Record Reviews

Sweden’s Black Paisley is rock’n’roll for grown-ups. Works a treat as a soundtrack to beer drinking on the balcony or in your car stereo.

Excellent dirty and glammy hard rock. Faster Pussycat plays sleazy rock’n’roll at its best.

The Swedish doom masters Candlemass are back and they are still top of the heap in the doom world.

Former Hellsingland Underground member Patrik Jansson serves up an excellent blues-rock album.

Swedish rockers Hellsingland Underground are back with their sixth studio album, the fabulous “Endless Optimism”. Album of the year? Quite possibly so.

Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone serves up blackened doom on its new album.

Europe guitarist John Norum returns with a new solo album full of bluesy hard rock.

Lugnet’s third album gives us bluesy and groovy hard rock with doom influences.

Great songs and new vocalist Erik Grönwall have made Skid Row relevant again.

The Italian band makes a risky move with a new version of its breakthrough album.

Swedish rockers Hellsingland Underground are in a laidback, playful mood on the second single from their forthcoming album “Endless Optimism”. Following the terrific first single “It Started with a Teardrop”,

Four decades on and Queensrÿche still delivers intelligent prog metal.

New Swedish thrash metal band Cornucopia plays excellent basement thrash metal.