Sometimes a band and a release just come out of nowhere and simply take your breath away that it’s an obfuscating wonder as to why they dwindled in anonymity prior. Australia’s Grey Waters are one such band, laying down a hefty gauntlet with this, their debut EP Below The Ever Setting Sun.

Now here’s an odd yet interesting idea from Peter Gabriel, one of the most recognisable voices of the last forty plus years – Scratch My Back. Essentially, it’s a covers album but with a rather engaging twist. Every re-interpretation is backed by an orchestra. No guitars, no drums and certainly no synths. So if you’re looking [...]

Gorilla Manor is the début album from Silver Lake five-piece Local Natives. The album saw its U.K release on the 2nd of November 2009, and its U.S release on the 16th of February 2010. Backed by a significant amount of blogosphere hype, this first album has a lot to live up to, and thankfully it [...]

It’s interesting to hear an album from places in the world that you wouldn’t normally expect a metal album to be created.  I don’t mean that to sound narrow minded, but to hear an album with the quality of production and arrangement that Need from Greece have put their name to, I wonder if there’s [...]

This self titled album does have shades of rock intensity about it in its rawly rendered guitar sounds, but its most notable quality is its quiet, subtle and sombre nature.

Oh marmite, there’s nothing quite like it, is there? That said HIM really have become exemplary icons of the phrase in the last few years. They have hordes of die hard fans worldwide, who with remarkable vehemence lap the band up and hang on every one of front man Ville Valo’s words. But on the [...]

It’s a shame really.  I remember seeing these lads from Kilkenny when they supporting Megadeth in the SFX years ago.  Perhaps a little bit of a mismatched lineup, it was still a proud moment to have one of our own playing ahead of Corrosion Of Conformity on the bill.  And now this is the final [...]

“…perhaps one of the most misunderstood albums of its time.”

It’s almost a year ago that metal fans worldwide rejoiced in unison when word surfaced that Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares had well and truly stitched up their wounds and reformed Fear Factory, being the band’s two key components. But the reunion was not without its aches and pains as original bassist Christian Olde [...]

Warpsichord is the début album from London-based electronic-experimental musician Alan MX, released on the Smalltown America label. The terms electronic and experimental have become almost a bad word in the music industry as of late. Anyone who isn’t an art installation like Lady GaGa need not apply and ‘ground-breaking’ one-hit-wonders eventually disappear into obscurity, however, [...]