Tag Live Album
This is a strange release, or re-release in fact of Opeth’s “Lamentations” dvd in album form, especially given that the albums “Deliverance” (2002) and “Damnation” (2003) from which most of this double album comes, were themselves re-released as a double… Continue Reading →
It’s rare that I break my rule of never writing in first person, however, I feel I should begin this review with a foreword. This was one of the most difficult reviews I have ever had to write. Trying to… Continue Reading →
While I’ve yet to listen to their new album ‘The Plague Within’ and it’s been quite a while since I was passionate about Paradise Lost, I thought I’d give this album a shot as it contains some good songs from… Continue Reading →
Devin Townsend Project – Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Inside Out)
You know exactly who this man is and what this man can do, there is no need for a long winded introduction. The mastermind behind the chaotic and insanely heavy Strapping Young Lad, the voice of Steve Vai’s Sex &… Continue Reading →
Much like the music they play Finnish funeral doomsters Skepticism don’t do things fast. Their last album Alloy was seven years ago and actual shows are hardly a regular occurrence. This perhaps means that combining the two is a bit… Continue Reading →
It’s Rotting Christ……Live……In their hometown….. With an extensive setlist…..Of course it’s going to be good! The only question was how good, was it going to be? This Greek behemoth have been going since 1988, and over the course of 12… Continue Reading →
French death metallers Benighted have a considerable discography since the release of a self titled debut in 2000 and subsequent six further full lengths since then. Half way into the decade and the band has seen fit to release a… Continue Reading →
Well this one was hardly going to be rocket science to review. After all it’s not like there’s not been enough Damned gigs that I have witnessed over the years both in the flesh and indeed on album. With the… Continue Reading →
Finnish, yep, long hair, yep, elfin looking folk, yep…. So ladies and gents, this is Finntroll. One of Finland’s finest exports. Yet mixing it up and singing in Swedish! What? Yes. The original vocalist Katla is part of the Swedish… Continue Reading →
I can only assume anyone who is reading this review is likely to have heard of Germany’s own retro power trio Kadavar; if not, you must have been living under a stoner, badoom tish! Sorry, bad pun, but I couldn’t… Continue Reading →
As a band that relies on their music might alone, Oakland, CA’s own force of nature, High On Fire, have to be one of the most entertaining live trios out there. There’s no gimmicky crowd interaction, fancy lighting rigs or… Continue Reading →
There has to be Dragons. There’s always Dragons. Occasionally Goblins, Dwarves, Trolls, Knights and Unicorns – sometimes all at the same time (which can really stain the carpet), hopefully there are Damsels, Princesses and at the very least Wenches, but… Continue Reading →