Fully re-recorded, re-mixed and re-mastered, this 2020 edition of PERSEFONE’S debut album ‘Truth Inside the Shades’ came about after the band revisited this, the starting point of their career, during its 15th […]

After almost two years of search, the Chilean rock group Aisles welcome their new singer, Israel Gil, with the re-recording of the song “Smile of Tears”, available on the major streaming platforms HERE and als […]

A black and white cover which depicts an apocalyptic future, eleven songs in thirty minutes, this could only be hardcore punk, coming to us from L.A.. One has to say that in many ways this is quite an unusual […]

The album starts with an old blues, “Hell”, played on a steel guitar, along with sound effects of crackles from the vinyl, and a small amount of feedback over the top. This made me check the press release, and whe […]

Foetal Juice have been a mainstay of the British death scene since coming together in 2005, but although the core quartet have been stable since inception the band has recently been through significant change with […]

Italian trio Forgotten Tomb were formed by Ferdinando “Herr Morbid” Marchisio (vocals, guitars) back in 1999 and he released the first two depressive black metal albums providing all the parts himself, but it […]

Harvey Dalton Arnold will probably always be best remembered for his time with The Outlaws at the end of the Seventies, with whom he recorded three incredibly important albums (‘Hurry Sundown’, ‘Playin’ To Win’, ‘ […]

Originally from San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, and four-time Blues Music Award-winner, celebrates a career that exceeds a half century. The album features guest performances by […]

Drusuna is a Pagan Folk Band from Gallaecia (Northern Portugal), and were formed in 2009 by Sephirus Oakborn and brother Alvahagal with the concept of creating primitive sounds with only organic ethnic musical […]

Here we have another single from Friendly Folk Records where I have no idea who is actually performing on it, this time not helped by the fact that Harmony Glen (a six-piece Dutch group who have been performing […]

2020  Athens, Greece.

Private Press

Rating 90/100

Although ‘Guppy Fish’ was founded in Athens at the later part of 2011 it wasn’t until the early part of 2014 that they released their first record […]

Italy 2020

46:48

Rating 75/100

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It is always fascinating to learn how a band select their moniker. Some names have witty political implications others might be a play on words or […]