Kimbra – ‘Primal Heart’ (Album Review)
Kimbra is a pop artist – emphasis on artist – and Primal Heart is one of the best albums you will hear in 2018 Read more…
Gus G – ‘Fearless’ (Album Review)
If you play guitar, Gus G will need little introduction. As the founder of power metal masters Firewind, former sideman to none other than Ozzy Osbourne, and shred-ready solo artist in his own right, Gus G’s CV is punctuated with serious achievements. In the world of the six-string, he is a Read more…
Breaking Benjamin – ‘Ember’ (Album Review)
Breaking Benjamin are a classic Marmite band. You either love what they do, or hate their guts. You’re either satisfied by the quality of their songs, or frustrated by Benjamin Burnley’s well-entrenched habit of making more or less the same album over and over again Read more…
Queen Kwong – ‘Love Me To Death’ (Album Review)
Improvisation is a rarity in music these days. People generally prefer to pen songs over extended periods of time, usually being careful to adhere to a well-worn, formulaic path. Simply by willing her rock-rooted art into existence spontaneously, Queen Kwong stands apart from Read more…
Unprocessed – ‘Covenant’ (Album Review)
With so many competitors vying for space behind the djent frontlines still dominated by Tesseract, Animals As Leaders, and of course Periphery, the standards by which they will inevitably be judged are becoming more stringent all the time. Having heard advance track Haven, I went into Convenant hyped up and excited to see what Unprocessed were going to bring to the table Read more…
The Damned – ‘Evil Spirits’ (Album Review)
In the music business, everyone wants to tell you they did something first – and most of them are full of shit. The Damned, on the other hand, can legitimately lay claim to multiple punk landmarks.
As aficionados will already know, The Damned scored the first-ever Read more…
30 Seconds To Mars – ‘America’ (Album Review)
Although 30 Seconds To Mars have some undeniably epic tracks in their back catalogue, their career to date has always been based on following whichever trends happened to be culturally dominant at the time. From early 2000s alt-metal to emo, then alt-rock, and now electronic pop, derivative music with just enough idiosyncrasy to stand out from the pack has always been a 30 Seconds To Mars calling card. Don’t get me wrong – I like this band, but Read more…
A Place To Bury Strangers – ‘Pinned’ (Album Review)
Although post-punk’s originators came to prominence some forty years ago, the technology that enabled them to do what they did has advanced far beyond anything imaginable at the time. Through effect developer Death By Audio, purveyor of pedals with names like “Absolute Destruction,” Read more…
The Dali Thundering Concept – ‘Savages’ (Album Review)
Concept albums have long been a staple part of every progressive music fan’s diet. At this point, so many have been recorded that The Dali Thundering Concept had their work cut out as they put together the plan for Savages.
Their response was simple: Go as deep as possible, and refuse to settle for anything short of Read more…
Valis Ablaze – ‘Boundless’ (Album Review)
On last year’s EP Insularity, Valis Ablaze made no secret of the fact that they’re massive Tesseract fans. Since I share the same opinion of the British djent overlords, the only fault I could have levelled at Insularity was its relative lack of other influences.
With Boundless, Valis Ablaze now show signs of Read more…