There are multiple metal bands out there with the moniker ‘Paralysis’, but the one I am listening to here is the New Jersey-based thrash/crossover unit formed by singer/rhythm guitarist Jon Plemenik back in 201 […]

The first thing one notices when playing this album is that it feels very Norwegian, and not as if it is from a British Black Metal band at all, and then one hears the vocals of Gray Preston and it feels as if […]

Origin -Spain

2020

48:20

Rating 85/100

Tucked neatly along the banks of the Guadaíra River, 17 km southeast of Seville, is the town of ‘Alcalá de Guadaíra’ the home of our modern-day ‘Turde […]

The boys are back, four years after ‘Brotherhood of the Snake’, with their thirteenth studio album. I was a latecomer to the band, with ‘Dark Roots of Earth’ being the first time I really paid a great deal of atte […]

This is the second album from Tommy, following on from 2011’s ‘Unleash The Hounds’ which was put out as Tommygunn, which I presume is why we get the rather unusual ‘AKA Tommygunn’. Tommy contacted me directly […]

I remember when Tenacious D released “Tribute”, an awesome single with a great video behind it, and like many I immediately went out and purchased the album. To be honest it was a real mish mash, as some of the […]

UK duo Doris BRENDEL and Lee DUNHAM have been creating music together for the better part of a decade by now, establishing themselves as a create partnership that has as something of a specialty that they do not […]

Irealand

37.0 Mins

http://www.parhelia-band.com

Rating 80/100

After starting as a foursome way back in 2005, Dubliners Cathal Rodgers (Bass, Keys) and Greg Clarke (Guitars, Keys, Effects) are now left […]

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 […]