Initial impressions can be wrong; for instance there’s an almost ‘Def Leppard meets the modern day’ feeling about ‘Blood Red Saints’ on the basis of opening track ‘Kickin’ Up Dust’. Equally if you loved Bon […]
OK so you can tell by the name that this band doesn’t hail from the US, and though there’s a nice vintage rock vibe to the sound there’s enough pop nous and colour to make […]
This is album number two from the collaboration between musician, songwriter and producer Daniel Flores (Issa, Seventh Wonder) and Robbie LaBlanc from Blanc Faces. It’s great Melodic AOR as you might expect. The sound here […]
It’s been years since the last offering from Khymera, so long in fact that I had forgotten how good they were and given up hoping for anything new. It’s worth the wait though, even though […]
Adelaide’s finest up and coming hard rockers, Cherry Grind, have just released their stunning debut record ‘A Room With a View’ produced by Bob Daisley. It sounds like the start of very good things […]
Mark Knight has just released his latest solo album. After years of making music, most notably with Bang Tango the ground-breaking Funk-Rock outfit he led in the late eighties and early nineties. Then there […]
With new output in 2015 from UK Rock legends Motorhead and Saxon it’s fitting that Girlschool return to the fray with their contemporaries with their twelfth (or thirteenth if you see their 2011 reworking of […]
Silent Knight has long been Perth Australia’s big players on the Power Metal scene, armed with songs to take on the world; you feel that it’s just a matter of time despite the remoteness of […]
What an odd name for a band! ‘Honeymoon Disease’ is essentially cystitis caused by sexual activity; you know that burning sensation when you want to pee? No? Me neither… you must be alright then… Whilst […]
There’s more than a touch of vintage Bon Jovi to Radio Exile’s opener ‘High Road, High Price’ but as you listen on you realise there’s a lot more to this modern Melodic Rock band than […]
There’s a spiky punkiness and a great riff rock sensibility to opener ‘Dead to Me’ that has you instantly hooked and wondering where Not Inpublic will take this, and thankfully it’s into a world where […]
The Darkness is back with avengence with their Suffolk Viking Invasion quasi-epic almost concept album ‘The Last of Our Kind’. We spoke to Dan Hawkins about the almost finished US tour, the upcoming Australian […]
If you haven t heard Skindred yet then you are in for a treat, a band that merges Metal, Rock, Reggae and various other seemingly incompatible musical styles it shouldn t work this damn […]
Kingswood is an Australian band going places and with the songs and the attitude to get there the future is looking bright. Just announced as the local support act for the Australian leg of […]
Not many bands have been active as long as Canned Heat, the band that was named after a 1928 song by Tommy Johnson song hit 50 this year, and an awful lot has changed […]
Whenever Kiss brings their tour into your part of the world, it’s a big deal because of the significance of the band in the world of rock. From the marketing power of the band […]
First impressions sometimes stick and the cry of “Sounds like Evanescence” went up as soon as opener ‘Monster’ reared its head; but let’s face it that alone would be a glib and unworthy review, even […]
After the full Metal riffage that opens the title track of The Erotics’ latest EP you have to step back for a second to appreciate that one of the world’s Sleaziest bands has managed to […]
I first snuck into a Hanoi Rocks show way back in the early eighties, it was the second show I had ever seen and Hanoi was the first band I’d ever discovered all by […]
This year could well be the big one for Trivium who are on the verge of releasing their new album ‘Silence in the Snow’. There’s a feeling at The Rockpit that this may just […]
Earlier in the year we heard Joel Hoekstra‘s first contributions to Whitesnake as their new guitarist along with Reb Beach on ‘The Purple Album’. Who would have thought that a few months later he’d […]
Take a hearty dose of symphonic rock and add a sometimes subtle Gothic undertow, a dash of the sweeping vision of Sisters of Mercy and an Eastern edge to the music and you end up […]
We catch up with Jerry Only to talk about revisiting the classic albums ‘Earth A.D.’ and ‘Static Age’; an invite to Dracula’s Castle and the new music on the way from The Misfits… […]
Halestorm just might have released the album that breaks them new ground and raises them up to the place where we’ve always know they belonged. They are also on their way to Australia for […]
They did it – new album ‘Venom’ charted at number one in Australia upon release. And Bullet For My Valentine never sounded better. After last times experimental ‘Temper Temper’ some wondered what the new […]
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