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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 […]
Australian band ‘Blow’ have put together a great collection here of catchy hard rockers that thirty years ago would be catching far more ears than they are likely to do today; maybe even bothering […]
Adelaide heavy hitters Ice On Mercury have been riding high on a string of successes which has led to the culmination of what could be considered their strongest work yet in the EP “Blind […]
This is an interesting release, and Jerry Hull’s fourth in a the space of just a couple of years. At 14 tracks it might not be as long as his previous release – Cherokee Moon’ […]
What is it with releases like this? Three new songs, three live songs and a ‘Bonus track’? What’s that all about? Not only that – this is a special ‘European Edition’ meaning those […]
There’s a gentle Spanish style guitar in ‘Calm Before’ that welcomes you to In The Now’s debut album ‘Daggers and Dice’ and it works so well up against the Hard Rocking ‘Trigger’ that acts as […]
Originally released in 1986 and re-released this year on its 30th Anniversary Scott Ginn’s ‘One Man Army’ still sounds damned good today. Indeed find me a Hard Rock album from any continent from 1986 that […]
This is a blast from the past – I first heard Rags ‘N Riches back in Sydney in the late eighties and like so many of the bands in that Hard Rock scene its hard […]
If you’re from outside the United States then it’s unlikely you grew up on Night Ranger unless you were pretty driven. Night Ranger was just one of those big US Rock bands whose label never […]
The Roth Brock Project on paper has to be one of the great Melodic Rock team-ups – the vocals of Terry Brock (Strangeways, Giant and others) and the guitars of John Roth (Winger, Starship, Giant) – it’s the sort […]
Like a lot of people out there it was Kyng’s second album ‘Burn the Serum’ that introduced me to the band, and whilst that album (and especially the stunning title track) spent a lot of […]
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