The Wall

UK band TALES OF AUTUMN started out back in 2014, and once their current line-up solidified they went out and focused on becoming a good live band, a choice that have earned them some plaudits in the last couple […]

Back in 2000, I was lucky enough to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Hammy O, but to be honest what I was really excited about that night was the support band, The Company of Snakes. I longed for the days when […]

LA based Terror have always been a name synonymous with hardcore, sticking hard to the faith since their inception in 2002. After six studio albums, a series of live albums, splits, compilations and EP’s under t […]

This is a somewhat unusual album, in that for the most part it is spoken word with some quite different accompaniments from flamenco guitar to avant garde jazz, Americana, percussion and more. Bell actually made […]

In between the third and fourth Walfad albums, singer and guitarist Wojciech Ciuraj took time out to record a solo album, bringing in different musicians and flavours from what he had been doing within the band […]

I’ve only just come across this 2016 album from multi-instrumentalist Tone Tanner, and I am so glad I have. It is a concept album telling the story of “55 year old Barry – a cocksure but ultimately failed mus […]

Treat may have taken a break at one point during their career, but the
current line-up of Robert Ernlund (vocals), Anders Wikström (Guitars and backing vocals), Patrick Appelgren (keyboards, guitar and backing […]

It is hard to imagine in this world of 24/7 connectivity, but there was once a time where there was no such thing as internet. Consequently the only way to discover information was by buying books, and I have […]

Apparently this 5-track 22-minute-long EP was released in June, but it appears this Belfast-based quintet have just started working with a PR company who decided that it would be an idea to have another go with […]

With more interest in the band currently being generated, they felt the time was right to also release a free live EP. On Saturday August 11th 2018 Oracle exploded onto the New Blood stage at the UK’s premiere m […]

Four songs, seventeen minutes in length, this is the debut EP from Scottish metal quartet Cerberon. Obviously influenced by early Venom, as well as Machine Head and Behemoth, this is a type of blackened metal […]

It is a long time I last heard Amaranthe, and the only other album I have in my collection is their 2011 debut, but f our albums into their career, they have apparently racked up north of 118 million YouTube […]

I first really started paying attention to Atreyu with the release of 2004’s ‘The Curse’, but although I grabbed all their albums up to 2009’s ‘Congregation of the Damned’ I hadn’t realised they had got back toge […]

I don’t get to hear many bands from India, but I am glad I have come across this one. This is the debut release from Dirge, which is also available through Bandcamp, and they are taking doom and sludge and m […]

UK band THE PARASITIC TWINS are a fairly new addition to the metal scene in the UK. The band revolves around key members Max Watt and Dom Smith, and so far they have two singles to their name, in addition to the […]

Swiss band INVOKER have been around the block a few times by now, closing in on a 7 year long history as an active band, and with one full album and a couple of EP’s to their name. “Cursed To Feel” is the most […]

Some 30 years ago I could often be found at the Half Moon in Putney on a Sunday lunchtime, when a band could be found playing for fun and beer. Said band was based around Steve Waller (Manfred Mann’s Earth B […]

The University of North Texas has been running a big band jazz program since the late 40’s, when the genre was in its heyday, and if this recording is anything to go by then it is showing no sign yet of slowing d […]

This album may start with strummed acoustic guitars, but there is a feeling of menace contained within it, and soon the guys are blasting off into the blackened death metal with which they have built their […]