I first caught Pop Evil at the Rocklahoma Festival in 2011 and quickly checked out the back catalogue – 2008’s ‘Lipstick on the Mirror’, and follow-up, ‘War of Angels’ which really brought global attention. 2013’s […]
21 years is a long time between drinks, and UK-industrial metal pioneers Kill II This return in 2024 with a full length entitled ‘Variant’. When you consider that the band originally lasted 8 years and […]
Welcome to the 8424 Tour… 40 years of The Cult. Sometimes it seems like forever, but when that old friend returns you always greet them with open arms. The Cult is back in Australia for […]
Is Danny Rascal New Zealand’s best kept secret? This collection set of material collected over thirty plus years suggests he may well be. And rather than attempt to ease you in gently, it’s foot to […]
I first saw the Tea Party way back in 1993 and incredible 31 years ago and don’t think I missed a tour yet, so to have them back again after what seems like an age […]
Opening with a kick-ass rocker Sebastian, I guess, is hoping that his new record will surpass the wonderful new Skid Row record featuring Erik Gronwell on vocals. I mean I can think of few ex-singers […]
Tonight is a celebration of all things 80’s and all things electronic at a packed out Astor Theatre that hosts Human League’s last two sold out nights of their almost completely sold out 2024 Dare […]
BACK TO THE TOP OF THE SLIDE… Hardcore Superstar never fails to entertain, and with an opening ‘Cutting the Slack’ that sounds either like The Doors or The Stranglers in carnival mode (depending on your […]
The second concert I ever went to was Tina Turner. At that point in her career February 24th 1984 at The Haven Theatre in Boston U.K. she was on the verge of a huge […]
The press release tells just part of the story – Living Colour’s radio hit, ‘Cult of Personality’ was the record that made Shawn want to learn guitar. That in turn led to a plethora […]
The press release reads: “ON TIME is the first solo album composed and written by Claude Gaudefroy aka GODO, with the exceptional participation of several prestigious international musicians, including Craig Blundell, (Steven Wilson) Adam […]
Sometimes you get to look back over your shoulder to years gone by when you review albums. Often that’s when a band hones in on a particular style but occasionally it comes when bands […]
Studying Latin at school I always used ‘Tempus Fugit’ to translate the common saying “Time flies.” Fugit (to flee or escape or fly) always seemed a better verb than Volo (or Volat in the third […]
Spanish Death Metal – who’d have thought it? Not only that this is Bloodhunter’s third release, and comes after a gap of five years with a few changes in personnel since 2017’s ‘The End […]
Three albums in Carbon Black has really hit their stride and with mixing by the inimitable Kevin Shirley and a guest spot by Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens there ‘s more than a few bells and whistles […]
My editor has been telling me for years that Myke Gray who played guitar and wrote for Skin, Jagged Edge and Red, White & Blues has wrote some of the best songs of the period. […]
OK so here we have it – Inglorious’ twist on the cover album – a band with a great male vocalist taking on songs made famous by women. OK fair enough concept but how […]
Apologies for the late review, mid pandemic I changed States and managed to get locked down in Melbourne leaving a pile of review material somewhere when I returned to NSW I completely forgot about […]
Based in Vancouver, BC Alice Hardy formed in 2016. With a few riffs and a smelter of influences, forging a sound and style of hard rock that is new, yet familiar. Made up of […]
I generally find instrumental albums pretty boring and music without words for me has always been something that I leave for the movies. Melbourne’s Joe Matera though might just have something here – an […]
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 […]
I don’t know about you but I get a little worried when you read a bio that name-checks some of the biggest bands in rock, refers to the ‘legenday‘ (their spelling not mine) Paul Stanley […]
It’s taken almost two decades for Sydney’s Enter 6 to release this second studio album and it’s one that has me firmly sat on the fence here. The production is awful for a start, the […]
Modern Rock with a late 90’s flavour to it is what you get in these 11 tracks from Cinder that make up ‘The Machine.’ So logically if you like the sort of Rock that is […]
This is interesting I loved Bad Flowers a band that stormed onto the scene in early 2018 with ‘Staring Gun’ of which I said “(this is a) band that has a real Blues-Rock edge […]
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