Album Reviews

Christmas is over so throw away those crackers and have a listen to the Speak Evil EP released today by Bang Bang Firecracker! It’s the final release of three seperate EP’s, the first two being See Evil and Hear Evil to make up the whole second album. The four tracks …

Scarborough, North Yorkshire based band This House We Built have already got solid foundations in such a short space of time since only forming in 2020, just before Covid 19 hit hard. They socially distanced,writing material for their self titled debut album which was released on October 15th, 2022, via …

Following on from the solo debut album The Long Game by TJ Walker released in 2019, he certainly defines the term solo artist as he wrote, sang and also played every instrument as well as recording and producing it. Fast forward to October 28th 2022 as he releases his sophomore …

2023 looks to be another successful year for Robert Jon And The Wreck. Not only are they undertaking a twelve date UK headlining tour in February, they also release an EP One Of A Kind on March 10th via Joe Bonamassas Journeyman Records. First track ‘Pain No More’ taken from …

As Noddy Holder would holler,”It’s Christmasssss!” and it wouldn’t really be so without some fun tunes as the nutty The Outlaw Orchestra provide two helpings of merry mirth with their recently released double track EP Outlaw This Christmas. The A-Side title track ‘Outlaw This Christmas’ is a shit kicking amalgamation …

Something wicked this way comes now courtesy of ‘Descendant’, the recently released five track EP from A Titan, A Deity. It follows the single ‘Revelations’, also on the EP. Opening monolithic track ‘Io’ is power with precision personified as a majestic intro heralds body blow strength jabbing riffs that impress …

Inspired by B-Movie Horror films, The Miser are far from miserly with their music, point proven by new single ‘House On The Hill’, taken from forthcoming five track EP Memento Mori, due for release in early 2023. To use a well worn phrase of mine, it’s riff after riff after …

Chaos Is Calling, the recently self released debut album by Kira Mac is far from chaotic, it’s contents are ten songs of cocksure confidence that make for a very impressive listen. They came to my attention after seeing a full page piece in the latest Classic Rock mag with lead …

‘Iron Lung’, thankfully not a Radiohead cover but brand new single from ‘Collapser’ who describe themselves as “Dirty riff bringers from the Midlands”, hot on the heels of their debut single on October 1st ‘Planet Opioid’. Their video is more of a Collapser health warning than a government one as …

2022 seems to be a groundbreaking year for acclaimed guitarist Troy Redfern. Not just content from unleashing his Wings From Salvation album via Red 7 Records on September 23rd, he has also won the HRH Blues Award and has just released a single ‘Mercy’ taken from the album to! ‘Mercy’ …

At just under the fiery four minute mark, Jared James Nichols blew me away with his brand new single released via Black Hill Records ,‘Down The Drain’. This blues rock guitarist from East Troy, Wisconsin says about the single, “If I were to pick just one record to encapsulate my …

Welcome back London/Birmingham based noisy buggers A Titan, A Deity! It seems an age since they delivered their last single ‘Lo‘ in April 2022 but they return kicking and sreaming with recently released brand new single ‘Revelations’, taken from new five track EP Descendant to be released on Friday, November …

It’s time for another hairy hoedown as Robert Jon And The Wreck rise up from Orange County, Southern California to deliver brand new single ‘Pain No More’ released via Joe Bonamassa’s new record label Journeyman Records. It’s a sneaky peek from a forthcoming 2023 EP One Of A Kind to …

With Encryptment hailing from Gothenburg, you would be forgiven for expecting that classic Swedish melodic DM to be the order of the day. Well, this four-piece will blow that away for you within the first seconds of this album!

I’ll admit to a degree of trepidation before tackling this review of Recoded, the eleventh studio album by Fear Factory, released via Nuclear Blast Records on October 28th 2022 as it’s a remix of their previous Aggression Continuum, their previous album which I reviewed in June 2021, one of their …

Staffordshire based terriers The Midwich Affair release their fiery fourth single ‘Weekends To Waste’. Once again they channel their inner pop punk on jabbing guitar riffs, prominent bass guitar (that brought to mind Jean Jacques Burnel from the Stranglers), snappy snare work all topped off with aplomb by sugar sweet …

Welcome back Burnt Out Wreck as they unleash their third studio album Stand And Fight on December 2nd 2022 via Burnt Out Wreckords. Judging by the potency of these eleven tracks they’re a long way off being burnt out! Once again stunning artwork comes from Andy Pilkington at Very Metal …

When lead guitarist Brian Tatler and drummer Duncan Scott formed Diamond Head together while still at school in June 1976, adding lead vocalist Sean Harris to the lineup the same year and completing the lineup with Colin Kimberley on bass guitar in 1978, I wonder if they realized what was …

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