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There’s a huge magical slow groove to opener ‘Hey Mama’ the duet with Oni Logan (of Lynch Mob fame): it’s a song cut from ancient bluesy cloth but with a vibrancy and refrain that is […]
The Amorettes are first and foremost a classic hard rock band from Scotland with a solid, pounding and hard-driving rhythm section, and a guitar-thrashing lead singer with a ballsy delivery and a great vocal range. […]
Exploding out of the UK comes this hard hitting melodic rock act named Fire Red Empress who released their debut album late last year. We finally got our hands on the new tracks to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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