OLD ALBUM REVIEWS: 2008 / 2007 / 2006
 

12 DIRTY BULLETS – Downsides To Making A Living (Fatman)

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW – Delivrance (Leaf Label)
ABOVE THEM – Blueprint For A Better Time (Inhaler)
ABRAMIS BRAMA – Smakar Sondag (Transubstans)
ABSU – Absu (Candlelight)
ACID DRINKERS – Verses Of Steel (Regain)
ADAM FRANKLIN – Spent Bullets (Hi Speed Soul / Second Motion)
ADMIRAL ANGRY - Buster (Shelsmusic)
THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI – The Adventures Of Loki (Maitre-d)
AHAB – The Divinity Of Dreams (Napalm)
AIRPEOPLE – The Golden City (Golden Antenna)
ALEXISONFIRE – Old Crows/Young Cardinals (Roadrunner)
AMBASSADOR GUN – When In Hell (Pangea)
ANATHALLO – Canopy Glow (Anticon)
ANCESTORS – Of Sound Mind (TeePee)
AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM? – The Hi-Fi Low Life (PopArt London)
ANDY NICE – The Secrets Of Me (Front And Follow)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
ANNALOGUE – Broken Spectre (Atol)
ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM – Fluorescent Black (Big Dada)
THE ANTIKAROSHI – Crushed Neocons (Exile On Mainstream)
ARTHEMIS – Black Society (Scarlet)
ASSAULTER – Salvation Like Destruction (Pulverised)
ASSEMBLE HEAD – When Sweet Sleep Returned (Tee Pee)
THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX – Tab 4 (Tee Pee)
ATTACK + DEFEND – Theme (Shape)
AUTOPSY – Severed Survival – 20th Anniversary Edition (Peaceville)
AWESOME WELLS – The Highs And Lows Of De Witt A Stanton (Red Deer Club)
AZARATH – Praise The Beast (Agonia)

BAY OF ISLANDS - Winter Vignettes (Dizzy)
BELL ORCHESTRE – As Seen Through Windows (Arts & Crafts)
BELLINI – The Precious Prize of Gravity (Temporary Residence)
BIRDEATSBABY – Here She Comes-a-Tumblin’ (Self Release)
BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC - Dawn Of The Cycads (Cuneiform)
BISHOP ALLEN – Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
THE BLACK – Alongside Death (Pulverised)
BLACK FEATHER – Silhouette (Other Electricities)
BLACKGUARD – Profugus Mortis (Nuclear Blast)
THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT – Remedies (Lifeforce)
BLATZ / FILTH – Shit Split (Alternative Tentacles)
BLINDFOLD – Faking Dreams (Cinepop)
BLEED FROM WITHIN – Humanity (Rising)
BLOOD MOON – The Birth Of Tragedy (Womb)
BLUT AUS NORD –  Memoria Vetusta ll: Dialogue With The Stars (Candlelight)
BOBBY’S BEARD – Bobby’s Beard (Ingue)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY – Beware (Domino)
BRESCHDLENG – Breschdleng (Prevision)
BRONTOSAURUS CHORUS – You’ve Created A Monster (PopArt London)
BULLET MONKS -  Weapons Of Mass Destruction (Napalm)

CALLOUS  – Descension (Casket)
CAPTAIN WILBERFORCE – Everyone Loves A Villain (Blue Tuxedo)
CASTROVALVA – Castrovalva (Brew)
CHEER-ACCIDENT - Fear Draws Misfortune (Cuneiform)
CHEVAL SOMBRE - Sombre (Double Feature)
THE CHURCH – Untitled #23 (Second Motion)
THE COAST – Expatriate (Aporia)
COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER – In The Cube (Rage In Eden)
CONQUEST OF STEEL – Storm Sword, Rise Of The Dread Queen (No Face)
COUGAR – Thundersnow / Rhinelander (Counter)
COVERED CALL - Money Never Sleeps (Blistering)
COWBOY PROSTITUTES – Let Me Have Your Heart (Sunny Bastards)
COWMAN – Palpating The Rumen (Ingue)
CRAZY ARM – Born To Ruin (Xtra Mile)
CRIMFALL – As The Path Unfolds (Napalm)
CURSIVE – Mama, I’m Swollen (Saddle Creek)

DAMON & NAOMI – The Sub Pop Years (20.20.20.10)
THE DANDY WARHOLS – The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (EMI)
DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE – We Bet Our Money On You (We Shot JR)
DANKO JONES – Never Too Loud (Bad Taste)
DARK CASTLE – Spirited Migration (At A Loss)
DAVE ARCARI – Got Me Electric (Buzz)
DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP - Access Denied! (Copepod)
DEAD MAN’S HAND – The Combination (Agonia)
DEAD STARS – Break The Tide (self release)
DEADSTRING BROTHERS – Sao Paulo (Bloodshot)
DEEP CUT – My Thoughts Light Fires (AC30)
DEEP PURPLE – Stormbringer 35th Anniversary edition (EMI)
DEVIL DRIVER – Pray For Villains (Roadrunner)
THE DEVILROCK FOUR – First in Line (Unconform)
DEVIL’S WHOREHOUSE – Blood & Ashes (Regain)
DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA – No2: Sing Along Songs For The Damned.. (Ascendance)
DIE PRETTY – Bitter Sweet (Unconform)
DIETER MOEBIUS – Kram (Klangbad)
DINOSAUR Jr – Farm (PIAS)
DIPLO – Decent Work For Decent Pay: Collected Works Vol. One (Big Dada)
DM STITH - Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
DOWNDIME – Knowing Too Much (Squirrel)
DREAM THEATER – Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Roadrunner)
THE DRONES – Hvilah (ATP/R)
THE DUEL – Childish Behavior (FFRUK)
DUNCAN REDMONDS – Bubble And Squeak: Collaborations 2004-2008 (Boss Tuneage)

EASTSTRIKEWEST – Wolves (Thirty Days Of Nights)
ELECTRIC RIVER – Radio No Go (self release)
EMMY THE GREAT – First Love (Close Harbour)
ENABLERS - Tundra (Exile On Mainstream)
END OF EVERYTHING – A Man Made Sun (Casket)
ENGINEERS – Three Fact Fader (K Scope)
THE ERUPTORS – Microwave Massacre (Fixing A Hole)
EVILS – Hello Children Everywhere (Shape)
EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL – Forest Field (Download)
EXTRA LIFE - Secular Works (LoAF Recordings)
EYEHATEGOD – Confederacy Of Ruined Lives (Peaceville)
EYELASH – Recession (Eversholt)

THE FACELESS – Planetary Quality (Lifeforce)
FAKE PROBLEMS – It’s Great To Be Alive (Side One Dummy)
FALCONGATE – Disappear Here (Lockjaw)
FATHER MURPHY – And He Told Us To Turn To The Sun (Aagoo)
THE FAUNS – The Fauns (Laser Ghost)
FEJD – Storm (Napalm)
FEN – The Malediction Fields (Code 666)
FIGHT LIKE APES – ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion (Model Citizen)
FILTH / BLATZ – Shit Split (Alternative Tentacles)
FIREBUG – Season For Change (Buddha Belt)
FIRST AID KIT – Drunken Trees (Wichita)
THE FLARE-UP! – Whip ‘Em Hard, Whip ‘Em Good (Criminal)
FOOT VILLAGE –  Anti-Magic (Upset The Rhythm)
FRANK ROTHKAMM – Frank Genius Is Star Struck (Flux)
FRESHKILLS – Freshkills (Freshkills)
F*CK BUTTONS – TAROT SPORT (ATP/R)
FUN MACHINE – Sonnen Huhn (BNS Sessions)
FUZZ FUZZ MACHINE – The Most (Casket)

GAMAGES MODEL TRAIN CLUB – The Loss Of Gamages Model Train Club (Tiger’s Head)
GARETH SAGER – Slack Slack Music (Creeping Bent)
GATHIENS – Nesh (Murkhouse)
GAY BEAST – Second Wave (Skin Graft)
GERTRUDE – Speak, Shape, Create, Time (Urban Misfits)
GIANT PAW - The Stars Are Ours (Feral)
GNAW – This Face (Conspiracy)
GODDASS – My Beautiful Sin (EMG)
GONG - Gong 2032 (G-Wave)
GOODNIGHT AND I WISH – A Ruffled Mind Makes A Restless Pillow (Modern Pop)
GRAHAM REYNOLDS AND THE GOLDEN ARM TRIO – Cult Of Colour (Shamrock)
GRAVANZIA – Doom To The Doom Men (self release)
GRENOUER – Presence With War (Casket)
GUILT MACHINE – On This Perfect Day (Mascot)
GULLICH – Gullich (Pay For The Piano)

HARD-ONS – Suck And Swallow: 25 Years 25 Songs (Boss Tuneage)
HARPOON – Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (Interloper)
HASIKARA SMILE – Elephant Gun (self release)
HATEBREED – Hatebreed (Roadrunner)
HATESPHERE – To The Nines (Napalm)
HEALTH – Get  Color (City Slang)
HEARTBREAK STEREO – Inspiration: Back From The Dead (Boss Tuneage)
HEAT FROM A DEADSTAR – Seven Rays Of The Sun (Ace Of Heart)
HEIRS – Alchera (Denovali)
HERE WE GO MAGIC – Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
HERMH – Cold Blooded Messiah  (Regain)
HEY! TONAL – Hey! Tonal (African Tape)
HOLMES – Wolves (Black Star Foundation)
HOODS – Pit Beast (I Scream)
HORDE OF HEL – Bodskam (Regain)
HOW’S MY POP – On The Hop (Barnbox)
HUMCRUSH – Rest At Worlds End (Rune Grammofon)
HUSH ARBORS – Yankee Reality (Ecstatic Peace)
HYATARI – They Will Surface (Caustic Eye)
HYSTERICA – Metalwar (Crong)

IDLEWILD – Post Electric Blues (Cooking Vinyl)
IMAGINATION SCHOOL – To The Level Of Light (Sonic Junction)
IMPIETY - Terroreign: Apocalyptic Armageddon Command (Agonia)
INNOCENT ROSIE – Bad Habit Romance (self release)
INSTANT FLIGHT – Endless Journey (Headspin)
INVASION – The Master Alchemist (This Is Music)
IQ – Frequency (G.E.P)
IRON FIRE – To The Grave (Napalm)
ISIS – Wavering Radiant (Conspiracy)
ISLAND LINE – Island Line (Punchbag/Autonomy)
ISOLE – Silent Ruins (Napalm)
IXXI – Elect Darkness (Candlelight)

JACK SHIRT – Silent Beef (Scratch My Back)
JAMES YORKSTON & THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS -  Folk Songs (Domino)
JASON LYTLE – Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti)
THE JIM JONES REVUE – Here To Save Your Soul (Punk Rock Blues)
JOE GIDEON & THE SHARK – Harum Scarum (Bronzebat)
JON HOPKINS – Insides (Double Six)
JONO EL GRANDE - Neo Dada (Rune Grammofon)
JULIE DOIRON – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Jagjaguwar)

KALAMAZOO – How To Hunt A Dear (Indiz)
KAP BAMBINO – Blacklist (Because)
KELPE – Cambio Weschel (DC Recordings)
KILL IT KID – Kill It Kid (One Little Indian)
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – Killswitch Engage (Roadrunner)
KISS – Sonic Boom (Roadrunner)
KLAY - Maps Of Rebellion (Lockjaw)
KONG - (Brew)
KONGH – Shadows Of The Shapeless (Trust No One)

LADYFINGER (NE) – Dusk (Saddle Creek)
LAMB OF GOD – Wrath (Roadrunner)
LARS HORNTVETH – Kaleidoscopic (Smalltown Supersound)
LATITUDES – Agonist (Shels)
THE LAZE – Spacetime Fabric Conditioner (self release)
LE CHAT NOIR – Postcards From The Dark Highway (Garage Sale)
LE RENO AMPS – Tear It Open (Drift)
LEAVES’ EYES – Njord (Napalm)
LEECH – The Stolen View (Viva Hate)
THE LEGENDS – Over And Over (Labrador)
LIAM McKAHEY & THE BODIES – Lonely Road (Series 8)
LIGHT SYNDICATE – Last In Line (Pushbike)
LIONS SHARE – Dark Hours (Blistering)
LIME HEADED DOG – Kfum & Kfuk (Volcano Attack)
LITMUS – Aurora (Rise Above)
THE LONG LOST – The Long Lost (Ninja Tune)
THE LOVED ONES – Distractions (Fat Wreck)
THE LOW FREQUENCY IN STEREO – Futuro (Rune Grammofon)
LOU BARLOW – Goodnight Unknown (Domino)
LYDIA LUNCH – Lydia Lunch’s Big Sexy Noise (Sartorial)

MAEGASHIRA – The Stark Arctic (Spare Change)
MAEVEN – Maeven (Lockjaw)
MAGNETIC MORNING – A.M. (Friend or Faux)
MALEFICENT – Demise (Sicktronic)
MANGROVE  - Endless Skies (Transubstans)
MAPS – Turning The Mind (Mute)
MARDUK – Wormwood (Regain)
MASTERS OF REALITY – Pine/Dover Cross (Brownhouse)
MAYBESHEWILL – Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony (Field)
MEAN STREAK – Metal Slave (Black Lodge)
MEAT PUPPETS – Sewn Together (Megaforce)
MEMORIAL – In The Absence Of All Things Sacred (Casket)
MEN OF UNITUS – Gland Of Hope And Glory (No Lite)
MERAUDER – God Is I (Regain)
MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND – Soy Sauce (Cooking Vinyl)
MI AMI – Watersports (Touch And Go/Quarterstick)
MICHAEL GRAVES – Illusions live: Viretta Park (Screaming Crows)
THE MILK AND HONEY BAND – Dog Eared Moonlight (APE)
MFMB – Mfmb (La Bulle Sonore)
MONO – Hymn To The Immortal Wind (Conspiracy)
MONSTER CEILIDH BAND – Make Me A Dancer (self release)
MORAL DILEMMA – Agree To Disagree (Pumpkin)
MORIARTY – Gee Whiz But This Is A Lonesome Town (Kartel)
THE MORNING AFTER – You Can’t Hurt Steel (Rising)
MOSS – Tombs Of The Blind Drugged (Rise Above)
MT. ST. HELENS VIETNAM BAND – Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (Dead Oceans)
MY OWN GRAVE – Necrology (Pulverised)

NAVVY – Idyll Intangible (Angular)
THE NERVES – One Way Ticket (Alive)
NEW DEVICE – Takin’ Over (Powerage)
NICK PYNN – The Colours Of The Night (Roundhill)
NICKEL EYE – The Time Of The Assassins (Ryko)
THE NIGHTINGALES – Insult To Injury (Klangbad)
NINJA DOLLS – 1, 2, 3 Go! (Unconform)
NITKOWSKI – Chauffeurs (Function)
NLF3 – Ride On A Brand New Time (Prohibited)
NUTSAK – Failed Musician (Signed By Force)

OBLIQ –  Antenna (Ensue)
OEN SUJET - Life Given To Quiet Places (LOAF)
OKIE DOKIE – Okie Dokie (Aagoo)
THE OLYMPIC SYMPHONIUM – More In Sorrow Than Anger (Forward Music)
O.M.T – Anamantium (Rising)
OMO – The White Album (LoAF)
ONEIDA – Rated O (Jagjaguwar/Brah)
THE ORANGE MAN THEORY – Satan Told Me I’m Right (Subsound)
OUT OF ENEMIES – Into The Darkness (Rising)

:PAPERCUTZ – Lylac (Apegenine)
PAUL GOODWIN – Scars (BFF)
PERE UBU with SARAH JANE MORRIS – Long Live Pere Ubu (Cooking Vinyl)
PESTILENCE - Resurrection Macabre (Mascot)
PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS – In Memorian, Ill Omen (Pulverised)
PETER DOHERTY – Grace /Wastelands (Parlophone)
PETER HAMMILL – Thin Air (FIE)
PHOSPHORESCENT – To Willie (Dead Oceans)
PLANAR EVIL – Mankind Way Of Life (MDD)
THE PRESENT – The Way We Are (LOAF)
POINT JUNCTURE, WA – Heart To Elk (Mt Fuji)
PONAMERO SUNDOWN – Stonerized (Transubstance)
PORCUPINE TREE  - The incident (Roadrunner)
PORT O’BRIEN – Threadbare (City Slang)
PRE – Hope Freaks (Skingraft)
PROJECT PITCHFORK – Dream, Tireias! (Protain)
THE PROPHECY – Into The Light (Code666)
PURE REASON REVOLUTION – Amor Vincit Omnia (Superball)
PYTHIA – Beneath The Veiled Embrace (Golden Axe)

RABID RABBIT – Rabid Rabbit (Interloper)
RACHEL GRIMES – Book Of Leaves; For Solo Piano (Ruminance)
RAISING SAND – All Out War (Bullseye)
RAT ATTACK – This Is Art (Lockjaw)
RED BURNS BLACK – Set This Night Alight (Casket)
RED EYED LEGENDS – Wake Up, Legend (File Thirteen)
RED SQUARE – Thirty Three (FMR)
RENO DIVORCE – Tears Before Breakfast (I Scream)
RESONATE – Curvature (Lockjaw)
THE REVELLIONS – The Revellions (Dirty Water)
THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND – The Whole Fam Damnily (Side One Dummy)
REVOLTING COCKS – Sex-O Olympic-O (13th Planet)
THE ROBOT LORDS OF TOKYO - Whiskey, Blood & Napalm (Self Release)
RUSSIAN CIRCLES – Geneva (Suicide Squeeze)

SAD DAY FOR PUPPETS – Unknown Colours (Sonic Cathedral)
SAM KILLS TWO – Sam Kills Two (Rocket Girl)
SAMARA LUBELSKI – Future Slip (Ecstatic Peace)
SANDSTONE – Purging The Past (Casket)
SANCTIFICATION – Black Reign (Pulverised)
THE SCARAMANGA SIX – Songs Of Prey (Wrath)
SEANCE – Awakening Of The Gods (Pulverised)
SECTION 13 – A demonstration (Boss Tuneage)
SERGEANT BUZFUZ – High Slang (Blang)
SHIRLEY LEE – Shirley Lee (Missing Page)
SHORTWAVE FADE – Deletia (Slice The Pie)
SHRAG – Shrag (Where It’s At Is Where You Are)
SIDDHARTHA – Trip To Innerself (Trail)
SILENTIUM – Amortean (Dynamic Arts)
SKINDRED – Shark Bites And Dog Fights (Beiler Bros)
SLEEPER – Behind Every Mask (Mush)
THE SOUNDSCAPES – Freestyle Family (BNS Sessions)
SOUTHERLY – Storyteller & The Gossip Columnist (Arctic Rodeo)
SPIDER AND THE FLIES – Something Clockwork This Way Comes (Mute Irregulars)
SPOKES – People Like People Like You (Counter)
STEVE ABEL & THE CHRYSALIDS – Flax Happy (Kin’sland)
STEVEN WILSON – NSRGNTS RMXS (K Scope)
THE STILLETOES – ADHDreams (Ankst)
STINKING LIZAVETA – Sacrifice And Bliss (Monotreme)
STONEPHACE – Stonephace (Tru Thoughts)
STORSVEIT NIX NOLTES – Royal Family Divorce (Fat Cat)
STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB – Street Sweeper Social Club (Cooking Vinyl)
STUART TURNER – File Under Carnal Knowledge (Sun Pier)
STUPIDITY – I Need You (Go Fast)
THE STUPIDS – The Kids Don’t like It (Boss Tuneage)
SUIDAKRA – Crogacht (Wacken)
SUSUMU YOKOTA – Mother (Lo Recordings)
SWITCH OPENS – Switch Opens (GMR)
SYRACH – A Dark Burial (Napalm)

THE TEA CLUB – General Winter’s Secret Museum (self release)
TEN CITY NATION – At The Still Point (Sturm Und Drang)
TERRATHORN – Acquire, Dominate, Destroy (Casket)
THAVIUS BECK – Dialogue (Big Dada)
THERAPY? Crooked Timber (D2)
THIN LIZZY – Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 1977 (TLP)
THE DEAD LAY WAITING – We Rise (Rising)
THE FEW AGAINST MANY – Sot (Pulversised)
THE THING – Bag It! (Smalltown Superjazzz)
THRONE OF KATARSIS – Helvete Det Iskalde Market (Candlelight)
TO ARMS ETC. – Corner Games (Bronzerat)
TORTURE KILLER – Sewers (Dynamic Arts)
TOURNAMENT – Years Old (Forcefield)
TRIBAZIK – All Blood Is Red (Eastworld)
TRIBULATION – The Horror (Pulverised)
TYR – By The Light Of The Northern Star (Napalm)

UNLEARN – Places (Noise Order)
UNIVERS ZERO - Relaps: Archives 1984 - 1986 (Cuneiform)
UPSILON ACRUX - Radian Futura (Cuneiform)

VAKA – Kappa Delta Phi (Murkhouse)
VENTFLOW – Terrorsiah (Casket)
THE VICTORIAN ENGLISH GENTLEMENS CLUB – Love On An oil Rig (This Is Fake DIY)
THE VIPERS – The Boys On The Burning Deck (Northern Hoodoo)
VLADIMIR BOZAR ‘n ZE SHERAF ORKESTAR –  Universal Sprache (Imago)
VOWELS – The Pattern Prism (LoAF)

WAKE THE PRESIDENT – You Can’t Change The Boy (Electric Honey)
WAND – Hard Knox or Are You Sure Hank Jr. Done it This Way? (Ecstatic Peace)
W.A.S.P – Babylon (Demolition)
WAVVES - Wavvves (Bella Union)
WE INSIST – The Babel Inside Was Terrible (Exile On Mainstream)
WE GOT THIS FAR – Blunt Force Volume (WGT)
WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T – How Did It Get To This (Distort)
THE WEIGHT – Are Men (Tee Pee)
WEIRD OWL – Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed (Tee Pee)
WET PAINT – It Rots (Trial & Error)
WHITE OUT with JIM O ROURKE and THURSTON MOORE – Senso (Ecstatic Peace!)
THE WHORE MOANS – Hello From Radio Wasteland (Mt. Fuli)
WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE – Animals In The Dark (Anti)
WINTERSLEEP – Welcome To The Night Sky (One Four Seven)
WOODPIGEON – Treasury Library Canada (End Of The Road)
WOMEN – Women (Jagjaguwar)

Y DIWYGIAD – Hymn 808 (Dockrad)
YACHT – See Mystery lights (DFA)
YEARS – Years (Arts & Grafts)
YOU'RE SMILING NOW BUT WE'LL ALL TURN INTO DEMONS - Contact High With Da Demons (Function)

ZARBOTH – Zarboth (Discorporate/Head)
ZERO CIPHER – Juggernaut (Null/Void)
ZEROMANCER – Sinners International (Neuwerk)

A PSYCHEDELIC GUIDE TO MONSTERISM ISLAND – Various (Lo Recordings)