by Kev Rowland | Mar 31, 2026 | Reviews
British slam/brutal death metal outfit Engorgement having finally delivered their second album, some 14 years on from their debut, ‘Excruciating Intestinal Lacerations’. There have been some line-up shifts over the years, but founders Richard (bass) and singer Stu...
by Kev Rowland | Mar 31, 2026 | Reviews
Death Dealer are back with their fourth studio album, the second with the line-up of singer Sean Peck (Cage, The Three Tremors, Denner Shermann), guitarists Ross “The Boss” Friedman (Manowar, The Dictators, Shakin’ Street, Ross The Boss Band) and Stu Marshall...
by Kev Rowland | Mar 31, 2026 | Reviews
The guys from Long Island felt that death metal was not brutal enough for them back at the end of the Eighties, and they created their own version, ‘slam’ metal, a version of death metal featuring characteristic ‘breakdowns’ that often prefaced a furious...
by Kev Rowland | Mar 31, 2026 | Reviews
Originally released in 1957, this was actually Monk’s second solo piano album, although it was the first to be recorded for an American label (Riverside) and distributed in the States. It captures Monk in a reflective mood, which nearly 70 years after its recording...
by Kev Rowland | Mar 31, 2026 | Reviews
A hierophant is “a person, especially a priest, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles”. Yes, I had to look it up as the only other time I have ever come across the word is on Steve Hackett’s wonderful debut, ‘Voyage of the Acolyte’, and the songs...
