RAMzine Classic: Girlschool — Demolition, Hit And Run + Screaming Blue Murder
Girlschool, formed in the intoxicating years of the NWOBHM movement, and are the longest serving New Wave rock band in the world, comprising all...
Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love – RAMzine Classic Album
Kate Bush is arguably the most gifted songwriter that the UK has produced in the last 50 years and Hounds of Love is 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...
Skid Row – Slave to the Grind
Underrated and underappreciated, Skid Row are one of those bands that everyone just enjoys listening to. Their first album yielded such legendary songs as...
RAMzine Classic: Lone Star – Firing on all Six
Lone Star are an underrated band, from Cardiff, forming in 1975 and swapping various members of the band for the line-up they had in...
Through still waters and Unholy Fires – A brief note on the brilliance of...
For those of you out there who treasure deeply atmospheric black metal, there is a record from 2015 entitled The Wiccan by the Greek...
Metallica – Metallica
This is probably one of the most well known heavy metal albums in history. It catapulted thrash metal into the mainstream, with Metallica's more...
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...
That’s the way it is – The 40th anniversary of Graham Bonnet’s Line-Up album
One remarkably diverse and hugely entertaining record that is turning forty years old in 2021 is Graham Bonnet's Line-Up, which was originally released by...
Faith No More – Angel Dust
1989 saw a lot of changes for Faith No More: they had hired a bundle of energy with a high voice in Mike Patton...