Also released in 2020, this album is so very different in many ways to ‘Quatro’ so that it sounds as if it is by a totally different artist. Actually, in many ways it is, as Finbury is primarily a composer and not […]

Although these days I live in New Zealand, I was born and raised in a small fishing town in the West of England. Although my dad was a foreigner (although still born in Devon, it was all of 30 miles away), my mum […]

When it comes to underground music, real underground music, then there are few people who have had as much impact as Mick Magic. Not only did he have his own band in Magic Moments At Twilight Time, but he set up a […]

Say the name Steve Hunter to me, and one album will come crashing to the front of my mind, namely 1977’s ‘The Alice Cooper Show’. He and Dick Wagner locked together and helped Alice to produce one of the most […]

This album is actually credited to Dave Stryker with Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band. After several appearances as a guest with Dave Stryker’s Organ Trio, saxophonist Bob Mintzer (who serves as the principal c […]

Multi-Grammy Award winning vocalist/pianist Diane Schuur is back with her first album in six years, where she has chosen songs by some of her heroes; from Miles Davis to Carole King to Paul Simon to Percy […]

Enuff Z’nuff are back with their second album since frontman Donnie Vie departed (for the second time), with vocals again being undertaken by bassist Chip Z’nuff. It is pretty much the same line-up as 2018’s ‘Diam […]

This 2014 album was the third release from Auburn. At the time singer and songwriter Liz Lenten had been working with Gretchen Peters, who introduced her to producer Thomm Jutz, an award-winning bluegrass player, […]

Given the success of the previous album, Liz Lenten returned to Nashville in 2015 for the next release, to work yet again with producer/guitarist Thomm Jutz and the same band. However, this time around there was […]

2016 saw the third album in three years, again with Liz Lenten heading back to Nashville to record with producer/guitarist Thomm Jutz. This time around Justin Moses only provided dobro, so no room for violin or […]

One never knows what one is going to get with Avatar, as while they may have started life as yet another Swedish death metal act, they have broadened their horizons greatly since then. Their last album, 2018’s ‘ […]

Abrasive Trees is the solo project of Scottish-born guitarist and singer Matthew Rochford, a former member of Jo-Beth Young’s live and studio bands in RISE and Talitha Rise as well as being in the post-punk b […]

Battlegod Productions was formed in 1994 Label by Gorgoroth of Baltak and Buio Omega to release their own recordings and others within the Australian metal scene. Over the years they have extended their reach, and […]

Each year, MMR make available a free streaming compilation containing material from across their artists, as well as giving away a limited edition of the physical version at random to people who purchase some of […]

Hopefully, this is the last Christmas album on my review list, as we are already well into February and we are well past sell by date. One of the problems of not getting home very often is that when I am actually […]

My youngest daughter was for many years a competitive ballroom dancer, which in New Zealand and Australia is made up of three different disciplines of Ballroom, New Vogue and Latin, with five dances in each. […]

Alexander “Meatgrinder” Andreev has been leading the Russian quartet for some two decades now and shows no sign whatsoever of slowing down just yet. Although they are a death metal act, who have obviously been […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]