Found an old case full of cassettes and there are a couple of stunning albums hidden away there....


Here are just three that seem to have never existed (no downloads available, CD's etc.) but need to be revisited


Loud - Psyche 21
This featured members of the New Model Army and The Mission, was produced by Mack and makes Muse look understated.... Overblown prog with Latin chants, quasi-religious lyrics and some amazing songs







Black Sabbath - Tyr
A semi-concept album about Norse myths that has been written out of Sabbath history (my guess would be thanks to Sharon as it dares not to have Ozzy on it). Featuring Cozy Powell, Neil Murray and Tony Martin on vocals this is a real hidden hard rock gem







Andreas Bruhn - Broon
The mysterious Sisters of Mercy guitarist from the Vision Thing album offered up this solo outing in 1992 and if you have any appreciation of Goth then you should really give this is a listen - assuming you can ever find it

And so another album bought on the recommendation of Prog magazine but this is a weird one because having listened to the album it not really prog....

Kyrr by Kontinuum sounds more like what happens if you're bought up on a diet of Mission and Bauhaus in a country where it's dark for nearly 24 hrs a day in the winter

The 8 songs are split between being sung in English and Icelandic - and those sung in the band's mother tongue sound a bit like Rammstein but without the Nuremberg rally overtones....

The single, Breathe, is a good opening track displaying all the icy grandeur of Peter Murphy and big, big drums straight out of the 80's goth scene. It's all very epic in a Tower of Strength type of way...

Lone  starts out as a welcome distraction of an atmospheric instrumental which ends quietly with acoustic guitar before the two huge closing tracks of In Shallow Seas and Red Stream (the latter featuring some fantastic frenzied keyboard squalls)

As with all Scandinavian metal/rock it retains a uniqueness befitting of the landscape and nature it's created in - see Solstafir for another impressive example of this

Prog were suggesting this as a possible album of the year and it may be but not in the genre they are suggesting