Any fan of Agnostic Front will look at the front cover of ‘Get Loud!’ and immediately recognise the characters from their 1986 classic ‘Cause For Alarm’, and have an idea of what they are going to find inside. […]

I thought I had managed to clear all my Christmas-released reviewing and then this arrived just before Christmas itself. Here we have five songs from L.A. Guns, the first of which starts with a somewhat rambling […]

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Solitary went back into the studio to re-record three of their older numbers, “Requiem”, “Within Temptation” and “Keep Your Enemies Closer” and also used two songs recorded at […]

It’s my own fault. When I was offered this album I remembered the name and checked my records, and yes I had reviewed the band some years previously so grabbed it. What I didn’t check was what I had said about the […]

Bassist/songwriter/producer Bob Madsen (41Point9 etc.) was wondering what would happen if you attempted to mix Disturbed with Level 42 style bass with vocals, so brought together some friends to attempt to make […]

In 1978 Rainbow released an amazing album, and for a 15 year old music fan I was in awe, playing it time and again. But then the band imploded and the voice left, so what was going to happen? When I read that the […]

It is quite hard for me to understand that this is a debut album given the confidence pouring out, but given that Gretje Angell is both a daughter and granddaughter of drummers, it can be argued she was born to […]

Guitarist/vocalist Matt Bishop first started coming up with ideas for this band as long ago as 2005, but it only really started gaining traction when he teamed up with guitarist Tony Tipton (Necrotic Disgorgement, […]

Jelena is a jazz singer from Serbia, who since 2002 has been a full time lecturer at the music school ‘’ Kornelije Stankovic’’ in Belgrade. She has studied in Austria, and was a lecturer at music colleges in Cape […]

When it comes to music I have been fortunate to hear this year, then I will think of 2019 as the year of the ladies. Thanks to the wonderful Elfin Bow I have been introduced to some amazing singers from the UK […]

Katie took some time out after the birth of her son in 2016, returning in 2018 with this three-track EP, a collaboration with pianist and composer Robin Dewhurst (father to Josh Dewhurst from band Blossoms), and […]

2019 see Katie back with a new single, which will feature on her second album. For this she is back again with a full band of Sarah Dale (cello, ukulele), Jonny Lexus (guitar etc.), Mitch Oldham (percussion) and […]

Some 20 years after ‘Guitar Noir’, and eight years on from ‘Guitar Noir II’, Mark Doyle is back with his third episode. He eventually decided on a theme of TV and Movie themes related to spies and detecti […]

This is the sixth release by Augie Haas on the Playtime Music label, and although he is best known as a well-respected trumpeter, educator and composer, here he has taken 11 jazz and doo wop classics with eight […]

I can’t have been the only person to be rather surprised to hear there was a new Axe album available, given that the only releases in the last 19 years have been an anthology and a live DVD. But yes, s […]

Blind Lemon Pledge is the alter-ego of composer and arranger James Byfield (who on this release also provides some guitar and vocals), and here he has pulled together a band to undertake a classic approach to […]

I am in a very fortunate position in that I have been writing about music for some 30 years now and have a reputation of sorts, which means I am often sent way more albums than I can cope with. So I have certain […]

This is the second album from Formicarius, who have brought in of Kevin Paradis of Benighted to provide drum duties this time around. He isn’t the only guest either as Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) and Nicholas M […]

Earlier this year I was raving to everyone about the wonderful artist Elfin Bow, and she has been repaying that by introducing me to some other wonderful artists I would otherwise probably have never come across, […]

This is the debut album by Totaled, and that is pretty much all I can tell you about the band as I don’t know who is involved, or even how many of them there are. According to the press release this is blackened h […]