If you’ve ever been foolish enough to read more than one review with my name attached here on Ave Noctum, you’ll be aware I’m a big champion of the retro-rock scene, a movement that refuses to go away and provides… Continue Reading →
Despite the near absence from popular media, the realm of Metal is a vast sonic landscape, stretching across many countries, and many sounds and styles. Under the umbrella of the title are found everything from the most guttural of Nordic… Continue Reading →
Readers of Ave Noctum, I believe the year of production for this long lost album is in fact 1970, and to put it in context the “policing action” raging in Vietnam and South East Asia is grabbing headlines in the… Continue Reading →
First review of the year for me, and well, I think 2024 is going to have to work impossibly hard to produce enough albums to force this belter out of my best of the year list. Why is that, I… Continue Reading →
It is now 2023 and Green Lung are about to release their third album in four short years. Now on Nuclear Blast, and with many of the dates on their forthcoming UK show sold out or upgraded to larger venues,… Continue Reading →
I imagine that like many folks who visit Ave Noctum, I would not describe myself as much of a Country music fan. The main reason is that the majority of music given that title that the public gets exposed to… Continue Reading →
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 →
Hands of Orlac are not an easy band to research. Put the name into a search engine, and what will pop up time and again will be references to the original 1920 book, the precurser of modern body horror, the… Continue Reading →
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