Album Reviews

Cover versions and covers albums alike have and will continue to divide opinion for decades. On one hand, it can be a lazy album filler with little thought put into it, on the other, a song can have new life breathed into it. It can also be a great way …

Marseille, France metalcore band LANDMVRKS are set to release their upcoming third album, ‘Lost In The Waves’ on the 19th of March 2021, via Arising Empire. The follow-up to their 2018 release ‘Fantasy’; ‘Lost In The Waves’ has been one of many COVID-19 lockdown creations. The album totals at just …

With St. Paddy’s Day just around the corner, what better way to celebrate (socially distanced of course) than with the rousing new album from Australian Celtic punk ‘n’ folk band The Rumjacks? Even a Zoom party needs a soundtrack to raise the roof and ‘Hestia’, studio album number five from …

Artists are putting time spent in lockdown to good use and the sheer amount of top-quality singles released on a weekly basis shows no sign of abating at any time. This week, amongst others, we have symphonic power metal from Paraguay (with a recognisable face attached), some magical power-pop from …

It’s hard to come up with a British hard rock band, still recording top-quality albums today, as loved by their fanbase as much as Thunder are. Deep Purple maybe? They certainly are on an (ahem) purple patch of form with recent studio albums ‘Infinite’ and ‘Whoosh!’, so maybe we can …

With Scottish post-rockers Mogwai recently scoring their first-ever No 1 album with ‘As the Love Continues’, there’s never been a better time than now to delve deep into a more alternative, electronica-tinged, cinematic sound that tips its hat to a Krautrock influence. With algorithms abound, and every modern device being …

For many, the ‘80s and early ‘90s were about big hair, big songs, and big bloody hooks. And at the forefront of the movement – a legion of female acts selling albums by the bucketloads. Pat Benatar, Heart, Vixen, Lita Ford, Alannah Myles, then you had Robin Beck with her …

The name of the band might be unfamiliar, but the names of the talent featured within are anything but. Robin Trower, Maxi Priest, and Livingstone Brown might seem like strange bedfellows to combine forces for an album, but a chance meeting at Livingstone Brown’s Brixton studio brought them together and …

Artists are putting their time during lockdown to good use, and the number of top-quality singles and videos released on a weekly basis is staggering. Here’s a run-through of some singles hot off the press, from passionate and timely heavy modern rock from the South of England to short sharp …

After releasing a four-track teaser last year in the shape of the ‘Choir Boy’ EP, the German duo of vocalist Caro Loy and guitarist Kurt Bauereiss, collectively known as Brunhilde, make good on the promise shown on ‘Choir Boy’ and return with a full-length platter: ‘To Cut A Long Story …