Review: StoneWire – When the Crow Flies
The debut album from StoneWire, promised by the band when I first saw them co-headline in Bilston with Four Wheel Drive at the start...
Review: Syren City – Paradise in the Dirt
Syren City Paradise in the Dirt is out 24th June 2016
Syren City are a Bristol based rock band taking their influences from a wide...
Live Review: Slipknot & KoRn ‘Prepare For Hell’ Tour, Arena, Newcastle
“In many ways Newcastle is like Des Moines,” announces Slipknot frontman Cory Taylor to the crowd “because Newcastle is home of some of the...
blanket ‘How To Let Go’ is out now via Music For Nations
Labelling themselves as a cinematic rock band, Blackpool’s blanket (always a lower case ‘b’ apparently) release their debut, full-length album entitled How To Let...
NMB (The Neal Morse Band) – An Evening of Innocence and Danger
If, as Freddie Mercury said, "nothing succeeds like excess" then NMB (The Neal Morse Band) have succeeded beyond anything they ever expected. Their last...
A New Day Festival played host to Glenn Hughes, The Hawklords, Fish, Martin Barre...
A New Day Festival is set in what must surely be the most beautiful site to hold a festival in the UK, the music...
Review: Inferno – Genética Humana
Thrash metal, it’s sad to say, has had its day in the sun. With the exception of a few contemporaries – Havok being the...
H.E.A.T – Into The Great Unknown
A returning guitarist, a new record label and the intent to make an album with a new creative spirit expanding upon the melodic rock...
Review: Alice Cooper – Paranormal
It has been a while since legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper last blessed us with an album, but let it be known that the...
Karnataka – Requiem For A Dream
Karnataka, a band hailing from Wales, can be described as nominally belonging to the prog/folk genre. Their roots trace back to 1998, but only...


























