WE SELL THE DEAD – Heaven Doesn’t Want You and Hell is Full

The relatively new outfit that is We Sell the Dead comprises members from such renowned and cool acts as Spiritual Beggars, Firewind, HIM, and In Flames. Fortunately, We Sell the Dead sounds like none of the ones just mentioned and this 9-track effort entitled "Heaven Doesn’t Want You and Hell is Full" is something else…

SUNSIWTCH + GOLDEN CORE – Live at Blå, Oslo

GOLDEN CORE live@Sentralen, Oslo 2017Photo by Andrea Chirulescu A cold Saturday evening in February in Oslo tends to be one of those days with plenty of concert choices and I personally picked the album release for the Norwegian act Sunswitch. The powertrio from Trondheim has been rather quiet since their self titled album in 2012…

ANGRA – Ømni

The Brazilian horde known as Angra have been flying the bombastic metal flag high for three decades now and show absolutely no sign of slowing down or running out of steam. The band’s original and captivating blend of prog metal, thrash metal, and fist-pumping power metal is as potent as ever as evidenced by this…

GRIUM – Grium

Yours truly stumbled on this rather interesting and moody 3-track demo by the Slovakian black metal outfit named Grium the other day and it turned out to be a pretty cool happening. There is next to no info out there on Grium, but so much the better, me thinks.   There is nothing wrong with…

UNRULY CHILD – Unhinged – Live From Milan

The terribly underrated US hard rock act known as Unruly Child released a rather cool collection of songs last year entitled “Can’t Go Home” that brought the band firmly back into the spotlight. A couple of months following that, the impressive line-up consisting of Marcie Free (King Kobra), Bruce Gowdy (World Trade), Guy Allison (Doobie…

WETTON/DOWNES – Icon Zero

The sadly missed John Wetton (King Crimson, ASIA, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash) and legendary keyboardist Geoff Downes (YES, ASIA) wrote and recorded a number of solid and atmospheric tunes together back in the day that were never really meant for ASIA nor any other project of theirs as such. It was just the two of…

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