Devildriver are back with a vengeance with a brand new album titled “Dealing With Demons”. It’s the first half of a double album with the second half to be released at a later date […]
Wow! All I can say is wow! In these crazy times Black Stone Cherry has produced a monster of an album. ‘The Human Condition’ is an absolute triumph! If you’ve followed the band as […]
Covers albums are normally at their best hit and miss, essentially there’s two kinds – the ‘tribute’ type album that relies on your love of a particular artist and contains covers by multiple bands […]
Where do I begin with a band like Napalm Death, a name so revered the mere mention of the name gets grindcore fans excited. Well this is no exception, “Throes Of Joy In The […]
17 years old this year Voodoo Six have been through a good few line-up changes over the years and now sport their third vocalist. Since those early days only Tony Newton (Iron Maiden’s live […]
I remember buying the first ‘Vandenberg’ album way back in the early 80’s and I can recall that it must have been 1982 because that was the year for some unknown reason I bought […]
There’s a big chunky riff that opens up ‘Hurricaned’ and instantly you’re back headbanging at a show sometime in the 80’s and if you like bands like Dokken, Bonfire and Scorpions, you’ll feel right […]
It’s been a little over 20 years since Metallica first teamed up with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra which was documented and originally released on video and CD back in 1999. It was a […]
Surely there are some people left in the world who think that art has its time and place and has to be appreciated through the lens of the times, lets face it there’s so […]
I was talking to Gordon from Heavy Pettin’ just the other day about Argus the Wishbone Ash album that introduced us to this particularly English Rock band and the twin guitars it featured that […]
It’s been a long time between drinks for new Heathen music, 11 years to be exact but 2020 is the year that the Bay Area thrash legends return. Better late than never as they […]
Sons of Legendary fathers lay down a fitting new chapter to the Allman and Betts legacies. The first thing that hits you about ‘Pale Horse Rider’ the atmospheric opening track and first single from The […]
Hate For Sale, The Pretenders’ eleventh studio album, is the first album to be recorded with the now longest-standing touring line-up of the group and the first to be written collaboratively by Chrissie Hynde […]
Janet Gardner & Justin James are back mid coronavirus with their aptly-named third album ‘Synergy’ out on August 7th. They do say the third time’s a charm, but in truth so were the first […]
It seems like only the other day that the debut from Tokyo Motor Fist dropped – the band that features Danger Danger singer Ted Poley and Trixter’s guitarist/producer Steve Brown together with bassist Greg Smith […]
One of my favorite bands of the 00’s – Endeverafter released one great album in 2007 on Razor & Tie – ‘Kiss or Kill’ after their first full length recording ‘Ashes of Sin’ had […]
In what may be one of the most anticipated metal releases for 2020, “Project Regeneration” finally comes to light with it’s iminent release this week. Static-X fans have been waiting patiently to see what […]
Synchronize is a verb meaning to make two or more objects or actions happen in the same moment. Outside the United States it is spelled properly – synchronise. I wonder then why a UK band […]
I love the relentless bassy drive and guitar wail of opener ‘It’s All Gone Wrong’ which if I’m honest is the first ever song I can remember listening to by Savoy Brown, a band […]
There are two ways you can look at the new EP by Radio Sun’s Stevie Janevski and Danny Cecati (ex Pegazus & Eyefear) the first is that it’s simply bloody good homegrown Hard Rock […]
Amidst covid-19 craziness Chip Z’Nuff’s Enuff Z’Nuff release ‘Brainwashed Generation’ the follow up to 2018’s well received ‘Diamond Boy’ which sees bass player and vocalist Chip Z’Nuff deliver another dose of the band’s patented […]
Recorded at the same time as their last album ‘Under the Sun’ the four songs here shouldn’t be thought as the tracks that didn’t make the cut, but rather those that didn’t feel quite […]
Dokken’s last studio album featuring the original line up ‘Shadowlife’ came out in 1997, of course pretty much since that date we’ve been wanting something new from them. We’ve had some nibbles recently with […]
It’s been 5 years since new Lamb Of God songs have hit fans ears, the longest gap in the bands career but as the band push into their third decade with multiple successes and […]
I don’t think I’ve been this impressed by a debut album since The Darkness ‘Permission To Land’, The Struts ‘Everybody Wants’ or even The Strokes ‘Is This It’. Three very different albums of course, […]
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