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Firewind – Immortals – Album Review
Artist: Firewind Album Title: Immortals Label: Century Media Records Date Of Release: 20 January 2017 I really struggled in the beginning with ‘Immortals’, the eighth album from Greek melodic power metal band Firewind. They are a band with whom I am familiar and have had something of an on-off relationship over the years. Helmed by Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2016 – Number 29
Welcome to day two of my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. If you missed the first post in this series, check it out here: Album of the Year 2016 – Number 30 As I stated at the beginning of the last post, 2016 has been an incredibly strong year for my personal Continue Reading »
Pretty Maids – Kingmaker – Album Review
Artist: Pretty Maids Album Title: Kingmaker Label: Frontiers Records Date Of Release: 4 November 2016 Melodic hard rockers Pretty Maids have been going for around 35 years or, to put it another way, nearly as long as I’ve been alive. Formed in Denmark in 1981 by vocalist Ronnie Atkins and guitarist Ken Hammer, the band Continue Reading »
DGM – The Passage – Album Review
Artist: DGM Album Title: The Passage Label: Frontiers Records Date Of Release: 26 August 2016 This review comes a little after the release date but under the circumstances, I make no apologies for this. The reason for my tardiness is that I was not initially very struck by this, the ninth album from Italian melodic Continue Reading »
Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence – Album Review
Artist: Devin Townsend Project Album Title: Transcendence Label: InsideOut Music Date of Release: 9 September 2016 Like many I’m sure, Mr Devin Townsend came into my life around 1997. It was a subtle introduction via the laid back and soothing sounds created under the moniker of Strapping Young Lad and their opus ‘City’. I found Continue Reading »
The Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness – Album Review
Artist: The Pineapple Thief Album Title: Your Wilderness Label: Kscope Date Of Release: 12 August 2016 If I’m being honest, I knew very little about The Pineapple Thief until a couple of years ago, when the mastermind behind the band, Bruce Soord, teamed up with Katatonia vocalist Jonas Renkse to deliver the delicious Wisdom Of Continue Reading »
Periphery – Periphery III: Select Difficulty – Album Review
Artist: Periphery Album Title: Periphery III: Select Difficulty Label: century Media Records Date Of Release: 22 July 2016 The wonderful curse of ‘too much music, too little time’ is the main reason for the delay in offering a review of this record. If I’m honest, there was also an element of ‘hmm, not sure Continue Reading »
In Mourning – Afterglow – Album Review
Artist: In Mourning Album Title: Afterglow Label: Agonia Records Date Of Release: 20 May 2016 In Mourning is a name that that have flitted around the very edges of my consciousness for a few years now. ‘Afterglow’ however, takes the Swedish quintet out of my personal periphery and re-positions them at the very forefront of Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2014 – Number 4
Today, I offer you my choice of album for the number 4 spot in my Album of the Year 2014 countdown. As always, links to the other posts in my series can be found at the bottom of this article, so please check them out if you’ve yet to read them – I’m always interested Continue Reading »
The Excitement Of The New Album Release
Hands up how many of you still get that excitement from a new album release? You know the feeling – that eager anticipation which begins the moment you find out a particular band is going to be releasing a new album. The eager anticipation that begins to turn into barely controlled impatience so that, on Continue Reading »
