So something slightly different  - What albums due this year interest me already ?

• Cynic will release a new album Kindly Bent to Free Us soon and apparently it's very proggish,
• The all girl Finnish group Indica return with Shine so a bit of pop to look forward to,
• Within Temptation have Hydra due for release featuring many guest stars,
• The Smoke Fairies return with the imaginatively title Smoke Fairies in April,
• Lydia Loveless follows up her raucous Indestructible Machine from two years ago
• And finally Blueneck promise a new as yet untitled long player

Not looking a bumper year so far compared to 2013.....


hope springs eternal though that the Nephilim may rouse themselves one more time but it's never worth holding your breath on that !