Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Download Festival announces Green Day, Sleep Token, Korn

Once again, the season has arrived when metal enthusiasts from all over the UK and beyond eagerly anticipate the announcement of the legendary Download...

Album Reviews

Frost* – Life In The Wires

As each member of this band is highly sought after in other projects—John Mitchell currently performing with Asia and Craig Blundell on tour drumming...

Live Reviews

Lacuna Coil get ‘Reckless’ in Manchester

As days get shorter with people wanting to gather indoors, the 2024/25 gig season is back in full swing and Lacuna Coil couldn’t be...

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Modern Classic: Brave Rival – Life’s Machine

With the impending release of their second album in August I have been revisiting the rather excellent 2022 debut of a band from the...

Under The Spell of Old Trees – A Retrospective Glance at Nidingr’s Rehearsal 1996

Today, I figured that it would be interesting to cast a flickering yet hopefully illuminating light on a rather obscure release from that gloriously...

RAMzine Classic: Stevie Salas Colorcode

For an artist that has appeared on over 70 different albums with artists from George Clinton, Justin Timberlake and Buddy Miles to Mick Jagger...

Reflections on Bill Ward’s outstanding solo album

Legendary drummer Bill Ward (ex-Black Sabbath) released an overlooked gem of an album back in 1997 entitled When the Bough Breaks, and I figured...

See The Light by Jeff Healey – RAMzine Classic

There are many ways of finding a new artist, especially in this internet age - it wasn’t always that easy. An example of one...

Melody Maker: Seven years in the 1970’s

It’s December 1963 and a 15 year old Yorkshire boy is asked by his mother, "The Beatles are in Bradford soon, do you want...

The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys go well beyond being merely a group of musicians. It wouldn’t be inappropriate to describe them as a cultural, even maybe...