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Hanging Garden: Isle of Bliss (2026) There are not too many death/doom/gothic metal bands who have two synth players in the band, but that is what we have here as the current line-up of […]

Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar [Remastered] (1963) This 1963 Riverside release has also now been remastered and captures Wes with Melvin Rhyne (organ) and Jimmy Cobb (drums) on April 22nd of that year. […]

Wes Montgomery: Full House [Remastered] (1962) Recorded live at Tsubo in Berkeley, California on June 25, 1962, ‘Full House’ was originally released on the Riverside label, since when it has been rei […]

Marcel Singor: Anemoia (2026) This is the third solo album from Dutch musician Marcel Singor, who is probably best known for his work with Kayak, Ayreon, Star One, Bas Bron and Plan […]

Lou Gramm – 2026 – Released I first came across Foreigner with their 1977 single “Cold As Ice” and soon tracked down their excellent debut plus the two albums which followed, but […]

Zan Zone: The Rock Is Still Rollin' (2026) I must have some sort of misspent childhood, because as soon as I saw this cover I thought of Sisyphus and his eternal punishment in Hades of pushing a […]

The Grand Undoing: Songs For The Sleeping (2026) This is the fifth album by Boston-based The Grand Undoing, a band which is more like one man, lead vocalist, bassist, guitarist, and songwriter Seth […]

Threat Signal: Revelations (2026) It has been nine years since the release of their fourth album, ‘Disconnect’, and there have been a few changes since then as while long-standing mem […]

Sepultura: The Cloud of Unknowing (2026) I am sure I will not be the only person who will be sorry to see the end of Sepultura when they complete the current tour as their albums in recent […]

Corpse Water: …Something in the Water (2026) Back when I was at university a million years ago, I discovered that if I was feeling at all down the best way to get out of the funk was to play ‘No S […]

Castle Rat: The Bestiary (2025) I was checking through a promotional music site one evening to see what was available and the cover to this caught my attention and I immediately thought […]

Vomitory: In Death Throes (2026) Formed all the way back in 1989, there is no doubt that Vomitory have had a huge impact on the death metal scene in Sweden, releasing eight albums […]

Ted Rosenthal Trio: Classics Reimagined. Impromp2 (2025) This is the third in Rosenthal’s planned series of four albums, ‘Trios In 4 Acts’, and is the follow-up to his 2010 album, ‘Impromptu’. As with that rele […]

Nine Treasures: Seeking the Absolute (2025) Although this is the Mongolian folk-metal band’s fifth album, it is their debut for Metal Blade Records and the first to gain a global release. Formed b […]

Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (2025) Maja Jakupovic, known artistically as Maja Jaku, is originally from Kosovo, and here she has returned with her fifth album. Recorded over two days in […]

Jung Stratmann Quartet: Confluence (2025) On this 29-minute-long 5-track EP South Korean pianist Sujae Jung and German bassist Wolf Robert Stratmann team up with guitarist Steve Cardenas and […]

Aeldfire: Elements (2025) I was on the Mac one night and started wondering what had happened to Greenrose Faire, a band I really admired, and it didn’t take much searching to d […]

Mantas: Winds Of Change (1988) There is no doubt that Jeff ‘Mantas’ Dunn has a lot to answer for, as there are very few bands can say they released an album which created such an imp […]

Frostlake: The Weight of Clouds (2021) I really enjoyed the most recent album from Frostlake, ‘Shattered Stone’, so much so that I decided to discover their previous release which was from 202 […]

Howard Rankin: A New Day [Photography Book] (2026) I have a great many music books in my collection, but this is a new style for me, namely a book of concert photos taken over the tours which tied in with […]