Formed out of two local bands, Spectrum and Rawx, Quebec-based Simon Says released this album back in 1991 when it had just 7 songs. It is now being re-released by Escape Music who have given it a new front cover […]

I love it when bands don’t take themselves too seriously. When one gets past the comedy of the cover art which is so over the top it is the only possible reaction, one realises the first song is titled “ […]

Unless you are lucky enough to live in somewhere like NZ, there is no live scene at the moment (apparently when L.A.B. played recently it was the first arena gig anywhere in the world for months. I have been using […]

I had to do a double take when I saw the name of this band, surely it couldn’t be the same Liar who released ‘Set The World On Fire’ back in 1978? That was their second album, and it was also to be their last […]

At long last we have the first solo album from Marko Hietala (no, I have not spelled it incorrectly, historically he has been known as “Marco” but on this album has amended the spelling back to what it should be) […]

Unless Björn Strid (lead vocals) and David Andersson (guitar) are careful, people are soon going to start talking about Soilwork as their side band as opposed to this one. Formed by the pair back in 2007 when […]

This is the second album from Australian act Oath of Damnation, some six years on since the debut. Mind you, since then they have parted ways with keyboard player and lead singer Formosus which can always cause […]

One can probably infer from the cover art that the RJ in question (Reginald Johnson) is a keyboard player, and the title refers to the way he mixes together the genres of electric soul, jazz, r&b and gospel […]

A multi-talented musician, Sarah Elgeti (tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet) has led her own quartet since 2007, composing, arranging and playing her own brand of modern jazz inspired by her Scandinavian […]

At long last Seven Spires are back with their second album, which has now seen them signed with Frontiers Music. I was a big fan of their debut album ‘Solveig’ where I said “This is awesome, and the more I have […]

London-based brutal death metal act Twitch Of The Death Nerve were formed as long ago as 2004, and released their first material as a split with Corpse Carving and Bludgeon the following year when they were just a […]

If one was to search for John Blangero on Google, one would be inundated with scholarly and academic references as he is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley […]

It is not often I feel totally unprepared and unable to write a review of an album, and it only happens when I am sent something which is so far outside my own musical terms of reference that I find I am […]

There have been a couple of bands called Deranged from Sweden alone, but what we have here is the one originally from Hjärup, Skåne, who have been playing uncompromising brutal death metal for nearly 30 years. T […]

Disillusive Play are a Greek melodic hard rock band who have been around for some ten years and self-released this their debut album in 2018, featuring Antigoni Kalamara (vocals), Jim Knikos (guitar), Trivizas […]

Some 25 years on from the original release, and Deadline Records have reissued Great White’s 1995 live album along with some additional tracks which were bonus cuts on the Japanese versions. Here we have two s […]

From the album title alone, it is possible to work out what this album is all about, namely that it is an acoustic rendition of the most famous Great White albums. Two of the songs on the album, “Rock Me” and “Sa […]

One of the finest melodic hard rock albums in my collection is Hardline’s 2002 release ‘Live At The Gods Festival’. At the time the band were celebrating the release of ‘II’ and played tracks both from that and […]

When the email came through offering this album for download I did a real doubletake when I saw the name, and when I checked the logo I was somewhat surprised as I remember hearing from these guys more than 20 […]

Hospital Sports first came together in New Zealand in November 2011 with Danny Ebdale on guitar, Nick Prussing on drums and Morgan Allen on bass. Initially they performed as an instrumental math rock band before […]