Slaughter frontman Mark Slaughter to release his new solo album “Halfway There” in Japan via Universal Music on May 10, 2017 and in Europe and the USA via EMP Label Group on May 26, 2017. Says Slaughter: “We have been dropping hints for a while, but it is official. I have […]
Formerly going under the name Love and War (a band who embraced the Hard Rocking sounds of the 80’s after Grunge hit hard) Apocalyptic Lovers are the rebirth of that band – rechristened and reinvigorated and […]
Vancouver, BC Glunk rockers have released their first single and lyric video for song Junkie Girl off their sophomore album due out April 7th. The album is being issued via limited edition CD on Spawner […]
Beautiful Creatures have released a remixed, remastered (by Anthony Focx), re-sequenced “Deluxe” edition of their sophomore album “Deuce”, which will include the BRAND NEW track “Get You High” – the band’s first new song released since 2004. Following Beautiful Creature’s self titled release in 2001, the core band […]
As the band says: “We are extremely excited to release our official video for our single titled “BREAK ME” off our debut album “FIREBIRD” which will be released April 1st – tomorrow!!! This is no […]
A few words from RAVEN: “Hi there, after a longer than expected break we are ready and raring to get out on the road again. A quick warm up in the USA will be followed by […]
SECOND LEG OF DATES KICK OFF MAY 19 ANN WILSON has extended her in-progress and acclaimed ANN WILSON OF HEART tour with a second leg of dates running from May 19-July 2. The iconic vocalist will make tour stops […]
I don’t often quote large chunks from band bios but something about the Tainted Lady press release sounded rather intriguing: “Tainted Lady is a hard-hitting, unadulterated, energetic rock band from Denmark consisting of five passionate […]
Babyjane those shining lights of the Western Australian Rock scene sadly ‘expired’ on New Years Day 2016 whilst in L.A. Vocalist Andy Smith however has been quick to bounce back taking some of the songs he’d planned for the […]
With a sound that screams ‘take me back in your time machine to 80’s Sunset strip’ and a vocal that sounds like it was recorded in a very large room ‘Craving Angel’s weighty (at 17 […]
It’s set to be a great year for new music with already a heap of great albums, but Sweden’s ECLIPSE might just have released the album to top them all and it’s only March! Read […]
OK so who needs a new Def Leppard live album? OK What about a live DVD? To be honest the answer to those questions might be very different when you see the show. ‘And There Will […]
Denmark’s ‘Bite the Bullet’ could be from anywhere or any time: their quirky take on Seventies Rock that is as ‘Retro’ as it is ‘Rootsy’ also puts their sound right in vogue at the moment. […]
Everything that was once old is new again and vice versa. Today the kids that reject the eighties and nineties rock put of hand seem to want to embrace the 7o’s and of course there’s […]
If you’ve ever been to Collie in Country Western Australia then you’ll know that Sisters Doll is perhaps the band least likely to hail from there, but hail from their they do, though these days […]
On January 27th 2016 San Francisco’s 80’s Glam Rockers Vain announced that their next album ‘Rolling with the Punches’ would be funded via Pledge Music. The album would be out in May 2016. Vain, the band […]
Over the next few months the Rockpit will be talking to the bands of the 80’s that should have been huge, bands who simply never got the breaks or never even got the deal. In […]
To some of us ASIA were that band who bridged the 70’s and pointed the way forward to Rock in the 80’s . For more than a few years, quite unexpectedly for a band born […]
These days Pop Punk bands are about 20 for a dollar, most sound remarkably similar, write to the same formula and for every decent song produce a dozen that dissolve and vaporize as soon as […]
I’ve been writing for The Rockpit for five years now and this year they’ve given me my own list! So I wanted to do something a little differently: this year I wanted to give […]
This is an interesting release, and Jerry Hull’s fourth in a the space of just a couple of years. At 14 tracks it might not be as long as his previous release – Cherokee Moon’ […]
There’s a gentle Spanish style guitar in ‘Calm Before’ that welcomes you to In The Now’s debut album ‘Daggers and Dice’ and it works so well up against the Hard Rocking ‘Trigger’ that acts as […]
After a couple of singles and an impressive debut EP earlier in the year Snakebite Whiskey is back again with another 5 tracks that will take your back to the 80’s Sunset Strip via Brisbane. […]
Tonight in Melbourne a packed house saw the return of Queensryche to Australian shores for the first time in almost ten years and the news is the band who surged to the top of […]
According to the press release “Sky Of Forever is a Helsinki-based melodic hard rock group featuring musicians from Stratovarius and Tracedawn. Their music is influenced by a mixture of 1980’s hard rock and film music”. In […]
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