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 […]

What we have here is a throwback, something which in many ways fits very much in with the early Nineties style of black metal. The debut from Yorkshire-based quartet Ante-Inferno is raw, distressed, in your face […]

Caroline first came to prominence with her band Sunshine Blind, a goth/trip hop/darkwave act she started in 1991 with guitarist CWHK. They released four albums before breaking up in 2003, and since then Caroline […]

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I first came across saxophonist Carsten Sindvald when he was collaborating […]

Centinex originated in 1990 as a riff-oriented part of the classic Swedish death metal movement and disbanded in 2005 after releasing eight full-length albums. In 2014 they returned with a new line-up of Martin […]

As soon as I started playing the latest release from Centinex I was impressed, so much so that I felt it was almost as if it were a brand-new band. It was only later I was reading the press release and discovered […]

I often tell people “there is great music out there for those prepared to look”, and a little bit of background research on this band left me somewhat stunned. The reason they sound so incredibly tight is bec […]