The Groundhogs
Excellent English hard-blues band, formed in the early '60s and named after a song by their lifelong idol John Lee Hooker, who also recorded an album with them in support. The charismatic leader is singer/guitarist Tony McPhee, an absolute icon of English electric blues, who, along with the great Pete Cruickshank on bass and Ken Pustlenik on drums, produced outstanding albums, such as their gem "Split"... more
Iron Monkey
Toasty!!! more
The Incredible String Band -The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
Second album of the Scottish duo, year 1967. Definitely very unusual, an intricate folk, challenging, steeped in psychedelia, difficult to listen to but with great charm. Highly skilled musicians for sure... more
Cannibal Corpse -Live Cannibalism
Recorded over two successive nights in February 2000 in Milwaukee and Indianapolis; over an hour of raw, crushing sonic violence. There isn't a single second of pause: a live performance that instills real fear, anguish as it unfolds. An infernal river of boiling mud made of Brutal Death, played by the five guys in a furious yet completely controlled manner. The concluding "Hammer Smashed Face" is a one-way ticket to the black abyss... A skull filled with cannibal worms... more
Pitchshifter
English from Nottingham; sonic terrorists. They merged Industrial, Death, with subsequent electronic experimentation. The sick cousins of Godflesh... Desensitized, the 1993 album, a ravaged example of their evolving sound. more
Biagio Antonacci
Antonio Biagiacci more
Dark Funeral
A great band, the best of Swedish black metal only surpassed by Bhatory. Precise and terrifying drumming, devastating guitars, and a vocalist like Caligula are rarely found anywhere, however, they can be excessively monotonous at times. Nevertheless, since their debut, they have produced true masterpieces of black metal in Sweden such as: Diabolis interium, Vobiscum satanas, and the debut Secrets of the black arts. As for the rest, I give it a 4.5 but I'll round it up to a nice 5. more
Marduk
Great black band, the best after Dark Funeral in Sweden, good technique, excellent vocalist. more
Shakti
happiness is being together more
Jeff Beck Group
In addition to the pure talent of the lead guitarist, the band could count among its ranks great musicians, such as Rod Stewart on vocals, replaced in '70 by another great like Alex Ligertwood, Nicky Hopkins, Ronnie Wood, Cozy Powell, Aynsley Dunbar... 4 albums between blues, jazz, soul, and perhaps it is thanks to them that hard rock was born, Zeppelin permitting... more
Motörhead -No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
Forty minutes for eleven tracks: music that overwhelms the listener, played by the trio with the force of a massive hurricane. Hard, heavy sounds, delivered with wild punk energy; the sermon opens with "Ace of Spades" and concludes with "Motorhead," passing by the ferocious "Overkill" and "Bomber." A streetwise album, suited for brawling, rough, dirty, drunken bikers: instinct and rage...GRANITE... more
David Gilmour
Difficult, when defining David, not to fall into banality and rhetoric; so I want to be very banal by saying that the final guitar solo of the song "Comfortably Numb" is... I'll stop here, smiling. more
Jethro Tull -Stand Up
Less than 5 is impossible for me for this album; a perfect work, excellent in the "ballad" moments, simply irresistible and uncontrollable in the numerous fast parts. Anderson and his flute are orgasmic, but shall we talk about Barre's solo on "We Used to Know"? Rock, Blues, Hard-Blues and even a bit of "British" Folk. Masterpiece. more
Sonic Youth -Daydream Nation
Just unpacked about an hour ago, I need to really tune in since I'm not used to this genre, which left me a bit confused after the first listen, but I'm getting used to it with the second, like when you walk into a movie theater on a sunny August Sunday and can’t see a thing... for now, 3.5, and then we'll see. more
Jeff Beck -Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
A guitar god, astonishing, one of the few artists worthy of being defined in such a way. more
Edda -Semper Biot
Stefano "Edda" Rampoldi, singer of Ritmo Tribale; after leaving the Milanese group, he withdraws from the music world for about a dozen years, returning in 2009 with this first solo work. An essential album: just voice, acoustic guitar, and little else; heartfelt songs, steeped in pain, that lay bare his problems, his fears, his dramas. I picture him sitting on a chair, with the guitar, in an empty room; while a blood-red dawn heralds a serene, clear day... more
Sigur Rós
One of the most overrated groups of the last twenty years. Even by me! more
Fine Before You Came
"Like sad songs when it rains outsideee" more