Ellery Daines is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and mixing engineer from Nelson, now based in the Norwegian Arctic city of Tromsø. Over the last five years he wrote, recorded, and mixed his debut album, Failure Thirty Minutes Deep, scheduled for...

It has often been pointed out to me during my reviewing career, often by my family, that I am somewhat unusual and could actually be viewed as being downright weird. I prefer to think of myself as having a broad and diverse taste in music, but even I cannot understand...

This EP finds three avant-garde and experimental artists working together to create something which is industrial, at the cutting edge of music, frightening in its intensity, yet also strangely compelling and other worldly. In recent years I have become a huge fan of...

I know I am not the only person who felt that Therion’s previous album, ‘Beloved Antichrist’, was just too clever for its own good. A triple CD opera with a running time of more than 3 hours it was certainly ambitious, and a million miles away from what the band were...

Tommy Bolin had already achieved a great deal by the time of his death at the tender age of 25, and one can only wonder what he might have gone onto in later life. I personally always thought that ‘Come Taste The Band’ was, and is, a vastly overlooked album in...

It is safe to say that the London-based trio of Tom Bradfield (guitars, vocals), Tom Carter (bass) and Mauro Hammerition (drums) have had a rather slow burn, but with the release of their second album, 2020’s ‘A Resting Place For The Wrathful’, they have definitely...

This is the third album from Polish black metal/folk metal act Varmia, who have a somewhat unusual line-up. The first three guys are relatively normal in what they provide, with Ćwiara on bass, Emil on drums, and Lasota providing vocals and guitars. It is when we get...

I guess it is my age, but I still like physical releases as opposed to digital, and when someone puts effort into it then all the better. Here we have the second in what may well be a three-volume series by Albare, and in the digipak we get information from Albare...

Just seeing the title ‘The Magnolia Sessions’ turn up in my inbox is guaranteed to put a smile on my face, as this is one of the most interesting musical series I have ever come across. All power to Dan Emery for these wonderful recordings and long may they continue....

Following on from the success of his big band outing, ‘Blue Soul’, guitarist Dave Stryker is back with his hard-driving group. It features his working band of Jared Gold on Hammond B3 organ and McClenty Hunter on drums, while he brought in tenor player Walter Smith...