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 […]

Written by Wolves: Take Me Home (2023) 2023 is building to be a huge year for WBW, as they released no new material whatsoever in 2022 yet here we already have their third single for 2023, […]

Hundred Headless Horsemen: Apokalepsia / Journal (2022) In 2021, Hundred Headless Horsemen released their debut album, ‘Apokalepsia’, and then in 2022 released an additional version as an audio book. […]

Lamb Of God: Omens (2022) Here we are with Lamb of God back with their 9th (or 11th, depending on if you count what they have released as Burn The Priest) studio album, with a […]

Sleeping With Sirens: Complete Collapse (2022) I must admit to being something of a latecomer to Sleeping With Sirens, as this is the seventh studio album from the Florida-based band. In fact, it was […]

Sodom: 40 Years At War. The Greatest Hell Of Sodom (2022) To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of one of the most important thrash bands to come out of Germany, Tom Angelripper decided to revisit all their […]

Tyler Hood: The Magnolia Sessions (2022) Yet again we have another offering from the studio of Dan Emery where he invites someone from the bluegrass/country scene to the backyard to record under […]

Venom Inc.: There's Only Black (2022) In 2015, Tony Dolan (vocals, bass) was approached to reform the core line-up which recorded Venom’s 1990 ‘Prime Evil’, which resulted in the legen […]