rock/metal albums
EP Review: Husk – Inner Perception
North East hard rockers Husk may sound like they have been around for a while, but ‘Inner Perception’ just so happens to be their debut EP, and what an EP. Mind you it’s not down to the musical and signwriting talent that gives them a been around the block vibe but its the huge slabs …
Album Review: Various Artists – Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980
The very idea of an introductory Krautrock compilation is a tricky one. As the liner notes themselves acknowledge, the genre (if you can even call it that) has been sliced, debated, and redefined in countless ways over the years, with the likes of Julian Cope’s Krautrocksampler and Crack in the Cosmic Egg both mythologizing and …
album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts
The Wildhearts are back with an absolute barnstormer of an album, ‘The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts’, and it is a belter. The album has it all and progresses through a soundscape of rock and roll which is endearing and mesmeric with overflowing addictive qualities. Gingers voice exhibits numerous qualities which are transferred across the …
Album review: Naomi Yanos – Rock In The Forest
Naomi Yanos is a Harlem-native experimental alternative artist and “Rock in the Forest” is their third EP is entirely self produced and combines rock band instrumentation with ambient soundscapes, dissonant cello, and melodic vocal layering. Each song deals with dissociation and the high price of trying to always be in control. ‘Roll Over’ is the first …
EP Review: Sypha – Borderland
Borderline is the new atmospheric EP of hard riffing brilliance from British metallers Sypha. Whether it’s the soaring chorus on opener ‘Dirty Floor’ or the frantic hardcore verses on ‘Limbo’, there is something exciting for every metalhead. Formed in 2022, the band take from heavyweight heroes such as Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, and Bring Me The Horizon, …
Album review: The Halo Effect – The March Of The Undead
It doesn’t feel like two minutes since this super group blew up my speakers with their album ‘Days Of The Lost’—a superb debut from some of the finest voices/fingers in the melodic metal scene. Now the band have regrouped for the second album ‘The March Of The Undead’ The band bring more of the same …
Album Review: Love Ghost X SKOLD – Love Ghost SKOLD
With creepy electric beginnings, welcome to the musical world of Love Ghost and Skold, i.e., US indie/alt-rock maverick Love Ghost (Finnegan Bell) and Swedish industrial music legend SKOLD (Tim Skold). For those in the know, the album sounds like everything you expect. For those that aren’t in the know, you are in for something unique. …
Album Review: Not Now Norman – Go Hard Or Go Home
It’s an ominous start from chanting, rising organs, and an outburst of frantic riffing crafting one of the best album openers. Delivering Hard Rock courtesy of guitarist Zander Brown with strong messages belted out by the fierce Taylor-Grace commanding the front. Fiercely independent, the album is completely in-house and a testament to these two exceptional …
Album Review: Jagged Baptist Club – Physical Surveillance
For those who like their indie with a spot of dying seaside town glamour and a drop of psyche, then the Jagged Baptist Club might very much be your club. Consisting of Blake Stokes (lead vocals, guitar), Morgan Ponder (drums, percussion), Josh Boyd (synths, backing vocals), CJ Ramsey (bass, backing vocals) the LA band bring …
EP Review: HollowKin – Confessions & Failures
A pretty new band by most standards HollowKin started in 2023 but since then the hard working quintet have making some fairly big waves on the live scene and are now ready to make some even bigger waves with their debut EP Confessions & Failures The EP doesn’t really start till the second track, ‘A …