by Kev Rowland | Mar 5, 2023 | Reviews
Can it really be more than 20 years since One of Norway’s most creative black metal bands released ‘Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia’? At the time they had gone through some artistic and personnel changes which would shape their future, with the arrival of...
by Kev Rowland | Mar 5, 2023 | Reviews
Nazareth are one of the longest-running and most important rock bands to ever come out of Scotland, and even if we discount the years that most of the founders were playing together as The Shadettes, here is a band who has celebrated more than 50 years together....
by Kev Rowland | Feb 26, 2023 | Reviews
It is some 18 months since I last reviewed a recording by Crying Club, which was the single Taxi Man, but I did see them at EmoFest last year where three of the songs on this five-track thirteen-minute-long EP were played. While their music is solidly rooted in the...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 26, 2023 | Reviews
Flying Man is the stage name of Dunedin based Irish-born live-looping guitarist and singer/songwriter Alan Ned Gray. Flying Man’s song-writings sit in the electroacoustic realm – playing programmed beats, live looping and layered harmonies. Here he has been...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 26, 2023 | Reviews
The word “supergoup” is not one to be bandied around lightly, yet that was very much the first thing which came to mind when I came across this new formation. During one of the many lockdowns, guitarist Nail Vincent ({Devilskin}) started working on new material, and...
