A quick round-up of things we’ve heard about over the last day or so… Machine Head A little vague, this one, but Machine Head will be releasing The Catharsis in January 2018 – no actual date as yet, though the band will be kicking off six weeks of US dates on [...]

Following the break-up of​ her old Sub Pop-signed​ band Eric’s Trip in 1996, the career of Juno-winner and Polaris Prize-nominee Julie Doir​o​n has taken in over ten albums (​via​ Jagjaguwar and Sub Pop)​, alongside​ collaborative releases with Mount Eerie and Okkervill River. This new project finds Julie partnering up with​ [...]

King King, like some of history’s greatest bands, produced some excellent work before people sat up and took notice of them. Reaching For the Light put them on the map a couple of years ago but go back and listen to the two preceding records and there’s an excellent lineage [...]

Vanitas is the fourth album from Polish death metal act In Twilight’s Embrace. Containing eight tracks of ferocious misery, it’s a hard-hitting collection and the release date is perfect as we start the slide into winter. The majority of tracks are of the very heavy variety – an absolute torrent of non-stop, fast-paced [...]

This isn’t an advert – just saying. Eagle Rock have helped us out recently, offering competition prizes and so forth, and the least we could do is pay back the favour and give them a quick plug. A lot of the DVDs we get sent through for review from various [...]

Eternal Fear, from Karlskoga, Sweden, are set to release a digital album which includes 16 tracks that were recorded between 1995 – 1997, using a 16 channel Fostex tape recorder. The album will be available through online stores only! Forming in the early 90’s, Eternal Fear have gone from strength [...]