I was having an email conversation with David Brenner of Gridfailure last year, and he told me that his plans for 2018 included releasing ten (yes, ten) albums. I’m not sure quite how many he has achieved, but h […]

There are only four songs on this EP, with a total playing time of sixteen minutes, but there is enough here to demonstrate that this band from Brighton, Ontario, have a great going for them. They can be gentle […]

Lucia Jackson, who was born in New York, grew up in Madrid, Spain where she started singing when she was ten. She studied voice and piano at the prestigious Escuela de Musica Creativa when she was 13 and also […]

Northern Germany’s feral two piece Mantar are the product of a twenty year friendship between guitarist/vocalist Hanno Klaenhardt and drummer/vocalist Erinc Sakarya. Anyone notice what is missing? They proudly s […]

Normally when one hears about a group of musicians who have put together a side project there is a collective groan, but some four years after they first started playing together, and with their second album, […]

2016 saw Doro release a triple DVD set celebrating three decades in the industry (which is weird as Warlock started in 1982 and released their debut album in 1984, but I am sure there must be a reason). Doro Pesch […]

I am pretty sure that this is the correct title, and that it is a double disc set, but it was sent to me to download as two separate albums, with different but related covers, with one called ‘Forever W […]

The debut full-length album from British metalcore outfit The Five Hundred is certainly gaining a great deal of positive attention. There is something about their downtuned eight-string guitars that is causing […]

Probably best known for his work with established award-winning UK Blues rock band The Mustangs, Adam is back with his third solo album, following on from the critically acclaimed ‘Love & Wine’ and ‘Ra […]

In 1998, 22 year old Galysh recorded an instrumental guitar album in the basement of his parent’s house. It formed the basis of a career that has seen him playing with the likes of Uli Jon Roth, become an in d […]

Apparently, “Allen Austin-Bishop is a singer with a warm voice, a conversational style, and the ability to not only sound as if he believes every word he interprets but an approach that communicates very well to a […]

Throughout the past 40 years, Antonio Adolfo has had a busy career as a pianist, composer and arranger. A jazz pianist since the mid-1960s in Brazil, Adolfo worked with such major singers as Leny Andrade, Flo […]

Formed in 1989, Deicide are responsible for shaping death metal at every level. When I first came across them I really wasn’t sure what to think of them, as I felt that metal was being taken into an area I p […]

According to the label, “Dr. Savage and the Shrunken Heads draws influences from primal 50’s R&B artists like Bo Diddley and Howling Wolf, savage 60’s garage acts like The Troggs and The Seeds, a punk energy of Th […]