Alice Cooper: From his signature top hat and cane to jaw-dropping set designs
Alice Cooper hit Manchester with his ‘Too Close For Comfort’ UK tour, taking up residency at the AO arena. With a max capacity of...
Brave Rival – Life’s Machine
Nominated for Best Emerging Blues Artist Of The Year at this year’s UK Blues Awards 2022, this Portsmouth-based five-piece play fast and loose with...
Sky Empire preside over The Shifting of Tectonic Plates of Power – Part One
British-based band, Sky Empire, seem to be usually classed as progressive metal. For me, this can be too restrictive a pigeonhole to describe their...
Theatre Of Tragedy Remixed
Norway’s Theatre Of Tragedy return with Remixed a compilation album that’s explained right there in the title, with a variety of reputable artists putting...
Review: Massacres – Brutus
Freshly formed new guns Massacres have arrived with a hearty appetite for cut-throat riffs, savage vocals and unhinged live performances. Debut EP 'BRUTUS' was...
An Extraordinary Life – John Wetton
Those coming to this hefty 252-page book devoted to the memory of John Wetton, looking exacting details on his life, and more so minutiae...
Review: Burn Damage – Age of Vultures
The anticipation just bubbles under the skin and waits to unleash its fury on the unsuspecting at the beginning of this album. I am almost...
Reviews: Adrian Pain & the Dead Sexy – Mixed Messages
Well it’s a bloody good start for a strangely titled band – for me the sexy comes within those lungs of steel along with...
HAKEN establish themselves as a force in prog rock on L-1VE
Haken are a six-piece London based prog rock metal band who, after a decade, have just released their first ‘live’ CD/DVD, L-1VE, which was...
Warmrain… Here Comes The Rain Again
This is a four-track precursor to Warmrain’s debut album, Back Above The Clouds, scheduled for June release and, if it’s anything as good as this...


























