Troy Kingi continues to power through his 10/10/10 project of ten albums in ten different musical styles in ten years as we eight to album #8. This is the one I have actually been waiting for as he has been threatening this style for quite some time and I know it is a...

Originally released in 1999, this was the debut album by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams (who have slightly changed their name a few times over the years), released on their own label it was never available in the UK until now, where it has just seen a 25th...

I have been really enjoying this album, although I kept wondering why on earth it reminded me of a very heavy metal version of Stryper, and it was only reading the PR that I realised this is the project from Tracii Guns and Michael Sweet. Tracii has been around the...

I recently reviewed the album by Adam Jurczynski, which includes vocals on one song by Malgorzata "Margo" Szkoda-Hreczuch. I was intrigued by her vocals so was determined to find out more and am now listening to the debut album by Moyra which was released last year....

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that COVID 19 was a terrible experience, and the negative impacts of that time will be with us for many years to come, but there is also no doubt that it pushed some artists musically and caused many to think ‘outside the box’ when...

I have long been a fan of Daria’s incredible vocals and her wonderful music, and here we have a new single ahead of the album which will be released at the end of January. Here she is accompanied by Stu Hanna (fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass) and Jason Emberton (piano,...

Kiki Valera is one of Cuba's foremost cuatro-guitar virtuosos and a fourth-generation member of La Familia Valera Miranda, the pioneers renowned for more than a century as creators of Eastern Cuba's Son tradition. Over the last century, this style of traditional Cuban...

Multi-instrumentalist and singer David Udell first came to prominence in the art-rock band Wax Theatricks before joining Walter Whitney and Carl Weingarten in Delay Tactics in time for their 1984 album ‘Any Questions?’. He has kept busy since then, playing in multiple...

Here we have the third re-recording of Sepultura music by Max and Igor Cavalera, this time revisiting the second full-length album, originally released in 1987. Again we have improved artwork alongside the newly recorded tracks which follows the same sequence as the...

There is no doubt this debut album is going to grab a lot of attention due to who is involved, but once the hype is past people will just keep listening to the music and having a load of fun as here we have a belting metal album with real balls combined with...

I don’t know much about music from Africa, but when I heard that Togolese metal crossover band Arka'n Asrafokor were about to release their second album (their debut for RPM), I knew I had to find out more. Sepultura were the first to really get the local...