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Hardline - Heart, Mind & Soul (Frontiers Music Srl) [Matt Bladen]Many years on from their classic debut Double Eclipse Hardline have been reactivated since 2012 with lead vocalist Johnny Gioeli now...
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Resurrection Kings - Skygazer (Frontiers Music Srl)Listening to this album on what would have been Ronnie James Dio's 79th birthday is a little bittersuite as it would have been brilliant to hear the...
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Various Artists – New Wave Of Classic Rock Volume 1 (RPM) [Simon Black]NWOCR – don’t you just love these acronyms we come up with in the Rock and Metal world? As if ‘NWOBHM’ didn’t trip off the tongue...
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Powerwolf - Call Of The Wild (Napalm Records) [Simon Black]Having a deep love of outrageous and ostentatious Power Metal when it is done well and having missed Bloodstock the year these chaps played...
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Cognitive – Malevolent Thoughts Of A Hastened Extinction (Unique Leader) [Liam True]I was unfamiliar with Cognitive before hearing their latest full-length, titled Malevolent Thoughts Of A Hastened...
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Space Chaser - Give Us Life (Metal Blade Records) [Paul Scoble]German five piece Space Chaser have been making music together since 2011. The band features Sebastian Kerlikowski on Bass, Matthias...
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Mordred – The Dark Parade (M-Theory Audio) [Paul Hutchings]For those of us around in the 1980s, the thrash scene was one of the most explosive and exciting times to live through. Coming out of San...
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Necrogod - In Extremis (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Richard Oliver]It’s always a reassuring sign when you see an album is being released through Transcending Obscurity Records as it’s pretty much...
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Heavy Water - Red Brick City (Silver Linings)A lockdown project from Seb Byford and his father Biff, Heavy Waters debut album is a modern alternative rock album, with a strong blues ethos to it. As...
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Dee Snider – Leave A Scar (Napalm Records) [Paul Hutchings]He’s certainly a legendary figure in the world of heavy metal. His last studio album, For The Love Of Metal was a right royal return to form...
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Ingested - The Surreption II (Unique Leader) [Charlie Rogers]As is often the case with Sophomore albums, when Ingested first released The Surreption, it didn’t receive the praise or attention their...
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Swallow The Sun - 20 Years Of Gloom Beauty And Despair Live In Helsinki (Century Media Records) [Paul Hutchings] Seven albums into their 21-year journey, and Finnish doomsters Swallow The Sun’s first...
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Flame, Dear Flame - Aegis (Eisenwald)Aegis is the debut album from Brunswick, Lower Saxony based Epic Doom Metal band Flame, Dear Flame. And put simply it's a fantastic record that sends Flame, Dear...
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Paradigm Blue - Transist (Self Released)I usually try to avoid reviewing albums that came out more than a month ago, but occasionally you stumble across something that appeals to your taste so much...
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Underdark - Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re-Entry (Surviving Sounds) [Richard Oliver]Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re-Entry is the debut full length album from Nottingham based post-black metal band...
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Insurgent – Sentient (Self Released) [Zak Skane]Insurgent came about when the foursome met in college to form a unique sounding Metalcore band that will have soaring melodic vocals combined with...
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Troy Redfern - The Fire Cosmic (Red7 Records)Revered UK slide guitarist Troy Redfern kicks off his latest album The Fire Cosmic, with a piece of surf rock called Scorpio. It's a ballsy slab of hard...
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