Category: EP/Album Reviews

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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Album Review: Iron Maiden – Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of the Beast – Live In Mexico City 2019
December 18, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: Iron Maiden – Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of the Beast – Live In Mexico City 2019

Maiden England The definition of heavy metal encapsulated in these two words, aside from being a grotesque torture device, Iron Maiden have traversed every corner of this globe to bring their epic brand to the masses. Complete with mascot Eddie,...
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EP Review: Refused – The Malignant
December 17, 2020 No Responses

EP Review: Refused – The Malignant

Fire Walk With Me My friends 2020 is the gift that keeps on giving, the mighty still haven’t fallen, and the weak still suffer. Our Swedish cousins Refused have walked into this eternal hellfire with a new EP aptly titled...
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Album Review: CJ Wildheart – Siege
December 15, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: CJ Wildheart – Siege

Under Siege My friends I think I’ve found it! A mini album chock- full of fire and devilspit (see what I did there, clever eh?)  blazing through your digestive tract and burning holes in your belly. It is THE soundtrack...
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