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Gig review: SQUEEZE – Roundhouse, London, 22 November 2024
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Gig review: CARDINAL BLACK – Sub 89, Reading, 15 November 2024
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Gig review: SUZI QUATRO – London Palladium, 13 November 2024
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Gig review: HRH XVII, Great Yarmouth, 7-9 November 2024
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Gig review: WHEN RIVERS MEET, CHANTEL MCGREGOR, XANDER AND THE PEACE PIRATES – Dingwalls, London, 7 November 2024
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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – 02 Arena, London, 6 November 2024
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Featured Album Reviews
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Album review: GARY FLETCHER – River Keeps Flowing
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Album review: MICHAEL THOMPSON BAND – Love & Beyond
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Album review: PANIC ROOM – Essence
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Album review: CAST – reissues (All Change, Mother Nature Calls, Magic Hour, Beetroot)
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News: GORDON GILTRAP releases new album and radio interview (January 2017)
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Album review: THE SPIRITUAL MACHINES – Awake, Alert, Alive, almost
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Author Archives: Yiannis
Album review: ANGRA – Secret Garden
EarMusic [Released 01.02.15] Even though I have been fairly accustomed to the numerous changes taking place in the line-up of Progressive/Power Metalers Angra over the years, I always feel slightly worried every time the position behind the mike becomes vacant … Continue reading
Album review: OBITUARY – Inked In Blood
Relapse Records – Out Now. Thirty years in the music business is a very long time indeed and no musician/band can survive in such a ‘hostile environment’ without learning how to become flexible and accepting of new ideas. Having suffered … Continue reading
Album review: NECROPHAGIA – Whiteworm Cathedral
Season Of Mist – Out Now. First formed in Ohio/USA back in 1983, Necrophagia are one of the few classic Death Metal bands which have been consistently overlooked by fans and media alike, every time a list of the most … Continue reading
Album review: THE LURKING CORPSES – Workin’ For The Devil
Hells Headbangers – Out Now. Human being develop many different mechanisms through life in order to cope with and protect themselves from everyday dangers, the most common of which are the application of logic and the trust in one’s git … Continue reading
Album review: OCTOBER 31 – Bury The Hatchet
Hells Headbangers – Out Now. First formed in Arlington Virginia back in 1995, October 31 are a Heavy Metal outfit whose music is a tribute to 80s Metal, both in terms of sound employed and the overall approach to song-writing. … Continue reading
Gig review: MARILLION – The Forum, Kentish Town, London, 11 December 2014
I do love December – my birthday is in it, for a start, and those of some of my closest friends, there is Christmas and then there is that annual fixture of enjoying Marillion in their natural element – on … Continue reading
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Tagged 11 December 2014, gig, Ian Mosley, Kentish Town, London, Luke Jackson, Marillion, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, The Forum
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Album review: WINTERFYLLETH – The Divination Of Antiquity
Candlelight – Out Now. These last few years I have come across Mancunian Black Metal quartet Winterfylleth on a live setting more times that I care to remember. Even though I do respect and appreciate their ‘stubborn’ commitment to musical … Continue reading
Album review: WHITE EMPRESS – Rise Of The Empress
Peaceville Records – Out Now. Unless you have been living under a rock for the last twenty three years you should be able to recognise Paul Allender as the ex-lead guitarist and one of the main composers of the British … Continue reading
Gig review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – The O2 Islington Academy, London, 3 December 2014
Ask me to name my favourite albums for 2014 and The Pineapple Thief’s “Magnolia” will certainly feature in my Top 10 list. Even though my introduction to Bruce Soord’s Alternative/Progressive Rock outfit only took place a couple of years ago, … Continue reading
Gig review: ACCEPT – The Forum, London, 27 November 2014
When the last of many attempts to reunite Udo Dirkschneider with the remaining members of Accept folded back in 2009, many fans of the German Heavy Metal combo, myself included, believed that the days of this musical institution were numbered. … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 November 2014, Accept, Forum, gig, heavy metal, Herman Frank, London, review, Voodoo Six
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Gig review: BIGELF – The Garage, London, 19 November 2014
Support Acts: Bend Sinister / Jolly Review by Yiannis (John) Stefanis Photos by Yiannis (John) Stefanis Though first formed in Los Angeles twenty three years ago, it took the US trio Bigelf plenty of personal effort and the committed support … Continue reading
Album review: WITCH MOUNTAIN – Mobile Of Angels
Svart Records – Out Now. Female-fronted vintage-sounding bands have been on the rise for quite some time now so you would certainly be excused to think that Witch Mountain may just be another outfit eager to jump into this specific … Continue reading
Album review: NECROHOLOCAUST – Holocaustic Goat Metal
Iron Bonehead – Out Now. Though a huge fan of the Canadian Metal scene since the mid 80s, I admit that the name Necroholocaust meant absolutely nothing to me prior to being granted access to “Holocaustic Goat Metal” – the … Continue reading
Album review: DEATH PENALTY – Death Penalty
Rise Above – Out Now. There are many fans of groove-laden Doom Metal, myself included, who still cannot believe that UK legends Cathedral are no longer with us. During, however, the time that we were left licking our wounds and … Continue reading
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Album review: PHILM – Fire From The Evening Sun
UDR – Out Now. Of the four musicians that make up Slayer’s classic line-up, Dave Lombardo has always stood out as the most artistically gifted and restless. Want proof? Well, apart from the fact that the Californian Thrashers always end … Continue reading
Album review: MUTILATED VETERANS – Necrocrust Warhead
Hells Headbangers – Out Now. Mutilated Veterans are a recently formed Spanish Death/Crust Metal duet which hail from Madrid and whose members have participate in a number of underground projects that large, that this review is unable to accommodate. The … Continue reading
Album review: ELUVEITIE – Origins
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Originally conceived by vocalist Christian “Chrigel” Glanzmann as a purely studio project, Swiss Melodic Death/Folk Metallers Eluveitie have gone a pretty long way since their inception back in 2002. It only took the release of … Continue reading
Album review: ENTOMBED A.D. – Back To The Front
Century Media – Out Now. Funny story; a couple of months ago, I was browsing through the internet when I came across the cover artwork of an album called “Back To The Front” from a band whose name was Entombed … Continue reading
Album review: ENGLISH DOGS – The Thing With Two Heads
Candlelight – Out Now. First formed in October 1981 and performing at the same UK sweaty venues with the likes of GBH & Discharge, Grantham-based Hardcore Punk/Crossover legends English Dogs have experienced numerous member changes over the years. Most fans, … Continue reading
Album review: EASTERN FRONT – Descent Into Genocide
Candlelight – Out Now. Located on the estuary of the River Orwell in beautiful Suffolk, Ipswich is not the kind of place that can openly compete with cities like Birmingham and London in terms of its overall significance in the … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES PILLS – Blues Pills
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Retro Rock is currently the flavour of choice and no other country in the world has embraced and best represented the sound of 70s Rock than Sweden – the very Scandinavian nation that brought us, … Continue reading
Album review: SACRIFICIO – Sacrificio
Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now! – Out Now. Anonymity, it seems, has become a much desirable form of advertisement for bands these days – one that the Spanish Thrash/Death Metal trio Sacrificio seems to have definitely subscribed to. The … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN GARCIA – John Garcia
Napalm Records – Out Now. I have to admit that I was initially quite puzzled by the idea of John Garcia releasing a solo album at this moment in time. Why? Well, since the mighty Kyuss decided to disband in … Continue reading
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Album review: ENTRAILS – Resurrected From The Grave
Metal Blade – Out Now. Death Metal reached its commercial peak in the early 90s and, at that time, it was Sweden which became the epicentre of the said movement in the ‘old continent’, mainly due to the very existence … Continue reading
Album review: EMPYRIUM – The Turn Of The Tides
Prophecy Productions – Out Now. When Markus Stock, otherwise known as Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, decided to put his Dark Symphonic Folk Metal project Empyrium to rest back in 2002 he did so by claiming that the band needed to “move … Continue reading
