Category: EP/Album Reviews

Album Review: Blackout Problems – Dark
January 4, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Blackout Problems – Dark

Got A Problem?  Yes, several actually, but you know my friends through this quagmire you get to think and reset your lives and hopefully there will be better days ahead for us all. A time when we can see our...
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Album Review: Justin Wells – The United State
December 30, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: Justin Wells – The United State

Justin Wells,”The United State” (Singular Recordings)- There can’t be too many practitioners of Americana who can happily cite Pink Floyd and Guns’n’Roses as major musical influences, but this was the aural landscape which fired J...
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Album Review: Ingested – Stinking Cesspool Of Liquefied Human Remnants
December 30, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: Ingested – Stinking Cesspool Of Liquefied Human Remnants

Humanity/Depravity. My friends this is my second outing with these inglorious ruffians, Ingested, and welcome to their world of the deranged and the dubious. Admittedly I quite liked 2020 release, and now I get to travel back in time when...
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Album Review: The Sad Song Co. – Saudade
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: The Sad Song Co. – Saudade

The Sad Song Co. – ie multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell – is back with this fifth solo outing, a finely and elegantly produced slice of Pop/Prog, or “Proggy Pop?”, that qualifies as good company while it lasts even if little of...
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Single Review: Raised By Owls – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Metal Band Aid 2020)
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Raised By Owls – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Metal Band Aid 2020)

Hootenanny! My friends, here it is THE Christmas single of 2020, a Thrash/Death metal version of the original Band Aid ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’  What can I say, it’s full of good cheer, chewing off your left ear so...
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Single Review: Joeys – I Found You
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Joeys – I Found You

If like me you’re looking for some new sounds to fill these uncertain times, Liverpool’s 4-piece band, Joeys, may have a solution with their latest release ‘I Found You’.  It brings an alternative rock, Kings of Leon style rasp and...
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Single Review: Forts like Vana – Damsel In Distress
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Forts like Vana – Damsel In Distress

Hot Damn! Well my friends after spending a considerable amount of time in the world of Death metal, I have here a little morsel that will run smoothly over your palate and tickle those lockdown worn taste buds.  Nashville is...
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EP Review: Antre – Dark Spectrum
December 22, 2020 No Responses

EP Review: Antre – Dark Spectrum

Antre Banter. Hello my friends, we are fast approaching the end of this most dastardly year, but we will end on a high with a few choice releases, and news of some upcoming smashers that will see us gleefully ring...
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The Hellfreaks “Doldrum Dynasty” single from their “God on the Run” album on Sunny Bastard Records (album released 23 February 2020)
December 22, 2020 No Responses

The Hellfreaks “Doldrum Dynasty” single from their “God on the Run” album on Sunny Bastard Records (album released 23 February 2020)

Hell Sweet Hell was my introduction to Hungary’s The Hellfreaks who have been on this crazy ride with, essentially, Shakey Sue and various guitarists, bassists, and drummers since recording their first demo in 2009 and winning the Hungarian national &#8220...
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Single Review: William McCarthy – Ballad For The Unemployed
December 21, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: William McCarthy – Ballad For The Unemployed

“Sometimes there’s a man … I won’t say a hero, ’cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man …” The man in question is William McCarthy. The sometimes is now (but the times they are a-changin’. Let’s face it,...
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