Finnish band Beast In Black have released their second album, From Hell With Love, a homage to the eighties, so loved by Anton Kabanen – the founder and driving inspiration behind Beast In Black. From Hell With Love picks up…
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RPWL return with their first original studio album since 2014’s Wanted, with songs seemingly inspired by science fiction in Tales From Outer Space. These are not corny tales of sci-fi pulp fiction but vehicles for the band to shine a…
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Taking 1967 as a cultural “Year Zero”, this fine compilation, featuring over three and a half hours of what back then would have simply been called “underground sounds”, takes an in-depth look at the year that followed Sgt. Pepper. Almost…
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Sweden has been the home to some of the most incredible progressive rock bands and artists through the late 20th Century, Hansson & Karlsson, Änglagård, Anekdoten, Kaipa, Opeth and Trettioåriga Kriget to name but a few. However, lurking within the…
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The electric guitar has been at the very heart of Rock and Roll arguably since a decade before Chuck Berry and a good twenty years before Elvis, as maverick Sister Rosetta Tharpe plugged in and left everyone open mouthed with…
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Motorpsycho are now 30 years and 22 albums (excluding live albums and sundry collaborations) into their multi-faceted existence. As you would expect from such seasoned veterans, everything they release exudes an easy confidence, but perhaps more unexpectedly they still manage…
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Duke 72 is a Scottish/Australian collaboration, brainchild of guitarist Justin Lumsden and drummer Jonny Mitchell, conceived, written and performed during a nine hour session in Glasgow. The Mid Shires Herald does not feel rushed, it has that carefully put together…
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Focus 11 is, of course, the celebrated Dutch band’s 14th album (or 15th, depending on how you count them) and focuses on what they do best: melodic, guitar-driven instrumentals, sometimes fast and frantic, sometimes stately and formal, mixing jazz fusion…
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We are Seven is the latest live release by Welsh progressive rock stalwarts Magenta, laying out in full their classic Seven and their most recent album We Are Legend. These are contrasting albums, displaying their musical versatility and fecund imagination,…
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Michel Delville is a busy man. Recently he has played a big part in the thrilling new Gödel Codex album, and now along comes a new release from his well-established fusion band The Wrong Object, entitled Into The Herd. Judging…
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