Doug MacDonald: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (2024) Over the years guitarist Doug MacDonald has operated in many different settings, including his own big band and an all-star group (the latter is featured […]

HAZE (UK) The Water’s Edge Stubborn resistance, artistic integrity and boundless fortitude are the first words to come to mind with this UK band that has been around for 46 years […]

CASTLE MOUNTAIN MOON (GERMANY) Six Tales of Perception In a classic Prog pincer movement and with exquisite timing, I received a request to review from Bad Dog Promotions, where I immediately recognized the […]

PHOG (France) Elements While on the subject of one-man multi-instrumentalists, Frenchman Philippe Ogier has been a prolific and consistent artist, releasing an album on a near […]

Paul SADLER (UK) The Irrational Never was a big fan of reviewing a single or an EP, anything shorter than 30 minutes was always a heavy burden, perhaps due to my “opus” fixation, wan […]

Disgorged Foetus: Obscene Utter Gore Annihilation (2023) French Death Gore Grind outfit Disgorged Foetus have been around in a few different iterations since 1996 (although they did officially split between […]

David Bailis: Tree of Life (2024) On this five-track 27-minute-long instrumental release guitarist Bailis is joined by the tenor-saxophonist Chris Speed, Eric Lane on piano and synth […]

Home Service: A Live Transmission (2024) When thinking about the folk-rock scene in the UK, it is no surprise that Ashley Hutchings is rightly referred to as “the guv’nor” given he was a found […]

Pitch Shifter: Peel Sessions 1991​-​93 (2024) Yes, I do know the band these days are known as Pitchshifter, but originally, they spelled it as two words, and when these sessions were recorded for […]

Margaret Slovak & Chris Maresh: A Star's Light Does Fall (2024) However much I love metal and rock music, there will always be a very warm place in my heart for acoustic as there is no room to hide, everything has to […]

Various Artists: Let’s Have Rockin’ Christmas. Vol. 9 (2024) This is the first album I have come across from Bongo Boy Records, and if they are all as interesting as this one, I can see I am going to be looking out […]

SPIRERGY (UK) Journey Beyond Well, along came another unexpected spidery surprise, a chance meeting on the web, that had me immediately entangled within the claws of a new prog […]

Coffin Rot: Dreams of the Disturbed (2024) Sometimes the only thing which will work is sheer unadulterated death metal, which is why I think I grabbed the promo for this album as there was […]

Ron Keel: Keelworld (2024) Ron Keel surely needs no introduction, first making a name for himself by fronting Steeler before forming Keel who sold two million albums in the […]

Verni: Dreadful Company (2024) Once punk outfit Lubricunts bit the dust, bassist DD Verni decided not to waste any time and put out an advert looking for people to form a new band. The […]

Nicola LORI (ITALY) Urban Vision Being a huge fan of Roman composer Stefano Panunzi as well as the band Fjieri, an offshoot solo album by one of the main collaborators is always most […]

BELIEVE (POLAND) The Wyrding Way A seven-year wait is way too long a penitence, after the sublime Seven Windows (2017), this celebrated Polish combo launches The Wyrding Way, reuniting […]

KORNMO (NORWAY) Varjevndognsnatt Another band that desperately needs attention in terms of positive reviews is this Norwegian symphonic instrumental combo whose career has been nothing […]