Damnation’s Hammer – Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres
It’s a rare thing in this day and age to hear a band with such a strong identity and musical senses, and with such…
Concrete Funeral – Ultimum Judicium
Concrete Funeral are excellent musicians but I would say what really makes ‘Ultimum Judicium’ work is the chemistry between the band members – they…
Raven – Over The Top! The Neat Albums 1981-1984
4 CD Clamshell Boxset Raven, like Venom are an important band, and for many years an underrated part of the history of heavy metal. Indeed,…
Lux & Ivy’s Good For Nothin’ Tunes: The Wild, the Weird and the Wang Dang Doodlin’
Various artists: a double CD featuring 50 classic slices of madcap vinyl as enthused over by The Cramps’ Lux and Ivy You’d expect a…
Tangerine Dream – The Official Bootleg Series Volume Three
4CD Remastered Boxset It speaks volumes for the quality and status of Tangerine Dream’s music that this is the third volume of their official…
Glenn Hughes – The Official Bootleg Set: Volume Two, 1993-2013
6-CD Clamshell Boxset I had the great pleasure of seeing Glenn Hughes at the Olympia in Dublin in 2018. Playing a set of classic…
Marty Wilde – Marty
A Lifetime In Music, 1957-2019 – 4CD Boxset One of my great musical heroes was (and still is) Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, I remember reading…
Membranes – What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away
Sometimes, I get to review an album that reminds me of why I love music, of why I love writing about it, and why…
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders
Materialities and Memories of War Now, this is a book about World War One which truly deserves a wide audience, dealing as it does…
The Making of Tombstone by John Farkis
Behind The Scenes of the Classic Modern Western I love Westerns and Tombstone is one of my all-time favourites. It doesn’t hurt that it…