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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 […]
Opening with the rather odd ‘The Last Bell Ringing’ on which a sparse backing track accompanies a foreboding lyric, sung seemingly through clenched teeth by David Moran doing his best ‘Tom Waits’ and mouthing what […]
Three albums in Lionville has found a home with Frontiers Records and released what is probably their best album to date. Mixing Melodic Rock with AOR and a laconic take on Westcoast they draw on […]
Black Star Riders will be known to most as the band that was formed by the current day line-up of Thin Lizzy in December 2012 as a vehicle for new music. Since making that decision they have […]
Over 35 years in the business and thrash legends Overkill show absolutely no signs of wear and tear with the fittingly titled “The Grinding Wheel” referencing the longevity of Overkill. In a world where […]
Formed in Ohio as LOVE AND WAR in 1991 and despite some minor successes, the newly reformed/reborn APOCALYPTIC LOVERS missed out on the brass ring of mega musical success the first time around. Now geographically […]
A new name to some, Shallow Side already sounds like a band that many will be sitting up and taking notice of in the near future. IF, that is they can get the balance right. […]
Southern Drinkstruction are from Rome, Italy and this is the ultimate Death ‘n’ Roll machine, a pavement pizza straight in your face! Drink, Fight & Fuck!!! (Featuring members of Corpsefucking Art) After reading that […]
Oxford, UK progressive metal band Perception have released a new EP titled “Collapse” which combines elements of prog, metalcore and some neat groove based heavy riffs and drum patterns. I’m not a fan of […]
DESPITE features three guitarists, each playing on eight-stringed instruments tuned a full octave below standard guitar tuning which makes for a brutally heavy sound which is pretty apparent on this crushing album titled “Synergi”. […]
Recorded with legendary Chicago engineer Steve Albini, The Incessant is a bracing, emotional punk record that confronts taking responsibility for your actions with dark humour and self-deprecation. It draws major influence from The Breeders, Hot Snakes, and […]
If ever there was a band whose story was going to jump right off the page larger than life, especially with last year’s latest twist in the tale, it would have to be the Gunners. […]
There’s a lot of albums out by ‘former lead singers of 80’s bands’ recently – the latest comes from ex-Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy. Indeed ‘SMASH’ hits the shelves just weeks after the latest talk of […]
A vocal middle ground between Matthew Bellamy of MUSE and Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, Modern Ruin by Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes is a tenacious record, with deep descending fuzz on the […]
Aaron Keylock of course will have been on many people’s radars since he started appearing in the music press even before Metal Hammer hailed him as “shredding like Gary Moore” at the tender age of […]
Australian metal destroyers Aversions Crown will release their sophomore release entitled ‘Xenocide’ on January 20th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. We take a look at the album to see if it matches up with their previous […]
After completing a successful tour with ILL NINO, as part of their ’15 Years of Revolution’ Anniversary Tour in U.S.A., VTT released a new full length album, ‘The Sun Shining Cold’ which was produced by […]
Coming Home It’s Not How We Do It Spring Would I Lie To You Rust And Dust Leaving One Day Time And Place What More Can I Say Why Even Worry At All Maybe […]
So, while Great White, who split from Jack back in 2010, managed to get their ‘debut Jackless’ album out (the rather decent ‘Elation’) back in 2012, we’ve not really heard a long-form reply from Jack till […]
There may well be a preponderance of bands with the word Black in their name but for every ‘Sabbath’; ‘Stone Cherry’ or ‘Crowes’ there are thousands of others you will never have heard of, […]
The first things that strike you about Brain Wilson’s aided autobiography are the subtitle ‘The genius behind the Beach Boys’ and the ‘voice’ that greets you from almost page one. It’s a voice that has […]
Kreator have been consistently solid in their over 30 plus years as a band. It can be easy to relax and be comfortable in that kind of consistency and just coast through on the […]
After the wonderful ‘Crash Course’ (2007) and ‘Raising the Stakes’ (2009) New Generation Superstars were one of the most vibrant and most likely to succeed Rock bands in the UK. Then for a while I […]
Brazilian metal kings Sepultura release their latest effort with “Machine Messiah”, their 14th studio album and one which brings in some new elements yet again. We take a closer look at the new tracks […]
Hailing from Seattle, Brine have brought out a delicious record ‘Kill the Ill’, a fine-tuned alt-rock album to quench the thirst of fans who want to bath in vocals of The Smiths, the […]
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