Reviewed: June 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes “Forefathers of genre X” (or some variation) is a term that gets bandied about a lot. This doesn’t mean it’s being misused though: few genres owe themselves entirely to a single artist, and most will have a…
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Hot Suede – Hot Suede
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Hot Suede’s self-titled new album is here to provide you with all the classic hard rocking goodness you could want. Hot Suede play classic-styled hard rock, and they play it well. A simple assessment, but also a simple approach…
Wardehns – Now Cometh the Foul
Reviewed: April 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes The cover of Wardehns’ new album depicts a pair of trolls/giants (with art based on Games Workshop’s Giant model, nice!) charging out from their foetid lair. Combine with the album’s title, “Now Cometh the Foul”, and you have an…
Overkill – The Wings of War
Reviewed: April, 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Bloody hell, it’s Overkill album time yet again and here is album nineteen, ‘The Wings of War’. Having just seen Overkill on their most recent tour, I was leaving the writing of this until the last minute so…
Jon Schaffer’s Purgatory – Purgatory
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2018, Century Media Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes So, a quick intro for those who might require it: Purgatory was what Iced Earth was called before it was Iced Earth, in effect a prototype of the band (similar to Burn the Priest for Lamb of…
Toby Knapp – Blizzard Archer
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Moribund Rockers Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes No good reviewer wants to judge things by their cover. But such things do make an impression, and both the cover and other promo images with this one immediately filled me with a mild dread. It has all…
Bongzilla + Dopethrone + Sons of Otis @ The Underworld, Camden, London
Bongzilla + Dopethrone + Sons of Otis @ The Underworld, Camden, London 1st July 2018 Review and Photos by: Ryan Whitwell / Shotison Media Please follow and like us:
Ravenscroft – Rebel
Reviewed: May 2018 Released: 2018, independent Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Do you find yourself craving the post-grunge rock stylings of the early 2000s? If so, then Ravenscroft have got you covered. Plenty of bands these days are theming themselves around some kind of throwback to music styles of…
NovaReign – Legends
Reviewed: March, 2018 Released: 2018, M-Theory Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Come for the solos, stay for…more solos. NovaReign are here with their debut album, Legends. Right from the opening of “Call on the Storm”, they make it perfectly clear what they’re here to do: play loud, proud and unabashedly…
Owl Maker – Paths of the Slain
Reviewed: February, 2018 Released: 2018, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes A lot of bands these days are doing it old-school, their music a throw-back to whatever is seen as the golden age of their music style of choice. Some do it better than others, some feel more genuine, some…
Prong with HARK & Steak Number Eight @ O2 Islington Academy , London
Prong with HARK & Steak Number Eight O2 Islington Academy 23rd April 2015 Review & Videos by Jo Blackened Photography by Inty Malcolm Tonight saw the return of Prong; the American industrial/thrash metal band, which was formed back in 1986 by guitarist and vocalist Tommy Victor to our UK shores…