Album Reviews

Outside Revelation are the odd ones out at the party! They hail from the Netherlands but don’t play symphonic metal. No layered keyboards and massive orchestral arrangements on show here. Instead, it’s a Rival Sons inspired brand of groove/retro rock that Outside Revelation play, with ‘New Dawn’ being their debut …

Bucking the trend of stereotypical blues collections, ‘Blues With Friends’ is not an album full of blues standards re-imagined by an all-star line-up. Instead, it is 14 original compositions played by an all-star line-up. The common denominator being the mononymous, bonafide rock ‘n’ roll legend known simply as Dion. Dion …

Doing exactly what it says on the tin, ‘Early Days – Raw & Unplugged’ is just that: the early days of hotly-tipped London rockers The Dust Coda, raw & unplugged. Four acoustic tracks from writing sessions for the 2017 self-titled debut album, that have never seen the light of day, …

American singer/songwriter Kip Moore returns with his fourth studio album ‘Wild World’, and with tales of regret and missed opportunities, it’s perhaps his most personal album to date. Travelling down the same thematically well-worn highways of long-time influence Bruce Springsteen, Moore is in seeker-mode during ‘Wild World’. If he was …

Vandenberg is back! Three little words to warm the cockles of the hearts of many a Whitesnake fan. As much as a great showman and player as Steve Vai was, for many Whitesnake fans the ‘Slip Of The Tongue’ era was all about the Flying Dutchman himself: Adrian Vandenberg. And …

There’s only so much blanket coverage of the current shit-show of affairs that is the modern world in 2020, that the average person can take. Faced with wall-to-wall coverage 24 hours a day, seven days a week, an outlet is required to offset watching the world burn, with humour being …

Coming hot on the heels of new music from Devildriver and Lamb Of God, winners of Bloodstock M2TM (Merseyside – 2015) Deified return with thirty minutes of new music in the shape of mini-album ‘Anthrobscene’. Influences are worn proudly on their collective sleeves over the thirty minutes running time, and …

Since reforming in 2007 British AOR legends (and for once that word is very apt) FM have been on a hotter-than-hot winning streak. Each new studio album continues the rich vein of form that began with ‘Metropolis’ ten years ago. Hardly surprising then that ‘Synchronized’ can be added to that …

Spawned from the gloomy hills of West Yorkshire in 1988, the guardians of gothic doom metal, Paradise Lost, return with their 15th album. The fact that any band can enjoy such longevity is testament to their enduring work ethic. Traversing many styles under the aforementioned genre, the last two albums …

Unlike the majority of Frontiers Music collaborative projects, ‘Her Chariot Awaits’ was recorded the old-fashioned way; in a studio, at the same time. The two main players, Adrenaline Mob guitarist Mike Orlando and ex-Sirenia vocalist Ailyn, were actually in the same room at the same time, which cut down on …