Category: Jace Media Music

By Lily O’Delia  Vanessa Funke has spent the past several years developing a version of melodic death metal that leaves plenty of room for gothic atmosphere, black metal and electronic music. On her fifth album, Aura, those elements come together with some of her strongest songwriting yet. Across eight tracks, Funke handles every [more…]

By Glen Parkes There are some bands whose names are so firmly planted in rock history that a new album can feel like a trip back through the past. Europe, however, have never been content to live entirely on nostalgia. With Come This Madness, their twelfth studio album and first in nine [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes Lyytinen has spent more than two decades building a reputation as Finland’s “Queen of Slide Guitar”, but this release makes one thing very clear: putting her into the blues box alone seriously undersells what she does. Her music has increasingly stretched towards classic rock, hard rock, southern rock [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes When you have helped shape an entire genre, there must come a point when you can simply do whatever the hell you want. Kai Hansen reached that point a long time ago. As co-founder of Helloween and founder of Gamma Ray, Hansen is one of the key figures [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes – Jace Media Music There are documentaries you watch, enjoy and move on from. Then there are films that drag you back into another time and make you feel as though you are standing in the middle of it. Anarchy! McLaren Westwood Gang belongs firmly in the second [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes Some bands arrive with a sound that immediately tells you where they have been. Others arrive sounding like they have already worked out where they are going. Los Angeles quartet The Bites manage to do both on their long-awaited sophomore album, The Bites, released today, September 18, 2026, [more…]

Album -Thousand Miles of Rain  Release Date – 4th September  Review by Linda McDermott  Mike Hoskins is no stranger to music. The singer songwriter has played in several bands over the years, most recently the excellent KinStrife, and has played a whole host of instruments, including keyboards, piano, drums, bass, and guitar. So, to say [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes There are moments in an artist’s career when stepping outside the familiar becomes more than a creative experiment; it becomes a statement of intent. With Astral Doorways, Troy Redfern does exactly that. Better known for his incendiary resonator guitar, slide mastery and hard-driving blues-rock, Redfern has created something [more…]

Album Review by Halina Wegner – Jace Media Music There is something wonderfully honest about an artist who understands that the best songs do not need to shout to make themselves heard. Sometimes all they need is a guitar, a great melody, a lived-in voice and a story worth telling. Sunjay’s Split [more…]

By Glen Parkes – Jace Media Music There are voices that belong to a particular era, and then there are voices that become part of rock history. Gary John Barden has one of those voices. From his defining work with the Michael Schenker Group to his years spent creating music alongside some [more…]

A Legendary Voice Takes a Walk on the Wild Side Reviewed by Glen Parkes Now, this isn’t necessarily the kind of album we would normally find ourselves reviewing at Jace Media Music. Our pages tend to lean towards rock, blues, metal, Americana and the heavier side of the musical spectrum. But occasionally [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes Reece Young continues to make his presence felt with ‘I Wouldn’t’, a confident new single that sees the alt-pop newcomer stepping further into a sound that feels both personal and increasingly assured. Following the momentum of ‘Nothing At All’ and the emotional weight of ‘Lights Out’, ‘I Wouldn’t’ [more…]