Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
It started with a Pledge Music campaign launched on 27th January 2016 with an album to be released on April 14th that year… Less than three months for a new Vain album! Sweet! I signed up there […]
The UK has been pumping out some of the best doom and sludge bands of the modern era lately and this latest offering from The Darkhorse titled ” The Carcass Of The Sun” is […]
British heavy metal five-piece, Synaptik from Norwich, UK recently announced the re-release of their incredibly successful debut album, ‘The Mechanisms of Consequence’ as a heavier remixed album. It contains a lot of variety with […]
Sometimes an album just feels so right… I remember when I first caught up with Derek Davis a few years back before his first solo album REVOLT and before the current resurge of interest in […]
Perth has some fine rock musicians at the moment but trying to look for a ‘rock scene’ here is a bit of a task as we get pulled all over the place by a media that […]
Germany is full of great thrash metal bands, the big Teutonic 4 of course some of the pioneers of the genre. But underground it seems culturally part of the music scene there and is […]
“The band LIONCAGE was founded in 2013 by Thorsten Bertermann (vocals), Torsten Landsberger (drums) and Lars König (guitar & mix). All three musicians had known each other for many years performing in professional tribute bands, […]
Well to be honest this one came at us out of nowhere and I’m so glad it did. Over the years there have been some great female voices in Rock and they’ve varied from those […]
Recorded in 1982, mastered for 2017: ‘Tatts:’Live in Brunswick’ is a record for those that like their Rock N Roll with no airs and graces: it’s dirty, hard, fast and real. To be honest although ‘Live […]
You always remember the great ones, like that first time you dropped the needle on ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ or ‘ZZ Top’, the very first time you heard ‘The Black Crowes’ or the time ‘Mountain’ came on […]
This has to be one of my favourite albums of the year so far: Black Diamonds, formed in 2004, are a hard rock band based in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland and if you […]
“This phenomenal debut album is a hard hitting slab of savage, bleak metal that seamlessly blends melodies and raw emotions, dark and delicious music with huge riffs and a pounding backbeat, an enticing glimpse […]
Dontcha sometimes just hate some aspects of record labels, sure they put out the goodies for us when we want them but this whole re-packaging thing should surely contain a ‘this material has been previously […]
This alternative rock release from Italian band Down The Stone is a nice little gem that kind of blends the classic rock sounds of the 80’s and 90’s with an injection of modern alternative […]
In my humble opinion THUNDER is the UK’s greatest Rock band of the 80’s and I’ve been a paid up member of the ‘Thunder Channel’ ever since I saw them supporting AEROSMITH back on the PUMP tour. […]
It’s not often I come across heavy Italian bands (Lacuna Coil being the most well known) and I don’t know why as there is no reason why great music shouldn’t be coming from the […]
UK progressive metal band Hedra have released a 5 track EP titled “Mind Dimensions” which throws down some out of the box grooves mixed with a really heavy sound that compares to many of […]
Years ago when I was a kid they used to have these comics called Marvel Team-Up that threw together two of your favourite superheroes and let the games begin. Well Frontiers records seems to have […]
Every now and again a band sneaks up on you and gives you a real surprise. JOANOVARC are one of those bands.They caught my attention completely by accident. Such was the impression they made, getting […]
Great band Armored Saint – to me they were the one band that perfectly stood astride Metal and Hard Rock and really ‘got’ both genres. Since The Rockpit’s inception there have been two albums – […]
To some of us ASIA were that band who bridged the 70’s and pointed the way forward to Rock in the 80’s . For more than a few years, quite unexpectedly for a band born […]
Best known for his own band Prophets of Addiction and his stint in 80’s Glam legends Pretty Boy Floyd Lesli Sanders latest solo release may only be 5 tracks long but it packs a punch […]
These days Pop Punk bands are about 20 for a dollar, most sound remarkably similar, write to the same formula and for every decent song produce a dozen that dissolve and vaporize as soon as […]
Every so often an album drops that you feel might just be one that will stay with you for a very long time, less frequently you hear an album that perfectly exemplifies a certain genre […]
The music world is a strange place these days with bands that aren’t bands, bands that never tour, bands that create albums living in different cities and hundreds of solo and side projects that will never […]
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