Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth (2025)

Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth (2025)

I must confess I was very surprised indeed when I saw this album was being released, as while Skunk Anansie were one of the most important British rock bands of the Nineties I had not thought of them in years. Formed in 1994, their debut album ‘Paranoid &...
Petri Lindström Project: Imaginary Soundtrack (2020)

Petri Lindström Project: Imaginary Soundtrack (2020)

As well as being the founder and bassist of Progeland and playing in both Corvus Stone and Voice of The Enslaved, multi-instrumentalist Petri Lindström has also released two solo albums. For the 2016 debut he wanted to provide a tribute to Black Sabbath by performing...
Paths to Deliverance: Ten (2025)

Paths to Deliverance: Ten (2025)

My understanding is that Paths to Deiverance are now a full band, but at the time of recording it was just A.S.A (Alkhemia, Azziard) on vocals, guitar and bass plus drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted). I am guessing the debut album is called ‘Ten’ as it contains ten...

ESP PROJECT (UK) Velvet Crunch

There are artists that can become not just occasional lovers but true long-term partners, proving the value of consistently extolling the virtues that can exist between musician and fan. One cannot exist without the other, a truism maintained since the first...

AXIOM 9 (SPAIN) Belphegore’s Prime

Want to veer into outer space, where time and distance mean nothing at all? Where velocity does not kill. Where one can drift along for eons? Axiom 9 are a talented crew from Madrid, Spain and this album is a 74-minute single track composition! Take that, modern...

CAFUNE (ITALY) Tra Le Corde dei Racconti

There is always time for folk-rock, as anything medieval, baroque or renaissance in particular will ring my bell and bang my gong. The Italian minstrels in particular are no slouches in that department as artists like Bededeum, Gian Castello, Corde Oblique, Crystal...