Formed in Huntington, New York in 2004 Buckshot Facelift have state they have dedicated themselves to setting the horror of the human condition to the sound of the most extreme and eclectic grindcore imaginable. […]

Burning Witches are an all-female quintet from Switzerland, and I do wonder if they would have managed to get signed to label as powerful as the mighty Nuclear Blast if their gender hadn’t been a factor. G […]

This is the fourth album as a band leader by New York-based trumpeter Chris Pasin, and is the second I have heard from him. The rather unusual title is to let the jazz fan understand that this is an album […]

The hard bop alto saxophonist Christopher Hollyday is back with his first album as band leader in more than quarter of a century. This may be a short album, with just six standards, and a total length of just 33 […]

Max and the gang are back with their eleventh album, the third to feature his eldest son Zyon on drums (the line-up is completed by Marc Rizzo on lead guitar, flamenco guitar and bassist Mike Leon, plus loads of […]

James Alan Hull must surely be one of the most important singer-songwriters ever to come out of England, and forever will be associated with the mighty Lindisfarne. In the Eighties their Christmas tours were […]

One of my favourite Harry Chapin albums is ‘The Last Protest Singer’, an album often overlooked within his canon as it was released some seven years after his death. It was the album he had been working on whe […]

The album starts with an introduction which would not sound of place on a Clive Nolan project, as right from the off we realise this is going to be a concept album, with loads of atmosphere and menace. True, […]

It has been a while since I have reviewed a book and must confess that in more than 30 years of writing this is the first time I have ever been asked to review a comic book: but I am so glad this has been sent to […]

Imagine if you will Wolfsbane and Accept coming together to produce NWOBHM flavoured power metal with a very heavy bottom end, and then you may get close to what this Italian band released in 2016. Actually, this […]

Originally released in 2008, October last year saw Aural Music celebrating the 10th anniversary of the album by reissuing with new artwork by Umberto Stagni, new remastered tracks plus a second bonus CD […]

ROTN are back with their second album, and describe their music as crossover, although in some ways it is almost polarising in its extremes. Take classic Slipknot, Machine Head and Pantera and let the groove melt […]

It is quite safe to say that in many ways this is a very unusual album indeed. Formed by members of Greek and Swedish black metal bands, Acherontas and Nåstrond, it has a focus on expressing shamanic, […]

I have only come across one other of Ken’s albums, 2014’s ‘Jazz Horn Redux’ and this is a totally different beast both in terms of personnel and style. Much of this album feels incredibly Latin and Cuban, and Wil […]

Here we have a trio comprising Mike Bogle (Hammond B3, vocals), Richard McClure (guitar) and Ivan Torres (drums) with a five-track album which is 34 minutes long. I see this has been given a 5* review on Amazon, […]

I still remember hearing ‘In A Reverie’, ‘Unleashed Memories’ and ‘Comalies’ when they were released – three albums that made a huge impact and certainly launched this Italian dual vocal Gothic inspired act […]

To celebrate twenty years, Lacuna Coil played a special sold-out show at O2 Forum Kentish Town in London on 19th January 2018, which has now been made available in multiple formats. After the release of their […]

Apparently this metalcore quartet started off life as Coldsight in 2014, only changing the name when founding guitarist Florent Salfati switched to lead vocals. They self-released their debut, ‘Hollow’, in 201 […]

I probably first came across Mick Magic some 25 years or so ago when he was not only running an underground cassette label Music & Elsewhere, which released nearly 600 albums between 1987 and 2003, but also had a […]

To say I was surprised when this arrived recently was something of an understatement. Although Mick and I have been in contact quite a bit over recent years as he delves back into the Music & Elsewhere back […]