Album review: Ursinne “Swim with the Leviathan”
Ursinne arrives on the scene with a splendidly fierce and beautifully inaccessible death metal album.
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Reviews
Album review: Accept “The Rise of Chaos”
The German metal veterans have still got it. With “The Rise of Chaos” Accept gives us a fab new heavy metal album.
Read MoreAlbum review: Marty Friedman “Wall of Sound”
Guitarist Marty Friedman is back with a beautifully explosive and genre-bending solo album. As usual, he does it his own way.
Read MoreAlbum review: Alice Cooper “Paranormal”
Veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper is back with some smoking new music! Producer Bob Ezrin brings back some magic from the 70s to the new album.
Read MoreAlbum review: Hirsh Gardner “My Brain Needs a Holiday”
New England drummer Hirsh Gardner is back with another fabulously varied solo album filled with uplifting, catchy and melodic rock music. The Luke Skywalker of sunshine rock is back.
Read MoreAlbum review: Barb Wire Dolls “Rub My Mind”
Barely a year after their last album, Barb Wire Dolls are back with a new studio album packed with attitude and catchy tunes.
Read MoreGig review: The Dead Daisies makes some terrific noise in Tokyo
Rock’n’roll knockout delivered in Tokyo by the fab The Dead Daisies.
Read MoreEP review: Aborted “Bathos” | Sheer extreme metal brilliance
Nowadays I expect nothing short of perfection from Belgian extreme metal maniacs Aborted. On their new EP we get it. This is nothing short of a brutal masterpiece.
Read MoreGig review: Paul Shortino gives us a fabulous career retrospective on stage in Tokyo
Showman Paul Shortino performs a splendid career retrospective for his Japanese fans with plenty of Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt and King Kobra tunes.
Read MoreGig review: Anaal Nathrakh at Astro Hall, Harajuku, Tokyo
British extreme metal band Anaal Nathrakh has gone from a studio-only project to a great live act.
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EP review: Ov Shadows “Monologues” | Damp shadow-hugging music
Ov Shadows is a band that lives in a dark, damp and bleak world. There’s no hope in the band’s fabulously dark music.
Read MoreGig review: Pretty Maids – the Danish melodic hard rock veterans have still got it
Danish melodic hard rock veterans Pretty Maids deliver a solid gig in Tokyo in front of their loyal Japanese fans.
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Album review: Old James “Speak Volumes”
The fabulous Brian Stephenson (Annihilator, Skull Fist) is back with his own trio and a jam-tastic debut album from Old James. Love it.
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