A new album from Donnie Vie is always a wonderful thing for those that consider him to be one of the very best writers of his generation and up there with the greats of yesteryear. […]
Starting off with an alarm clock going off before a crushing riff and then a shuffling groove you could be forgiven for thinking we’re back on the Strip in the late 80’s and indeed whilst […]
On March 1, 1969 in Miami, Florida, The Doors gave what might be their most infamous concert. Playing to an overcrowded venue lacking seats and air conditioning and with a very drunken Jim Morrison […]
Formed in 2016 in Southern Indiana Blind Perception is a 4-piece hard rock band with, as they say in their bio, “an eclectic mix of influences spanning 4 decades” and this 4 song EP is […]
What Guns N’ Roses did with their first album in 1987, a lot of bands whose catalogs span multiple decades can’t do with a greatest hits collection. It’s a fortunate thing for Guns N’ […]
UDO Dirkschneider recorded ten studio albums with Accept. He started the band with them in 1976 and was fired in 1987 because they wanted to go in a more commercial direction. Accept carried on […]
Lets start with the press release: “Dirty Elektricity is Australia’s authentic rock and roll band, the brain child of guitarist George Larin (Nothing Sacred), the band hails from Melbourne, Australia the Mecca of Australian rock […]
I love a band out to have fun. Having interviewed John Diva recently (up soon on the website) I can honestly say I’m not sure how to describe John Diva & The Rockets of […]
When Warrel Dane died on December 13, 2017 in Brazil while working on his second solo album, his death shut the door on his versions of Sanctuary and Nevermore (you could also count Dane’s […]
Bowie graced us with new music literally right until he died with the release of 2018’s Blackstar, which appeared just two days before he succumbed to liver cancer. Perhaps that’s why it’s hard to […]
Sydney based metal people Temtris have recently released a new record. Rapture is a mixture of old and new, with inspirations from all around the world to delight and amaze. Let me tell you […]
Cool name for a first album eh? The Lockhearts have been on The Rockpit’s radar since they dropped their first EP back in 2014 and followed it up with the wonderful double EP ‘Tales From […]
When I first read the title of the first Greta Van Fleet album I thought I could see the writing on the wall for Rock’s latest saviours – ‘the sound of Led Zeppelin with an […]
Imagine you’re suddenly the coolest band in the World. Imagine that all the hard work over the last 9 years has got you to a point where not only every major Rock act that matters […]
There’s a lot of talk about the UK’s Collateral at the moment and this their debut EP – “4 Shots” is the first chance those of us outside of the UK have has to see […]
One one hand being signed to Frontiers gives you a slot with a Rock label who are slowly buying up all our memories from the last thirty years and adding a few new ones along […]
Well loved purveyors of heavy metal Metal Church have just released their new album Damned If You Do via Nuclear Blast Records. Oliver had a good old listen and, after his neck had recovered, […]
Canadian death metal has always been a flourishing and extremely robust sector of the world music community with the likes of Cryptopsy, Gorguts, and Kataklysm just to name a few, leaving their predominant foot […]
This is sheer 80’s Heavy Metal joy for fans of the pure stuff. Canada’s Recker someone manage to harness the power of Priest the grit Anvil along with a pinch of Danzig/Manowar to top t […]
Formed 50 years ago in 1968 by the legendary line-up of Dan McCafferty, Manny Charlton, Pete Agnew and Darrell Sweet, a line-up that endured till 1990 (occasionally adding a second guitarist or keys) Nazareth were […]
Start off with a killer song and keep the party going till the last note of the very last track appears to have been Vega’s ‘raison d’être’ going into album number five ‘Only Human’ and […]
If you’ve followed Melbourne’s The Radio Sun over the last five years you’ll have witnessed a band who aren’t afraid of hard work – playing stages around the world and still making the time to […]
The UK’s obsession with Blackberry Smoke has always been a fascination for me, not that I’m not a fan of the band, just that it’s not the sort of music that traditionally the UK’s rock […]
Melbourne melodic masterminds To An End release their debut album Redefine. When you hear the term melodic and put it in front of metal, any die hard fan would expect to hear the very […]
Formed last millennium and with a line-up that’s changed more than most over the years Uriah Heep in 2018 is still a must for lovers of Classic Rock. If you’re uncertain or wonder how that […]
Sulo has to be one of the most prolific artists out there these days clocking in an average of 5 releases a year in either solo mode or as part of other projects, and as […]
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