Reviews: Avatarium, Growth, Dendera, High Command (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Avatarium: An Evening With Avatarium (Nuclear Blast)Recorded live in Stockholm, An Evening With Avatarium was captured in their native Sweden just before the Covid-19 outbreak and after releasing the...
View ArticleReviews: Sodom, Soilwork, Exarsis, Oldblood (Reviews By Paul Hutchings)
Sodom: Genesis XIX (Steamhammer/eOne Music)The 16th album from the German thrashers and it’s one of their most ferocious. Not only does the album mark the recording debut of guitarist Yorck Segatz and...
View ArticleReviews: Marathon, Attercopus, Kyros, Honeybadger (Reviews By Matt Bladen)
Marathon: Mark Kelly's Marathon (earMusic)Mark Kelly, the erstwhile keyboardist of neo-progressive rock titans Marillion, has finally followed in the footsteps of current and former band mates by...
View ArticleReviews: Gone Is Gone, Persuader, Embr, Sense Offender/They Live We Sleep...
Gone Is Gone: If Everything Happens For A Reason... Then Nothing Really Matters At All (Clouds Hill)Yet again I seem to be saying the words Troy Sanders and supergroup in a review. A few weeks after...
View ArticleReviews: Majestica, Iron Saviour, Electric Hydra, Sculptor (Reviews By Simon...
Majestica: A Christmas Carol (Nuclear Blast) [Simon Black]OK, so a Christmas Power Metal concept album based on Dickens’ most well-known novel. I mean what could possibly go wrong? I made a promise to...
View ArticleReviews: Demonstealer, Depravity, Mors Vincit Omnia, Ocean Hills (Paul H,...
Demonstealer: And This Too Shall Pass (Self Released) [Paul Hutchings]Now well into his third decade as an active musician, there is rarely a disappointment when you receive a new release from the...
View ArticleReviews: Green Druid, Phase Reverse, Ad Infinitum, Dines X Heafy (Reviews By...
Green Druid: At The Maw Of Ruin (Earache Records)If a band called Green Druid wrote short snappy pop numbers you'd be a little disappointed, the name evokes images of cloaked mystics and plentiful...
View ArticleReviews: Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Deafheaven, Six Foot Six, Fucked & Bound...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Straight To You Live (Provogue) [Matt Bladen]Apparently people have been asking for a live DVD from Bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd for as he puts it "decades". He has one live...
View ArticleReviews: Palace, Hollywood Undead, Vanden Plas, Eyes Of Tomorrow (Reviews By...
Palace: Rock And Roll Radio (Frontiers Music Srl) [Rich Oliver]Despite being a fan of all things violent and aggressive I do have a massive soft spot for things on the very cheesy side of things with...
View ArticleReviews: Deeds Of Flesh, Ego Kill Talent, Dead Posey, Absense (Reviews By...
Deeds Of Flesh: Nucleus (Unique Leader)What is it with 'tech' death bands and post-apocalyptic, science fiction, horror themes? It seems so many of them are obsessed with a terrifying future and Deeds...
View ArticleReviews: Heads For The Dead, Hands Of Attrition, Unruly Child, Nightblade...
Heads For The Dead: Into The Red (Transcending Obscurity) [Matt Bladen]In our review of Heads For The Dead's debut album, we were complimentary over how vicious their gore-soaked death metal assault...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview With Dakesis By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020?Gemma Lawler: It’s been a sharp shock after our collective decades in the music industry. I...
View ArticleReviews: Silent Skies, Stuck Out, Morpholith, Satan's Fall (Rich, Paul H,...
Silent Skies: Satellites (A Sweet Lemon) [Rich Oliver]Silent Skies is the collaborative project between piano/keyboard player Vikram Shankar (Redemption/Lux Terminus) and singer Tom Englund (Evergrey)....
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview With King Kraken By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020? King Kraken: It's been very difficult for us, especially since we were in full flow in February...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview With Gravity Machine By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020?Gravity Machine: The lack of live shows (or being able to start playing live) has had a huge...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview With Lighthammer By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020?Lighthammer: We were extremely lucky that before everything locked down, we’d gotten the...
View ArticleReviews: Passengers In Panic, Minerva Superduty, The Kings Head, Iconic Eye...
Passengers In Panic: S/T (Sleazy Rider Records)Not the normal dirty rock from Sleazy Rider Records, Passengers In Panic are a progressive folk metal band from Greece. Their musical style is a melting...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview with Cranial Separation By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020?Chris Machin: Ray was losing his mind as he didn't stop working as he's a labourer & his...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: 2020 Catch Up Interview With Black Pyre By Matt Bladen
MoM: How have the band members been handling the lack of touring and even the lack of practicing in 2020?Black Pyre: Without gigs it has been quite boring and a little bit tough. So in lieu of gigs we...
View ArticleReviews: Iced Earth, Daniel Tompkins, Pillory, Wombbath (Matt, Alex, Paul S &...
Iced Earth: S/T (Century Media Records) [Matt Bladen]When you're Jon Schaffer you have a huge amount of music in your vaults, having written, performed and many times produced most of the albums by his...
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