Album Of The Year 2020 – Number 15
Welcome to instalment number sixteen of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. We’ve made it into the top 15, where the number order is far more prescribed…
Category: art rock
PreHistoric Animals – The Magical Mystery Machine (Chapter One) – Album Review
Artist: PreHistoric Animals Album Title: The Magical Mystery Machine (Chapter One) Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 30 September 2020 When you get a personal message from a band that…
Navian – Reset – EP Review
Artist: Navian Album Title: Reset (EP) Label: Indie Recordings Date of Release: 14 August 2020 As you’ll know by now, instrumental music isn’t normally my ‘thing’. I have waxed lyrical…
The best albums of 2020 so far…the second quarter…AKA ‘the pandemic months’
What a year 2020 has been. In fact, one could say that, for a variety of reasons, 2020 has been one of the worst years in living memory. Families separated,…
Lesoir – Mosaic – Album Review
Artist: Lesoir Album Title: Mosaic Label: GlassVille Records Date of Release: 1 May 2020 Another new name to cross my desk at manofmuchmetal.com is Lesoir, a Dutch five-piece that came…
Cryptex – Once Upon A Time – Album Review
Artist: Cryptex Album Title: Once Upon A Time Label: SPV/Steamhammer Date of Release: 8 May 2020 “unrestrained, autobiographic psychograms full of ambivalent feelings and approaches in self-reflection” If you didn’t…
Árstíðir – Nivalis – Album Review
Artist: Árstíðir Album Title: Nivalis Label: Season of Mist Date of Release: 22 June 2018 Starting off a review on manofmuchmetal.com by referencing artists like Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee…
Metal (and Rock) update – 7 August 2018
Just as I complete my mini-series, looking at the music still to come in 2018, I receive news of a whole host of new music coming our way throughout the…
