Four years since the release of Disconnected, Prog Rockers Airbag are set to release their fifth full-length album. Titled A Day At The Beach, the album will be released on the 19th June on Karisma Records, and […]

3 South & Banana is the musical moniker of Berlin-based, French singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Aurélien Bernard. His new single and video 55 Million Light Years Away is out today with a […]

Here it is, in these dark times, the first single Astral Traveller, from the upcoming self titled Smokemaster album, out on Tonzonen Records on April 24, 2020. Get uplifted in isolation!

The video is directed […]

ImageI have no idea whatsoever of how many albums I have been sent to review over the years, and they have come through in many forms. Back in the day I was often sent white label cassettes or demo tapes and even […]

When I saw this album I was immediately intrigued, as Uriah Heep singer Bernie Shaw hasn’t released much material at all outside the bands he has been involved with at the time, and I have always loved his v […]

It is fair to safe that I’m not a massive fan of the only other release I have heard from Botanist, and I’m still not too sure about this one, but my mind is slowly starting to get around to understand what thi […]

It is bad form to copy sentences from press releases, for obvious reasons, but I love the introduction to this band: “Born under the vast skies of the Norfolk countryside, in the solitude of the secretive w […]

Winnipeg-based Cell are back with their second album, following on from 2016’s ‘The Frozen Moon of Erebath’. Hyperion (guitar, vocals) and Deimos (bass, backing vocals) have been joined for this album by drumm […]

Crusade of Bards are based in Madrid, and this is the debut album from the symphonic metal band. They include cello as one of their instruments, not something normally associated with a metal act, and consist of […]

Some 27 years since the last album ‘The Law’, and nearly 30 years since the iconic debut ‘Slaughter In The Vatican’, Exhorder are back. The only original members are singer Kyle Thomas and guitarist Vinnie LaBella […]

Liz is of course the lead singer with Dark Beauty, but she is releasing a series of songs which allows her to experiment with different forms of music away from the band, which is known for its cinematic […]

Legendary Seattle Psych rock band, Sky Cries Mary, have released their 11th studio album, Secrets Of A Red Planet, on Trail Records.

The band will also release a short film based on the single Trapeze Dancers, […]

The best-kept secret of the Danish underground – A hallucinating Progressive Black Metal offering

Danish progressive black metal enigma (0) has just released their newest single “Skarntyder”, fresh off the […]

According to the press release these guys are an extreme metal band, but if they are then they are like no other extreme band I have ever heard! What we actually have is a band firmly rooted in blues-based rock […]

Having read the name of the band, and seen the artwork, I don’t have to tell you what sort of music we have here. Yep, it’s The Osmonds, I mean, it’s brutal death metal. Formed a few years ago by members of Booka […]

I must confess to not knowing a great deal about this Danish band apart from they are a trio and I think this is their third full-length album. With a title such as ‘The Skeleton Is Just A Coat Hanger; These Are T […]

I must confess that when I saw this album and read about it, I was more than a little intrigued. Like many people my age I have been fully aware of Pat Travers and remember him from the Seventies and Eighties in […]

Originally formed in the north of England in 2013, the band went by the name of Sheol for the first year before changing to Sathamel. They went down the traditional route of gigging where they could, releasing […]

Here is the tenth studio album by Finnish Power Metal act Sonata Arctica, and by now we all know what to expect and they yet again deliver that with loads of harmonies and hooks. Apparently, they wanted a more […]