Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Pure Steel Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire ANCIENT CURSE is neither an ordinary power metal formation nor a prog metal band. Founded in 1985, they are also not a typical band of the eighties because their storm and stress phase emerged in the mid-1990s…
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Sinisthra – The Broad And Beaten Way
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Rockshots Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog 15 years in the making, Sinisthra’s follow-up to their 2005 debut, Last Of The Stories Of Long Past Glories, has taken a lengthy and arduous route from conception to realisation. Significantly, The Broad And Beaten Way is a reference to…
Intense – Songs Of A Broken Future
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Pure Steel Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire Intense hail from the UK and released their first EP back in 1997, and it has been nine years since their last release but at long last, the new album is ready to be unleashed on the…
In This Moment – Mother
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: March 27th 2020, Atlantic Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Rebecca Bush In This Moment’s much anticipated 7th studio album has been unleashed and it is nothing short of breath-taking. ‘Mother’ is rich and beautiful, taking elements from 2017 release ‘Ritual’ and expanding on the imagery and symbolism…