LONG EARTH (SCOTLAND) An Ordinary Life These Scottish veteran musicians released “The Source” in 2017, an excellent debut album that set the foundation for a huge upgrade on their […]

ESP PROJECT (UK) 22 Layers of Sunlight The Rogue needs to immediately correct a massive injustice, putting all pretenders for review on a temporary hold, before being unceremoniously […]

VYÖNI (NORWAY) The Tripoint Some interesting little tidbits to get the appetite going, VYÖNI being a small town in Northern Sweden, near the Finland border. The […]

BAKULLAMA (USA) Sleepers One cannot survive just on polished, finely chiseled progressive rock albums all the time, and I know for a fact, that many aficionados actually […]

PARALLELS (SWEDEN) Exodus Not to be confused with a similarly named US Band and their Yes tribute Awaken, this veteran Swedish trio opt for a more accessible sound, most […]

NINE STONES CLOSE (UK) Diurnal After a long and self-imposed silence, guitarist and composer Adrian Jones found a great amount of inspiration, some good and some bad, upon […]

NORTHODOXIAN (ESTONIA) same Finally, I get to focus on this interesting project from Estonia, a country for which I have had a lengthy fascination that I cannot really explain, […]

Living State: Stalker (2024) single Auckland-based Living State continue to release catchy singles and having seen them play a few times I know they power through the live environment as […]

Hideous Divinity: Unextinct (2024) Between 2012 and 2019 Italian technical death metal act Hideous Divinity released four full-length albums, but it has taken five years for them to return […]

Foncedalle: Foncedalle (2024) This is the debut album by French act Foncedalle, who comprise Marius Mermet (guitar, vocals), JD Mimouni (drum machine, synth) and Clément Maltassat […]

Crucial Velocity: Crucial Velocity (2023) I must admit the reason I grabbed this album was due to some of the people involved as it sounded interesting. This band originally commenced as a […]

The Contractions: 1980 (2024) The Contractions (I don’t know why there is no “The” on the cover, but everything I can find on them has “The”) were an all-female punk trio from San […]

The Brat: Straight Outta East L​.​A. (2017) I get offered a lot of albums to review on a daily basis, with most of the emails being filed in case I need to reference them later, but without […]

Sam Ross: Live at the Mira Room, Vol. II (2023) In many ways this feels like the beginning of a whole new world, and I am sure this is not the last time we will come across an album like this. On one […]

Red Hot Shame: You Can't Make Me (2023) Red Hot Shame is an indie rock group from a Northern California where the mainstay is singer-songwriter Xeff Scolari who works with a fluctuating line-up […]