https://greggmckella.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-underground-2
This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Gregg McKella- Songs from the Underground (GM001CD)
L.Don Okomi- Banjo Machine Music (Self Released)
It was an honour to be invited to play on this CD/LP, which was released in December. Sadly, I was unable to attend the release party on Dec 27th, as many of the players who are featured here did. Anyway, this is experimental banjo music like you have not heard before. A totally unique album featuring 6 tracks. Don plays the Harmonium and two different types of banjos. It is one track but features mixes or additions by different people, so each track becomes a unique piece of music. Check out the bandcamp page for more details and ordering. You can also buy the CD and LP from me. Just write…
SULA BASSANA - Time Travel - Rare & Obscure Tracks From The Decades (Self Released)
This is a super cool release of unreleased and rare tracks from all eras of Sula´s solo career and it starts off with a rocking track called Ridin´. This is live from Hamburg 2024, the same show that the tracks that were released on the split LP with Skyjoggers… Krachgarten (from 2012) did appear on a bandcamp compilation before. Really cool bass line on this track and nice delay guitars. A great space rock track in the end. Wow.. Arkelanfall is a short electrronic piece with Modulfix from 2009. Totally different vibe than the rock that started the CD. Trippy….
Animal Farm is a very funny one from 2008 with drums and Farm animal samples… This one drove our dogs crazy!! Was Du Denkst (2006) is a real archive recording and Dave thinks it is from 2006..
Soulcake is a cool track that appeared on a Greek Compilation CD in 2011 but has a much earlier orgin, late 90s early 2000s… A nice laid back and spacey vibe to this one with a hypnotic riff. Fiebertraum is from the later 90s and appeared on the rare Sulatronics CD-R (I own it!!)… Very drony and spacey synths to start. It slowly builds up with some intense drums and repeatitive synth lines and the tension builds but slowly drops off over time..A bit TD like Paranoid? i is also from the Sulatronics CD and quite a long track at 13mins. Super cool track… Suomenlinna was inspired by being on a Finnish Island in the late 90s.. Very laid back and trippy with loads of interesting manpulated sounds and repeated fender rhodes like keyboard line. Dreamy… Pilzwald, at 33 mins is quite the musical adventure. A very experimental track with Alexander Bulgrin, back then the singer (or ex singer) of Liquid Visions. This was recorded live and is quite the space out..
Maybe it will come out on a CD one day.. Enjoy..
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Stonerhenge- Hecto Fuzz (Self Released 2025)
Dust to Dust opens with a classic stoner rock riff and groove but has a many cool parts and solos over the 12mins.. Closed Labryinth (8min) slows things down and is sung in his native language as well and features a sample (in English) that comes in at the beginning. Very clean production and sound but the programmed drums are a bit annoying at times. About 2.5mins in the riff gets heavy.. Some nice keyboard and synth work by Timur Reizis as the track evolves. Vocals are by ŹMICIER ŁUKJANČYK. Disturbing Dreams (over 9mins) starts with some nice melodic guitar with some delays on it before the drums come in and a lovely guitar solo. The track gets more heavy after 3mins. Interesting balance with the laid back vocals of Zmicier. Always interesting to hear a voice and not have any clue what he is singing. The female English spoken word is back at the end of the track. Great track. Space Comics Hero kicks up the speed with a more rocking track with a classic HM riff!! Some nice spacey sounds on this track as well at times. The title track starts with some synths and drums and then the heavy riff kicks in. Super cool and melodic guitar solo on this track.. Maybe the best on the record. THe album ends with Intersellar Racing, another 9 min track with a steady beat and nice delay guitars to start.. This is also a great track and a powerful faded out ending. Ripple should release this. WOuld be a lot more powerful with real drums as well.
Here is a synopsis of the record by Serge:
“A wandering through the pages of the science fiction anthology «Hecto Fuzz», six issues of which are dedicated to various aspects of human existence and humanity. We invite you to a musical journey — from prehistory, antiquity, the recent past, and a look toward a possible future.
Throughout history, Man has periodically approached another edge. The edge of the world known to Man at that moment in time. The edge of knowledge, the edge of skills, the edge of hope, and the edge of technology.
Only biological imperfection interrupts this cyclical process — dust to dust. And the banner of conquering yet another frontier is taken up by the next generation. The endless quest to understand oneself, the world around us, and one's place in it—these are the main themes explored by the musicians on this album. Welcome to a world of dreams and hopes!”
https://stonerhenge.bandcamp.com/album/hecto-fuzz
Here is the last great album and film, Solaris..
Sunday, December 21, 2025
My year in Music 2025
This year was quite a struggle for me and not being able to post anything to the USA since early September has really hurt sales.. Anyway, despite the decrease in income and ability to put out more physical releases, a lot of great music was released in 2025 by my bands, collaborations and solo.. Check out my synopsis below and links to bandcamp.. Special thanks to all the bands I played on their records. IT means a lot to me to be able to contribute to the magic....
ØSC- Kozfest DVD (OSC2024-LS021)First release of the year and I fucked it up!! Sadly, the wrong mix of the audio was put in the DVD. So to really enjoy this the most you need to download the great audio mix from bandcamp.. It was a fun and cool show with a great line up and for sure worthy of a release with Vince Cory, Omar, me, Mogens, Jiri, Tim and Chris Purdon on the last jam and the dancer Rene, she danced with Hawkwind on the original Space Ritual tour in 1972! Renee, the other dancer, she was in the audience as well. It was an honour...
https://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp.com/album/kozfest-2023
Quasars of Destiny- Music to listen to while eating Planets CD (QOD001)
This was a fun album that I made with my cousin, Craig Wall. It was recorded in the summer of 2023 and is quite Pink Floyd inspired. We had a lot of very good reviews which is nice. Three long jams. CD has sold well for a brand new project and only about 10 copies left... See if we make another album someday. Never know...https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-listen-to-while-eating-planets
Martin Weaver and I were in good form on this one, which was a mixture of some of the heavy space rock stuff we did mixed with the electronic drum groove stuff and pure MOOG electronic space out stuff. I am really happy with the sound collage and took some risks with the mix to really challenge you at times, perhaps.
https://doctorsofspace.bandcamp.com/album/fusing-your-synapses
This was a very successful release and the fans really liked it a lot. The CD sold out pretty fast and the vinyl has done well also. I just love the artwork by David Graham as well. He did almost all of the covers from all the releases this year. This has some pretty awesome jams on it and a great mix from Jonathan Segel..
https://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp.com/album/alotta-hella-down-in-estrela
ØSC- Espaço 2 (Bandcamp subscriber CD) (OSC2025-LS022)
This was the 2nd bandcamp subscriber release of the year and another more laid back and experimental in some ways 3 track album. I really have loved the wholetone jam but admit it is a bit strange at times but I just love the progression of it and the playing so cool... The CD sold out pretty fast.. Only 150 copies..The Shapes of Things to Come Compilation CD (Promo CD28)
Always an honour to be invited to have a track on the great label Fruit de Mer Records..
https://www.fruitsdemerrecords.com/
ØSC- Ode to a black Hole DVD (5.1 audio) SRP089DVD)
Nepal Death- Pilgrims & Psychonauts LP
This is a fun and very cool Swedish band. I was honoured to be invited to provide some space sounds and backing vocals on this album. I appear on 3 tracks. It is a great psychedelic rock album and I highly recommend it. Hope to work with the guys more in the future...Doctors of Space- Astral Sessions Vol 7 CD (DOS- AS007)
This one has been in the archive for quite some time and it was about time for another Astral Sessions Vol.. We had some trouble on the drum track on the opening track (sorry about that) but tried to make the best out of it. The rest of the album has some amazing jams and better sound. Martin plays some amazing guitar solos. Wow.. You can also get a bundle of Vol 5-7 for a great price on bandcamp..
https://doctorsofspace.bandcamp.com/album/astral-sessions-vol-7
Dr Space- Music for Italian Restaurants of Neptune CD (DS2025-001) I had not put out a solo album this year but these sessions were pretty interesting and capture the dr live in the studio. These were the same pieces I played at the Italian Restaurant (every table was taken!) in March 2025 but with better sound than my actual performance. I am not used to playing solo shows but am up for doing it some more. We will see.
https://drspace1.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-italian-restaurants-on-neptune
Aural Hallucinations- Flocking to the Nozone CD (AH003)
This was a long time coming, Matt Couto (Kind, Ex-Elder), making music together in the same room. This was the best of the pieces we recorded over two days. It is a bit challenging music but a lot of moods are explored in this experimental music project... CDs are available. Once again, Matt made the cover art picture..
https://auralhallucinations.bandcamp.com/album/flocking-to-the-nozone
Spirts Burning & Michael Moorcock- The End of All Songs Pt2
It was an honour to be asked by Don, an old friend, to play on this album with Micheal Moorcock. A lot of great musicians on this. I contribute to track 9. Check out the album below on bandcamp.
ØSC- Jamvofrijonia CD (OSC2025-LS023)
This is another bandcamp subscriber CD and the first material from the ØSC studio session from December 2024. It is one long jam with a lot of cool and interesting parts. The CD sold out quite fast... A lot more to come from this session in 2026. My old friend Doug Siegel did the original painting.
https://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp.com/album/jamvofrijonia
L. Don Okami- Banjo Machine Music CD/LP (Self Released Finland)
I have known Don for some years now and we talked about making some music and it was great to be able to contribute to this album. If you are in Tampere, they are going to have a show on Dec 28th with a lot of the people that perform on this record, but sadly, I can not be there..
https://ldonohkami.bandcamp.com/album/banjo-machine-music-2
3rd Ear Experience- Twilight Sutra 2LP/CD (SRP090)
I am very proud that we could release this on our record label, Space Rock Productions. IT is an epic 90min space rock ballet piece split in 17 parts. I was very happy to also play on it and I am mixed in different parts here and there. One of my fave releases of the year. For sure check it out.. Epic...
https://3rdearexperience.bandcamp.com/album/the-twilight-sutra
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Top 20 Records for 2025
This is a very difficult list to compile. I have about 100 releases from 2025 on CD, LP but mostly on FLAC/wav files from bandcamp (about 40 of the 100). I have not put any of the releases that I play on except the 3rd Ear Experience but the Nepal Death and ØSC- Alotta hella down in Estrela could be on the list as well.. They are hard to order..
Zach Oakley- Kommune 1 (US self Released)
This was technically released digitally in 2024 but only came out on vinyl in 2025 and I just love this record. Funky, 70s style rock, jamming.. Awesome album. Played it so much.. Sadly, not on bandcamp or streaming services.. This awesome set for Orange amps is about as close as you are going to get to hearing the album at the moment.
TEMPLE FANG- LIFTED FROM THE WIND 2LP (NETHERLANDS 2025)
What can I say. One of my fave bands in Europe at the moment and such great folks. The River is such an amazing track but the all 4 sides are great.
Frozen Planet….1969- Echoland (Australia 2025)
I was surprised when this one dropped in a month or so ago but wow. I have been spinning it a lot. I hope someone in Europe will release it on vinyl. I can see it is only out on CD in Australia at the moment..
US CHRISTMAS- PRAYER MEETING 2LP (US 2025)
Ok.. this is not new music but the first time this has been available to a wide audience. This is the vinyl remastered version of the first ever release by US Christmas. I own this rare CD, thankfully, but this is a cool and raw version of a lot of tracks that would appear later on some of the albums. Great stuff..
3rd Ear Experience – The Twilight Sutra: A Space Rock Ballet (US 2025)
This is an amazing 80min journey. Get the CD version for the complete 90min ballet. I was lucky to be invited to participate on this great piece of music. A must listen for 2025..
SAMSARA BLUES EXPERIMENT- TIME WIZARDRY LP (GERMANY 2025)
Again, not new music but a compilation of the earliest and rare tracks from SBE, one of the best stoner bands from Germany ever.. Killer stuff...
GIN LADY- BEFORE THE DAWN OF TIME LP (SWEDEN 2025)While far from the bands best album, I still played it a lot in 2025 and a lot of great songs. I would love to see them live and might have to go to Spain to see them in 2026 if they come.
ALAN DAVEY- ELEKTRUM CD (US 2025)
Been many years since Alan released a solo album. Since moving to California, he has focused on Hawkestrel, Pink Fairies and other collaborative efforts. I enjoyed a lot of the material on this album. NIce to see a sample from Doug Walker (Alien Planetscapes) used as well.
STEVEN WILSON- Overview DVD (UK 2025)
I only got this on the blue ray and hearing this one in 5.1 is simply awesome. This best album since his early solo albums for me..
CAUSA SUI- LOPPEN 20024 LP + 10” /FLux 2x10" (DENMARK 2025)
Hard to not have the creative Causa Sui in the top 20 when they give us a powerful live album and cool new studio album. Great band and nice people..
CASTLE RAT- THE BESTIARY LP (US 2025)
My friend Nils gave me a copy of their first album and then this one dropped this year and wow.. I like it even more than the first one.. Cool band. So sorry I did not get to see them at Sonic Blast (they played too late in the night).
LÍRA DEL BACCANO/YAMA- TEMPVS DEORVM LP (ITALY 2025)
This is primarily on the list as the LIDB first side of the record is probably the best thing they have ever recorded. What an amazing album side track. Heavy, space rock, prog.... just awesome..
BLACK MOON CIRCLE- A MILLION LEAGUES BEYOND- MOSKUS SESSIONS VOL 1 LP
Despite me not playing on this or with the band since 2023, the band give a powerful and awesome performance with the entire band playing intensely. Great live album.
FUZZ SAGRADO- STRANGE DAZE LP (BRASIL 2025)
Christian Peters, is a clever and awesome musician and I am a huge fan of his music and this new group, will dazzle the audience in 2026 when they tour Europe in May-June. He records all the instruments on this album though and there are a lot of great songs from his earliest days of this project.
ASTRAL MAGIC- IN SPACE WE TRUST CD (FINLAND 2025)
Only a few Astral Magic releases (and lots of Strange Vibrations and others) this year. This is a nice space rocking release and I played it a lot. Cool stuff..
ETHIVA- BEATEN TRACK LP (SPAIN 2025)
It has been a few years since they released an album and they have a new female singer so that adds a new element to the sound but the band still create great songs and I dig these guys..
HAWKWIND- THERE IS NO SPACE FOR US CD (UK 2025)
Been some years since Hawkwind made my list but this was a pretty damn good effort.
PAPIR- IX 2LP (DENMARK 2025)
Only just got this and I love sides 2 and 4 especially but sees that band a bit more post rocky and accesible as instrumental music can be at times!! Musician ship is awesome as these guys just have a flow and feel that is so natural. Cool stuff..
MADMESS- THE THIRD COMING LP (PORTUGAL 2025)
This album was along time in coming but finally came out. The band has stripped away a lot of their space elements and went for a more straight hard rocking wah solo driven psych rock.
Nukli- Acid Funk (UK 2025)
For a band around for 40 years, this is one of their best studio albums ever. I wish I owned the CD but I have played the FLAC files a lot. Love this one... Congrats guys.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
The Deepest Cut- 21st Anniversary Edition (Black Unicorn Records)
“THE DEEPEST CUT, and if the opening twinkles of "Air Check" doesn't clue you in that you're "able to get swept away in a wave of ambient music, nothing will.
Indeed, the gamelan of "The Queen and the Eclipse" hums with quiet intent, while "Georgia" leans much more on the electronics to accompany its initial plaintive piano melody. The meditative "Mandella With The Golden Hair" seems created to induce a zen trance (despite the occasional deep bass hits), while "Mistersorphine" kicks off with a wistful chanson sample, as the track itself comes and goes, as if blinking in and out of existence.
"Off," on the other hand, stays present the whole time, throbbing in the prayerful darkness. The Deepest Cut, the title track, after a major key intro, quickly switches into an urgent minor key melody that sets the tempo even when it disappears whilst he closer, "Dream to Dawn," returns to pure ambience in a swirling concoction.”
it is a beautiful sounding collection of tracks with lots of small sonic surprises around each corner. Good old analog synths sounds mixed into the layers of simple repeated themes.
https://sonica.music/basii8rzh825
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
PIB´s Farewell Party- Loppen, Christiania Nov 26th, 2025
Peter IB, played drums with ØSC from 2007 to 2012, almost full time and he played now and again until 2015… Sadly, PIB lost his battle with cancer. There was a funeral earlier in the day but this was a dinner for close friends and musicians and 3 musical acts. It started with a nice speech and then Sorte Per started things off with a 50 min set of original music. PIB had played with all these guys in different jams, and bands before as well. It was all sung in Danish and some great and funny songs..
Vionysos Skål, Par og Per, Ca Drømme, Tagernes Høj!, tak skal du há, ?, Business Blues, I mi hjælpe mig, En Hvildes Ballale
Music for Hearts, a duo wtih Thomas Thor played a short set of 18mins or so and a lot of small speeches about PIB.. Everyone had a good story to tell…
There was a long break now for nearly 3hrs and then ØSC played at 21… It was so smokey inside that I could not be in Loppen anymore so stood outisde the entrance where there was som good air and talked to who ever came by…
ØSC was: Me, Mogens, Mattias, Mikkel and Jiri in the first set. We did like 2 jams and I told a bit of a story about PIB in the middle for a few mins. It was too smokey and I was really suffering so I had to leave but the guys played some more with Lasse on Bass afterwards-.
http://arechive.org/details/OSC2025-11-26.FLAC
A special evening for sure… No one will ever forget PIB….
Indian Classical meets Danish Jazz- Copenhagen, DK Nov 30th, 2025
KG Westman, Lars Møller, Zuheb Ahmed Khan, Thor Madsen, Thommy Andersson, Jonas Johansen,
Went with my good friend Mogens and it was lovely to see our friend Lone their as well. A super nice evening of great music.
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Still River- Flow Me (Magnolia Records )
When I was at the Tabernas Festival in Spain in October I met the drummer from this band, Lander and we really got on well and spoke about music and his bands. He also played in a more heavy band called Wreck Totem. Anyway, these guys have been around 10 years and this is their 2nd album. They play music a lot like Little Feat, US southern rock inspired stuff. All the musicians are Spanish except the singer, Dan, Cabenela (from the US). Some of the tracks are really uptempo and they have a really great mood and feel. Some laid back country like stuff as well. A very good mix and some nice guitar solos (a must in Southern rock!) as well. I enjoyed the album a lot. Check them out….
https://www.facebook.com/thestillriver/about/
Elder and Madmess- MOUCO, Porto, PT Oct 29th, 2025
I drove to Coimbra and then took the train to Porto. This new music venue is in the basement of a fancy hotel about 10mins walk from Campanhã, which is pretty convenient. The building itself it a bit of a maze to get into the basement but when I arrived I could hear Elder soundchecking. I managed to find my way in and the Madmess guys were watching the soundcheck. They stopped and we greeted each other. Nice to see the Elder folks. Super nice people, all of them…
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| Elder Soundchecking |
After soundcheck I hung out backstage with the band while Madmess were setting up but I was really hungry. I was invited to go eat with them at 19 but I could not wait that long.. Has some chicken and chips 3mins away and came back but missed the Madmess soundcheck, they were done. Michael (2nd guitarist in Elder), he was hanging around, while the others were eating so we chatted about life on the road, his music life, the insane USA, etc.. such a nice guy..
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| Madmess backstage |
The doors opened at 20 and Madmess hit the stage just at 2030. A lot of people were still coming in at this time as only a couple of weeks ago they changed the start time from 21 to 2030.. Anyway, it was full by the time they finished and they pretty much blasted the audience with the very tight set of acid rock. They used to space out a bit but not at all anymore, very tight and perfect, a bit too much for my liking. Most of the set was from the new album and two from Rebirth and nothing from the first album. The band is working on new material. Sam said it is their best stuff ever.
Set List: Death by Astonishment, Widowmaker, Albatross, Endless Cycles, Velvet Nebula, Stargazer
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| Vasco on Bass |
Set List: In Procession, Thousand Hands, Merged in Dreams, Compendium, Sanctuary, Catastasis, Gemini
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Strange Vibrations- Higher Dimensional Beings (Astral056)
Fans of Astral Magic will for sure dig this..
http://astralmagic.bandcamp.com
Strange Vibrations- III (Astral055)
Volume III in this series continues with 10 new tracks but this time Santtu plays all the instruments and even does some of the spoken word parts (tracks 5&7). Crystal Starship starts things off with an uptempo rocker. Shane comes in pretty quickly after the track starts. Lots of interesting keyboards. Perpetual Change keeps the tempo high and opens with a nice synth sequence, that is quite hypnotic at times. Lots of stuff going on in this track at times but driven by the synths at all times. Desert Winds starts off really spacey, like a 1972 Hawkwind track. Master of Mystery has a bouncing bass line to drive it forward and is a fun one. Thought Projections Acquisition is another strange electronic one and features Santtu on vocals.. Trippy…Sacred Geometry has a sort of dark mysterious feel to it. Passing the Knowledge is another fully electonic on with whispered words by Santtu.. Dream Quest features some guitar and I really love the vibe on this one. Cool track and the longest on the album as well! Frequency Waves is another beatless electronic piece. The CD ends with The Druid´s Temple. A bit like Astral Magic and a bit different as well with the help of Shane, doing what he does best.. Only made in 50 copies. Peace..
http://astralmagic.bandcamp.com


























