REVIEWS

Written from nostalgia, fond memories and a few tall tales, Neil and the guys come at you live and in your ears. Recorded with the incredible Vance Powell (Jack White, Raconteurs, The Dead Weathers, Chris Stapleton) at the helm. At the famous Sputnik [...]

The floor is pulsating. Your whole body is shaking. If it’s too loud you’re too old. This was the feeling when I walked into the W.E.T stage (one of the stages found indoors) at Wacken Open Air. It was day 1. Hours of travelling. I went a few [...]

The Vintage Caravan is a three piece from Iceland who have a penchant for fuzzy guitars and driving rhythms which early hard rock bands such as Thin Lizzy, Humble Pie, and Captain Beyond championed in the 70’s. Gateways is the band’s fourth [...]

The Indian-American progressive metal band Skyharbor has been an ever evolving project since its inception in 2012. From Keshav Dhar’s one man project with multiple collaborators in ‘Blinding White Noise’, to the ambient progressive [...]

Omnium Gatherum have unfortunately always been an underrated act. Often overlooked by fans in the melodic death metal genre for some of their more well known countrymen like Children of Bodom, Norther or Insomnium, the band has continued to grow and [...]

Alice In Chains tread over some familiar territory when they reentered Studio X to record their first album since 2013. Within the same walls that they laid down their self-titled LP, the Grunge icons produced the upcoming ‘Rainier [...]

When Mantar’s first album ‘Death by Burning’ came out, I remember a slew of sludge releases around the same time, some interesting, and some tiringly mundane. I could not give much attention to the album then beyond a glance, until I [...]

U.D.O. is back with their sixteenth studio album, ‘Steelfactory’, which will be set for release on August 31, 2018. Udo Dirkschneider has been touring the world for the past two years under the name Dirkschneider, where he has been touring his [...]