Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email Imagika returned after a long time on hiatus with two shows in California. 13 September saw the band at the Evolution in Sunnyvale, and the following night they appeared at the wonderfully named Toots Tavern in Crokett. Here’s what Steve Rice had to say about the shows: “Well, well, after almost…
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email We asked a few of our bands to name their favourite album of the year, their highlight, and what they’re looking forward to in 2020. Here’s what they had to say: Howard ‘H’ Smith (Acid Reign) What’s your favourite album of 2019, and why? Acid Reign’s ‘The Age Of Entitlement’,…
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email Soldier – ‘Sins Of the Warrior’ (DISS034CDD) Originally released on Heavy Metal Records, HMR XD 245, November 2005 Probably best known for their one and only single ‘Sheralee’, released in 1982, Soldier picked up the tag of ‘the band that got away’, in that they never made an album back in…
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email Hot on the heels of September’s brand new album ‘The Age Of Entitlement’ comes ‘Anthology 1987 – 2017’, a four-disc cornucopia which, Acid Reign frontman Howard ‘H’ Smith affirms, contains “every song Acid Reign have ever released.” It’s not the first collection of the band’s material, but it is the most…
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email One of the consequences of Tony Dolan leaving the band was that the 12” single Neat had OK’d, ‘Your Mentor’ (c/w ‘Funeral Pyre’, ‘Demolition’ and ‘Mode 3’), was shelved, the title cut later appearing on the label’s ‘Powertrax’ compilation cassette. And, of course, Ged Wolf and Rob Mathew were now short…