Callum Reid, Author at OriginalRock.net

September 17, 2023 No Responses

Live Review: Mutoid Man – Live at Stereo, Glasgow (September 11, 2023)

Mutoid Man put huge smiles on the faces of the punters lucky enough to fill this Glasgow café/bar and performance space on a muggy night that will now always be remembered as “Mutoid Monday!” (it was, in fact, 9/11, but...

June 24, 2023 No Responses

Album Review: The Anchoret – It All Began With Loneliness

Homer’s The Odyssey is an ancient, epic Greek poem that follows hero Odysseus on his perilous 10-year journey home from the Trojan War (That’s enough Wiki cut and pasting – Ed). Now The Anchoret, new Canadian titans of Progressive Metal,...

May 24, 2023 No Responses

Album Review: Phoxjaw – notverynicecream

Alternative Rockers Phoxjaw do what they do on their second album, after Royal Swan (2020). ‘notverynicecream’ is an often powerful but still puzzling mix – interesting, intense and infuriating, with straight-ahead, rollicking rock punctuated by Prog moo...

March 28, 2023 No Responses

Album Review: Ist Ist – Protagonists

If Ist Ist ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Carrying on more or less where they left off on the thoroughly excellent The Art Of Lying, this impressive Manchester collective expertly deliver intelligent, intense and empathetic real-world music that could even...

March 26, 2023 No Responses

Album Review: Fall Out Boy – So Much (For) Stardust

What A Time To Be Alive … but people forget. Time passes, and people forget. They forget the real meaning of the word “respect” … People forget that Patrick Stump, for instance, is 38 years old. Pete Wentz is in...

February 5, 2023 No Responses

Top 10: Metal Albums

No. 10: SpiritWorld – DeathwesternLabel: Century Media Do Metal and Spaghetti Westerns go together? You tell me! See Kreator’s Sergio Corbuccio Is Dead, the intro to their Hate Uber Alles album, or Karma To Burn’s classic Arch Stanton, to name...

November 10, 2022 one Response

Live Review: Robert Plant Presents Saving Grace Featuring Suzi Dian, at the Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen (November 8, 2022)

On this night, Robert Plant was a constant name-dropper – which is probably the closest I will come to criticising a superlative musical experience, co-ordinated and masterminded by the former Led Zeppelin frontman turned far-travelled, wise and eclectic mus...

October 26, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Noctem – Credo Certe Ne Cras

Followers of Swedish nutters Watain, Norway’s Satanic lot Gorgoroth and/or Poland’s ever mighty Behemoth can keep the Euro flag flying thanks to Noctem, a Black Metal/Death Metal export who originate from Valencia, Spain. If you’re into the Black, the De...

October 12, 2022 one Response

Album Review: Austin Meade – Abstract Art Of An Unstable Mind

Ace singer-songwriter-guitarists with a fresh voice but a musically mature head on their shoulders come along once in a while. Austin Meade’s new record, following 2020’s very-well-thought-of Black Sheep, can only reinforce his growing reputation as a rare...

September 7, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Warforged – The Grove/Sundial

Strap yourself in for a wild ride that’s sure to end in some kind of collision with Warforged’s new long player, an angry and expert slice of Death Metal that takes no prisoners. There may be a number of bands...

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