Two years on from their wonderful debut and Katharine Blake (Mediaeval Baebes, Miranda Sex Garden) and Michael York (Current 93, Coil, The Utopia Strong, Teleplasmiste) are back with their second album. Katharine provides Katharine Blake vocals, sopranino, descant and...

Here we have the seventh release in Troy’s 10/10/10 project of ten albums in ten different genres in ten years. This time credited to Tory Kingi & The Room Service, each album has a different credited band (although often the same musicians, this time it includes...

No-one can accuse guitarist Todd Mosby of skimping on the musicians on this album as he has brought in Prince bassist Rhonda Smith, woodwind player Tom Scott (Joni Mitchell, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra), drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, Frank...

This album finds Peter providing guitar and keyboards, and he is joined by Shunzo Ohno (trumpet), Xander Nichting (violin), Max Gerl (bass), Scott Jackson (drums and percussion) along with the Czech National Symphony, Orchestra on a few numbers. Now, I enjoy fusion as...

S.C.R.A.M. (Safety Control Rod Axe Man) is the solo project of Pranjal Tiwari who is probably best known for his work with the long-running cult doom metal band Cardinal Wyrm, Finnish-language hardcore band Ransu's Revenge, and more. Over the last few years he has...

October Tide are back with their seventh album, with the same line-up since 2016 with founding guitarist Fredrik Norrman (ex-Katatonia, ex-Trees Of Eternity, Thenighttimeproject), second guitarist Mattias Norrman (ex-Katatonia), vocalist Alexander Högbom...

I must confess that I am sent a lot of music which can take time to get inside, whether it be avant-garde, technical death metal, jazz or prog, so sometimes the ears relax into a smile when they realise what is being played can be enjoyed the first time through...

When I was young, I was fascinated by the stories of King Arthur, Galahad, Guinevere and others, and I am sure this is why I named my first GSD, Merlin. Then of course came Rick Wakeman and his astonishingly ambitious and incredible first two albums, and from then on,...

Trumpeter Mac Gollehon is one of the most in-demand musicians around, having played on literally thousands of records, including more than two hundred gold and platinum albums since the 1970’s, including his decade-plus run in Duran Duran. He’s widely known for his...

Here we have the third single from South For Winter’s forthcoming second album, ‘Of Sea and Sky’, this time telling of the coming back to Aotearoa after the Covid isolations. Formed by New Zealander Nick Stone, Colorado native Dani Cichon, and Michigander Alex...

Here we have the single from Auckland-based outfit Just One Fix, which is the first new material from the band since 2017’s single “Death In The Family” and the first to feature ‘new’ drummer Ross Curtain (ex-Enoch & Silent Torture). The rest of the band are of...

There is no doubt that Doro Pesch will always be viewed as a metal icon, having been at the top of the German scene for some four decades, first with Warlock and then as a solo artist. To celebrate we have a new album, which in its full form actually includes some...

A few years ago I was fortunate to experience the solid slab of metal which is Beastwars in concert, and one of the support acts that night was Demons of Noon, who have now released their debut album. Given I had already seen them in concert and had enjoyed the first...

What we have here is a double CD release which is the first from the new Pride & Joy Music Classixx label, who are reissuing albums they feel fit that mould. To kick things off they have gone back Deacon Street Project, which was put together by Swedish musician,...

Many will be aware of the German Black Metal band Dies Ater, who were around between 1994 and 2014, releasing five albums and numerous singles during that period. The drummer throughout was Impurus (Eugen Herbst), who since then has been involved with Albez Duz. What...

‘Firetet’ is both the name of the album and the band which originally grew out of a jam session held by Alexander in a Chicago Pizzeria back in 2017. Initially inspired by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and trumpeters Clifford Brown, Nicholas Payton, and Sean...

It would take ages to list all the bands and musicians Colin has been involved with in the last 50+ years, but many will recognise his name from being co-founder of Flash with Peter Banks. Five years on from his debut as a solo artist, ‘One’, he is now back with this...

Aeternus was formed by Ares (vocals, guitars) in 1993 in Bergen, Norway, since when the band have combined Black and Death Metal in the genre known as Dark Metal, which also bring in elements of classical and folk music. They have had multiple different line-ups over...