Album Reviews

Review: The Damned – Darkadelic

When bands get 40+ years into their career, they eventually burn out and break up – it’s just the natural cycle for musicians. But for the legendary punk outfit The Damned, despite the fact they are 47 years old this year, they show no signs of slowing down or giving …

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Review: As Everything Unfolds – Ultraviolet

As Everything Unfolds are a band you didn’t know you needed in your life. Hailing from High Wycombe, the quintet make some of the freshest sounding music in the UK metal scene, defying the normal and expected tendencies of post-hardcore and mixing together a more unique concoction to call their …

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Review: L.A. Guns – ‘Black Diamonds’

Four albums into the Tracii Guns/Phil Lewis reunion, and the high quality of material on offer from L.A. Guns shows no sign of abating. Always the classic partnership in L.A. Guns’ long history; Phil Lewis and L.A. Guns without Tracii Guns was in a sense like the Joe Perry-less version …

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Review: Atreyu – The Hope of a Spark

Atreyu never seem to quit. Normally, a statement like that connotates something negative, but for the Californian quintet, it is the furthest thing from meaning something bad. With every release they put out, they seem to get better and stronger musically, which is an incredibly tough feat for bands to …

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Review: Avatar – ‘Dance Devil Dance’

With Metallica set to release their new album ’72 Seasons’ very soon, the usual suspects that normally turn their noses up at metal will no doubt become metalheads for one week in the year. ’72 Seasons’ will be the biggest-selling metal album of the year, no dispute there, but will …

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Review: Floor Jansen – Paragon

As incredulous as it sounds, ‘Paragon’ is the debut solo release from Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen. 26 years after first coming to notice with Dutch symphonic metal outfit After Forever, Jansen – arguably the best vocalist on the scene today, and with a voice capable of stopping a charging rhino …

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Review: boygenius – the record

A lot can change in 5 years. Since releasing their debut self-titled EP back in 2018, the members of boygenius have had a lot going for them; Lucy Dacus released her third album Home Video, conceptualised on the feeling of thinking back to your childhood years once you actually realise …

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Review: MEG MYERS – ‘TZIA’

Even from the get-go, TZIA is everything you want from a Meg Myers album, dipping and soaring, with haunting, echoing melodies and a powerful voice that she manipulates in just the right way to be almost eerie, all circled with a framework of delightfully Gothic lyricism. There’s something of a …

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Review: Phantom Elite – ‘Blue Blood’

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 …

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