This 2013 album was released in a flat heavy-duty sleeve, which is certainly different and ensures it will be laying flat on my CD shelves as otherwise it won’t fit! Released in 2013, this album came about after t […]

TFATD are back with the second single from their upcoming fourth album, ‘News From The Invisible World’, and again it features vocals from bassist Kevin Feazey. Given that the band have not had vocals on their son […]

Here we have a song which every parent can totally relate to, as it is Leigh’s song to her 4-month-old son, although it took 4 years to come up with the final version. She sings about the changes taking place a […]

The Knids are back with their second album, which has one of the coolest covers ever! I was a big fan of their debut, One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Manknid, and I am glad to report that this one […]

Auckland death metal outfit Silent Torture have been playing some well-received gigs recently, and now here they are back with their first new material since 2018’s Phallic Self Mastication EP. Formed in 2015, R […]

At the beginning of 2021 I was fortunate enough to attend one of the most incredible festivals I have been lucky enough to go to, Auckland Folk. I came away with friendships and a wealth of new musical […]

When I started work on my first book some eight years ago, I decided I was not going to listen to anything I was supposed to be reviewing during this period, and instead threw myself into the world of pre-war […]

Here we have the debut EP from New Plymouth trio Adam Colless (guitars, vocals), Jason Karam (bass, vocals, mellotron) and Mark Thomas (drums and percussion). The four songs, 23 minutes in length, show a band who […]

I do not have the energy to describe in detail what has happened to L.A. Guns over the years, but there is now only one band legally allowed to use the name without having another name attached to it, and that is […]

I first came across Maart when he was touring as part of Fairport Convention for the ‘Glady’s Leap’ tour, and during that period he was with the band, I saw them numerous times. I caught him a few times with Jethr […]

Due to their 40th anniversary being in the middle of a pandemic, Anthrax did what many other bands have done over the last few years which is play a gig without an audience and livestream it so fans could be […]

Last month I reviewed the single Forget What You Heard from these guys, and now I have the four-track EP from which it was taken. {Masslands} started as a project between Jacob Tait of {Orphic Décor} (who I also […]

JP Carroll (ex-{Armed in Advance}, {Swerve City}) is back with his latest album as Arrays, yet again proving what a talent he is as Patience Way takes us on a journey through different styles of melodic rock, […]

This trio is formed around singer/songwriters and father and son team Shayn (guitar, harmonica, viola, vocals) and Zephyr Wills (guitar, bass, vocal) along with Freddy Limbert (drums, vocals). Shayn is a […]

While the band name may be new, and this is their debut single, all three of the guys involved in this are no strangers to success in the NZ rock market as here we have a combination of drummer Nick Douch ({Ekko […]

What with the number of challenges this band have been going through over the years, from line-up changes through to legal battles, I had long given up on expecting a new album from Journey, yet here we are with […]

Grey Mouse is a Russian psychedelic/progressive rock band from Russia who were formed in Moscow in the late 90’s by bassist Alexey Chunikhin, who has remained the only constant part of the collective. They are n […]

By the time Moscow’s Grey Mouse returned with their second album in 2008 they had changed guitarists, with Arseny Fedorov now in that role while Herman Aleshin guested on two tracks as well. In many ways it is d […]

By the time Grey Mouse came back for their third album in 2013 there is no doubt they had been on quite a journey, but that is not the “trip” referred to in the title but instead is something of a rather more dru […]

Even though Grey Mouse were back with their fourth album only a year after their previous one, of course there had been some line-up changes. This time they had added a second sitar player in Sergey Perehov and […]