In the years between the release of 2015’s ‘What Should Not Be Unearthed’ and 2019’s ‘Vile Nilotic Rites’ there has been some changes in the Nile camp, with the departure of Dallas Toler-Wade after some 20 yea […]

This 2014 album was the debut from Swedish power metal outfit Twilight Force, and there is no doubt at all from looking around the web that this is one which many people rate very highly indeed. I can understand […]

2016 saw Twilight Force return with their second album. Since the debut they had changed drummers and also added an additional guitarist so were now running with a traditional twin attack. The drumming has […]

I must be honest, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to playing the latest album from Twilight Force, having not been a fan of their previous two efforts, and when it commenced with a spoken intro which reminded m […]

This is my first exposure to Arx Atrata, although it is their third full-length release. As is usual, I played the album without reading the accompanying press release until it was time to write the review, and I […]

In 1978, at the tender age of 15, I bought my first hard rock album. Up until then I had been swapping tapes with mates but there was one band which intrigued me as I hadn’t heard anything quite like them, and I w […]

Rhapsody have had a rather interesting past, with name changes for different reasons, but guitarist Luca Turilli has always been at the heart, as he has since the release of ‘Legendary Tales’ all the way back in […]

The Swedes are back, doing what they do very well indeed, providing bombastic power metal with lyrics pertaining to their favourite subject, war. This time around we have two versions to choose from, namely a […]

Originally formed by guitarist/singer/songwriter Bill Beadle back in 1982, they were dormant between 1987 and 2012 when he created a new line-up, since when they have been quite active. This is their seventh […]

From the outside, it has to be said the cover isn’t much to look at – turn it off and the theme continues, but it seems really quite thick. The reason is that this is a 6 panel digipak, with each panel being a sup […]

Here we have the debut release from Spanish brutal death metal band Strappado, and for the most part it does exactly what one expects from a group operating in the genre. The vocals are deep and throaty, drums are […]

So the lovable Italians are back with their latest album, and someone needs to tell them there is a reason why there haven’t been that many metal concept albums. Yes, here we have a grandiose and over the top a […]

Eight years after their debut album ‘Ingesting Putridity’, the US-based brutal death metal band Visceral Disgorge are back with the follow-up. During the intervening period there have been quite a few line-up cha […]

Whispers In The Maze are a melodic death metal band from Ottawa and this is their debut EP. At the time of recording they were Marc Alain Bonenfant (vocals), Emine Topcu (guitar, backing vocals), Vitto Ortori […]

Swedish melodic black metal act Wormwood are back with their second full-length album ‘Nattarvet’, following from 2017’s ‘Ghostlands – Wounds From A Bleeding Heart’. Prior to the recording of the album they mispla […]

It was Mick Jagger who uttered the immortal words “I know it’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it”, and as I played this album for the millionth time they kept coming into my head as I wondered what on earth I was […]

Here we have the debut release by Operation: Paperclip, another project put together by Bob Madsen (he has a few on the go at the moment, check out https://www.thehighlanderco.com for more information) along with […]

I’m pretty sure this CD represents a first for me, and that’s not something I can say very often having been writing for more than 30 years, but what we have here is a jazz album which has been solely per […]

I’m guessing it must be 20 years since I last reviewed an album by Paul, but here he is with his 20th album in a forty year musical career. Somewhat strangely this was actually completed as long ago as 2016 but w […]

Many years ago I bought a copy of ‘M.U. – The Bets of Jethro Tull’ but was extremely aggravated by having to do so. The reason was that at the time I was an avid Tull fan, and was annoyed that there was one song […]