Album Reviews

Following on from 2012’s ‘The End Of Existence’ EP, Northern Irish Death Metal young guns Katabolisis return with their blistering follow-up – ‘Atrocity’. If you had checked out the ‘End Of Existence’ EP you could almost be forgiven for giving this one a miss, while the musicianship was there, the vocals …

@Planetmosh reviews @SonataArctica’s #Pariah’sChild released through @Nuclearblasteu and @Nuclearblastusa. Their eight studio album ‘Pariah’s Child is due to be released in the UK tomorrow and with only a slight wolfish growl ‘The Wolves Die Young’ kicks off the album with a gentle, hopeful symphonic instrumental, that introduces an 80’s sound.  …

Hampshire, UK rockers Western Sand released a four-song, eponymous EP in 2013. Well-written and well-mixed, the EP is surprisingly polished for a debut. Songs have a nice, smooth idea flow. Tunes are mid-tempo, with chunky rock licks and a big backbeat; just the right amount of dirt for the grab …

British “roots” rockers Wille and the Bandits released their full-length album, Grow, in 2013. This is an 11 track opus, consisting of varied tunes, with a sound fairly far from singer-songwriter folk and Americana that’s conjured up with usual thoughts of ‘roots’. The band has two secrets to their punchy …

.@planetmosh reviews the new album from Pretty Maids, out now on @FrontiersRec Thirty years into their stop-start career, this 14th album from Pretty Maids is something of an amalgam, being as it is a combination of re-recorded tracks and four new songs. However, any suggestion that this approach is a sign that …

Thunder officially retired five years ago, and yet here we are with not one, but two live albums. As well as playing a few festivals here and there, the main highlight of the year is now the Christmas shows. The location moves around each year, always a major city though- …

Crucial British modern hard rockers Voodoo Six will release a 4 track E.P on the 21st of April, it will contain a brand new radio edit of the lead single  ‘Lead Me On’; the original version of which can be found on the band’s current, highly acclaimed ‘Songs To Invade …

@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short’ by Mountainside Some bands make an album every year or every second year. Well, not in the case of Mountainside. It’s almost six years since they released ‘All About Time’. In a DIY way, during all that time, band was not …

@Planetmosh @UKAfterlife @FormanDave This new E.P. ‘Masters Of Reality’ follows on from the excellent December 2013 debut album release ‘Omega’. Made up of only four tracks, but the guys of Afterlife have packed into this CD a brilliant showcase of the differing styles of rock they are the masters of (really)! The …

@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘Origin’ by @HarlottOfficial If you feel like you’re missing some new/old groove thrash metal, I have something to recommend for you. With their very first full-length album ‘Origin’, four-piece Australian band Harlott confidently step up to the plate and introduce themselves to the metal scene. Formed not so …

@planetmosh reviews Cock Rockin by .@JacksonFirebird on @NapalmRecords “Cock Rockin” is the debut album from Aussie rockers Jackson Firebird, due for release on March 31st.  Jackson Firebird are Brendan Harvey on guitar and vocals and Dale Hudak on drums, bottle bin (more on that later!) and vocals.  The album was recorded …

 @Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws & Graves’ by Autopsy released on .@PeacevilleRecs If there is anything good comming out in USA death metal camp this year, then it is going to be Autopsy. After the reunion in 2009, band became very active releasing EPs, full-length albums and compilations each year, not …

Finland has long been the purveyors of fine Doom including Reverend Bizarre, Unholy, Skepticism and Swallow the Sun, which leads into Kuolemanlaakso whom feature a member of Swallow the Sun. This is the second full length release and sits somewhere in the land of doom with a gothic tinge. The …

Exmortus are a four-piece band from Whittier, CA, the former stomping grounds of Richard Cee’s Wild Rags Records. The band formed in 2002, concocting a battle plan replete with apparent objectives: to spread the shred, pound steel and brew, praise the mighty Crom, and crush the craniums of many. While …

.@planetmosh reviews .@TheTreatmentUK ‘Running With the Dogs’ is the second album by The Treatment, released last month on Spinefarm Records. The band themselves are slowly beginning to move through the gears – a Main Stage appearance at Hard Rock hell last year was followed by opening for Airbourne on tour, …

@planetmosh @FrontiersRec @MikeShotton   You’ve heard of the old adage ‘Good things come in threes ‘? Well your in luck because here is just one of those moments! This ‘new collaboration’ of the melodic rock group called LRS, is made up of  three guys, Tommy La Verdi (21 Guns) vocals, guitarist Josh Ramos …

    It is a really sobering thought, when you realise that Lacuna Coil have been treading the boards and recording for twenty years this year, albeit a mere sixteen years only, as the band we see today. The group has grown into one of the most polished outfits on …

X-Mantra are a four-piece thrash metal band from Kathmandu, Nepal, who formed in 2000. In 2012, they released Pralaya 2012, a disc containing eight songs. X-Mantra is very fortunate to have signed with British label King Slam Records. The signing and subsequent distribution will hopefully greatly increase their international reach …

With a full band now behind her smoky blues acoustic sounds, this sassy Glaswegian burd carries a swagger about her and her tunes that is brought to the fore with her debut EP release, The Titan Sessions. For those of you not from this little part of the world of …

@planetmosh reviews Heavy Head by .@elderbrother_ on .@purenoiserecs Elder Brother is the new side project from Dan Rose of Daybreaker (vocals) and Kevin Geyer of The Story So Far (guitars).  The two got to know each other while touring together and decided to collaborate.  Most people might have thought they’d …