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  • Grand Cadaver – Deities of Deathlike Sleep

    Grand Cadaver – Deities of Deathlike Sleep

    One Listen Review 1st Listen –22 Aug 2023Reviewed – 23 Aug 2023 Grand Cadaver – Deities of Deathlike Sleep Majestic Mountain RecordsReleased 25 Aug 2023 Grand Cadaver are a super-group of sorts featuring members of prominent bands, including Dark Tranquillity and. Deities of Deathlike Sleep is the 2nd album by the band, an album that…

  • Iron Maiden – An Irreverent Live Review in Glasgow

    Iron Maiden – An Irreverent Live Review in Glasgow

    Live ReviewIron Maiden Days of Future Past Tour Glasgow – June 26 2023 On 22nd August, 1992 one of my oldest and best friends, Tony, and myself attended the Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Park. 31 years later saw Tony and myself enjoying a pre-gig beer at the Solid Rock in Glasgow – One…

  • Site Updates

    For those of you that may read this, please be aware that I thought I had lost all of my previous blogs, so they will be reappearing over the next few days, unless I can cancel them. I am an utter novice!

  • Test Review

    Reviews coming soon, once I work out how this website works

  • Me vs The Wildhearts

    The Wildhearts are my favourite band! I say this safe in the knowledge that whatever happens within the band, my love for the band will never die. The Wildhearts shall endure! May have asked me why my favourite band have not been the subject of a retrospective. The answer is that I have never stopped…

  • Christmas Break

    This is just a note to say that there is a slight delay to the next retrospective. Basically, I have had to listen to a ton of 2021 albums to get my top ten albums of the year for http://www.metalepidemic.com The good news is I will return in the New Year and I can announce…

  • Restrospective #7 – Terrorvision

    ‘We are Terrorvision, and we are from Bradford’. These are the words spoken by Tony Wright, lead vocalist of Terrorvision on each of the many, many times I have seen this band. Originally formed in 1987 with a ridiculous name I will not mention, they became Terrorvision in 1991, releasing 6 studio albums over an…

  • Retrospective #6

    System of a Down are an Armenian-American band that rose from the ashes of the band Soil in 1994. Over a 7-year period, they released 5 full length albums and are often discussed as being a nu-metal band, although I prefer to think of them as alternative metal. In the mid ’90’s, I bought a…

  • Type O Negative formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1989. Pioneers of the Gothic Metal genre, they released 7 albums up until Peter Steele’s untimely death in 2010. Although I was aware of Type O Negative having seen the video for ‘Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) on countless occasions, it was not until I…

  • A Friday Night Wasted

    So, tonight is Friday and I found myself at a loose end. So, whilst partaking in a few Brewdog Punk IPA’s, I found myself getting even more confused about building this webpage. There were numerous issues. Firstly, my Spotify link has failed. I have an evergrowing playlist that contains songs that were stuck in my…