Review by Ritchie Birnie for MPM Is there a better feeling in this world in discovering a band you instantly fall in love with? Wood Burnt Red have just added the UK to the Deep South and given Nashville notice that these boys are the real deal.  This is a call to arms for fans of Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers …

Ricky Warwick returns with solo album number 10, hot on the heels of critically acclaimed "Blood Ties" and as usual you never know what to expect.

12 new tracks.  12 new chances to crack beer cans open on your head, ride security guards through the crowd, or hang off the stage rigging. 

Marrow Deep is the ninth Mastodon record and the first in the band's twenty-five-year history to be made without Brent Hinds, whose serpentine, unpredictable lead guitar was as fundamental to their identity as the low-end churn or Brann Dailor's octopus-limbed drumming.

The Mexican sisters of metal are back with a bang on album number five and this release goes to prove exactly why the trio are the band on everyone's lips.

Brent Smith and the fellas released their eighth studio album on May 29th, 2026, produced by the bands bassist Eric Bass, on Atlantic Records.

Death Metal.  Black Metal.  Dark Metal.  What knows what who is?  Actually, probs some of you readers could recite the difference verbatim. 

More than three decades on from their Tampa beginnings, the Florida symphonic-power-metal institution arrive at album number fourteen with something genuinely ambitious in hand

For the better part of two decades Maria Brink has draped her band in ritual and candlelight, in veils and horns and Salem-trial pageantry, so the real surprise with album number nine is not that it is called Witch but that it took her this long to plant the word squarely on the sleeve. T

Every diptych lives or dies on its second half. Chapter one lands the blow; chapter two has to prove the blow meant something.

The Rolling Stones- Foreign Tongues. I think the conversation with my editor went something like this: " What about the Rolling Stones? " I responded, " What about them?" My editor was talking about the new album by the iconic English rockers, of course.

In the world of music, after ten studio albums, it would stand to reason that a band would struggle to keep switching things up and surprising fans.

The evolution of Kris Barras continues and with Monsters We Made the heavier beats of previous album "Halo Effect" follow suit but with tinges of emotion that impact hard and of course it is an album full to brimming with outstanding guitar work. 

Two decades of being the most divisive, most streamed and most stubbornly, infuriatingly successful band the modern metal mainstream has ever thrown up

I’d imagine the gang within The Hu are riding pretty high right now.  This relatively new group of noise makers from Mongolia performed to over 30,000-40,000 people at Knebworth at Eddfest just a couple of weekends ago. 

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