This is the sixth release by Augie Haas on the Playtime Music label, and although he is best known as a well-respected trumpeter, educator and composer, here he has taken 11 jazz and doo wop classics with eight […]

I can’t have been the only person to be rather surprised to hear there was a new Axe album available, given that the only releases in the last 19 years have been an anthology and a live DVD. But yes, s […]

Blind Lemon Pledge is the alter-ego of composer and arranger James Byfield (who on this release also provides some guitar and vocals), and here he has pulled together a band to undertake a classic approach to […]

I am in a very fortunate position in that I have been writing about music for some 30 years now and have a reputation of sorts, which means I am often sent way more albums than I can cope with. So I have certain […]

This is the second album from Formicarius, who have brought in of Kevin Paradis of Benighted to provide drum duties this time around. He isn’t the only guest either as Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) and Nicholas M […]

Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to present you the third studio album by Falena: “Una seconda strana sensazione”, a fantastic, shuddering dark-prog journey in enigmatic labyrinths of delirium and int […]

“Piano-led music of considerable grace and beauty”
– Kerrang!

“Already Prog faves… excellent”
– Prog

“It’s difficult to fathom that this is a debut effort, a stunning one at that.”
– Distorted Sound M […]

UK foursome THE MUSTANGS have been a going entity since 2001, and over almost two decades as an active band they’ve played a substantial amounts of concerts, received numerous awards and have released almost a […]

Swiss post-rock quartet Hubris have announced the release of their new album “Metempsychosis” through Art As Catharsis Records on March 13th 2020.

Formed in 2014, the instrumental quartet is characterised by […]

Earlier this year I was raving to everyone about the wonderful artist Elfin Bow, and she has been repaying that by introducing me to some other wonderful artists I would otherwise probably have never come across, […]

This is the debut album by Totaled, and that is pretty much all I can tell you about the band as I don’t know who is involved, or even how many of them there are. According to the press release this is blackened h […]

This is the second full-length release from Swiss metal act Tyrmfar, following on from 2017’s ‘Human Abomination’. Since then they have replaced their singer Alex with Robin (they only use first names, and real […]

Polish band Vader were formed as long ago as 1983 by Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek and guitarist Zbigniew “Vika” Wróblewski, although over the years there have been multiple line-up changes with Peter being the only […]

This five-track EP originally wasn’t supposed to be coming out like this, but as the band explains, “We recorded those five songs in January , when we supposed to record full length album. However, we changed som […]

Wings of Destiny are a power metal band from Costa Rica, fronted by a Russian singer. This 2017 release was their third full-length album, and they recently released another, ‘Revelations’. This is the only alb […]

Memoriam were originally formed by singer Karl Willetts (Bolt Thrower) to fill the void left by the death of his bandmate, drummer Martin ‘Kiddie’ Kearns, and the new project was formed with old mates drummer And […]