Here’s what you missed… for all you time-poor people out there not getting your music fix, we have grouped all of our March album and EP reviews for your reading pleasure… enjoy!
From The Midlands:
- Marking “a huge step for this young band,” Martyr De Mona’s Impera received a full 10 out of 10 from Tony Gaskin
- The ‘BBC – Introducing’ band of the month for Coventry and Warwickshire, Drop Down Smiling got 7 out of 10 from Ian Savage for their Sign Here EP
- And Magnum returned with their eighteenth album, Escape From The Shadow Garden, Woody giving it 9 out of 10.
On the rock side of things, we took a listen to this lot:
- Ginger Wildheart – Albion
- Blackberry Smoke – The Whippoorwill
- Baleful Creed – S/T
- Panic Room – Incarnate
- Altered Sky – Stop And Live EP
- BlackWolf – The Hunt
- The Rise and Fall of The Clash – DVD
- Rainbow – The Singles Box Set 1975-1986
- Asia – Gravitas
If melodic rock and/or AOR is your thing:
- Gotthard – Bang!
- Vandenberg’s Moonkings – S/T
- Fireroad – I Got Sound
- Free Spirit – All The Shades Of Darkened Light
- Stillman – We Are The Trouble EP
- Melodic Rock Roundup: Lover Undercover + Overland + EZ Livin + Humbucker
For rock touched by psychedelia (or psychedelics, perhaps):
- Birth of Joy – Prisoner
- Messenger – Illusory Blues
- Sleepy Sun – Maui Tears
- Dead Rider – Chills on Glass
And if you like it a bit heavier, then this lot might be right up yours:
- Pantera – Far Beyond Driven 20th Anniversary Reissue
- Lacuna Coil – Broken Crown Halo
- Within Temptation – Hydra
- The Wounded Kings – Consolamentum
- Conan – Blood Eagle
- Pilgrim – II: Void Worship
- Ronnie James Dio Tribute – This Is Your Life
- Suicide Silence & Guests – The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show (Ending Is The Beginning)
- Carnifex – Die Without Hope
- Metal Blade Records: Mount Salem + Noctum + Artillery + Flotsam And Jetsam
And from the very arse of Beelzebub:
- Avantgarde Music: Tomorrowillbeworse + Hornwood Fell + Janvs
- Blood Harvest Records: Shroud of the Heretic + Necroven + Ceremonial
- Cold Raw Records: Abnabak + Midnattsvrede + DASAP
- Iron Bonehead Productions: Heresiarch + Possession + Cemetery Fog
- Séance Records: Erebus Enthroned + Graveborne
- Sepulchral Productions: Neige et Noirceur + Beast Within + Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe (Split)
- Black Metal Roundup: Astrophobos + Panychida + Wrong + Moloch
