I listen to many types of music which could be said to be challenging, and at the very edges of what would normally be defined as music, but even I must confess that this album is incredibly hard work. Led by violinist Jason Kao Hwang, his octet Burning Bridge work...

The subtitle of this album is ‘Tribute to the Tenor Masters’, and it is exactly what it says on the tin as Jorge Nila and his band take on tunes which originally featured the likes of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Harold Vicki and others. For the band he looked to...

Any album which starts with Cameron Britton (as Edmund Temper in the superb series ‘Mindhunter’) saying “it’s not easy butchering people, it’s hard work”, just has to be interesting and that is certainly the case here. That isn’t the only lift from that series, as...

It looks as if Comatose Music are building themselves a reputation for delivering some of the best death metal around, as Greek act Mass Infection are back with their fourth studio album, four years on from ‘For I Am Genocide” and arguably it is their best yet. Giulio...

In 2014 Jake E. Lee announced his return to the music scene with a brand-new band. Although the tour didn’t exactly go as expected, with their debut live concert at West Hollywood's Whisky A Go Go being widely criticized due to Darren James Smith’s (Harem Scarem) poor...

The problem with a side project is that reviewers are duty bound to mention the other bands, even if the side project has been in existence for quite some time and is a valid entity in its own right. Well, I don’t want to break any rules, so for those who don’t know,...

Band name designed to shock? Check. Album title to let people know what the style of music is likely to be? Check. Old school artwork? Check and check again. Just in case the person looking at this in a store still wasn’t sure, the protagonist on the cover is wearing...

This is the debut two-track EP from Crows Over Brávellir, a band formed by past and current members of Darkified and Grave. They are attempting to bring to life ancient tales from Scandinavia, blending history, myth and fantasy with epic symphonic heavy metal, doom,...

Anton Darusso was born and raised in Moscow, Russia where he studied piano at one of the best music schools, as well as taking private singing lessons. At the age of just seventeen, he moved to Costa Rica where he continued his studies. This was his second album as...

Frank Declercq, aka DC Snakebuster, is a one-man band/blues musician who hails from Tildonk a small village located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant near Wespelaar. This is an unusual album in that not only does DC play all the instruments at the same time,...