Album Reviews

“I’m still fucking here. Is that all you fucking got?” It only takes a few words to create a reaction. To create an emotion. To create a feeling. And the first words that Chris Motionless screams on Motionless in White’s 7th album, Decades, do just that – because right from …

Independent artists When Rivers Meet’s new album ‘Rhythm Rust & Static’ isn’t listed on A****n’s UK site on CD, but, and this is an intriguing point: 2021’s ‘Saving Grace‘ is. For the princely sum of £28.84, and that is a second-hand copy. Used. Not new. Capisce? If you would prefer …

The brainchild of the very-much-in-demand producer and mixer Felix Heldt (Feuerschwanz, dArtagnan, Visions of Atlantis, Warkings), German zombie-themed band Dominum have quickly gained a reputation as one of the bands to look out for on the live circuit, and for good reason, as they are an insanely good live act. …

“The band still records the way it always did: we rehearse, we practice, we get the arrangement sorted, and when the time comes, we sit in a circle in the room around the [drum] kit basically, and we have all the gear in isolation rooms around the studio and small …

With Skid Row on temporary hold while they seek a new vocalist, the time is perfect for co-founder, bassist, and songwriter Rachel Bolan to release his debut solo album, ‘Gargoyle Of The Garden State’, under the name BOLAN. For those who prefer Perry to Tyler, Sambora to JBJ, Ace to …

Literally translating as a dark, chilling shiver or a horrific chill, Finnish soprano Tarja’s immaculate new album, ‘Frisson Noir’, is about the physical reaction that music can provoke, the shiver that runs through the body when sound, emotion, and performance align in a real moment. One in the eye for …

With Tori Amos recently releasing her sprawling, near-80-minute, fully immersive concept album ‘In Times of Dragons’, fans of dark, emotionally heavy melancholic music have been spoiled of late. On a less grandiose scale (but just as immersive), British multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter A. A. Williams has been quietly releasing some of …

Shinedown in numbers: 25-year career, thus far; more than 10 million albums sold worldwide (including the double-platinum ‘Sound of Madness’); over 8.3 billion global streams; 15 platinum and gold singles; the most No. 1s in Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart history (23); named the number-one act on Billboard’s Greatest of …

With Aerosmith no more (or, if you pay attention to the rumourmongers in ‘Murica, is something on the way?), and (sadly) a Thunder-sized gap in the market, the time is perfect for South-London rockers The Karma Effect to build on the head of steam built up from two well-received albums, …

With AI-generated music looming large in the background, and “artists” such as “Eddie Dalton” actually breaking into the Official UK Singles Charts (meaning that the Official Charts endorses computer trickery), it’s a palate cleanser when an album like ‘Love Is A Wish Away’ lands on the desk. Previously only available …