Author: Andy Thorley

MAMMOTH WVH, THE DUST CODA @ O2 INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM, 08/07/2024

If you are going to make an entrance you may as well make it a good one. That appears to be the maxim for...

REVIEW: MINE ROAD – TOMORROW’S SKY (2024)

Some six years after their debut EP (people moved to Australia and New York and back) now based in Dublin again,  Mine Road are...

REVIEW: ORDEN OGAN – THE ORDER OF FEAR (2024)

 According to singer Sebastian "Seeb" Levermann this, the seventh album from Orden Ogan is “stripped down”. I guess, in the world of power metal,...

RELEASE WEEK ROUND UP 5TH JULY: MARK BROWN, THUNDER HORSE, DUEL, RUTS D.C

MARK BROWN – HAPPY HOUR “Where do you scratch? That’s the kind of thing a guy should do alone”. Well, quite. And if nothing...

REVIEW: KISSIN’ DYNAMITE  – BACK WITH A BANG (2024)

Welcome to episode 2345 of "everything the lazy, clichéd bullshit music journalists tell you is wrong". See, back in 1991, we were told that rock...

REVIEW: L.A EDWARDS – PIE TOWN (2024)

Watching L.A. Edwards - the family band named after leader Luke - back in the spring opening for Lucinda Williams, I wrote a line...

REVIEW: FOCUS- FOCUS 12 (2024)

Calling the opening song on "Focus 12", "Fjord Focus" is not only a wonderful pun, but it's also, in a way, a window into...

REVIEW: AMONGST LIARS – BY DESIGN (2024)

It’s merely happenstance, rather than “By Design” of course that in releasing this album on July 4th, Amongst Liars are putting their second record...

REVIEW: NEW HORIZON – CONQUERORS (2024)

“Conquerors” opens with “Rise Against The Odds” and it takes about five seconds to rejoin battle and let you know what it is all...

REVIEW: THE COMMONERS- RESTLESS (2024)

It’s early February 1990. MV would have been 14 years old, listening to Tommy Vance’s Friday Rock Show no doubt, reading about our new...

JOSH ROUSE @ KITCHEN GARDEN CAFE, BIRMINGHAM 01/07/2024

Walking out into the street after Josh Rouse has finished is odd. Basically, it is chucking it down. This is not the "Summer Rain"...

REVIEW: XENERIS – ETERNAL RISING (2024)

It is fair to say that there is a proliferation of bombastic, slightly symphonic metal bands knocking about at the moment, and you can...

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