Review: Norma Jean – Polar Similar
Norma Jean is a pretty unique band. There are very few bands that can produce something new over the course of seven albums, inventive...
Review: Aghast – Something Else, Something Rotten
Opening track ‘King Bitch’ is one good way of opening up an album - razor edged guitar riffs, a thunderous beat and raspy vocals. If you...
Review: Demon – Cemetery Junction
Demon Formed in 1979 - I remember that year so well being the year I left school and got my first job, so I...
Review: Echelon – Brimstone Aggrandizement
Getting down to the nitty gritty of getting your ears around some classic death metal is always a good thing for me. Feeling the...
Review: Exist Immortal – Breathe
Sometimes, the right band comes along at just the right time. I was listening to Textures when Exist Immortal’s latest offering appeared in my...
Review: Electric Six – Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres
SEX! DISCO! GORE! MORE SEX! GUITAR SOLOS! NEAR-EXTRATERRESTRIAL KEYBOARDS!
That’s right ladies and gents, the only band to convincingly replicate the sound of a LSD-fuelled-disco-rock-orgy...
Review: King King – King King Live
“Hey, hey – You came!” calls out Alan Nimmo in mock surprise amidst a whooping crowd as guitars tune up and drums bash down...
Review: Alter Bridge – The Last Hero
Every few years, there is an album that is released, that is considered so near perfect it will go down in music history as...
Joe Bonamassa – Live At The Greek Theatre
In ancient times kings established their hegemony by claiming that their divine right to rule came direct from their ancestors, the gods. By the...
Review: Kansas – The Prelude Implicit
15 albums down the road, a tinkling piano over the Celtic heartbeat that is ‘With This Heart’ acts as overture to The Prelude Implicit,...