Album Review: STRAY FROM THE PATH - Only Death Is Real

01. The Opening Move

02. Loudest In the Room

03. Goodnight Alt-Right

04. Let's Make a Deal

05. They Always Take the Guru

06. Plead the Fifth

07. Strange Fiction (feat. Keith Buckley)

08. All Day & a Night (feat. Bryan Garris)

09. The House Always Wins (feat. Vinnie Paz)

10. Only Death Is Real

Album Review: VINCE RIPPER AND THE RODENT SHOW - Planet Shockorama

01. Planet Claire (The B52's cover)

02. Teenagers From Mars (Misfits cover)

03. 7 And 7 Is (Love cover)

04. Outer Limits

05. The Invasion Is Coming (The Invasion cover)

06. I Can't Find My Mind (The Cramps cover)

07. Silver Machine (Hawkwind cover)

08. Rocket U.S.A (Suicide cover)

09. Love Me (Jerry Lott cover)

10. The Blob (The Five Blobs cover)

11. Mystery Plane (The Cramps cover)

12. Flying Saucers Rock And Roll (Billy Riley cover)

13. EST, Trip To The Moon (Alien Sex Fiend cover)

14. Scary Monsters (David Bowie cover)

Album Review: 3TEETH - Shutdown.exe

01. Divine Weapon

02. Pit Of Fire

03. Atrophy

04. Oblivion Coil

05. Shutdown

06. Degrade

07. Tower Of Disease

08. Tabula Umbra

09. Voiceless

10. Slavegod

11. Insubstantia

12. B.O.A

13. Away From Me

Album Review: REX BROWN - Smoke On This

01. Lone Rider

02. Crossing Lines

03. Buried Alive

04. Train Song

05. Get Yourself Alright

06. Fault Line

07. What Comes Around...

08. Grace

09. So Into You

10. Best Of Me

11. One of These Days

Album Review: ARCH ENEMY - Will To Power

01. Set Flame To The Night

02. The Race

03. Blood In The Water

04. The World Is Yours

05. The Eagle Flies Alone

06. Reason To Believe

07. Murder Scene

08. First Day In Hell

09. Saturnine

10. Dreams Of Retribution

11. My Shadow and I

12. A Fight I Must Win

13. City Baby Attacked By Rats (Charged G.B.H. cover) [Bonus Track]

Album Review: WINTERSUN - The Forest Seasons

01. Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)

02. The Forest That Weeps (Summer)

03. Eternal Darkness (Autumn)

04. Loneliness (Winter)

Album Review: CELLAR DARLING - This Is The Sound

01. Avalanche

02. Black Moon

03. Challenge

04. Hullaballoo

05. Six Days

06. The Hermit

07. Water

08. Fire, Wind & Earth

09. Rebels

10. Under The Oak Tree…

11. …High Above These Crowns

12. Starcrusher

13. Hedonia

14. Redemption

Album Review: DEAD CROSS - Dead Cross

01. Seizure And Desist

02. Idiopathic

03. Obedience School

04. Shillelagh

05. Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus cover)

06. Divine Faith

07. Grave Slave

08. The Future Has Been Cancelled

09. Gag Reflex

10. Church Of The Motherfuckers

Album Review: MOTORHEAD - Under Cöver

01. Breaking the Law (Judas Priest)
02. God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)
03. Heroes (David Bowie)
04. Starstruck (Dio)
05. Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent)
06. Jumpin' Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones)
07. Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones)
08. Hellraiser (Ozzy Osbourne)
09. Rockaway Beach (Ramones)
10. Shoot 'Em Down (Twisted Sister)
11. Whiplash (Metallica) 

Movie Review: THE TOYMAKER (2017)

The Toymaker (AKA Robert and the Toymaker in the USA) is a low budget Horror film that's the third instalment of the killer puppet 'Robert' franchise. I saw the first movie, simply entitled Robert, and while it was a valient effort in the world of microbudget filmmaking, it wasn't exactly something I'd watch again. So, why am I watching this one?

Album Review: DOYLE - II As We Die

01. Kiss Me As We Die

02. Beast Like Me

03. God Of Flies

04. Run For Your Life

05. Darkside

06. Witchcraft

07. King Of The Undead

08. Virgin Sacrifice

09. We Belong Dead

10. Show No Mercy

11. Dark Gods Arise

12. Blood On The Axe

13. Night Of Sin

Album Review: PARADISE LOST - Medusa

01. Fearless Sky

02. Gods Of Ancient

03. From The Gallows

04. The Longest Winter

05. Medusa

06. No Passage For The Dead

07. Blood And Chaos

08. Until The Grave

09. Frozen Illusion (Bonus Track)

10. Shrines (Bonus Track)

11. Symbolic Virtue (Bonus Track)

Album Review: ACCEPT - The Rise Of Chaos

01. Die By The Sword

02. Hole In The Head

03. The Rise Of Chaos

04. Koolaid

05. No Regrets

06. Analog Man

07. What's Done Is Done

08. Worlds Colliding

09. Carry The Weight

10. Race To Extinction

Movie Review: IT (2017)

Like most Horror fans, I've been looking forward to this remake of IT for what feels like forever. I read the Stephen King book when I was a kid and loved it. In fact, it's possibly my favourite of all of his books. I also loved the original 'TV movie', or whatever they call it, which starred the living legend that is Tim Curry as the evil clown Pennywise. As with any remake, the movie was always going to be met with a certain level of hostility before its release, as the original means so much to so many fans. However, I'm not one to look at the past through rose tinted glasses. While the original was awesome in its own way, by today's standards, it looks pretty dated. Back then, there were more rules in place regarding what you could and couldn't have in a movie, especially when it came to violence towards children. Now censorship laws are more relaxed, and CGI technology is infinitely superior to what it was in the nineties, Hollywood are finally able to give us the movie that the book truly deserves.

Album Review: POWERFLO - Powerflo

01. My M.O

02. Resistance

03. Where I Stay

04. Crushing That

05. Less Than A Human

06. The Grind

07. Victim Of Circumstance

08. Made It This Way

09. Finish The Game

10. Up And Out Of Me

11. Start A War

Movie Review: CRISPY'S CURSE

I was recently invited to the preview of Crispy's Curse by local director John Williams. It's his third full length movie, and I was lucky enough to watch it before it goes out to film festivals.

Gig Review: THE CRUEL INTENTIONS, CIRCUS JUNKIE REBELS, QUIET THE THIEF and RAGE CAVE at The Underground, Stoke-on-Trent (UK) 01/09/2017

Before I start this review, I apologise to opening band Rage Cave, because they'd already been and gone before I arrived. Sorry guys, shit happens!