by Kev Rowland | Feb 7, 2021 | Reviews
It is impossible to know where to start when talking about the sheer delight of living in Aotearoa, New Zealand, but one of those has to be the way the country has been spared from the worst excesses of COVID-19 due to a series of good decisions, luck, and...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 7, 2021 | Reviews
It is impossible to talk about Stone Sour without also mentioning Slipknot, given that this was the band originally formed by singer Corey Taylor and former drummer Joel Ekman back in 1992, with guitarist Jim Root coming onboard in 1995, before the band was put on...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 7, 2021 | Reviews
I have long been a fan of the music coming out of warped brain of David Brenner, who generally operates under the name Gridfailure, and last year I came across the album he recorded with Christian Molenaar from San Diego’s intense free jazz/noise collective Those Darn...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 7, 2021 | Reviews
I have long been a fan of Backwater Records, one of those labels who continually release material of incredibly high quality from bands that many people outside a small circle will probably have never heard of. Here we have a case in point with the third album by Tiny...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 7, 2021 | Reviews
I first came across Trivium when they released their second album, ‘Ascendancy’, in 2005, since when I have been fortunate enough to see them play live twice – once when they were supported by Whitechapel and once when they supported Disturbed. At the latter they were...
