Reviews
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Resistor ‘Chapter Three: Through Open Sky’ EP 15 January 2021 – Mangoe Records Words: Mark Green Hailing from Long Island, New York, heavy reprobates Resistor have only been together since 2018 and have had their eyes on the prize since day one. Already releasing the first two EP’s in this saga, ‘Chapter One: Loss of All‘ […]
Fractal Generator – ‘Macrocosmos’ Everlasting Spew Records – 15 January 2021 Words: Mark Green I had never heard of Canadian crushers Fractal Generator until now. Now, they are etched into the depths of my music riddled brain. Following up from 2015’s stellar, but somewhat unknown, debut album ‘Apotheosythesis‘, the band have upped the ante and in the process taken us […]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BRIAN WHEAT- ‘SON OF A MILKMAN’ MY CRAZY LIFE WITH TESLA.. As Brian Wheat admits himself he can sometimes come across as stand offish and distant, but he is ‘the asshole’ that kept the band together, that band being Tesla, multi platinum selling artists known as blue collar heroes for their […]
THE DEAD DAISIES – HOLY GROUND The first album from The Dead Daisies since Glenn Hughes joined them on vocals and bass, such a dramatic change of lead singer was always going to have a dramatic effect on the sound of the album. Glenn is such a force of nature this must always have […]
Since it’s now a good twenty years plus since since Ritchie Blackmore and his wife Candice Night formed Blackmore’s Night and they are now more than ten albums down the folk rock road, it’s pretty clear that it is now their true love and main preoccupation. Despite rumours that he might collaborate with David Coverdale […]
Tunes from the Shing Mun River – by David Grove a first look at Teruki Chan’s debut E.P. For this review, we will go all the way to Hong Kong, aptly known as one of the Asian “Tiger Cities”. Away from the hustle of the streets of Wan Chai or the neon-lit streets of Kowloon, […]
AC/DC’s seventeenth full-length album is their first new music since 2014 and uses the same producer Brendan O’Brien that they used for their last album ‘Rock Or Bust’ and ‘Black Ice’ before that. Twelve new tracks, it’s the first record without Malcolm playing on it, but largely written by both Young brothers just prior […]
The first thing to notice about ‘The Ultimate Black Sabbath Package 50th Anniversary 5LP Paranoid Super Deluxe Edition’ is that it weighs a freaking ton. Everything about this release oozes quality, starting with the box itself which opens with a smooth whoosh as the air slowly escapes along the close fitting sides. The list of […]
This is a tell all book from the metal god about the rise of Judas Priest from the early days, right to date including the effect of the Covid 19 on the band’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations. The book is honest and frank about a lot of sensitive subjects including dealing with one’s sexuality, STDs, awkwardness […]
Static-X have returned with their first studio album since the tragic death of frontman Wayne Static in 2014. `Project Regeneration Vol.1` sees the band issuing 12 tracks of new music, most of them featuring the vocals of their late frontman in some of his last performances. Original Static-X members Tony Campos , Koichi Fukada […]
If you’d have told me five months ago that I’d be switching boogying along to my favourite tracks at a gig or club to the confines of my own front room, my response would have been akin to that of a hyena. But then coronavirus hit and our lives changed overnight. I don’t need to tell […]
Following hot on the heels of their debut single `Beautiful Monsters`, new British band Jordan Red have just released another solid track to get fists in the air, even in lockdown. The band features the incredible voice of New Device and Shot Through The Heart frontman Daniel Leigh combined with the powerful guitar of Dan […]
