Reviews: Vagabond Specter – Mirrors
Well when I first pressed play on the new Vagabond Specter album Mirrors I must admit, it’s not the kind of thing I’d usually...
Cheap Trick All Washed Up Album Review: 50 Years Strong
In a career which now sees the band, after almost fifty years' existence, very much in the veteran class, Cheap Trick have somehow always...
Katatonia – City Burials
Katatonia have been prominent figures in the gothic rock scene, if you so wish to brand them as such, and their latest album City...
Sari Schorr & The Engine Room – A Force Of Nature
The lady sings the blues, and then she rocks. The too obvious comparison is Janis Joplin (sometimes I wonder how many people have actually...
Live: Anthrax / The Raven Age, Northumbria Uni, Newcastle
It's kind of like an unwritten achievement to see the 'big four' thrash bands live on tour quite near to each other. Seeing as...
Cryptosis are an unstoppable cosmic force on The Silent Call
Cryptosis are a Progressive Thrash Metal band from The Netherlands and they have recently gained some notable traction with their latest singles which have...
The XCERTS – So No One Told You Life Was Going To Be This...
Lockdown gave us all a new meaning to life while giving Scottish rockers The XCERTS a new meaning to well-known songs. They looked at the...
Review: Oceano – Ascendants
A melodic wave of delayed chords washes over me and slowly becomes some kind of ominous premonitory to destruction. Then it hits me, swathed...
Crazy Lixx feel the Thrill of the Bite
Back when Malmö group Crazy Lixx released ‘Anthem for America’ in 2021, they claimed in what appears to be a dig at the USA...
Craneium fashions a compelling musical epic on The Narrow Line
Craneium’s latest album, The Narrow Line, bares several similarities to an ancient Grecian epic; both works contain the hallmarks of a fantastical journey. For...
