During the COVID lockdowns of 2021, Killswitch Engage decided to play a gig with no audience and stream it. Not only that, the setlist consists of 2019’s ‘Atonement’ in full, along with the 2000-released sel […]

There are times when one come across just one song from a band and it immediately means an investigation to discover more about them. That was the case when Lisa from MNNZ sent me a video link and asked if I had […]

There are times when one just looks at a release and hopes that it will live up to the promise of the packaging, and when I opened the envelope containing this the first thing I did was take it to my wife to show […]

It is possible that this is the last Fear Factory album from the band as we know it, as the only remaining constant member, singer Burton C. Bell left the year before this was released in 2021. His vocals are here […]

Here we have the latest release from The Hidden Flame a collaboration between singer Marianne Holland and multi-instrumentalist Martin Eve (4th Eden), which is 35 minutes long and contains 6 tracks. Musically this […]

This is the debut album from California-based trio Interloper who comprise Miles Dimitri Baker (ex-Rings of Saturn, ex-Ænimus), Aaron Stechauner (ex-Rings of Saturn, ex-Abiotic) and Andrew Virrueta (ex-Sea of […]

I first saw Kendall a few years ago when she opened for Looking For Alaska at The Anthology Lounge in Auckland, and I came away so impressed that I was soon reviewing her debut album ‘Red Sand’. I grabbed the fol […]

Kreator have always been deemed to be one of the most important thrash bands to come out of Germany, and that they are still going in the current day (and this week have released a new album, to be reviewed soon), […]

Although there is a band when it comes to performing live, in the studio Shadowcaster is a one-man affair with Trent Graham performing all manner of guitars and some keyboards. While it contains elements of the […]

Here we have the debut EP from Wellington-based octet {Revulva} which contains six songs at 27 minutes in length, three of which have been released as singles. They describe their music as “nu-jazz, nu-pop, n […]

There are times when nothing will hit the spot like a dirty filthy good old-fashioned hard-hitting rock and roll band, and that is exactly what we have here. If I didn’t know they were from Wellington I would h […]

I first came across Annvi last year when I was approached by her mother to see if I would mind writing her first ever press release. The reason it was from her mum and not Aanvi herself was because at the time she […]

Even before getting to the music contained within, there is a need to make a comment on the information provided within this digipak as it puts these performances into context, with an incredibly informative essay […]

I was working through some stuff the other day when I came across this album, which made me smile, but then had me doing some checking as surely, I had reviewed this when it was released back in 2015? A little […]

UK project The John Irvine Band have been around in some form or other for a bit over a decade now. From what I understand with few fixed elements in the band itself outside of main man John Irvine himself. […]