by Kev Rowland | Oct 1, 2023 | Reviews
Following on from ‘Bestial Devastation’, the trio of Max Cavalera (vocals, rhythm guitar), Jairo Guedz (lead guitar, bass), and Igor Cavalera (drums, percussion) went back to the studio to record the debut Sepultura album. At the time the guys were still struggling...
by Kev Rowland | Oct 1, 2023 | Reviews
Back with their third studio album, Phil Campbell (guitars) and his sons Todd (guitars), Tyla (bass), and Dane (drums) have welcomed in new singer Joel Peters and it sounds as if he has always been there. When one was the right-hand man for more than three decades of...
by Kev Rowland | Oct 1, 2023 | Reviews
If it wasn’t for the fact that I know this album was only recorded in 2020, I would swear it was lost tapes from the Seventies, but in some ways it possibly is. Air Raid were originally formed by singer and multi-instrumentalist Arthur Offen and guitarist Rick Hinkle...
by Kev Rowland | Oct 1, 2023 | Reviews
This is quite an extraordinary release, both in terms of its quality but also how it came about. Back in 2010 when Phil Lloyd Smee was designing artwork for the ‘Complete Sandy Denny Box Set’ he came across some notebooks of Sandy’s which contained lyrics, some full...
by Kev Rowland | Oct 1, 2023 | Reviews
According to singer Michael Murphy, “Goddess is love, it’s lust, sex, desire, devotion, adoration and hopeless, eternal connection. It’s both crippling affection and white, hot eternal love. It’s the dizzying realization that this devotion is infinite,...