To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of their debut album, Hartmann have released an album containing five new songs, five cover versions and five live numbers recorded in concert, including some duets with his […]

Subtitled ‘The Music of Billy Strayhorn’, here pianist DiMartino is providing a tribute to Strayhorn (1915-1967) who will always be best remembered for his nearly three decades with Duke Ellington where he wor […]

Aural Music have always been a fascinating label, releasing music which is way out in left field, often with a very heavy base, but in all the years I have been listening to them I can honestly say it is the first […]

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Anno Mundi is a band founded in Rome, Italy, in 2009, that have always flaunted early Sabbath influences on their records. However, on their latest album, “Land Of Legends”, they have further […]

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Introduction: Whilst the following is my review of Barbara Rubin’s album ‘The Shadows Playground’ I contacted her for more infor […]

Here we have a split album between Midwestern black/shoegaze outfit Chrome Waves alongside one the most interesting bands around, New York City-area’s Gridfailure. The latter features David Brenner on his own, d […]

Between 2005 and 2010 singers Russell Allen (Symphony X, Adrenaline Mob) and Jørn Lande (Masterplan) worked with producer Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear, Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall) on three albums. There was a fu […]

PeacockSunrise Records (PSR) is an imprint of progressive rock label Melodic Revolution Records (MRR) based in Orlando, Florida, and their first release towards the end of 2019 was the solo album from […]

Sometimes referred to as V.S. Almanac or Victor Smolski’s Almanac, this is the band formed by ex-Rage guitarist Smolski. This 2016 was the debut release, and he brought in three singers in to help him out, n […]

Almanac in 2020 is a little different to those who appeared on the debut album, with Victor Smolski (guitars, cello, sitar, piano, keyboards) currently joined by singers Patrick Sühl and Jeannette Marchewka, bass […]

The Swiss ladies are back with their third album, the first full-length with new singer. Looking back at their last album I said “Burning Witches have returned with their second release with something that, at b […]

Back in 1990, pianist Mark Monts de Oca and drummer Jimmy Rivera formed a quartet at the Apple Jazz Club on Calle Loiza in Santurce, Puerto Rico, meeting bassist Tony Batista and guitarist Andre Avelino. Three […]

Here is another band I hadn’t realised were still at it, Cloven Hoof. I firmly remember them starting to make an impression just as the NWOBHM was starting to lose steam in the UK. There have been a few gaps o […]

According to Google Translate, the album title means ‘Darkness Is Needed’, which sounds somewhat apt as the Icelandic atmospheric black metal act are back with their fifth album. Although they were originally a d […]

Formed out of two local bands, Spectrum and Rawx, Quebec-based Simon Says released this album back in 1991 when it had just 7 songs. It is now being re-released by Escape Music who have given it a new front cover […]

I love it when bands don’t take themselves too seriously. When one gets past the comedy of the cover art which is so over the top it is the only possible reaction, one realises the first song is titled “ […]