LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION – Alex Wank talks about Tempter’s recently released lost album ‘Turpis Rex’

John Tucker
Interview / New Release / News
29th March 2019

After many years spent languishing in the vaults, the sole Tempter album ‘Turpis Rex’ was finally released in 2018. The brainchild of ex-Pungent Stench drummer Alex Wank and a guitarist/vocalist known as Tarpiu, Tempter’s rise and fall was a curious turn of events, as Alex Wank explains. “I think Pungent finished in the summer of 2007,” he recalls, “and Tempter started probably…

BEAUTY IN BLACK – If there’s one band that could never be accused of standing still, it’s Therion…

John Tucker
Interview / News
29th March 2019

If there’s one band that could never be accused of standing still, it’s Therion. Dissonance’s ‘The Nuclear Blast Recordings’ six CD set (which features the band’s first four albums – ‘Of Darkness’, ‘Beyond Sanctorum’, ‘Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas’ and ‘Lepaca Kliffoth’ – as well as the ‘Live In Midgard’ double) ably shows how dramatically the band changed over a short period…

Classic Album Review: Girlschool – ‘Demolition’ 1980.

CLASSIC ALBUMGirlschool – ‘Demolition’ (DISS048CDD)Originally released on Bronze, BRON 525, June 1980 Girlschool’s roots lay in the London-based Painted Lady, but when Kim McAuliffe (rhythm guitar/vocals) and Enid Williams (bass guitar/vocals) hooked up with Kelly Johnson (lead guitar/vocals) and Denise Dufort (drums) in March 1978 things took a change for the better. The largely covers-based sets started to feature more and more original material…

SEVEN SISTERS at Metal Assault

John Tucker
News
29th March 2019

On 16 February London’s Seven Sisters found themselves at the Metal Assault festival in Germany, sharing the stage with the likes of Fifth Angel, Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime and Saracen. And by all accounts they did a great job. “I have never seen them as confident on stage as tonight,” reckoned the reviewer from Germany’s Rock Hard magazine. “The material off the new…

DESOLATION ANGELS’ debut album to be re-released

John Tucker
News
29th March 2019

Desolation Angels’ self-titled debut album is set to be re-issued on 31 May by Dissonance. The album will be doubled-packed with a live CD, recorded at the legendary Ruskin Arms, which was, as guitarist Robin Brancher points out, “actually recorded before we recorded the album. It’s straight off the mixing desk on the night, and we took the original cassette to [producer] Chris Tsangarides…