UK “Head In The Door Records”  2020

Total Time 54:21

http://www.johnirvine.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/johnkeirirvine

http://www.thejohnirvineband.bandcamp.com

Rating 85/100

Following an extremely comp […]

On Saturday November 28th Fusion – Music Without Boundaries will present their special On-Line Christmas Cracker event featuring an astounding range of progressive music talent, including Final Coil. The event […]

Maracash Recorsds 2020

http://www.theikanmethod.com

facebook.com/theikanmethod [email protected]

Rating 85/100

It is always such a motivating situation when reviewing an album to come across those […]

2018 Lizard Records / Black Widow

Progressive Rock- Symphoni / Baroque / folk

Italy CD   73:25 mins

http://www.ancientveil.it

Rating 90/100

The roots for the music on this album go way back to1985 when m […]

UK band TENEK first appeared back in 2007 with an initial EP, and have since then carved out their very own niche in an arguably more mainstream oriented part of the music scene in the UK and beyond with three […]

Private Press Norway 2019

http://www.facebook.com/aevintyrmusikk

Art Rock /Progressive

38:10 mins

Rating 90/100 A great album for your collection.

Tucked neatly along the south shore of Trondheim Fjord at […]

US band BIHARGAM is a relative newcomer to the metal scene, formed back in 2018 as a one man project for the first album, which was released in 2019, and since then morphing into a quartet. “Ove Tenebrae” is the […]

UK

BGO 2020 Reissue of Transatlantic Albums:-

 ‘The Gipsy (1970)’

 ‘Mr Fox (1971)’

Rating 80/100

A splendid two album British folk package published on a single CD that has been digitally remastere […]

On 1 December 2020, UK progressive rock band, CIRCU5, release a new single − Skin Machine − ahead of the follow-up to their self-titled 2017 debut album. Skin Machine will be available on all streaming and dow […]

Norway 2020

Apollon Records.

39:48 mins

http://www.brudini.com

Album link: https://soundcloud.com/brudini/sets/from-darkness-light/s-3YpHuJsvBQw

Rating 85/100

Every now and then somebody new and […]

US band SCAPHISM has been around in one form or another since 2007, exploring their particular brand of extreme metal on a number of EPs/demo tapes as well as on two studio albums. The most recent sign of recorded […]

Back in 1985 some guys together in Cleveland, Ohio, to form a band heavily inspired by the NWOBHM movement out of the UK. A year later they released their first demo tape, and then followed the usual pattern of […]

Atavist features Winterfylleth guitarist and vocalist, Chris Naughton, along with bassist Shane Ryan, drummer Callum Cox and vocalist Toby Bradshaw. They went on an extended hiatus after their second album, […]

I have no idea how long I have been in contact with Steve Mann at Backwater Records, but it has been quite a few years, and one thing that delights me is that he continuously strives to find great singers and give […]

Polish band Black Altar and Norwegian act Kirkebrann (which apparently means “church burning”) have both been releasing split albums in recent years, with the former not releasing an album of their own since 200 […]