This is the second album from Tommy, following on from 2011’s ‘Unleash The Hounds’ which was put out as Tommygunn, which I presume is why we get the rather unusual ‘AKA Tommygunn’. Tommy contacted me directly […]

I remember when Tenacious D released “Tribute”, an awesome single with a great video behind it, and like many I immediately went out and purchased the album. To be honest it was a real mish mash, as some of the […]

A black and white cover which depicts an apocalyptic future, eleven songs in thirty minutes, this could only be hardcore punk, coming to us from L.A.. One has to say that in many ways this is quite an unusual […]

The album starts with an old blues, “Hell”, played on a steel guitar, along with sound effects of crackles from the vinyl, and a small amount of feedback over the top. This made me check the press release, and whe […]

Foetal Juice have been a mainstay of the British death scene since coming together in 2005, but although the core quartet have been stable since inception the band has recently been through significant change with […]

Italian trio Forgotten Tomb were formed by Ferdinando “Herr Morbid” Marchisio (vocals, guitars) back in 1999 and he released the first two depressive black metal albums providing all the parts himself, but it […]

Harvey Dalton Arnold will probably always be best remembered for his time with The Outlaws at the end of the Seventies, with whom he recorded three incredibly important albums (‘Hurry Sundown’, ‘Playin’ To Win’, ‘ […]

Originally from San Francisco, Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, and four-time Blues Music Award-winner, celebrates a career that exceeds a half century. The album features guest performances by […]

Drusuna is a Pagan Folk Band from Gallaecia (Northern Portugal), and were formed in 2009 by Sephirus Oakborn and brother Alvahagal with the concept of creating primitive sounds with only organic ethnic musical […]

Here we have another single from Friendly Folk Records where I have no idea who is actually performing on it, this time not helped by the fact that Harmony Glen (a six-piece Dutch group who have been performing […]

What we have here is a throwback, something which in many ways fits very much in with the early Nineties style of black metal. The debut from Yorkshire-based quartet Ante-Inferno is raw, distressed, in your face […]

Caroline first came to prominence with her band Sunshine Blind, a goth/trip hop/darkwave act she started in 1991 with guitarist CWHK. They released four albums before breaking up in 2003, and since then Caroline […]

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I first came across saxophonist Carsten Sindvald when he was collaborating […]

Centinex originated in 1990 as a riff-oriented part of the classic Swedish death metal movement and disbanded in 2005 after releasing eight full-length albums. In 2014 they returned with a new line-up of Martin […]

As soon as I started playing the latest release from Centinex I was impressed, so much so that I felt it was almost as if it were a brand-new band. It was only later I was reading the press release and discovered […]

I often tell people “there is great music out there for those prepared to look”, and a little bit of background research on this band left me somewhat stunned. The reason they sound so incredibly tight is bec […]

There is no doubt in my mind that one of the finest discoveries I have made musically over the last few years is the amazing singer Daria Kulesh. Coming from a strong Russian and Ingush heritage, her albums are […]

Over the last few years, I have been reviewing some fascinating Russian bands, and now Der Finger has just come to my attention. They may have a German name and be signed to an Italian label with their Bandcamp […]

After she released her third album, “Stories From Beneath”, in 2004, Maryen moved to Springbrook Mountain, Gold Coast, Queensland, to raise her family on an off-the-grid mountaintop. Here she instigated and ran […]

This is the debut album by drummer Paul Shaw as bandleader, although he initially made his reputation as a drummer in military jazz orchestras before becoming a teacher and well-known musician in the Atlanta area. […]