In between the third and fourth Walfad albums, singer and guitarist Wojciech Ciuraj took time out to record a solo album, bringing in different musicians and flavours from what he had been doing within the band […]

Treat may have taken a break at one point during their career, but the
current line-up of Robert Ernlund (vocals), Anders Wikström (Guitars and backing vocals), Patrick Appelgren (keyboards, guitar and backing […]

It is hard to imagine in this world of 24/7 connectivity, but there was once a time where there was no such thing as internet. Consequently the only way to discover information was by buying books, and I have […]

Apparently this 5-track 22-minute-long EP was released in June, but it appears this Belfast-based quintet have just started working with a PR company who decided that it would be an idea to have another go with […]

With more interest in the band currently being generated, they felt the time was right to also release a free live EP. On Saturday August 11th 2018 Oracle exploded onto the New Blood stage at the UK’s premiere m […]

Four songs, seventeen minutes in length, this is the debut EP from Scottish metal quartet Cerberon. Obviously influenced by early Venom, as well as Machine Head and Behemoth, this is a type of blackened metal […]

It is a long time I last heard Amaranthe, and the only other album I have in my collection is their 2011 debut, but f our albums into their career, they have apparently racked up north of 118 million YouTube […]

I first really started paying attention to Atreyu with the release of 2004’s ‘The Curse’, but although I grabbed all their albums up to 2009’s ‘Congregation of the Damned’ I hadn’t realised they had got back toge […]

I don’t get to hear many bands from India, but I am glad I have come across this one. This is the debut release from Dirge, which is also available through Bandcamp, and they are taking doom and sludge and m […]

Some 30 years ago I could often be found at the Half Moon in Putney on a Sunday lunchtime, when a band could be found playing for fun and beer. Said band was based around Steve Waller (Manfred Mann’s Earth B […]

The University of North Texas has been running a big band jazz program since the late 40’s, when the genre was in its heyday, and if this recording is anything to go by then it is showing no sign yet of slowing d […]

This album may start with strummed acoustic guitars, but there is a feeling of menace contained within it, and soon the guys are blasting off into the blackened death metal with which they have built their […]

Quickly following on from the success of 2014’s ‘Albion’, Ten returned the following year with ‘Isla De Muerta’, again with the three-guitar line-up. When I saw the artwork, and then heard the storm crashing […]

2017 saw Ten back with their thirteenth studio album, and the third with the same line-up. It also saw their return to Frontiers Music, and straight from the off it was obvious that the band again really means […]

2018 see the band back with their second consecutive album with Frontiers, the fourth with the same line-up, and their fourteenth overall. Straight away one is reminded of ‘Isla De Muerta’ as the album starts wit […]

Formed in Reykjavík in 2005 and featuring members of several Icelandic bands such as Misþyrming, Árstíðir lífsins and Naðra, Carpe Noctem have earned a reputation as one of Iceland’s leading acts in black […]

Now this is somewhat unusual. I was sent the album to review in September, and here I am towards the end of November writing the review (okay, nothing strange bout that to be honest), but this album isn’t even o […]

If ever a band sounded like a combination Rainbow, Dio-era Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell, then it has to be Dream Child. Here we have a brand new supergroup who have taken inspiration from one person in […]

Apparently, what we have here is an unplanned album, in that David Brenner (Gridfailure) and Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe) were working together on a planned collaboration when the music just started getting way […]

Julie Felix made the UK her home in the Sixties, and apparently was the first solo folksinger signed to a major label, and the first folk performer to fill the Royal Albert Hall. She was also a regular on British […]