Some 27 years since the last album ‘The Law’, and nearly 30 years since the iconic debut ‘Slaughter In The Vatican’, Exhorder are back. The only original members are singer Kyle Thomas and guitarist Vinnie LaBella […]

Liz is of course the lead singer with Dark Beauty, but she is releasing a series of songs which allows her to experiment with different forms of music away from the band, which is known for its cinematic […]

According to the press release these guys are an extreme metal band, but if they are then they are like no other extreme band I have ever heard! What we actually have is a band firmly rooted in blues-based rock […]

Having read the name of the band, and seen the artwork, I don’t have to tell you what sort of music we have here. Yep, it’s The Osmonds, I mean, it’s brutal death metal. Formed a few years ago by members of Booka […]

I must confess to not knowing a great deal about this Danish band apart from they are a trio and I think this is their third full-length album. With a title such as ‘The Skeleton Is Just A Coat Hanger; These Are T […]

I must confess that when I saw this album and read about it, I was more than a little intrigued. Like many people my age I have been fully aware of Pat Travers and remember him from the Seventies and Eighties in […]

Originally formed in the north of England in 2013, the band went by the name of Sheol for the first year before changing to Sathamel. They went down the traditional route of gigging where they could, releasing […]

Here is the tenth studio album by Finnish Power Metal act Sonata Arctica, and by now we all know what to expect and they yet again deliver that with loads of harmonies and hooks. Apparently, they wanted a more […]

Joel (guitar) and Nick Tucker (bass) are both important members of the Indianapolis jazz scene and are both Instructors of Jazz Studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Joel graduated from Indiana […]

After disbanding around 1993, the original members of the legendary melodic hard rock quintet Unruly Child reunited to produce a brand-new album for Frontiers Records in 2010, with subsequent releases following in […]

What we have here is the debut album from a Scottish group who have been more than a little influenced by the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engaged and particularly Disturbed. Comprising Peter Cullen […]

Pianist Dave Miller has long been influenced by the music of George Shearing, one of those who made bebop accessible in the 1950s, and he although he has created his own style on the piano he still considers […]

This is the debut album by bassist Fabrizio Sciacca, and he has been joined by Jed Levy on saxophone, Donald Vega on piano and Billy Drummond on drums. Originally born in Italy he has studied at both Berklee […]

Here we have two solo artist acts who are breaking down musical barriers and creating something new, hostile, exciting, depressing and post-apocalyptic. Dave Brenner as Gridfailure continues to deliver music which […]

Over the last year Dave Brenner has been taking Gridfailure out on the road, turning it from a heavily productive studio outfit to something which is going to turn people’s heads inside out and change the way t […]

‘Misophonic’ is the debut EP from this Sicilian death/grind outfit featuring Paride Mercurio (vocals), Vincenzo Frisella (bass) and Giorgio Trombino (guitar) (drums on this release were provided by guest Dav […]

Blood Eagle are a death metal band from Denmark, formed by past members of Volbeat, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Illdisposed and Raunchy. In 2013 guitarists Franz Hellboss and Mircea Gabriel Eftemie decided to form a band […]

This 2016 album saw Destruction back with the same line-up as the previous few albums, with Schmier (vocals, bass) and Mike Sifringer (guitars), both of whom had been there since the beginning in the early […]

As soon as I put on the latest album from Destruction I wondered what on earth had happened, as the band were totally different from what I had heard on ‘Under Attack’. The drums are much more in your face, the […]

This 2015 album was the fourth in eight years with the same line-up of Karl Sanders (guitars, bass, vocals) , Dallas Toler-Wade (guitars, bass, v) and George Kollias (drums). Unlike many metal bands, drummer […]