Music Reviews
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
25/05/2013 Writing about music can certainly be a rewarding experience. It forces you to approach music that you normally wouldn’t with an open mind, which is always a good thing. Having received Blood Ceremony’s ‘The Eldritch Dark’, I wasn’t sure of what to expect. I had never heard of...
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
16/05/2013 Three years after their incredible Tron Legacy soundtrack and seven years after their last release, Daft Punk have a lot to live up to. From the announcement to the online hype, the world has been tripping between extensive bouts of excitement and conceited dismissal of the...
One Vital Word - Picture Perfect
17/04/2013 Newcastle, Australia, has been home to numerous successful artists and bands. Both the Screaming Jets and the more widely-known Silverchair began in Newcastle, and the city is never short on gigs to satisfy a music lover, regardless of their preference.
In recent years, Newcastle has...
Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond the Sun
15/02/2013
Reach Beyond the Sun is the fourth album from American Hardcore band, Shai Hulud. On the surface, Shai Hulud may sound similar to other hardcore acts, but the band's intelligence and ability to draw inspiration from multiple sources (including progressive metal) elevate their music to a...
Black Veil Brides - Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones
01/02/2013
Look to the recent covers of Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Revolver, and chances are you've seen Andy Biersack's androgynous mug and that of his leather-clad band, the Black Veil Brides. It seems as though the band is only growing in popularity since the release of their 2009 album, We...
Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
I’m a big fan of progressive metal. I’m always interested to hear of new bands which fuse various musical styles with metal to either tell a story or further their genre of choice. Hell, some bands just do it to challenge themselves and their audiences. Silent Machine is Melbourne-based Twelve Foot...
Michael Jackson - Bad 25th Anniversary
18/09/2012
It's hard to believe it’s been twenty five years since Michael Jackson released his Bad album. The follow up to Thriller, Bad may not have shared the same critical and commercial success of Thriller (which I think we can all agree is impossible to top), however it is still widely...
Storm Corrosion
31/05/2012
Storm Corrosion is not a band in the traditional sense, or a supergroup by any definition of the term – Storm Corrosion is a collaboration of artists. Not just musicians, but true artists in Mikael Akerfeldt, of Swedish legends’ Opeth fame, and Steven Wilson, frontman of Porcupine...
Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour
25/05/2012
It's only been just under two years since Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Big Daddy, Del Marquis and Randy Real aka Scissor Sisters released their album Night Work, but they are back with a treasure trove for your ear drums with Magic Hour.
Fans of the Scissor Sisters will be...
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
21/05/2012
In 2010, Nicki Minaj released 'Pink Friday' and very quickly established herself as a hip hop/rap artist amongst her male counterparts. Between now and then, Minaj has collaborated with her alter ego 'Roman Zolanski' and released 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'. It contains the tracks...
