The band’s second album showed quite a shift, with Yuri Crescenzio now just providing electric guitars and Giacomo Zanardo joining on bass while drummer Alberto Baretta was now a guest, as was Gilberto Ongaro (organ, synth and electric piano). With Yuri now only...

As is normal for me, I loaded this album onto the next playlist and didn’t even look at any details until I had listened to it, so consequently had now idea what was included or the style. I was somewhat surprised to discover that this album of ten songs contains...

It is always interesting when a band decides to revisit their back catalogue in a new way, and this is the first of two albums from Finnish power metallers Sonata Arctica demonstrating just that. Over the years they had performed a few songs acoustically which were...

The artwork may look pleasant at first glance, and the opening title cut may lead the unwary into a false sense of security, but we all know what FFAA are all about, and that is deathcore and here they have returned with their sixth album to pummel our senses yet...

USA Hammock Music 73mins Atmospheric and Ambient New Age Music https://hammock.bandcamp.com/album/love-in-the-void Rating 85/100 Music takes many forms, of course, the impact of which depends on where you are, what you are doing, and your emotional state at the time,...

2018 Black Widow Records CD 60.49 mins Alternative/Prog Rock/Metal www.alchemwebsite.com/alchemband www.facebook.com/pg/alchem.band/about/?ref My Rating 90/100 From a compositional perspective: ‘Alchem’ is one of those albums which will genuinely stretch your...

I know virtually nothing about these guys, apart from they hail from northern Sweden and I believe this is their fourth album. Going by the funky artwork I also believe there are four of them, which means the singer must also be a musician as we have keyboards,...

If one goes to percussionist Julian Gerstin’s website one will find it is subtitled Music of Africa, the Caribbean and the African Diaspora —percussion / ethnomusicology. That is a pretty good way of describing this music as while arguably it is jazz in its widest...