With a fabulous and Southern-tinged groove coupled with loads of youthful energy and wicked charm, Brazilian rockers Electric Mob deliver a fiery dose of gritty, blues-soaked, and often-times funky hard rock capable of tearing your roof off. In terms of riffs and melodies, this skilled quartet looks to both the stadium-sized rock of the 70s…
Norwegian rockers Doggerland are finally back and "Out Of Here" is the first single taken from their new album due out in 2021
Skilled Swedish guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear) is back with another bombastic offering under the Free Fall moniker and this time around he has enlisted the help of such talented singers as Ronnie Romero (Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Vandenberg) and Tony Martin (ex-Black Sabbath) among others. With a powerful albeit slightly stiff-sounding production and ten tracks…
BLOOD RED THRONE – new music video
This Summer release their debut single Broken Radio, an upbeat but confessional introduction to their haunting post-punk soundscape.
Soft Cell synthesizer wizard Dave Ball published this inspired and hugely entertaining autobiography just a couple of weeks ago via the ever-reliable Omnibus Press and what we have here is essentially a well-balanced and insightful memoir that is both revealing and revelatory but never dull. Most people probably associate Ball with early Soft Cell hits…
SICK OF IT ALL release Video Clip for “Bull’s Anthem”
Awhile ago an Iranian musician named Masoud contacted us for a review of the Middle Eastern death metaller’s Integral Rigor’s single "Fallen". One thing led to another and I decided to review their previous album "Alast" as well as their most recent single "Brain Blind" in addition to "Fallen" as they have all more than…
Ayreon releases trailer from upcoming album Transitus
KIRKEBRANN premieres new track “Faux Pas”
Interview with the Norwegian band TROLLFEST
For some strange reason I initially thought these guys were Finnish but they are actually from Birmingham, UK. A project of two very talented musicians, Dan Benton (vocals, guitar), Amit Luther (orchestration, piano, guitar), aided by Dan Dean (bass), Solemnity combines heavily orchestrated composition with fierce death metal on this short debut EP evoking such…
I had the pleasure of watching UK rockers Vega perform in London a few years ago and they impressed me greatly that night. This brand-new record of theirs entitled “Grit Your Teeth” sports a fabulous album cover and the music does not disappoint either. Falling somewhere between ancient Bon Jovi, early Guns ‘N’ Roses, Skid…
THE PRETTY RECKLESS SHARE LYRIC VIDEO FOR SMASH NEW SINGLE "DEATH BY ROCK AND ROLL"
Before Antigama, founded in 2000, there was Sparagmos, a vicious death/thrash construct more interesting than Vader and just as technical and skilled as Behemoth. Sparagmos, featuring Łukasz Józef Myszkowski (vocals, guitars), Sebastian Zusin (guitars), Andrzej "Jolo" Rudnicki (bass) and Tomasz Marecki (drums), started with a promising "Mortal Organic Remains…" demo (1990), followed by the ferocious…
CAN’T GIVE IT AWAY ON SEVENTH AVENUE: THE ROLLING STONES AND NEW YORK CITY will be released as an audiobook on June 23
Sublime Eyes ute med ny video
The Boston, Massachusetts sludge/doom post-metal quintet Lesser Glow featuring Alec Rodriguez (vocals), Andrew Nault (guitars), Ben Gram (guitars), Scott Conza (bass) and Seth Botos (drums) is admittedly one of the most original genre purveyors in recent memory on this, their 2nd album, "Nullity", which comes 2 years after their debut "Ruined", but they seem to…
SAGNTID UNEARTHS THE “MYTHIC” EP
Technical bands such as Suffocation, Cryptopsy or Deeds Of Flesh took the death metal genre to new highs showing that brutality does not have to come at the expense of melody, while Anata proved that melody and brutality can coexist in equal measure for a great result. Now the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Ara, who had already…
