Reviews

BATTLEAXE – Burn This Town (SPV)

With Sunderland’s finest now back in business and a new album ‘Heavy Metal Sanctuary’ due for release at the end of February, SPV have set the ball rolling with a long-overdue re-issue of Battleaxe’s 1983 debut album ‘Burn This Town’. - Read More

Deep Purple - Live In Stuttgart 1993 / Live In Birmingham 1993

After the (at the time seemingly abhorrent) misadventure with Joe Lynn Turner, Ian Gillan was back in the band, Ritchie Blackmore was unhappy, and the final few months of 1993 saw Deep Purple touring Europe in support of ‘The Battle Rages On’. - Read More

Masters of Disguise - Back With A Vengeance

‘A good cast,’ it used to say at the end of the old Thirties’ horror films, ‘is worth repeating.’ As is a good story. - Read More

Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies – Earth Air Spirit Water Fire

Selim Lemouchi is not a man to let the grass grow under his feet. After disbanding the groundbreaking The Devil’s Blood in January he’s already put out one release. - Read More

The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer

If an album comes from the Ván stable you know at the very least it’s going to be interesting, if not challenging, and ‘Blood Vaults – The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer’, is no exception. - Read More

Masters of Disguise - Knutson's Return

This is really exciting, and well worth adding to any metal collection. Buy or die, as we all used to say back then... - Read More

Rudhira - Bodies

Keeping the momentum going following last year’s debut album ‘Ein’, Norwegian quartet Rudhira are back in business with a single-shot download release, although at six-plus minutes ‘Bodies’ is hardly your average single. - Read More

Mad Max - Interceptor

Presumably taking its name from Max Rockatansky’s car of choice in the film ‘Mad Max 2’ ‘Interceptor’ is the German quartet’s eleventh full-length album and their sixth since getting serious once more in 2006. - Read More

Leaves' Eyes – Symphonies Of The Night

The band’s fifth full-length studio outing, and in ‘Symphonies Of The Night’ they have come up with what in all seriousness is probably their strongest album ever, and certainly the best thing they’ve done since 2005’s cracking ‘Vinland Saga’. - Read More