Tag Archives: UK

Artist: Eye Of Solitude Album Title: Cenotaph Label: Independent Release Date Of Release: 31 August 2016 I’m not the biggest fan of pure doom metal, but once in a while, I will succumb to it if it is good enough. And today, I have well and truly succumbed. Referring to themselves as ‘lugubrious doom metal’,  Continue Reading »

**please forgive the quality of the photography that accompanies this live review. Thanks to a very kind and polite security team, I wasn’t able to take my SLR into the venue and my brand new HTC 10 decided that it wasn’t going to play nicely with me, refusing to focus in anything but long range  Continue Reading »

Artist: Big Big Train Album Title: Folklore Label: English Electric Recordings Date Of Release: 27 May 2016 Albums like this need to be consumed for some time before any thoughts are committed to paper or PC. However, I was desperate to review ‘Folklore’ by Big Big Train before it was officially released and so, after  Continue Reading »

Artist: Messenger Album Title: Threnodies Label: InsideOut Music Date Of Release: 22 April 2016 It’s no exaggeration to say that the UK progressive music scene enjoying a period of rude health at the current time. To the already impressively-swelling ranks, you can now add the name of Messenger, a London-based quintet who bring accomplished musicianship  Continue Reading »

Artist: Haken Album Title: Affinity Label: InsideOut Records Date Of Release: 29 April 2016 Beware! This is the first time that I have been able to review a full Haken album without any word limits or other punitive restrictions placed upon me. You have been warned… I’m going to lay my cards on the table  Continue Reading »

Artist: Knifeworld Album Title: Bottled Out Of Eden Label: InsideOut Records Date Of Release: 22 April 2016 I vividly remember being confronted with the sounds of Knifeworld for the very first time. It was whilst I wrote for Powerplay Magazine and the album was Knifeworld’s sophomore release, ‘The Unravelling’. I was asked to conduct an  Continue Reading »

Artist: Beholder Album Title: Reflections Label: Razorline Music Date of Release: 12 April 2016 If I had to sum up the music of UK metal band Beholder in four words, my instant reply would be: ‘heavy, uncompromising, honest and intense’. ‘Reflections’ is the Coventry/Leicester-based metallers’ third full length recording over a career that has spanned  Continue Reading »

As promised, my next post in my ‘Albums that changed my life’ series continues on the Cradle of Filth theme, so important was this band in my mid-teens. It wasn’t too long after getting to grips with ‘Vempire’, also known as ‘Dark Faerytales In Phallustein’ that news came to me of a new Cradle of  Continue Reading »

For the next instalment of my ‘Albums that Changed My Life’ series, I’m moving to around the mid 90’s. In the timeline of my life, this puts me at my mid-teens and it ushers in a whole new world music-wise. By now, my music addiction had taken full hold and I was spending all the  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 14 of my ‘Album Of The Year 2015’ top 30 countdown. I shall spare the lengthy intro, except to remind readers that my picks at 30-18 can be accessed in full via the links at the bottom of this post, so please check them out if you’ve yet to do so &  Continue Reading »