Album Reviews

Has it really been six years since Napalm Records unleashed Exit Eden onto an unsuspecting public and in doing so, created one of the best surprises in quite some time? The international symphonic metal supergroup released an album of cover versions of well-known pop and rock songs, and the videos …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“…we spent a long time getting the album to where we felt it was ready to come out…” – Brodie Maguire, Mother Vulture guitarist. There must have been considerable pressure on fast-emerging UK upstarts Mother Vulture to release their debut album earlier this year while they were kicking in doors …

Aerosmith’s Joe Perry famously said that listening to Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star’ was like that first shot of coffee in the morning. Pure adrenaline. A mantra former Biters frontman Tuk Smith seems to have adopted with the debut album from his new vehicle Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts. Opening …

Canadian musical genius Devin Townsend shows no sign of slowing down with this, the 26th studio release of his career. Following 2019’s ‘Empath’ record, work on his highly anticipated album ‘Lightwork’ was delayed. In that gap Townsend ever the workaholic released two stop-gap albums ‘Snuggles’ and ‘The Puzzle’ with the …

By the year 2009, it seemed that Armor for Sleep had everything working out for them. In the space of eight years, they built up a loving and loyal fanbase, consistently toured with the likes of Fall Out Boy, Saosin, and more, and even released their third album ‘Smile for …

It’s been five years since their last album – their first on new label SharpTone Records – but Miss May I have come back with a bang and a roar, and the effort shows. Even from the very first track on ‘Curse of Existence’ it’s obvious that they’re doing what …