If one was to search for John Blangero on Google, one would be inundated with scholarly and academic references as he is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Medicine in Brownsville, Texas, and...

It is not often I feel totally unprepared and unable to write a review of an album, and it only happens when I am sent something which is so far outside my own musical terms of reference that I find I am floundering somewhat, close to drowning. I do recall it...

There have been a couple of bands called Deranged from Sweden alone, but what we have here is the one originally from Hjärup, Skåne, who have been playing uncompromising brutal death metal for nearly 30 years. The man who was at the back at the very beginning,...

Disillusive Play are a Greek melodic hard rock band who have been around for some ten years and self-released this their debut album in 2018, featuring Antigoni Kalamara (vocals), Jim Knikos (guitar), Trivizas Fotis (guitar), Michalis Mitilinis (bass) and Dolianitis...

Some 25 years on from the original release, and Deadline Records have reissued Great White’s 1995 live album along with some additional tracks which were bonus cuts on the Japanese versions. Here we have two shows, with the first seven songs coming from a 1994 House...

From the album title alone, it is possible to work out what this album is all about, namely that it is an acoustic rendition of the most famous Great White albums. Two of the songs on the album, “Rock Me” and “Save Your Love” were both Top ten hits, and the original...

One of the finest melodic hard rock albums in my collection is Hardline’s 2002 release ‘Live At The Gods Festival’. At the time the band were celebrating the release of ‘II’ and played tracks both from that and their amazing debut ‘Double Eclipse’ some ten years...

When the email came through offering this album for download I did a real doubletake when I saw the name, and when I checked the logo I was somewhat surprised as I remember hearing from these guys more than 20 years ago! I am pretty sure they sent me a demo, plus I...

Hospital Sports first came together in New Zealand in November 2011 with Danny Ebdale on guitar, Nick Prussing on drums and Morgan Allen on bass. Initially they performed as an instrumental math rock band before Danny also started providing vocals the following year....

I have been rather tardy in discovering Coridian, as they released their debut EP some five years ago, but better late than never. “Eldur’ is their latest EP, with last night being the launch party, and I have been playing this a lot in recent weeks. Coridian are...