Category: EP/Album Reviews

Album Review: Mordred – The Dark Parade
August 3, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Mordred – The Dark Parade

Thrash attack with funky bass and flashes of hip hop among the shredding guitars – welcome to The Dark Parade, which sets out to grab you by the collar and throw you headlong into the mosh pit, into the mash,...
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EP Review: I, The Ruin – Mortality
August 3, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: I, The Ruin – Mortality

Scars Remind Me So I’m heading into new artist territory once more as I visit Southampton and take a closer look at I The Ruin, a crushing cohort of four who are ready to apply their Metalcore boot to your...
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Album Review: Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush
August 3, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush

Smile Like You Mean It So my friends it’s a new band for me today, Wigan’s finest Boss Keloid and by crikey it’s got more twists and turns than Spaghetti Junction, a convoluted, mind bending journey into a world that...
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Album Review: Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied
July 30, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Asian Dub Foundation – Access Denied

Firm Foundations The artwork for the new ADF album depicts the European passport, a symbol of freedom that has now been squished under the Brexit boot; a lifeline for musicians has been mercilessly murdered at the hands of the ignorant. ...
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Cassa Jackson releases the ‘epic pop smash’, ‘Learning How To Love’
July 22, 2021 No Responses

Cassa Jackson releases the ‘epic pop smash’, ‘Learning How To Love’

Love; the emotion that drives us all, whether we admit it or not. The newest offering by London-based singer/songwriter Cassa Jackson reflects on the development of young love with an epic pop smash ‘Learning How To Love’.  Supporting the hypo...
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Pride ain’t over… Here’s Piera’s ‘Love Is Meant For You’
July 22, 2021 No Responses

Pride ain’t over… Here’s Piera’s ‘Love Is Meant For You’

Now, we don’t know about you, but here at Original Rock it’s Pride all year round. That’s why we’re still yelling from the rooftops about the latest single from LGBTQ+ activist and musician, Piera van de Wiel, ‘Love Is Meant...
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Album Review: Rose City Band – Earth Trip
June 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Rose City Band – Earth Trip

Do yourself a summer treat, drop out of your anxieties and drop into an American beauty, Rose City Band’s Earth Trip. Just be warned you might not want to leave. Prolific songwriter and celebrated guitarist/vocalist Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips, Moon...
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Album Review: Beartooth – Below
June 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Beartooth – Below

Ohio based hardcore rock band Beartooth are releasing their fourth studio album ‘Below’ on 25 June via Red Bull Records! Frontman Caleb Shomo said: “Below is by far my favourite album I’ve made to date. It covers the dark side of...
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Album Review: Keuning – A Mild Case Of Everything
June 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Keuning – A Mild Case Of Everything

What’s your favourite song by The Killers – Mr Brightside? When You Were Young? Somebody Told Me? Human? All These Things That I Have Done? Well, whatever it is, unless from the recent Imploding The Mirage, the chances are it...
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Album Review: Islands – Islomania
June 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Islands – Islomania

Canadian indie-rock band Islands released their first album in five years, ‘Islomania’ on 11 June via Royal Mountain Records! There is darkness and doubt in every crevice of the album, but with this comes a cathartic release. After more than...
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