Polish metallers Crystal Viper are back with their new album and are sounding better than ever. The new album, Crimen Excepta is a concept album about holy inquisition, black magic and witches, where fiction is mixed with historical facts The album cover has been painted by French artist Chris Moyen, who has worked with bands…
German metal band At Vance are back with their new album, ”Facing your enemy”. Formed in 1998 this is their tenth album, and guitarist Olaf Lenk is now the only remaining founding member. Comments on a few tracks.. Opening track ”Heaven is calling” is great hard rock – plenty of guitars, pounding drums and lots…
Bangalore Choir were formed over 20 years ago by former Accept frontman David Reece. After releasing just one album, the band split. After an 18 year gap though they reformed to release the album ”Cadence” in 2010. Now in April 2012 they’re back with their third album, Metaphor. The album was recorded in a way…
According to the press release, Universal Music Catalogues new ”Re-presents” label takes well known and loved albums from decades gone and re-releases them in a fresh new form. My first reaction on hearing that they have chosen to re-release ”Writing on the wall” the fifth and final album from Bucks Fizz was – Why? On…
On the 7th May, Universal is re-issuing 4 classic albums from The Small Faces which were originally released btween 1965 and 1969 – Small Faces, Immediate, From the beginning & Ogdens nut gone flake. The albums are being released as deluxe editions, and as with the other albums Universal have released as deluxe editions recently…
The compilation album Northern soul: 20 Original Classics, was released in July 2010, and now the team behind it are back with a second volume of Northern soul classics. The tracks have been compiled by Johnny Chandler, with sleevenotes by Paolo Hewitt author of books on Oasis, The Jam, Small Faces and The Beatles. The…
The Cult are due to release their new album ”Choice of Weapon” on 21st May. The album is being produced by Bob Rock who produced previous albums by The Cult – Sonic Temple, The Cult and Beyond Good and Evil. Ahead of the album release, the band have released two singles so far – ”Lucifer”…
American rock band Counting Crows have sold over twenty million albums in their twenty year career, and are about to release their first album for over four years – ”Underwater sunshine”. The album is their first independant release, and they’ve chosen to do something a little bit different. Rather than just writing a new album,…
The band name Luley may not be familiar, but it is the band of a man with a great track record – Klaus Luley. In the early 80s he was the front man of German melodic rock band Tokya. Following the demise of Tokyo he formed the band Craaft and again enjoyed considerable success in…
This DVD/Blu-ray release is a live concert. Filmed at the historic Genessee theatre in Waukegan, Illinois the concert includes songs from Ringo’s solo career as well as hits from The Beatles. The first thing to strike me is how young Ringo looks – he certainly doesn’t look anywhere near his real age, and is in…
”Holiday at Lake Bodom (15 Years of Wasted Youth)” is a new ”CD+DVD career retrospective” – in other words its a greatest hits package from Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. It’s hard to believe but its true – Children of Bodom have been with us for fifteen years. The band took their name from…
Stalingrad is the latest album from German metal legends Accept. It’s the bands second album with their current singer Mark Tornillo (formerly with TT Quick) and one of their few albums without their longtime singer Udo Dirkschneider. Obviously there will be plenty of people who would rather they had kept Udo as their singer but…