Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
I don’t think I’ve been this impressed by a debut album since The Darkness ‘Permission To Land’, The Struts ‘Everybody Wants’ or even The Strokes ‘Is This It’. Three very different albums of course, […]
Thundermother return with a resurgence. The band are back with a new album, complete with a new line-up. Founder and guitarist Fillippa Nassil decided to have a reformation of the original line up in […]
Music has an amazing power to bring back so many wonderful memories. When I was growing up, I have early recollections of my Dad playing rock n’ roll tunes on long car journeys and […]
If you want an eclectic listen then add Chip & The Charge Ups to your listening list, with a release date smack bang in the middle of the pandemic their latest full length offering ‘Lightning […]
Jeremy Harry Harris, the voice of Perth Rock band ‘Stone Circle’ is back after a lengthy absence with an album that you can feel the love coming off of it. It’s 14 tracks of music […]
UK veteran thrashers Onslaught are back with a new album titled “Generation Antichrist” and it’s a huge welcome back as the band come back stronger as ever. It’s been some time since their last […]
Norfolk’s Bad Touch’s highly anticipated fourth studio album “Kiss The Sky” was recorded, produced and mixed by Nick Brine at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wale and mastered by Pete Maher. If you’re […]
Promising songs with an organic, visceral and striking sound with amazing riffs, ripped vocals and a violent sound of drums and bass, Brazil’s HellgardeN make no qualms in being all about metal at it’s […]
May 8th 2020 saw the release of one of my favourite albums of the year – Orange County’s Robert Jon & The Wreck’s ‘Last Light On The Highway’ – an album which is all […]
Opening with the classic harmonica and steam train intro of ‘Train, Train’ originally recorded by Blackfoot you can’t go far wrong. Its a classic song already writ large in every Southern Rock fan’s memory […]
A new album by my favourite East Coast rockers The Erotics is always welcome, doubly so in times like these when music is one of our great comforts despite not being able to catch […]
I’m not sure what genre you would label this EP with, would you call it Dark Metal? It’s hard to pigeonhole, though it does certainly have Gothic and Industrial undertones and Metalcore-like vocals- Death […]
When a band release their fifth studio album you expect to hear a well known sound and a honed repertoire that fans desire, so when Caligula’s Horse explained that they wanted a different approach […]
Full disclosure here: I like The Runaways. I’ve liked them since around 1984 or so. Have the debut, and a couple digital things I acquired through nefarious means once upon a time. But, I […]
Where, oh where do I start with this album? The fact I had to go back and check it is a debut album? The point of realisation that these guys have already played the […]
If like me you love a dose of Southern Rock and rate Black Stone Cherry as one of the best bands around then cast your eyes towards Wales! Yes Wales, home of The Stereophonics […]
It’s been 12 years since Warbringer crushed metal fans with their debut album and here in 2020 we are presented with their sixth studio album titled “Weapons Of Tomorrow”. After their massive return with […]
Detroit’s Artificial Angel have produced a nice Modern Hard Rock album here. Actually make that ‘very good’ and it’s one that sweetens the more you listen to it. They’ve also done something not too […]
It’s been a long time since we heard of Sven Gali, the Canadian rock band whose debut went gold in Canada before they changed their sound to chase the Grunge revolution and lost their […]
Hollowed Sky released their eponymous debut back in 2018 and now they’re back with five more songs for devotees of their Alt-Rock sound but this time there’s more than the Alt-Rock musings of ‘Live’ and […]
Heavy Pettin’ was one of the very first Rock bands I saw live when they and Canada’s Helix supported Kiss at Stafford Bingley Hall many moons ago. I remember being so impressed I splurged […]
If you like your symphonic rock and metal and let’s face it who doesn’t on occasion even if you tend to inhabit other genres there’s something rather impressive about that style of music when it […]
Adelaide’s Sonic Divide have a Melodic Modern Rock sound that at first listen isn’t a million miles away from Nickelback… there I’ve said it… That of course though is only part of the equation […]
If you like your rock n’ roll stripped back to basics and raw & rowdy, then look no further than the debut self-titled EP from Melbourne’s Rockin’ Volts. The four-piece band have put together […]
Black Trillium are a dark & deeply creative death/doom metal act from Sydney that have been brewing up raw, emotive and incredibly dynamic sonic offerings since 2010. While it’s been a while since we’ve […]
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