was rereleased on September 4, 2020. I am…
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The Wrock Wreview: guides not gatekeepers
The Album Hello and happy Saturday! I’d like to start the weekend off by reviewing this five song EP by Ariel Factor Birdoff (also known as Madam Pince and the Librarians) called “guides not gatekeepers.” Written during quarantine, this EP was released on January 11, 2021. I personally love Ariel’s songs, so I’m very excited…
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The Wrock Wreview: A Change is Gonna Come
The Album One of my all-time favorite wizard rock bands, Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls, has a side project called Edgar and the Family Bones. Originally released on December 29, 2007, A Change is Gonna Come includes two songs that were released in 2006 and 2007 and two instrumental pieces that were never released. It…
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The Wrock Wreview: What Is Right And What Is Easy
The Album Did you know that the wizard rock band Split Seven Ways has a side project called Malfoy Manor? I wasn’t aware of that fact until I wrote this review! Originally released January 1, 2008, What Is Right And What Is Easy was reissued on Bandcamp on September 21, 2020. This was Malfoy Manor’s…
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The Wrock Wreview: WZRD
The Album Album cover designed by Nixie Pixie. Today we are transported into the magical realm of wizard rock radio to tune in to a very special album by Ashley Hamel called WZRD. This incredible witch intersperses radio talk show conversation into the album, which is otherwise full of songs from the wizarding world. The…
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The Wrock Wreview: A Very Merry Bagmas 1-3
The Albums Today we’re going to review three wizard rock albums! Why? Because they’re all by the same artist, and they’re all Christmas-themed! Plus, this will be the last Christmas wizard rock album that I’ll be reviewing until December. These three wonderful Bagmas albums come to us from Ludo Bagman and the Trash. Ludo is a…
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The Wrock Wreview: Voldis knorke XMESS Banger
The Album Album cover designed by Benjamin Kantschieder. Happy New Year everyone! We’re going to kick off 2021 with a little “Xmess” spirit. Voldi & the Morts released this album on December 24, 2020. This two-person wrock band comes to us all the way from Vienna, Austria, with Anne Thyr in charge of lyrics and…