Twenty years. Two decades of eyeliner and industrial-sized riffs; two decades of line-up changes

Nashville husband and wife led band Parker Barrow have already outlived the collaboration of the bands namesakes (Bonnie and Clyde) and with Hold the Mash they could very well become more infamous.

It is time for album number three from Eva Under Fire and with Villainous we have a band slipping into a groove cut out by Nu Metal but this album is huge, the production is incredible and the stories within enthralling.

DevilDriver deserve better! I still have a huge spot for their debut which frankly was met with what I still consider a lot of negative resistance and I feel they’ve been on an uphill battle ever since but now we arrive at latest album Strike And Kill

In rock n' roll parlez if there's something even more important than the all-important second album then surely it's the all-encompassing third full-length studio release.

London trio HAWXX are fearless. Building on their reputation as one of the fiercest bands out there, debut album 'Earth, Spit.

Sit back and let me take you on a journey back in time to an era where the speakers vibrated to the thunderous pounding of drums, screaming guitars and soaring vocals

Seven years on from In the Raw, the longest gap between metal albums in her solo catalogue, the Finnish soprano Tarja has returned to where she belongs, Frisson Noir makes an emphatic case that the extended absence only sharpened the intent.

A. A. Williams - classically trained, London-based, a guitarist, pianist, and cellist who arrived at heavy music by the most circuitous and sincere of routes has been operating in that mode since her self-titled EP in 2019 introduced a sound that defied easy categorisation and demanded full attention.

Quite often, people are often mislead by the allure of the creative industries.  Especially in the rock and metal world.  Often pictured by late nights, debauchery, and excessive substance misuse.  Even if you’re just a journo writing reviews, the expectation is to become enveloped by excess. 

Rock Monsters Daughtry pull together both Shock to the System EPs and throw in some live renditions for a package that is not to be missed.

Some albums announce a band’s intentions and some documents what they had already become. Earth Rocker, Clutch’s tenth studio album, released in March 2013, belongs to neither category cleanly — it is something rarer:

With this being album number four there are some things you know without doubt what will be included. Huge riffs and amazing solos are a given but with Louder than Fate we get Jared spreading his songwriting wings with some new sounds and a whole host of emotion.

Evergrey do not do quiet exits. Over three decades and fourteen studio albums before this one, the Gothenburg veterans have built something rare: a back catalogue that accumulates weight the further you travel through it, each record adding another layer to an emotional architecture that few of their peers have matched.

Some bands earn a legacy and spend the remainder of their career managing it carefully. Evanescence have never operated that way.

Released on June 12th this year, Rachel Bolan has created his first solo record.  Under the cleverly thought through name, BOLAN, the 4-decade Skid Row’er see’s Mr Bolan play through 11 tracks of punk, grit, grime and even a little 80’s power rock.  He’s not alone either.