You can find the Collective List as well as all our Best of 2021 content including contributors’ individual lists, podcasts and radio DJ shows here: CGCM’s Best of 2021 (Year in Review) BEST OF 2021 SPARKY 🇬🇧 (Radio DJ/Writer/Photographer/Contributor) We entered 2021 with great optimism expecting the terrible 2020 to be well and truly behind us. How wrong we were. […]
Return Whilst the guys of Seven Sisters haven’t exactly been quiet since the release of the fabulous The Cauldron and the Cross this new album is their first full-length effort of new material since 2018. To say the anticipation was palpable prior to the release of Shadow of a Fallen Star Part 1 would be […]
Maniac If you’re a power metal maniac then July 16, 2021, should be etched on your brain and anywhere else you can etch. This is the release date of the latest Vandor album On a Moonlit Night and without giving any spoilers away, it is a fantastic piece of work. According to the band’s official […]
Austria’s finest Austria’s finest Liquid Steel are back with their first album in five years, and it is most definitely worth the wait. Following up 2016’s Midnight Chaser, Mountain of Madness is another example of classic metal at its absolute best. Formed in 2009 the line-up has been constant since the recording of their debut, […]
Lazer It’s not often you can say a rock band formed after two members bonded over a Lewis Capaldi track, but that appears to be the case with Lÿnx. Vocalist Lazer Wild and lead guitarist Blade showed mutual admiration for “Someone You Loved” so they decided to cover the track. It was a successful collaboration […]
Compilation Tygers of Pan Tang are no strangers to compilation albums. Indeed, according to their own website they have released 13 of the damn things. What none of them do, however, is cover the more ‘recent’ period, referred to by some as the “Renaissance Period”. This may have something to with having a Florentine on […]
Powerhouse Welsh vocal powerhouse Chez Kane has struck out on her own for the first time with her self-titled debut album. Having made her name belting out tunes with her sisters in their band Kane’d she jumped at the chance to work with Crazy Lixx main man Danny Rexon. Chez first came to Rexon’s attention […]
Sweet Swedish hard rockers Mustasch return to the scene with the short but oh so sweet A Final Warning – Chapter One. Whether it is a commentary on the dire situation of the world at this time or not, it is still hard as nails rock in the Mustasch vein. Coming in at a paltry […]
The Band? I know I’m no Sherlock Holmes but even a simple man like me should be able to find some information on the band Blackout. I’ve been all over the internet for hours searching for the merest morsel of information. Sadly, like a Donald Trump brain scan, I couldn’t find a damn thing. No […]
Return Norwegian glam metallers Wig Wam blast back onto the scene following their reformation in 2019 with a great new album Never Say Die. With their last album being 2012’s Wall Street you would expect a few changes to have happened in the intervening 11 years, but you’d be wrong. Wig Wam’s style is very […]
