All customer reviews by Andy L.
Posted on: 13 Jan 2020
Really thin
These are really thin, and pretty poor quality. I've had better quality mousepads given away free. If this is half as thick as a traditional mousepad, that's the maximum. It feels like less. When I first picked it up out of the box (it comes in its own sealed bag), I thought the mousepad itself was missing and all that was in there was some cardboard stiffening.
Posted on: 3 Jul 2017
Nice material, but the sizing warning is nonsense
Maybe they've changed the sizing since this first came out, but this absolutely does NOT come up larger than normal. I'm normally a medium, but like hoodies to be a little baggie, so normally buy a large. In this, I bought the medium, and it's tight.
The material nice quality and lightweight, which is good. Zip is poor quality though.
Posted on: 27 Mar 2017
By far the worst quality hoodie I've ever owned
By far the worst quality hoodie I've ever owned. Material is thin, rough, and very obviously of cheap quality (it's a Fruit of The Loom product, and when are they ever any good? - note how the tag has been cut out of the one pictured above). Genuinely wouldn't want to rely on this to keep me warm in July, let alone the winter. Given that most AC/DC merch carries a premium price, this is far from the quality of product I expect them to approve.
Posted on: 12 Sep 2014
Well worth adding to the Clash of The Gods album
Another year, another Grave Digger release. This time a precursor EP to a new album, as has become their tradition for the last six or so years, and probably their best value one of its kind to date, boasting no less than five exclusive tracks. The title track itself, taken from the forthcoming new album Clash of The Gods, is fairly generic. A borrowed Saxon riff under one of Chris Boltendahl's harshest vocals gives way to a chorus which could have come from any number of past Grave Digger songs. Fortunately it's the least important track to fans since they'll likely buy the new album anyway, so what makes this EP very good value, and immediately attractive to any Grave Digger fan, are the two non-album b-sides, and three additional live tracks from the last tour. Both of the bonus tracks, Rage of The Savage Beast and the anthemic Metal Will Never Die, are better than the lead track in terms of riffs (particularly the latter) and vocals alike, and the addition of excellent recordings of the neatly career spanning trio of live tracks from early (Heavy Metal Breakdown), to middle (Excalibur), to recent (Ballad of The Hangman) only sweetens the deal. This EP is well worth getting in addition to the album.
Posted on: 12 Sep 2014
Solid solo effort, not quite Hatebreed, not quite Kingdom of Sorrow
The first solo album from Jamey Jasta is as heavy as his other work without being as in-your-face aggressive as Hatebreed or as doomy as Kingdom of Sorrow. Out of the twelve tracks, half are outright solo efforts and half feature a guest either on vocals or on guitar. The guests are saved for the second half of the disc, and perhaps unsurprisingly the most aggressive tracks are Enslaved, Dead Or Depraved, which features Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe and With A Resounding Voice with As I Lay Dying front-man Tim Lambesis. Elsewhere guitarist Zakk Wylde stamps his trademark sound all over The Fearless Must Endure, All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte shares duties on a melodic alt-metal Something You Should Know, professional skateboarder Mike Vallely gives away his lack of singing ability as he shouts over the choruses to two-minuter Heart of A Warrior, and Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton provides the tasty leads for Death Bestowed. In terms of highlights, it's actually the purely solo offerings which shine the brightest. The early Killswitch Engage of excellent Mourn The Illusion, balls out Walk That Path Alone, leading light Nothing They Say and crushingly heavy groover Anthem of A Freedom Fighter serve to make the first album of the album much better than the second, and the second half is no slouch.
Posted on: 12 Sep 2014
The best Eric Wagner album in decades
Blackfinger is the new band from Eric Wagner, former singer in Trouble, and in a sense it's the natural progression from their Unplugged album, Wagner's last studio contribution to the band, in that it's all genuinely sombre songs, instead of creating "doom" by simply playing slowly and down-tuned. There are of course plenty of riff-driven songs, particularly Here Comes The Rain, Yellowwood, and the brilliant Why God, but the focus isn't pure heaviness, it's on quality songwriting and although these songs are serious and suitably doomy, they're still catchy and memorable. The real brilliance of the album though is in the mellower songs, and the song which build up from soft to hard and back down again, like superb opener I Am Jon. It's these songs which bridge the gap between the purely acoustic tracks on Unplugged, and the heavier ones here, mostly based around clean guitars and upright bass, with a lot of additional instrumentation layered on, including strings and piano accenting tracks like As Long I'm With You and Keep Falling Down. Blackfinger is one of the most mature and intelligent doom metal albums to be released in recent years, and is an album genuinely befitting the stature of Eric Wagner.
Posted on: 12 Sep 2014
Great start for new fans, nothing new for older ones
Trepalium have been around for some time now, but have found it very difficult to break out of their native France, and that seems to mostly be because they've hit a roadblock, while contemporaries Gojira have gone from strength to strength. H.N.P. sounds very much like a re-tread of the excellent Alchemik Clockwork Of Disorder (2006) and XIII (2009) albums, but without the interesting jazz-metal explorations. (A)I Was(s) is an attempt to recreate YouTube hit Sick Boogie Murder, Insane Architect is Glowing Cloud, and so on. Even the faithful cover of Pantera's I'm Broken isn't very interesting when it appears at the end, though it is note-perfect and would have been an enjoyable ending had the rest of the album not sounded so tired. For anyone new to Trepalium, maybe those who got to see them on tour opening for Gojira recently, the similarities to older material won't be apparent, and H.N.P. is classic Trepalium in that sense, so it would be a good place to start, but for older fans there's not much new here.