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ALBUM REVIEW: Madam X – Montrocity

4 March 2018 Corey Hodgetts

I remember a day in 1984 when i was just 13 years old and catching a bus to the city to hang out at a Heavy Metal music shop called Twilight Records in Perth. This […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Between The Buried And Me – Automata I

3 March 2018 Andrew Massie

Between The Buried And Me return with not only a new release but a new concept as well. “Automata” is the first double album for the progressive metal act and once again challenges the […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Machine Head – Catharsis

26 February 2018 Andrew Massie

It’s the new Machine Head album “Catharsis” and boy has it caused quite a stir in the metal community worldwide. Reviews and fan feedback coming through were bitingly harsh and negative with only a […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Medusa’s Gaze – Rise Of The Gorgon

26 February 2018 Andrew Massie

Metal comes from far and wide and even in Aussie towns like Bunbury where the metal community is small, it’s also passionate and occassionally breeds some quality music. Medusa’s Gaze are one such act […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Sword – Used Future

25 February 2018 Andrew Massie

The sixth studio album from The Sword titled “Used Future” has come upon us in 2018 and given the huge departure in sound on their last release “High Country” in 2015, it should come […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Falling Through April – Zodiac

23 February 2018 Cherri Bird

FALLING THROUGH APRIL hails from Charlotte, NC. The 4 founders found each other while playing in different bands that were a part of the Charlotte indie rock scene. The band members came to music […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Stone Cherry – Family Tree

22 February 2018 Mark Diggins

Black Stone Cherry have always been a force to reckon with, but their last album ‘Kentucky’, still barely a year old, was the album for me where it all came together perfectly. Going back to […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Lycanthrope – Chapters

16 February 2018 Xavier Slaughter

Newcastle metalcore band Lycanthrope release their debut album, Chapters, after working on it for two years. This six-piece band consisting of three guitarists are out to show us that they’re not fooling around, from […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Earthless – Black Heaven

14 February 2018 Andrew Massie

After almost 5 years since the epic “From The Ages” came out in 2013, psych rockers Earthless are back with a new album “Black Heaven” which upon first listen is going to ruffle a […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Legend Of The Seagullmen – [self-titled]

8 February 2018 Steve Monaghan

Legend Of the Seagullmen is a strange beast but in a good way to a point and when it comes to writing this review I’m hesitant to write the word “Super Group” because in […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Little Caesar – Eight

25 January 2018 Mark Diggins

From the first strains of opening track ‘Again’ (as in “wish I was 21 again”) you know you’re in safe hands on Little Caesar’s eighth record, their first in 6 years and their debut for […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Marco Mendoza – Viva La Rock

23 January 2018 Mark Diggins

I can’t even remember the first time I heard the name Marco Mendoza, but over the years I’ve followed his career with various bands, interviewed and met him a few times, and for someone so […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Mississippi Stomp – Shine (EP)

23 January 2018 Mark Diggins

After a great Country Blues soaked debut a couple of years back the second album by Mississippi Stomp takes a more traditional Rock ‘n’ Roll approach to what are essentially a rather lean and lusty […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Sugarcane – Minded For the Radio

21 January 2018 Mark Diggins

There’s an almost cowboy rock phrasing to the vocal on opener and first single ‘Let the Love Begin’ a song that immediately belies Danish rockers Sugarcane’s influences and modern arena rock stylings. ‘Forever Tomorrow’ that […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Ty Tabor – Alien Beans

20 January 2018 Mark Diggins

This is a great release. Even if like me Kings X wasn’t that much of an important band to you back in the day there were elements of the band I always enjoyed – primarily […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Gang – The Gang

20 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Remember when Rock was simpler and all we wanted was a band to get us to move, a band to get lost in, a band that was additive and genre free? Well this is Slovakia […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Jono – Life

19 January 2018 Leslie Phillips

Sometimes you read the description of an album that isn’t exactly your standard fare and your mind prompts you that there is a rather good chance of it all ending up rather badly. Sadly those […]

ALBUM REVIEW: ODCULT – Into the Earth

18 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Fuck I love this album! When you strip everything away and just get back to basics – to bare rock and metal you’d end up with a band like the oddly-named Odcult. Big riffs, great […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Wayward Sons – Ghosts of Yet to Come

17 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Everyone will remember the Little Angels – the Toby Jepson fronted band from the mid 80’s and whist various members of the band forged on musically after the split it took Jespon until the new […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Jamie Porter Band – Sonic Smile

16 January 2018 Leslie Phillips

If you like your Rock to sport the sheen of Blues and Country then this might be worth a listen. Opener ‘A Girl Like You’ is kinda subdued and laid back but with a thick […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Worry Blast – .44

15 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Opening up album number 3 with ‘Outta Nowhere’ there’s no fear that Worry Bast has toned down their worship at the dirty bluesy altar of AC/DC,and just to be sure ‘Dirty Mind’ pokes you right […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Magnum – Lost On The Road To Eternity

14 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Magnum is a particularly English institution, they are a band that could really only have come from that green a pleasant land but to try and decipher their appeal is rather moot. There’s melody, great […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Saxon – Thunderbolt

12 January 2018 Mark Diggins

Saxon was one of those bands I felt like I was seeing a few times every year as a kid, and they along with Motorhead, Maiden, UFO and bands like Hawkwind and Def Leppard made […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Joe Satriani – What Happens Next

12 January 2018 Mark Diggins

It’s hard to believe this is Joe Satriani’s 16th solo album and even harder to believe that the great man can still conjure up new soundscapes and experiences seemingly at will that can both retain […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Rick Springfield – The Snake King

11 January 2018 Mark Diggins

The one and only time I ever caught Rick Springfield live was a few years back now in 2013 at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, it was a great show and one of the things […]