Riot V: Mean Streets (2024)

Riot V: Mean Streets (2024)

by | Sep 1, 2024 | Reviews

Riot were a band who appeared in many ways to get more praise in the UK than they did in their home of New York, with both ‘Rock City’ and ‘Narita’ gaining lots of praise during the NWOBHM era although their sound was quite different. It was always Mark Reale’s band,...
Randy Weinstein: HarmoniMonk (2024)

Randy Weinstein: HarmoniMonk (2024)

by | Sep 1, 2024 | Reviews

Even before playing this album I was a little bit in love with it, as not only does it feature seven compositions by the mighty Thelonious Monk, but the album cover screams Fifties/Sixties jazz or blues and looks mighty fine. During COVID lockdown harmonica player...
Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (2024)

Radam Schwartz: Saxophone Quartet Music (2024)

by | Sep 1, 2024 | Reviews

Given the title, one might expect Schwartz to be leading a saxophone quartet, and in some ways, one is correct but also very wrong. Schwartz is an organist, as well as a composer and arranger, so here we have an album with his name on the front cover, but he does not...
Pathology: Unholy Descent (2024)

Pathology: Unholy Descent (2024)

by | Sep 1, 2024 | Reviews

Pathology are back with their twelfth studio album, and their third with the same line-up of Dave Astor (drums), Daniel Richardson (guitars), Richard Jackson (bass) and Obie Flett (vocals). Astor is the only person who has been there since the beginning and is also...
Immortal Sÿnn: Hellspawn (2024)

Immortal Sÿnn: Hellspawn (2024)

by | Aug 28, 2024 | Reviews

I must confess the reason I picked up this promo was due to the label these guys are signed to. I first came across HMR all the way back in 1981 when I bought “Sweeties” by The Handsome Beasts, soon to be followed by their album (which has one of the most disturbing...