Category: EP/Album Reviews

Album Review: Carnifex – Bury Me In Blasphemy
December 22, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Carnifex – Bury Me In Blasphemy

Under The Blade A carnifex by definition was a public executioner in Roman times, usually sent to brutally despatch the lower classes. Here, Carnifex make no such distinctions; we all end up under the blade (Twisted Sister anyone?) The singer, Scott, waves...
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Album Review: Eluveitie – Slania 10th anniversary re-release
December 18, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Eluveitie – Slania 10th anniversary re-release

Folking Good Metal! Hello people of the towns and cities, and of the mountains and the valleys! I pray you are well and satisfactorily hunkered down for Midwinter as I come forth with gifts of goodwill and good cheer (and...
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Album Review: Nemanja Radulovic – Baika
December 13, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Nemanja Radulovic – Baika

Nemanja Radulovic, “Baika” (Deutsche Grammophon)-The latest vehicle for the talents of flambuoyant young Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulovic finds the former child prodigy applying his expressive instrumental technique to such richly evocative comp...
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Album Review: Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks
December 10, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks

Van Morrison, “The Prophet Speaks” (Caroline International)- Many of Van’s  direct contemporaries from the golden age of rock and pop in the late sixties and early seventies may have fallen by the wayside over the years as time has taken...
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Album Review: Memphis May Fire – Broken
December 5, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Memphis May Fire – Broken

Can You Smell Burning? The artwork on the new MMF record is quite striking – a rose inside a broken skull – it sort of animates what life is all about. Out of something that has been destroyed, there is...
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Album Review: Beans on Toast – A Bird in the Hand
November 30, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Beans on Toast – A Bird in the Hand

Ahead of the release of his 10th studio album – A Bird in the Hand. We here at OriginalRock.net have been sent a copy to review (and listen to on repeat for the next month). Coming off the back of...
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Album Review: Willard Grant Conspiracy – ‘Untethered’
November 29, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Willard Grant Conspiracy – ‘Untethered’

Willard Grant Conspiracy, “Untethered” (Loose)- “Untethered” is the tenth and final studio album from the excellent Willard Grant Conspiracy, recorded in the months before cancer claimed the life of their frontman and creative mainstay ...
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Album Review: Mumford & Sons – ‘Delta’
November 29, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Mumford & Sons – ‘Delta’

Mumford & Sons, “Delta” (Island Records)- The Mumfords’ early output had an infectious folksy charm which may have enraged the purists but did prove hugely successful in terms of solid record sales , bringing the band chart-topping album...
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Album Review: Benjamin Folke Thomas – Modern Man
November 23, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Benjamin Folke Thomas – Modern Man

Benjamin Folke Thomas, “Modern Man” (Aveline Records)- Ben Thomas has been snappily described as “the missing link between Johnny Cash and Ingmar Bergman,” and the Gothenburg born balladeer’s latest studio album, “Modern Man...
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Album Review: Metallica – … And Justice For All (30th anniversary re-release)
November 20, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Metallica – … And Justice For All (30th anniversary re-release)

So, Let It Be Written… … in the language of the mad, and while chomping down chocolate Buttons and a Flake. In 1988 B.C. (before computers) I purchased Metallica “…And Justice for All” on cassette, see Fig.1, and hands up...
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