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Welcome to the latest instalment of my Album of the Year 2018 top 30 countdown. It comes after a longer-than-planned hiatus caused by a few factors, not least the onset of Christmas and the social events that are like a vortex, sucking my spare time away with alarming voracity. But the slight delay has been  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the latest instalment of my Album of the Year 2018 top 30 countdown. It is, somewhat unbelievably, chapter 14, so I’m frighteningly close to the half-way mark. But, if I’m going to get this countdown finished before Christmas, I’d better get my skates on. No rest for the wicked as they say. As  Continue Reading »

Welcome to the sixth instalment of my annual labour of love, otherwise known as my end-of-year top 30 countdown. Every year I think that I should save myself a whole lot of work and effort by just writing one post that lists my top 30 records in one go. It’d certainly be less onerous and  Continue Reading »

Artist: Hollow Album Title: Between Eternities of Darkness Label: Rockshot Records Date of Release: 6 December 2018 I had cause the other week to rehouse a few of my ever-expanding CDs and in so doing, I cast my eyes upon an album called ‘Architect of the Mind’, a little-known album released via Nuclear Blast Records  Continue Reading »

Artist: Divine Ascension Album Title: The Uncovering Label: Vicisolum Records Date of Release: 16 November 2018 The phenomenon is not abating, it is only gaining strength. I am, of course, referring to Australia and the plethora of incredible music coming from out Antipodean friends on the other side of the world. They may have stolen  Continue Reading »

Artist: Ashes of Ares Album Title: Well of Souls Label: ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records Date of Release: 9 November 2018 Tom Englund, Jonas Renkse, Silvio Massaro and Daniel Estrin. This is the inner circle of heavy metal vocalists as far as I’m concerned. But, I hear you cry, there’s a name missing here. And  Continue Reading »

Artist: Veonity Album Title: Legend of the Starborn Label: Sliptrick Records Date of Release: 27 November 2018 Power metal is one of those subgenres within heavy metal that can encompass a lot of different styles. At one end, there’s the self-styled ‘cinematic Hollywood power metal’ of Luca Turilli and Rhapsody in all its various splintered  Continue Reading »

Artist: Warrel Dane Album Title: Shadow Work Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 26 October 2018 It is rare that I find myself so conflicted when faced with a music review. Normally, I’ll listen, decide if I like it and then either comment accordingly or ignore the record. This album is very different. Firstly,  Continue Reading »

Artist: Dynazty Album Title: Firesign Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 28 September 2018 The latest band to find themselves under the Man of Much Metal microscope is Dynazty, a Swedish melodic hard rock/metal band that up until now, I’d heard of, but had never given much of a listen. If I’m honest, the reason  Continue Reading »

Artist: Brainstorm Album Title: Midnight Ghost Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 28 September 2018 Artists often say that inspiration can strike at the most unexpected moments. Well, it appears that the same can be said for listeners of music in terms of that moment of epiphany when the song or the album they are  Continue Reading »