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The Vintage Caravan founded in 2006 from Reykjavik, Iceland. Members are Óskar Logi

(Guitar/vocals), Guðjón Reynisson (Drums) and Alex Örn (Bass). Genre Classic rock of the 60’ and 70’s and influence of glorified retro-type band.

Tess Parks is a young musician and photographer. Born and raised in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), she's the granddaughter and daughter of musicians, and dropped out of art school at the age of 17. She immediately moved to London to study photography and to pursue music. Playing solo, she gt so lucky to make friends with Alan McGee (359Music's CEO, and one-time venue owner in London), and the likes of Dandy Warhols.

Stormwarrior is a German speed metal band that was formed in 1998 by vocalist and guitar player Lars Ramcke and his companion/drummer Andre Schumann. Later on in the same year, guitarist Scott Bolter and bass player Tim Zienert join the band.

To celebrate the anniversary of the ‘The Goddess Principle’ album that came out in 1995, Pure Steel Records will do a rerelease of the album.

Steel Prophet is an American power metal band that started in 1983 and still goes strong. A few months ago the band released a statement the they’re very busy on writing new songs but in the meantime their recordlabel comes with this release.

This Milano based Italian Hard Rock/ Metal act was founded in 1998, and has the merit to still contain 3 of its original 4 band members in its line-up today, those being singer Andrea Uboldi, guitarist Matteo Serra and bassist Federico Gassa who, after two former try-outs, found their current drummer Gianluca Luci (formerly of Ahrcana and Prophecy) in 2006.

And now, for something completely different! Uh...nah, not the Monty Python Flying Circus show! There's really nothing to laugh about here...except perhaps for a small contented smile on the face of our Jazz-lovin' readers, you'll ….darn...I let the cat out of the bag!

Although this is the fifth release for this UK band, I’ve never heard something of them before.

The Victory Records diversity showcase: following reviews of the bands Close Your eyes and Neurotic November (who deal in Progressive Melodic Hardcore/ Pop Punk and MetalCore/ DeathCore respectively) we now come to part 3 of the showcase with a band best categorized (in a general way) under the Death Metal label [this Dallas, Texas based band is not to be confused with the (again active since 2011) American Heavy Metal act from Pennsylvania].

Kingdomes of Rust is a fairly good debut album where prog, symphonic, power and heavy metal and electronic ambient passages flow into each other, effortlessly it seems. The vocals could have been much better, especially the Italian accent is scary, Of the more prog metal tunes “Waxhopes” definitely sticks out, with some blowing guitarsolos and some great harmonic bass tapping. But in the end the 12 tracks stretch unimpressive musical ideas far too thin, and the instrumental sections never build into anything really exciting building a real kingdom of rust.

This is the 12^th release for this Danish band, and DC Cooper  is once again the vocalist, which is of course good news, since it’s with him that they released two very good albums in at the end of the nineties, which put this band more on the forefront.