Nicely done! LOVE MACHINE are back on the road all summer to play select festivals and the Nicely Done Tour 2019!

After three albums in the last five years, the Düsseldorfers have a new release in the form of […]

On this occasion it is a small orchestra that surrounds prolific author and musician ALDO PINELLI from Buenos Aires (former leader of the band Habitat).

An open project (which has also found collaborations in […]

Finland-based progressive metal act External have released a new single, “Anhedonia”. It’s their first release with guitarist Roger Lundberg, as well as the first with major songwriting contribution from bassist S […]

“Antenna” is the new album from The Gift, and will be released by Bad Elephant Music on 28th June 2019.

The new album sees The Gift consciously moving away from the longer symphonic pieces that characterised […]

MOOP is a crazy animal. Mixing metal heaviness with contempory jazz improv, MOOP plays a singular music, strong, full of break, meditative, even poetic. It hints and blares an hybrid «brutal jazz», with complex r […]

Lonny Ziblat was front man & leader of Modest Midget (“…the missing link between the Beatles & Frank Zappa…” – Music Maker NL). His new album ‘Dream Hunting’ will be presented in an intimate setting and with seve […]

“Shapelifter is a collection of songs exploring the guitar/electronic continuum and beyond, usually in the neighborhood of art rock/jazz.  The inspirations for the album were many – sounds collected from various p […]

A little over twenty years ago I was at Witchfest in Croydon to see the mighty Legend, but there was another band playing that night who I was incredibly keen to see as I had heard so much about them, Mediaeval […]

In 2018 Perdomo had the opportunity to fulfil a lifelong dream, while in the UK touring with Dave Kerzner he was able to book some time Abbey Road Studios and deliver a homage to The Beatles (with plenty of Todd […]

Fernando’s 2019 release is a sequel to the album before last, ‘Out To Sea’, with the artwork also being very similar indeed. There are fifteen studio songs, where for the majority Fernando provides all the music […]

Like most metalheads, I’ve always had a warm spot for Flotsam and Jetsam, and I would expect most to have a copy of their debut ‘Doomsday For The Deceiver’ in their collection (grief, it is more than 30 years […]

If ever there was a jazz musician who needs no introduction, it surely must be Ernest Gilmore Evans (1912 –1988), who as well as being an acclaimed musician in his own right, will always be remembered first and f […]

Back in 1997, Lugano-based rock band Gotthard released their fourth album, ‘D Frosted’, which not only was their first live album but was also acoustic. Within three months it had reached double-platinum sta […]

When HammerFall released their second album in 1998 they were following up from the incredible success of their debut, and cemented it with ‘Legacy Of Kings’ which charted in multiple territories including Top 20 […]

Having cut his teeth with Ripping Corpse and Morbid Angel, Erik Rutan formed Hate Eternal in 1997, since when he has been pursuing his own brand of Florida-style death metal which is both technical and brutal. […]

One day I will start keeping better notes, but until then I will continue at times to come across a CD which I am reviewing that I have no recollection of where it came from. It is particularly annoying these days […]

Johnny Gioeli first came to prominence as the singer with Hardline, later returning to the scene to sing with Axel Rudi Pell (where he has been now for the last 20+ years), and he also combines those roles with […]

Anyone who has been following my scribbles over the years will now that my normal listening practice is to play albums without any pre-conceived ideas and only read the press release when it is time to actually […]

I had a quick check of the dictionary to confirm my thoughts about what the album title means, and it is indeed a verb meaning “(of organic matter) become liquid, typically during decomposition.” Maestus eme […]

“Doomed Love” is the third EP by Russian Progressive Melodic Thrash/Death Metal band Druknroll. On the threshold of their sixth full-length album, Druknroll present this new EP, consisting of three […]