Steve Swift’s Rambling Reviews

Crazy Lixx Enjoy A Bite Of Hair Metal!

They've been at this for 20 years and I've never listened to too much, not that I'm not a fan, but there are a lot of bands doing this. Checking out 'Thrill Of The Bite', this might be one one of the Hair Metal best examples. Harder than I expected, also better than I expected...

Steel Machine Album Is A Metal Maven!

There isn't music here but Heavy Metal, but if you like that, this is as tough as a well seasoned leather jacket and as nasty as a studded wristband. Yes, there are Metal tropes here, but when they're done with such conviction, they sound great...

Demand Lucha Wrestling Wins Again!

With Lince Dorado versus Sidney Akeem, the former WWE Reggie, that's bound to be good. and it is, Wrestling entertainment done, Great moves landed, a title at stake, just brilliantly done...

I Haven’t Seen Coastal Championship Wrestling For A While! And It Still Fabulous...

Marvellous Wrestling, Great Characters And 2 very fine matches here, Aleah James and Kristin Blaze give us a very fine Wrestling entertainment offer and Gangrel shows how much the CCW crowd love him...

Are Talking Heads Your Bag? Then This Book Is For You!

Like A Lot Of SonicBond 'Every Album, Every Song' Books, This Can Seem A Little Conveyor Belt, But These Songs Are So Well Constructed, The Detail Works and that Band Story, Well, It's A Doozie...

I’d Never Heard NWOBHM Excellence Starfighters!

I didn't even know of them in the NWOBHM era, and I was there, folks. I was alerted to them by a Facebook NWOBHM group and they sound fabulous. They're more chart Aspiration than some, but NWOBHM was always a pretty open musical movement...

Hammer Horror Film ’Twins Of Evil’! A triumph or a missed opportunity?

2nd of the 3 Karnstein vampire movies, this one boasts a great Peter Cushing performance, Hammer castle and village settings and a sexy something. But did it work?

EPW Wrestling Is Unassuming And Excellent!

It just gets on with the business of making Excellent Matches, does EPW and that may be overlooked. But don't, this Wrestling promotion just keeps delivering and that Heavyweight title main event here is blooming marvellous...

WWF Summerslam 1991! Is That Wrestling Show As Good As I Remember?

I saw it at the time and thought it was great, tje Wrestling past anyway - the ending is the marriage of Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth - but the Jailhouse match between Boss Man and The Mountie, that superb Intercontinental amtchbwtwern Mr Perfect and Bret Hart and so much more were great. But will it hold up now?..

Can Spinebuster Wrestling Make That Battle Royale Brilliant?

Do You Really Need To Ask? Drama, Spots, Friendships, Enmity and A Wrestling Trope To End It. And Sha Samuels Calling People A 'Mug'; Great Work And Only The Main Event, Adam Bolt AndLeon Cage Turn It On Too...