Factory Of Art: Point Of No Return (1997)The following year the same line-up returned with a 3-track EP, and in some ways it is very much a continuation of where they have been previously, but […]

Factory Of Art: The Tempter (2002) It took until 2002 for Factory of Art to return with their next, and so far last, album, ‘The Tempter’. There had been a reset during this period, with […]

Unwanted Subject: Sons of Savages (2023) single I have caught Unwanted Subject in concert a few times over the last couple of years, and while they have been getting better each time I have seen them, […]

Slipknot: The End, So Far (2022) Here we have the band’s seventh studio album, and their last with Roadrunner after more than 20 years with the label. As is my custom, I had not read a […]

Slipknot: Adderall (2023)This six-track EP was released at the beginning of June, and apparently is the first EP in their history. I am somewhat confused as to why this has been […]

Stryper: The Final Battle (2022) When I came back from university in 1984 I was intrigued to discover that my sister had been seeking out Christian rock music, which soon gained the […]

Type O Negative: Dead Again (2007) I am not sure how I first came across Type O Negative, but given I was involved with Roadrunner Records back in the Nineties I guess it was probably […]

Vio-Lence: Eternal Nightmare (1988) When people refer to Vio-lence these days, it is normally to say this was the band Rob Flynn was in before he formed Machine Head, and that it was where […]

Lost Vessels: F.M.B. (2023) single I was at Crushfest last week and bumped into some of the guys from Lost Vessels who proudly told me their second single was coming out yesterday, but I […]

Asta Diankha: Time To Shine (2019) I always look forward to each issue of Acid Dragon, as not only do I enjoy the content contained within one of the world’s longest running physical p […]

Erzatz: Meian (2017) Here we have another CD sent to me by Thierry Sportouche from France, and this time around it is a Lyon-based duo, Erzatz, and their 2017 album, […]

Gridfailure: Perpendicular To The Living Ones (2022) This is the first fully solo album from David Brenner since the Covid-lockdown-released ‘Epicenter MMXX: Quarantine Instrumentals’, and it finds him bac […]

Outshape: Enter The Bubble (2017) Another CD from Thierry, another older release (2017), and yet another band which appears to have released something and then disappeared without trace. […]

Richard Gorman: Ship of Fools (2019) Living on the other side of the world, and therefore not being impacted by Brexit or any UK politics whatsoever means I am not the target audience for […]

Grant Geissman: Blooz (2022) 35 years down the road, countless thousands of reviews and literally millions of words on the subject, and I am quite used to being out of step with many […]

Jerusalem: Jerusalem (1972) In a somewhat strange coincidence I was reading about this rare album and deciding I really ought to track it down when I was sent a copy of it to review […]

Lost Vessels: All This Time (2023) single I must admit I was not that impressed when I first saw Lost Vessels play at Crushfest, something they later admitted to me was the worst gig of their […]

Rain: Love and War (2023) single It has been quite a while since I last heard from Wellington-based singer songwriter Cathy Elizabeth, and back then Rain was seen solely as a studio […]