Tag Retro
Örebro (pronounced in the most Swedish way you can imagine and not as I once did, making it sound like a famous German sweet manufacturer) is an extremely pleasant town with a nice castle. It is also home to my… Continue Reading →
Ah, a bit of proper retro-inspired hard-rock/ heavy metal excellence here, coming all the way from…erm…Lancaster. Still, the four piece have been busy, formed in 2011, and this, their first full length release following a fair few EP’s and split… Continue Reading →
Freedom Hawk is a Virginian 3 piece band clearly with a love of all things retro, psyche, and with a healthy regard of 70’s proto metal. So far, so good; these are all elements that should endear the band to… Continue Reading →
Greetings fellow retronauts, old gits, and voyagers on the good ship olden times. Have you played your old Roy Harper 8 tracks so often that they have finally worn out? Have your Steve Hillage LPs spun so often on the… Continue Reading →
For their third album Sammal have declared a “second coming”, declaring that they want to be themselves and shake off any comparisons with Black Sabbath or Uriah Heep. My personal recollection of listening to Sammal was of a retro progressive… Continue Reading →
It was only last October when I posted a glowing review of Monster Magnet’s excellent ‘The Last Patrol’ up on these pages, an album that made it into my top ten of 2013 with ease. Now, along with a solid… Continue Reading →
Saturnian black magic eh? Well this duo apparently come from NW England not Saturn but they could hardly have described themselves as Mancunian black magic could they, that would have been silly. Apparently the pair comprising Malphas (guitars, drums and… Continue Reading →
Critically acclaimed ‘The Circle and the Blue Door’ cemented Purson as one of the UK’s greatest retro-psychedelia acts. Emerging from a hazy cloud of hookah smoke, the five-piece are back with EP ‘In the Meantime’. Rosalie Cunningham’s vocals are placed… Continue Reading →
Witch Charmer first came to my attention with their self-released 2013 ‘Euphoric Curse’ EP, being one of a positive slew of new bands willing to nail colours to the mast of the good ship retro revival. 2014 sees them upping… Continue Reading →
Following on from their 2013 signing to Metal Blade, retro/doom rockers Brimstone Coven have continued their foray into vintage 70’s style metal to bring us their self titled third album. The quartet from West Virginia are keen to make… Continue Reading →
Despite the title of this Swedish retro band’s first release, this is not a live album performed in space. It would be cool…but no, it’s not even Live. Though the album’s basic sound IS from a time when having landed… Continue Reading →
There’s some good retro sounding blues rock floating around at the moment, and Pet The Preacher with their first release on Napalm Records ‘The Cave and The Sunlight’ have added an excellent contribution to this resurging genre. However, far… Continue Reading →