Rock Album Reviews
North Atlantic Oscillation – Grapping Hooks Review
Following on from a highly successful tour with Porcupine Tree, ‘Grapping Hooks’ is the much anticipated debut album from Scottish Experimental / Progressive Rock trio North Atlantic Oscillation and it does not disappoint. The album is released on March 22nd through Kscope and features the single ‘Drawing Maps from Memory’ which has [...]
We The Kings – Smile Kid
Demi Lovato? You see as soon as I spell checked this review it threw up an error. More on that shortly. ‘Smile Kid’ is the sophmore album from American Pop-Rock ensemble We The Kings and starts off in suitably cheery style. It’s evident within the first 10 seconds that when adding the sugar to the [...]
Taking Dawn – Time To Burn
I am a huge fan of metal without a doubt but before the growling and shredding came into my life I grew up on good old fashioned rock and roll. That was until everyone starting wearing flannel and hating life while drinking coffee. Since that time there hasn’t really been anything on the rock scene [...]
Nixa – Guerilla
Nixa are a 4 piece hard rock band from London that have been around for approximately the last 3 years. They have won praise from various press and publications including Kerrang, Rock Sound and the London Metro Newspaper, and have been referred to as “One of the top 10 unsigned acts in the UK today”. [...]
Them Crooked Vultures – Self Titled
So expectations are big for this album by Them Crooked Vultures, who if you haven’t heard of (by some miracle) consists of John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age).
Right out of the box the album kicks in with a killer song ‘No One Loves me & [...]
Illuminatus – The Rising Tide
Illuminatus are one Spaniard, one German, one Italian and one English gent. they deal in expansive soundscapes, razor-shard dynamics and no-nonsense melodic song-writing. For illuminatus there exsists no secene;no bandwagon; no fashion war.
The Debut album ‘The Wrath Of The Lambs‘ has already gained the attention of the press, great reviews in kerrang!, Metal Hammer and [...]
Flood Of Red – Leaving Everything Behind
The debut album from the Scottish 6 sum is defiantly one to catch if your fans of moody, punchy guitar riffs and vocal harmony that leave your jaw hitting the floor.
The album starts out with a mellow, thought-provoking track titled “the edge of the world” that seems like it was made for the movies, a [...]