WINGERBetter Days Comin’ Frontiers (2014)Rating: 8/10 As the engine starts and the vehicle zips away a golden voice beams, “The moon is rising through the dust, a new horizon, sea of touch, down to earth flames are breathing like volcanoes”, and we’ve now entered the realms of Better Days Comin’, the new melodic rock experience […]
EDGUY Release Tenth Studio Album ‘Space Police’ April 18th, 2014 Fulda, Germany-based melodic metal group Edguy issued tenth studio full-length album Space Police – Defenders Of The Crown on April 18th, 2014 in Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) through Nuclear Blast Records. United Kingdom release was scheduled for the 21st, while North American release was […]
OF MICE & MEN Release Music Video For ‘Another You’ April 16th, 2015 California-based rock quintet Of Mice & Men have released a music video for the track ‘Another You’. Filmed during Of Mice & Men’s The Hunting Party tour as a support act for Linkin Park, the video can be accessed below. Of Mice […]
THE GREAT OLD ONESTekeli-Li Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions (2014)Rating: 6.5/10 The Great Old Ones are not ashamed – and neither should be – to be another band influenced by the peculiar works of author H.P. Lovecraft. This French quintet have revelled, waded and drowned in Lovecraftian nightmares since the spawning of 2012 debut platter […]
PARAMNESIAParamnesia Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions (2014)Rating: 7/10 French black metal magicians Paramnesia have finally released their full-length opus, comprised of creeping, eerie black metal. It’s been quite a wait when one considers that these guys formed back in 2005, and have only more recently managed an EP (2013’s Ce Que Dit La Bouche D’Ombre) […]
SEBASTIAN BACH – Giving ’Em Hell Anthony Morgan April 2014 Sebastian Bach Rob Zombie / erstwhile Marilyn Manson guitarist John 5 co-authored the number ‘TunnelVision’ with heavy metal vocalist Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row), a track which would ultimately surface on Bach’s September 2011 outing Kicking & Screaming. The pair would collaborate once more, the resultant […]
BREWED & CANNEDExecute The Innocent Blacksmith (2014)Rating: 8/10 With a name like Brewed & Canned I was expecting some new wave, dire sleaze metal band with big, manufactured hair and plastic cigarettes. But instead, what do we get? Well, this Austrian combo is a relentless death metal band who have actually been around since 1998, […]
MORBOAddiction To Musickal Dissection Memento Mori (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 After having by ears clogged by the graveyard grime that was Funest, I’m not proud to say that the Memento Mori label has come up with another deranged experience; the new album from Italian madmen Morbo. The strangely titled Addiction To Musickal Dissection is the debut outing […]
FUNESTDesecrating Obscurity Memento Mori (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 How on earth can an Italian band sound so Swedish? And secondly, how can one desecrate obscurity? Okay, so I’m being petty here, but there’s no doubting Funest’s obsession with that classic Swedish death metal sound; the riffs are akin to an out of control heavyweight chainsaw. In fact, […]
HUMBUCKERKing Of The World Humbucker (2014)Rating: 8.5/10 Y’know what? Sometimes it’s nice to hear music from Norway that isn’t just a remote black metal wail of regression! The unusually named Humbucker have been in existence since 1998, and put simply they play good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll that mixes AC/DC, Motörhead and Saxon, with […]
