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The Lunar Effect – Sounds Of Green And Blue (Svart)

Admittedly as far as this writer is concerned listening habits are more inclined to shades of black, the darker the better but sometimes a change is necessary. So what exactly are the sounds of green and blue? Well as far… Continue Reading →

Graveyard – 6 (Nuclear Blast)

If, for some reason, you decided to dive back in time through some of my older reviews, and heaven knows why you would, you’d have seen me use phrases like “a new wave of retro rock” and variations on that… Continue Reading →

Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)

Always a pleasure to see Stig Ese and his cohorts return. It’s been four years since Introvert where I noted that the heavy metal was definitely in the ascendancy over the black metal so I was interested to see if… Continue Reading →

Hoofmark – Blood Red Lullabies (Raging Planet)

I don’t know if it is the effect of cough mixture 3 years past it’s sell by date, the plague like cough that necessitates it or the surrealist nature  of yuletide in 2022 but “Blood Red Lullabies” is hitting me In the right fever sweat spots…. Continue Reading →

Funeral Chic – Roman Candle (Prosthetic Records)

Never having heard of this US band before, I looked at the name and began to imagine Skepticism covering some disco hits. Thankfully that was short lived as the words ‘punk’ and ‘powerviolence’ (though I’ll be honest that genre name… Continue Reading →

Arthur Brown – Long Long Road – Prophecy Productions/Magnetic Eye Records

When this arrived for review, I made myself two promises. Firstly, I would not let nostalgia interfere with my review and it would be 100% objective; this promise I kept. Secondly, I would not mention THAT song. For the benefit… Continue Reading →

Blues for Neighbors – From Roaming About (Road Rat Records)

“Two guys from Poland making music together since forever. There were many bands and even more music genres, now they sit in a kitchen, smoke cigarettes and worship old ghosts with cursed folk blues notes.” The band description for Polish… Continue Reading →

Wooden Fields – Wooden Fields (Argonauta Records)

Greetings fellow retroanauts.  Are you ready to swing your flares to the unashamedly back in time sounds of Wooden Fields?  Do you believe every t-shirt you wear should be both “tied” and “dyed”?  If the answer is “yes”, well grab… Continue Reading →

Nephila – Nephila (The Sign Records)

Okay, I’m beginning to think there is some sort of conspiracy at work. Another review, another band I’ve never heard of, again, it’s a pretty bloody good album, and again, it hails from Sweden? How on earth does that land… Continue Reading →

The Bottle Doom Lazy Band – 2005-2020 Doom Over The Years (Sleeping Church Records)

So, live music is but a distant memory to most of us thanks to the current Pandemic. Who ever thought I’d be subconsciously missing the whiff of sweaty metal fans, the taste of tepid, over priced beer and the racket… Continue Reading →

The Death Wheelers – Divine Filth (Riding Easy)

When I read the…er…concept behind this lot of filthy Canadian bikers trapped in the seventies I was kinda intrigued. Visions of the musical soundtrack to some lost drive-in biker fodder about a drug crisis in Spurcity certainly appealed and their… Continue Reading →

Blues Pills – Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast)

I’m fairly lucky to have seen one of Blues Pills first UK shows, if not their very first, when in 2013 they played the Dingwalls in Camden third on the bill behind Scorpion Child and headliners Orchid (what a line-up… Continue Reading →

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