2018 Red Dwarf Recordings CD UK  56:35Mins

My Rating (Geoff Penn) 80/100

: Red Dwarf Recordings are issuing a selection of Alan’s solo material as well as some Pallas classics recorded at performances ca […]

Black Widow Records Italy 2018

Alternative/Prog Rock/Metal

CD 65:0 min

http://www.alchemwebsite.com/alchemband        http://www.facebook.com/pg/alchem.band/about/?ref

Geoff Penn – Rating 85/100

From a compos […]

Review by Geoff Penn

Private Press

UK 2020

Marco Royes, cover concept

Alan Royes is primarily an English businessman, who in his spare time has a real passion for rock music and playing the electric […]

Veteran composer and musician Krigeist, with past activities in both the UK and New Zealand, is currently based out of Serbia in Europe. His project Bròn has been in development there since at least 2014, and […]

Deep Field Records 46:15mins

Poland

Theatrical Psyche

By Geoff Penn -My Rating 90/100

This is certainly a period in time when there are a whole host of brilliant hard rock and progressive rock bands […]

It is impossible to know where to start when talking about the sheer delight of living in Aotearoa, New Zealand, but one of those has to be the way the country has been spared from the worst excesses of COVID-19 […]

It is impossible to talk about Stone Sour without also mentioning Slipknot, given that this was the band originally formed by singer Corey Taylor and former drummer Joel Ekman back in 1992, with guitarist Jim Root […]

I have long been a fan of the music coming out of warped brain of David Brenner, who generally operates under the name Gridfailure, and last year I came across the album he recorded with Christian Molenaar from […]

I have long been a fan of Backwater Records, one of those labels who continually release material of incredibly high quality from bands that many people outside a small circle will probably have never heard of. […]

I first came across Trivium when they released their second album, ‘Ascendancy’, in 2005, since when I have been fortunate enough to see them play live twice – once when they were supported by Whitechapel and o […]

Ninth album in, and Trivium in 2020 continue with the high quality for which they are known. In many ways this is even heavier than the previous one as there are some tinges of death influences here and there, but […]

Luxembourg-based composer and musician Jerome Reuter has led his project ROME for just over 15 years at this point, releasing new material at a steady pace, and with the last couple of years being among his most […]

Italy

69:32

Label : MaRaCashRecords  / Andromeda Relix

Released January 9th 2021

Hard Prog Rock

https://  http://www.andromedarelix.com

My Rating 85/100

In retrospect, there could be no better t […]

UK band AS DECEMBER FALLS was formed back in 2014, and have chosen the DIY approach to build a career ever since. With one album top their name and a second album to be released this coming summer, the band chose […]

UK band THE CHEMISTRY SET has been a feature of the English music scene since some time back in the 1980’s and they are still going strong several decades later. For the calendar year of 2021 they open their […]

US band STARER is the creative vehicle of composer and musician Josh HINES, a man that has been rather busy in the last couple of years as far as creating and releasing material is concerned: Starer is at least […]

By Geoff Penn

Oslo, Norway

Karisma

82:0

My Rating 85/100

Forming together in 1994 in the town of Skien, Norway as “Les Fleurs du Mal” they changed their name in 2008 to ‘Tusmørke’ (Twi […]