Electric Mary – Mother
A helium pitched voice hovers over a cyclical heavy groove while an old school heavy rock solo works its way round the fretboard on...
Rory Gallagher – Blues 3 CD Deluxe Edition
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the late Rory Gallagher’s recording career. If you’re unaware of who he is don’t worry, if anything you’re to be...
Gasoline Outlaws return with Belfast blues album ‘Light Up The World’
Despite the name, Gasoline Outlaws are not American: in fact brothers Matt (vocals) and Chris Fitzsimons (bass), Adam Parkin (guitar) and Ryan Hood (drums) are from...
Extrema go back to business as usual with ‘Headbanging Forever’
Extrema are one of those bands that fall into an unfortunate grey area in modern metal. Whilst in no way are they a bad...
Royal Republic in Club Majesty
The fifth album from Malmo based rockers Royal Republic shows that the time away from the studio has been well spent. Club Majesty is the culmination...
Why Keith Richards’ solo album ‘Talk Is Cheap’ is still a classic 30 years on
There’s an interesting story about the gestation period of this album. Talk Is Cheap was put together by Keith Richards and his side band,...
Salem’s Bend explore fuzzy sounds on ‘Supercluster’
“Three dudes crawled into a garage-turned-studio and dug out some tracks from the nether regions of Sabbath, Purple, etc, and other 70’s rockers, infused...
Beastwars make a triuphant return with ‘IV’
There are some albums out there that you can just feel are special, albums that have a deeper meaning rather than artist expression and...
Norweigen prog rockers JORDSJØ unleash a hauntingly beautiful opus ‘Nattfiolen’
The Norwegian prog rockers known as Jordsjø released a rather solid and evocative record last year entitled Jord that was inspired by German 70s...
SOTO unfold musically on ‘Origami’
Puerto Rican musician Jeff Scott Soto is perhaps best known as Yngwie Malmsteen's vocalist and also the singer for Journey, Talisman, Sons of Apollo...
