Music Video Review

Matt Pearce And The Mutiny set sail to release a video single for ‘Promised Land’, taken from ‘The Soul Food Store’ Album, released in 2022. It’s a silky performance of four luscious minutes of rock and raunch. A tight but loose rhythm section lays the foundations for the rest of …

To be honest, there isn’t that much to pick apart here from the original version of ‘Man In The Box’ by Alice In Chains, but Jared James Nichols keeps close to it’s essence as he covers his version of it. It’s released ahead of his UK and European tour, supporting …

Well here’s a quick bit of time travel as 2023 sees the return of Gypsy’s Kiss as they release a brand new single ‘Better Than Me’, accompanied by a music video from a gig in Lublin, Poland, October 22nd and June 2023. The band originally started in 1974 by Steve …

Welcome back Brighton based blues rock raconteur Mike Ross as he releases ‘Face By Your Window’, a video single taken from his currently available Third Eye Open album to coincide for six solo UK dates throughout September. He proclaims that “It’s a song about a jealous lover.” He captures this …

Crash bang wallop! Damnation’s Hammer return from the wilderness to unleash a brand new heavier than a heavier thing single titled ‘Sutter Cane’ taken from a forthcoming studio album Into The Silent Nebula due for release via Massacre Records on September 15th 2023 that follows Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres, their …

Birmingham/London formed in 2016 band A Titan, A Deity return with another banger to join their already full arsenal of bangers as they unleash new single ‘In Dreams‘. The self proclaimed progressive metalcore titans hit hard and heavy through a rollercoaster four minute ride of time exhilarating time changes. Brutal …

Formed in Birmingham 2022, Vanitas first came to my attention with their highly impessive self titled four track EP and they return just under a year later with a brand new single ‘Eventum’ released on May 19th, already reaching just under three thousand YouTube views. Four furious minutes effortlessly soothe …

Scarborough, North Yorkshire based band This House We Built have already got solid foundations in such a short space of time since only forming in 2020, just before Covid 19 hit hard. They socially distanced,writing material for their self titled debut album which was released on October 15th, 2022, via …

It’s time for another hairy hoedown as Robert Jon And The Wreck rise up from Orange County, Southern California to deliver brand new single ‘Pain No More’ released via Joe Bonamassa’s new record label Journeyman Records. It’s a sneaky peek from a forthcoming 2023 EP One Of A Kind to …

May 2022 saw me review Good Times End Times by Beaux Gris Gris And The Apocalypse, their sophomore studio album released by Grow Vision Music/Devil Hills Entertainment, an electric ecletic listen and also a very rewarding one from the Orange County, California based band. My favourite track on the album …

In an ideal World I’d be at the These Wicked Rivers album no.2 fundraiser show at the Hairy Dog in Derby tonight but life got in the way so the next best option is a review of their lyric video of ‘Testify’. It was originally recorded in 2015 but now …

MACCLESFIELD POWER-DUO The Virginmary’s release their new single/video for The Meds today. This is the first release for Ally Dickaty and Danny Dolan as a duo. The video for ‘The Meds’ is akin to Stephen King’s ‘ Misery’ but the overzealous main character Annie Atkins is replaced with a bottle …

Resplendent in a guise of Dia De Los Muertos skull faces and rumba la rock boleros ‘Gypsy Pistorleros’ bring the swagger on their new single ‘Lost in a Town Called Nowhere’ A song for the underdog. The Gyspy Pistoleros unleash their new music video for Lost In A Town Called …

Sunday, August 8th 2015 at the Bloodstock Open Air Festival saw me alter my reviewing schedule by leaving midway through a very boring set by Black Label Society on the Ronnie James Dio Stage to check out HeLL PuPPeTs headline the Jagermeister Stage who were thoroughly a lot more entertaining …

Silverjet – new video single – Everybody Used To Love You released today   The Sheffield rockers teased us the with a trailer for their pending new video singe Everybody Used To Love You. And today you can watch and stream/buy the song for £1. Or you can go the …

On September 4th 2020, guitarist Jim Kirkpatrick took a break from his duties with FM and Rhino’s Revenge to dish out a glorious twelve-track solo album Ballad Of A Prodigal Son. It amassed rave reviews from the music press including a 5/5 rating from myself. Said album covered a helluva …

I’ve never come across an Italian death metal band before and Hellucination from Rome have made me glad that I’ve done so with ‘Do Ut Does’, taken from their Multiverse album, and a quick review would read “brutally brutal”. A much more well deserved appraisal starts with the mind boggling …

Far from being burnt out, Burnt Out Wreck unleash another video from their riff-tastic album This Is Hell. If you want riffs, you get em as the title track is an absolute monster, to say the least! Fronted by the razor sharp vocals of Gary Moat, the big riffs, the …

Lord Of The Vile, taken from current studio album The Electric Abyss sees Scottish crushers Dog Tired pummel on a metronomic pound. They, unfortunately, slipped past my radar since I last saw them tear through their set at Wildfire Festival in 2015 but it’s great to hear that they are …