Album Reviews

Remember when Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta spat his dummy out over the fact that Deftones booked synth-pop act Chvrches for their annual Día De Los Deftones festival? Obviously oblivious to the fact that Deftones frontman Chino Moreno is a huge new wave/synth-pop fan, all JJ had to do to grasp …

Capturing the multi-media tour de force that is a live gig from In This Moment, and transferring it to a studio setting, is akin to capturing lightning in a bottle. In other words; damn near impossible. To simply call an In This Moment show a “gig”, is an understatement though, …

Another day, another young hotshot Blues player. It’s hard to remember a time when the Provogue/Mascot label group didn’t have a debut album worth shouting from the rooftops about. On this occasion it’s 24 year old King Solomon Hicks with his debut album, named after his native ‘Harlem’. You might …

“KB & The Idyllwilde is Katie Burke’s soul rock band based in Nashville, TN. Nasty high octane vocals with gritty riffs, offbeat jokes, add horns.” – The description of KB & The Idyllwilde on the official Facebook page hits the nail square on the head. The vocals are indeed quite …

On 2017’s debut album ‘Songs of Love and Death’, Nergal introduced the black metal community to his blackened blues project; Me And That Man. With a sound hugely influenced by murder-balladeers like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Johnny Cash, it was a major revelation. But in all honesty, it would …

You know that GIF where the toddler has both fists up and is screaming “Yesssssssss” in triumph? That’s the appropriate reaction upon hearing the latest release from Cambridge’s finest – False Hearts. ‘Remedy’ is a four-track EP that takes the Americans on at their own game and burns their little …

Keeping it simple when it comes to naming the new album, multinational heavy rockers Lucifer follow the same path as previous output and go with a simple numeral after the band name. Hence, third album = ‘Lucifer III’. Like its two predecessors, ‘Lucifer lll’ is steeped in ‘70’s hard rock/metal …

When Soilwork band members Björn Strid and David Andersson formed The Night Flight Orchestra back in 2007 surely they couldn’t have expected what started as a side-project to become as big as it currently is? They couldn’t have foreseen releasing their fifth studio album in 2020? After all, guys that …

Urban legend has it that Jimi Hendrix was once asked “What’s it like to be the best rock guitarist in the world?” and he responded…“I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Rory Gallagher”. As far as urban legends- that you hope are more than just that- go, that’s right up …

Like The Wildhearts last year with their towering ‘Renaissance Men’ album, Ice-T seems to be making it his mission to show the young pretenders how it’s really done. With an endless amount of lyrical inspiration available at a click of a button on any 24hr news channel, Ice-T and Bodycount …