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"»Radiocarbon« is the work of battle-hardened old tomcats who know exactly how a composition has to be built in the genre sphere they've been prowling for years, so it grabs you instantly and completely. Innate Swedish perfectionism and…

"“Coat Of Arms” is another superb studio achievement from a legendary band that stays true to its traditional (chiseled) style. On the new album, Wishbone Ash radiate expressive freshness, creative sparkle and even a cheeky playfulness,…

Label: Steel Panther Inc.Release date: September 27, 2019Producer: Jay RustonAlbum length: 35.55 minGenre: Glam MetalRating: 8.0 / 10 Who else but Steel Panther? Finally, an album that clocks in under forty minutes. If only most…

"So the verdict stays the same as with the debut. Worth a try, and after that, whether you take the album or leave it comes down strictly to your criteria, and yours alone."

Label: Samo RecordsRelease date: 17.02.2020Album length: 48.16 minProducer: Samo ŠalamonGenre: ECM / Jazz FusionRating: 10 / 10Buy the album! »Rare Ebb« is the second of two releases born from the collaboration of three refined…

Label: Samo RecordsRelease date: February 17, 2020Album length: 50.14 minProducer: Samo ŠalamonGenre: ECM / Jazz FusionRating: 09 / 10Buy the album! This February saw the release of two albums by a trio that pools the untapped…

"With »Septet«, All Strings Detached reach a new artistic level, one that sends the two women climbing toward musical horizons of new expressive dimensions."

"Damir remains caustic and bilious beyond all limits, a rapid-fire dismantling of the system we're all enslaved to, and in reflecting on the times of our mad present he once again brings it to life with an incredibly juicy, unbridled…

"If you know this musician's past studio exploits, and especially if you're drawn to albums where the art-magic of pure-blooded guitar playing takes center stage, weaving through the borderlands of hard rock, blues, soft neo-classical…

"Katalena and Clug. A fusion of ballet and Katalena's music, based on an "updated retelling" of Vandot's famous tale, with an effective realization"

"Rotten GrilZ thus deliver with "Punk You" a unique approach to fusing jazz and rock, and without a guitar! Of course, the scales tip toward jazzy free-spiritedness throughout, but the album (especially thanks to Eva Poženel) also leans…

"As always, and for the seventh time running! The compilation »Kočevje špila S srcem« is yet another flawless lexicon of the rich musical pulse of the Kočevje region, serving up a hefty harvest of homegrown original creativity and an…

"It's not all about wanting to be recognized, you have to be able to deliver real musical substance too. And »Pobarvanka« is a record that has it, while Le Serpentine prove they're maturing into very skilled arrangers and increasingly…

"Let's hope that, given how deeply the musicians are involved in all sorts of other projects and challenges, Brest stick around and become a fixture, one that keeps enriching the often idea-starved Slovenian music scene with its homegrown,…

Periphery's Hail Stan is definitive proof that the band's energy isn't fading. The whole album brims with creativity and experimentation, and it still sounds unmistakably like them. It's all backed by a lush production where Periphery hold…

"Free Steelar Trio and Rob Mazurek walked onto the stage with no plan whatsoever. They played a good 55 minutes of music and just one single track (Age Of Chaos). The result? A one-of-a-kind adventure."

"The feeling that the record could have offered more interesting substance is definitely there, and yet. Both musicians were brave and bold enough to take on this project, which on the flip side brings plenty of lucidity, mocking gallows…

"With »Kontrapunk«, Koromač have outgrown »Punk Enough?« in artistic maturity. They reach for new approaches and challenges of musical inspiration, and skillfully fold them into their musical vision."

"Indigo is a band that follows a musical vision of blending pop, electronics and traditional collages of Slovenian folk melos, which add a pinch of richness to the band's sonic language. Indigo laid that out with the bold debut »Drugačna«…

"What Wild Strings Trio pulled off so beautifully on their gorgeous studio debut "Lost Weekend", they now deepen, expand and keep nurturing on the new record "Bendjistan"."

"The album »Beautiful Disasters« plugs very successfully into the global (new) pop soul and indie rock aesthetic, with its confessional »conglomerate of homegrown originality« setting the tone and giving it a clear, unburdened streak of…

"A meeting of great truthfulness between two poets, each living in his own time. As the album “Rob” shows, it's one more proof that tear-clear sincerity in art brings evergreen freshness and a timeless quality to a work of art."

"An abrasive rock’n’ roll storm from Prlekija, captured for new times on the fifth outing from this brilliant band of the wide Slovenian rock underground, is a fresh, biting and razor-sharp manifesto of honest rebel attitude and…

"Orlek are back with a mighty, swaggering swing, riding a wave of newly found creative freshness and every element of their trademark miners' rock'n'roll preaching, while showing a whole lot of artistic maturity and wisdom."

"Paeth has basically shown up to the party a good 15 years late with this one."

"“Face the Music” easily picks up where the first three albums left off and keeps all the excellence of this quartet, who, with expectations sky-high, have delivered exactly what they had to!"

" It's all in one! A finished package! Essential and one of a kind, carved out of the unique Angel recipe. Yes. It's possible. Even in 2019. Another unexpected win at this year's "gathering of rock'n'roll dinosaurs."

" “Angel Of Light” isn't as varied as its predecessor “As Above, So Below”, but it keeps all the core elements that define the character of this cult band."

"Of all the artistic moves Tatler has boldly made with his band over the years, often gambling dangerously with the credibility of an old-school metal pose, "The Coffin Train" is the one where Diamond Head come closest, and most…

"It's fair to say the current incarnation of the band hit its creative peak with »Ritual«, and that Tygers Of Pan Tang are living through a kind of new renaissance, a rebirth, and, as our own Avtomobili would put it, a late spring. "

"Michael Schenker crossbred with his "Flyin' V" electric guitar! Literally. The symbolic "fusion" of the iconic guitarist with his axe lives on with the new Michael Schenker Fest album, another artistic bloom and renaissance"

"Did anyone actually doubt it? The extreme theme park keeps rolling at undiminished speed. Not (yet) at light speed, but extreme in every other way. Just like the (self-parodying) album title says!"

"No Work Of Art album has ever sounded as hungrily revivalist and AOR-ish as "Exhibits". Despite the perfect sound-production and songwriting aesthetic it achieves, it could do with a touch more variety of ideas, and some organic liveliness…

"'Paradigm' is an album where Eclipse merely keep up the level of quality songwriting they've already reached, without developing in any way anymore. That's why 'Paradigm' can no longer surprise you in the slightest."

"All in all. A nice album from a legendary musician. Worth a spin. But all three cult classics of the eighties remain untouchable."

"Old-school true believers will probably stick with this band's older records, because this time around Steel Prophet are dancing through notes that are just too soft."

"Frankly, and no beating around the bush: there's not a single artistic stumble on this album. An excellent new studio effort from an incredibly seasoned and experienced band."

"The Ghost Experiment – Awakening is exactly what you'd expect from a progressive metal band as good as Vanden Plas."

"Old-school thrash metal strikes back!"

"It's a step into new musical territory, where Moore discovers new dimensions in his search for the best he can deliver right now. "Soul Shifter" may well be the most mature solo studio album from this artist."

"The new album is exactly what its two predecessors delivered. It keeps every one of their qualities. For the occasion, Moratti kept the same crew of musicians in the studio who already worked on »Transcendence«."

"With »II«, CoreLeoni deliver exactly what everyone expected: a second helping of fun, freshly reworked Gotthard classics!"

"If you know Karlsson, Romero and Terrana, you already know what to expect from the album “A New Evil”."

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 13.09.2019Album length: 43.00 minProduction: Martin Sweet, Eric Bazilian (track 5) and Chris Laney (track 7)Genre: Sleaze / Glam metalRating: 9.5 / 10 You know that feeling when you press…

"Let him keep teasing Anderson this effectively."

»II« is a brilliant follow-up to the cult debut. From the first spin, when it kicks off with the excellent Don't Say You Love Me, it grabs you by the ears and won't let go. If it had come out (to exaggerate) in 1986, that verdict wouldn't…

" Put on "Winds Of Change" and you'll wish the eighties had never ended. Better still, for a good 55 minutes, you're right back in them. "

With "Behold Electric Guitar", we can say that this is Gilbert's most defined and accomplished fusion of classic rock, blues and jazz to date.

"With this album, Rock 'N' Roll got yet another proper affirmation of its mission. Long before Christmas, The Darkness have moved it to Friday, October 4, 2019, and, like we said, cancelled Easter without a shred of respect!"

"So what we've got here is an incredibly strong, emotional and masterfully composed piece of work, the final artistic statement from Tony Mills, a perfect vocalist whose far too early departure leaves a very real hole in the modern melodic…

"“Hold On” is Kirk Fletcher's fourth studio album overall. It's his first to be fully self-written and, frankly, the one where Kirk finally nails down his own musical label and the trademarks of his guitar playing. A brilliant piece of…

"The album is once again good, solid and quality. But with no standout moments whatsoever. So, nothing special. Despite the detours Mat Sinner took with a female vocalist, extra guests and a more varied genre styling on some of the tracks."

"In every respect, »48 Seconds« is the very definition of artistic brilliance, a record you can't add a thing to or take a thing away from. A perfect, flawless piece of work. "

"Another smooth, loud landing for the legends of metal!"

"On »Wings«, Picture sound like a dinosaur waking up from a hundred-million-year sleep. Ten tracks follow everything we know and understand under the name Picture. It sounds ancient, ossified, primal, jagged, and in every way it can, it…

"The quintet crowned its excellence, and we can safely call it performance-wise perfection, with this show too, and 'Live In Japan 2018' captures it down to the last detail."

Label: earMUSICRelease date: 17.05.2019Length: 99.18 min (2CD)Genre: Heavy Metal / Hard RockRating: 8.5 / 10 A few more words on the new live document from the mighty Loudness, one of the most recognized hard rock and heavy metal…

"HammerFall didn't let us down this time either. The masters stick to their tried-and-true formula, which has always lit up the room and which they've got down cold. "

"Swedish metal Vikings Amon Amarth are back with a new album! The band stays firmly rooted in their lyrical themes and musical identity, but this time they're playing around with some new elements." Label: Metal Blade / SonyRelease…

For "Contribution To the Common Mandess", his fourth solo album overall, Aleksander Arsov transformed into his alter ego Unhappy and poured out an electronic record of remarkably alluring avant-garde provocation and genre fusion."

"Šinobusi could have pulled off a fully retro-sounding prog rock album, but they'd rather stick to shorter, tightly arranged little tunes that pack in absolutely everything."

"A band with character, a fully formed vision and a potent creative drive that isn't afraid to flirt with "otherness" and try the untried, so it would be no surprise if the third album turned out significantly different again, from both the…

"A new Prekmurje quintet of seasoned musicians is devoted to crossing traditional folk songs from Prekmurje and Porabje, which in their musical vision they dress up into a fresh musical conglomerate, delivering a new, hugely interesting and…

“Svetilnik” is an album you need to spend real time with, because it's packed with vivid arranging and sonic fullness. Although it's blessed with big musical appeal, Čedahuči pulled quite a few sonic-experiment moves on it, which for the…

"Welcome to the vivid, one-of-a-kind, timeless and utterly unique mantra of seven wonderful bards, who will move you, wake you and stir you up when you meet them together on the night of “Prvi krajec”."

"An album signed in sweat and blood. With the pedigree to grow into a classic of Slovenian hard rock, that's Mary Rose on "Resničen svet"! Thirteen years after the release of "Feniks", they're happily back among the living!"

"The EP "Sinner" in one word? It drives. With the character this EP shows off, Fed Horses are absolutely on the right track. Not just in a burst of perfectionism, but in wholeheartedly developing and enriching their own homegrown character…

"“Flesh And Blood” is, generally speaking, a very good hard rock album, written, composed and produced just the way it should be for the Whitesnake name in 2019"

"»Conundrum« is everything we want from Alex Skolnick and his trio. This seven-year cycle between the trio's album releases works out great."

" Up N' Downs, as heralds of a new generation, use this album to build a bridge between old and new and hold up a mirror to their generational peers, showing where Slovenian hard rock is headed, so we don't have to worry about the genre…

"»Alkimija« is its own album with its own story. Its strength, despite being highly predictable and trivially easy to crack, lies precisely in the fact that it's generationally lost in time and space, or rather that its release is showing…

" The Slovenian craftsmen of modern "musical prose" in gypsy swing, Teo Collori in Momento Cigano, haven't just matched their wildly bold and fun predecessor with »Kamerato Muzikante« — they've topped it, and that's the record they stepped…

"The band's big win is that on the new album they've found an expressive niche that, in the crowded field of Slovenia's alternative rock acts, is still unclaimed."

"»Attitude« is, and we say this with zero modesty, already one of the highlights of 2019 for AOR/melodic rock albums! "

»Life« is a quality new album from Hardline, packed with righteous rock slaps in the face, with three average ballads wedged in between. That doesn't take away from the essence of the record, which is its credibility.

"The whole confessional "circus" served up by this devilishly titled album could be a sublime answer to the band's hidden pact with the devil. The artistic growth in the punch of its message is plain to hear."

"Agora" is the debut studio album from seasoned, battle-tested musicians, the Slovenian jazz and blues rock sextet Emil And The Detectives, and it sounds like the seventies never ended."

"»Strip« hits its target. We couldn't have expected anything less. After six Kočevje špila compilations, even we've gotten a little spoiled, and the seventh one gratefully keeps on spoiling us."

"All in all, an exceptionally beautiful jazz album, and really an elegant culmination of the maturity of all the knowledge, experience and skill picked up along the musical road of one of the greatest drum masters in Slovenian jazz."

"After two excellent albums, “Hymns for the Broken” (2014) and “The Storm Within” (2016), both truly top-notch, the question was whether Evergrey could hold on to that incredible creative streak and carry it over to a new record. The…

"Knjiga pohval in pritožb is the expanded edition of the album "Milo za drago", and the moment Dan D keep taking successful steps down the road of artistic self-evolution and individuality."

"With this much talent among young Slovenian jazz musicians, as radiated by the third generation of Zlatko's protégés on the album »Petelin iz Noznega«, there's really no need to worry about the future of good jazz in Slovenia."

"While in every way a worthy successor to the last four Overkill albums, “The Wings Of War” isn't among the hardest, sonically sharpest and most possessed Overkill releases that remain burned into the minds of the band's longtime devotees.…

"However "Shock" ends up splitting the band's fanbase, one thing is clear. It's a different Tesla album. Different from everything Tesla have recorded so far. That was the band's wish, and they pulled it off. At what cost, though? We'll…

"For fans of Hardline, Axel Rudi Pell and Crush 40, adding the album »One Voice« to your CD collection is an absolute must."

"All in all, the mission is more or less accomplished. Sammet sounds fresh again on the project's new release, even if it still holds a few things back."

“Distance Over Time” is once again a more listenable moment in Dream Theater's career. No artistic progress, then. But in everything it embodies, it's a Dream Theater album from head to toe. And of course, a very good Dream Theater album.…

"“Lotus” is yet another excellent studio album from Soen. With it, the band keeps hardening its artistic focus and expressive stance. It feels remarkably unified, and it's the most focused of everything they've released so far."

"This one's a must for every King Diamond fan, and for anyone who swears by the good old school of classically tempered metal riffs dressed up in a signature "horror show" theatre. "Abigail" has been born again, and with it, of course, that…

"The Verdict" is a good album. It has a different character, which is a good thing, but it could once again get some fans turning up their noses.

"»Srce imaš tako veliko« is an album that grabs you and holds you close from the first moment to the last. It's a manifesto of Leon Matek's remarkable maturing and one of the strongest singer-songwriter albums to come out of Slovenia in the…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: 08.02.2019Produced by: Herman FrankAlbum length: 68.58 minGenre: Heavy Metal Ever since he joined the legendary Accept in the early eighties, Herman Frank has been one of the key figures forging heavy…

"»Dysphoria« takes the Starbreaker project to a completely new level of expression and character. Strikingly fresh in both production and style. Given the consistency and quality of this new effort, it would be wonderful if the project ever…

"Toby Hitchcock is back with an album that's exactly what you need if you've been missing a new record from Pride Of Lions for a good while now."

"The material used on the Devil's Hand debut must be a leftover stash of songwriting for a possible new Seveth Key album, which has been nowhere to be seen for ages now, years in fact."

"After »Najlepši neuspehi« (1992) and »Bendologija« (1999), this is actually the third compilation from the famous singer and musician, whose one-of-a-kind, instantly recognizable, incredibly distinctive, warm and totally velvety voice has…

With their fifth studio album, Obscura show no signs of letting up. You can feel the consistency, the thoughtfulness and the progressiveness.

"Mob Rules are back with a great new album, "Beast Reborn", one of the few standard-bearers of the first power metal generation still defiantly carrying on in their basic, old-school form of ossified Euro power metal."

"Zemljin sin" is really a continuation of the story that stalled at the point where his band Eskobars left off."

"Yes. »Iz konteksta« keeps all the originality, all the piercing and shattering confessional distinctiveness of its predecessor, the studio debut."