Album Reviews

It’s been almost six years since the last album, and the wait has been worth it, with For The Fallen Dreams kicking the gate in when they come through it, offering almost intimately tight clean vocals, a raw growl, and powerful music to underpin them both. The album as a …

Nirvana have been perpetually cool, but there’s also been a more recent spike of reverence for similar 90s grunge, which I’m very much on board with – including, of course, the resulting music by newer artists inspired by the genre and period. ‘Amble’ is no exception, a winding, building road …

Metallica’s forthcoming studio album ‘72 Seasons’ is set to be one of the biggest albums of 2023 regardless of genre. It will undoubtedly be the biggest seller in terms of physical units sold and will be the biggest-selling rock or metal album of 2023. If you judge the importance of …

Pop quiz, hotshots. Who had Delain down on their 2023 bingo card for producing one of the strongest albums in the first few months of the year? Along with TV personality Carol Vorderman taking the UK government to task for the neverending list of scandals, the return of Delain with …

Kind of cheesy glam metal and hard rock is my absolute bread and butter, and Wig Wam have delivered to a perfect T. ‘Out of the Dark’ is an album full of the kind of arena rock you’d expect from a band that managed to reach a Eurovision semi-final – …

An absolutely killer album, with great highs and lows of energy, and everything you’d want from a band of this calibre, Polar have delivered a choice cut of the proverbial music steak here, and have certainly kicked the year off on a strong note for metalcore releases. We’re led in …

He’s the man who most likely defined your high school years. He’s the man who is instantly recognisable just purely from the crooning baritone of his voice. He’s the man responsible for the Heartagram design that you see everywhere – either on someone’s body as a tattoo or on someone’s …

The phrase “back to basics” usually means dialing things back, keeping things simple, and focusing on the tried and trusted rather than trying something new. It will usually appear when, for example, a sports team has tried a new formation that doesn’t quite come off, or, a band or artist …

Back in the pre-internet days (shit, back in the days when there were only three TV channels) most spotty adolescents with a penchant for a bit of Rock music could be found glued to their radio from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights. Those two hours provided the only real …

The critically acclaimed BBC production The English recently brought the harsh realities of the Old American West to a whole new audience that might have balked at the idea of watching a “Western” had it not been for the involvement of A-list actor Emily Blunt. While it is kinda funny …