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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: QUEENSRYCHE – Queensryche
Century Media – [Release Date 24.06.13] There are undoubtedly many lessons one can learn in life, but the one I believe in most is not taking anything for granted, including in music. Take Seattle Prog Metallers Queensryche, for instance: if … Continue reading
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Album review: JORN – Traveller
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Jorn “Dio” Lande is a busy man with his new album “Traveller” dropping 13 months after his last studio album the awfully titled “Bring Heavy Rock to the Land” and that does not include his “Symphonic” issue back … Continue reading
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Album review: AMORPHIS – Circle
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. When Pasi Koskinen left Progressive/Melodic/Folk metallers Amorphis back in 2004, after nine years of dedicated service, many of the band’s loyal fans, myself included, were left fearing the worst concerning the band’s future. The addition … Continue reading
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Album review: ANTHRAX – Anthems E.P.
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Experiencing a line-up change now and again is inevitable for most long-serving bands, but the way the members of the legendary Thrash Metal combo Anthrax have come and gone over the years has always caused … Continue reading
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Album review: THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE – Rare Gumbo
Gypsy Hotel Records [Release date 20.05.13] Even the most riotous and irreverent of bands sometimes need a break. And ‘Rare Gumbo’ is compilation album that gathers together The Urban Voodoo Machine’s bits and pieces in the form of EP … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, bourbon gypsy blues, Captain Beefheart, garage rock, gypsy stomps, murder ballads, Paul-Ronney Angel, Rare Gumbo, rock& roll, Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Godfathers, The Jim Jones Revue, The Pogues, The Urban Voodoo Machine
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Album review – THE TOMMY FIAMMENGHI BAND – Into The Storm
Maxstorm Records (Release date – out now) Tommy Fiammenghi is an Italian singer/ guitarist who formed his band back in 2005. This album is the band’s second and it is a good listen. The four piece play … Continue reading
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Album review: BOOMIN – Original Junkie
A household name in their home town Wigan, pop-rock three piece, Boomin, come to us with their full length album Original Junkie, an infectious scream in the face to today’s chart music. The album itself is almost like a live … Continue reading
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Album review: SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – Earth Blues
Inside Out – Out Now. Michael Amott is better known as the guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of the Swedish Melodic Death Metal quintet Arch Enemy – a band that has been under the media spotlight for quite some … Continue reading
Album review: ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION – Not Oat Action
Another Roadside Attraction [Release date 01.13] Another Roadside Attraction is an eclectic Florida based band who mix intelligent melodic pop songs with lush harmonies and unexpected psychedelic wig outs. Multi instrumentalist /producer Mark Zampella’s synth fuses the 80’s pop of … Continue reading
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Album review: NORMAN WATT-ROY – Faith & Grace
Cadiz [Release date 17.06.13] The mission statement for this album comes in the middle of the autobiographical ‘Me My Bass And I’: ‘When I heard Jaco (Pastorius) and Weather Report that was basically it. I realised where I came from, … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, bass, Billy Eckstine, dance, Faith & Grace, Frank Zappa, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, funk, fusion, Ian Dury, Jaco Patorius, jazz, Latino, Norman Watt-Roy, rock, Sarah Gillespie, The Blackheads, The Clash, Weather Report, Wilko Johnson
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Album review: ALBANY DOWN – Not Over Yet
AD Recordings Ltd [Release date 8.04.13] Albany Down draw on deeply entrenched classic rock influences, contemporary production values and impressive song craft to suggest a bright future. The album title ‘Not Over Yet, could just as easily refer to rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Aerosmith, Albany Down, Billy Dedman, blues, classic rock, Cream, Damien Campbell, Foo Fighters, Free, Greg Haver, guitar, Led Zeppelin, Not Over Yet, Paul Muir, Paul Turley, rock, Rush, vocal
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Quick plays: RUSS DWARF, THE LOOK, BLEEDING HANDS, SCOTT COOK
RUSS DWARF – Wireless www.russdwarf.com Singer Russ Dwarf found success in the 80’s fronting the Killer Dwarfs and their 1986 album ‘Stand Tall’ is one of those classic hard rock albums (I still have my vinyl copy!). This new solo … Continue reading
Album review: HEADLESS – Growing Apart
Lion Music www.lionmusic.com A new band with some familiar names, the most notable being Queensryche drummer Scott Rockenfield. Then on vocals we have Goran Edman (Malmsteen/Covered Call) and the band is the idea of Italian guitarists Walter Cianciusi and Dario … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Dancer And The Moon
Frontiers www.frontiers.it This is Blackmore’s Night eighth studio album and the band has been going for longer than Ritchie Blackmore’s time combined in Deep Purple and Rainbow now. Some Blackmore fans will still pine for these rock years, yet that’s … Continue reading
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Album review: HYPOCRISY – End Of Disclosure
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Peter Tagtgren is one of the busiest men in the music business. When not offering his production skills to artists like Destruction, Marduk, Overkill and Amorphis (to name a few) or when he’s not touring … Continue reading
Album review: GIUNTINI PROJECT – IV
Escape Music www.escape-music.com Album number four from the project run by guitarist Aldo Giuntini and the first for Escape Music, the third album having been released by Frontiers back in 2006. Former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin is … Continue reading
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Album review: ANOUSCHKA – Hollywood Ending
My review of Anouschka’s My Kind Of Heartbreak album (2007) pretty much said all you need to know about a US army brat with a Swedish mother who by 16 had seen a lot of the world and started her … Continue reading
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Album review: TESS OF THE CIRCLE – Thorns
Cadiz Music [Release date 15.07.13] While British male singer songwriter Tess Jones’ debut Magpie (2010) was an introspective acoustic based set, his follow up sees the addition of ‘the Circle’ – a collective of musicians that bring the ‘sounds of … Continue reading
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Album review: JULIAN LENNON – Everything Changes
Music In Another Room [Release date 03.06.13] When it was originally released in October 2011 in the UK and Ireland, Julian Lennon’s sixth studio album failed to tickle the Top 100, and neither of the singles lifted from it – … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beatles, Everything Changes, Julian Lennon, Mark Spiro, Paul Buchanan, Peter Vettese, pop, review, rock, Steven Tyler
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Album review: CASSIE TAYLOR – Out Of My Mind
Hypertension [Release date 13.05.13] Having served a 10 year apprenticeship playing bass and singing in her father, modern-day blues innovator Otis Taylor’s band, Cassie Taylor has paid her dues at the age of only 26. With one album already under … Continue reading
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Album review: AYNSLEY LISTER – Home
www.aynsleylister.co.uk [Release date 08.07.13] Despite starting off on his musical journey through the blues in the late 90’s ‘Home’ is amazingly his tenth album to date. Aynsley Lister is one of the current crop of young blues rock musicians breaking … Continue reading
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Album review: MOSS – Horrible Night
Rise Above – Out Now. The Bass guitar and Doom Metal are two concepts that seem to go hand-in-hand and are inter-connected to such an extent that one simply can’t imagine the one without the other. Well, the Southampton-based trio … Continue reading
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Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Electric Punishment
SPV – Out Now. Thirty three years is a long time for any band, especially one that has survived the death of a frontman and the departure of enough members to fill two whole basketball teams, and then some. In … Continue reading
Album Review: FLYING CIRCUS – Ones And Zeros
Self-released – 2013 OK, let’s get all the Monty Python out of the way shall we? And breathe… Flying Circus are a German neo-prog outfit with four albums behind them who cite comparisons with Rush and Led Zeppelin, and ‘Ones … Continue reading
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Album review: JAPAETI – Abacus
Self Release (Release date – out now) Technical, progressive metal is a genre inhabited by musicians of undoubted talent and quite possibly a history of insanity within their family. Quite how a group of musos can sit … Continue reading
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