Album Reviews

Edinburgh-based guitarist Ali Ferguson has had 25 years as a professional musician playing with the likes of former Stiltskin and Genesis singer Ray Wilson and folk troubadour Dougie MacLean. Largely recorded at his home studio named the Little Blue Room, this is Ali’s third solo release, slowly compiled over the last …

The story behind an album is always interesting but for Dorothy Martin, the story behind the third studio album as front person for the pseudonymous, rock band Dorothy is something extraordinary. On her tour bus some three years ago, Dorothy’s guitar tech overdosed and Dorothy instinctively began praying for his …

Nu Metal pioneers Papa Roach return with their first studio album in three years, and never ones to rest on their laurels (or past glories), the Californians continue the evolution of their sound by daring to rally against what is expected from them in their fourth decade as a band. …

This time next week, Liverpool-based five-piece Gen and the Degenerates will be gearing up to make the journey to Nottingham to join up with Skunk Anansie on the first date of the iconic band’s 14-date 25th anniversary UK tour. A match-up that makes such perfect sense. Who better to open …

Everything about newly-formed London-based outfit The Karma Effect might scream classic 70s rock, but once ‘Steal Your Heart’ (the opening track to this, the self-titled debut album) kicks in and vocalist/guitarist Henry Gottelier vocalises over the opening few bars, I’ll be damned if there is not a touch of Steve …

The direct line between rock and metal musicians and country music is more obvious than you might expect. Is there anything more gritty and “metal” than Johnny Cash’s line in ‘Folsom Prison Blues’; “…I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die…”? If rock and metal are truly …

Leslie West never really got the credit he deserved. The former Mountain guitarist and singer was in this reviewer’s opinion a far better guitarist than Clapton in his Cream days. His thick creamy guitar tones and raspy voice were a perfect blend for his heavy psychedelic-tinged blues-rock. Plagued by drug …

Having teased fans over several months by drip-feeding singles from their new album, Swedish metallers Sabaton have at last finally delivered the money shot in the guise of their tenth studio effort ‘The War To End All Wars’. A continuation of 2019’s ‘The Great War’, ‘The War To End All …

Chances are that had the worldwide lockdown not happened, then ‘Scar Weaver’ might not have taken close to five years to land. But the flip side to that is that had it been business as normal for the live entertainment industry then LA-based five-piece Once Human might have found itself …

‘Georgiana’ – the debut EP from Tennessee’s hotly-tipped Naked Gypsy Queens – has been a long time coming. The title track itself was released as a single 12 months ago, with another track; ‘Down to the Devil’, released September 2021. Finally, after months of teasing, the Naked Gypsy Queens are …