There’s a great urgency, mild punk kick, rock sensibility and great sense of fun to this EP from the Mitch Tones Band who hail from Greenbank, Ontario. The most stunning thing though is the sheer […]
Few bands formed back in the day, especially those with a 30 plus year gap between recordings ever manage to get anywhere near recapturing their classic sound. Some of course mange to get close, others […]
Soulfly, led by the legendary Max Cavalera along with guitar wizard Marc Rizzo, Max’s son Zyon and the addition of latest recruit on bass, Mike Leon return with album number 11 in “Ritual”. Say […]
If you want some great good time hard rock that makes you smile from ear to ear then this is your album of the year. Hearing the single ‘Lift Your Head Up’ might be […]
‘Turn To Six’ starts up like a broken-down machine before an old school Metal riff kicks in before it in turn writhes and twists into a more modern-sounding grind before a layer of wailing vocals […]
One of my favourite Northern Irish bands of the last few years has been Trucker Diablo, and this year vocalist Tom Harte has put out his first solo EP. It still of course sports his […]
After their last album, Behemoth had a lot to live up to. Creating a follow-up to a masterpiece like The Satanist is no small feat. Were they up to the challenge and put pure […]
I really like this. ‘Black 13’ have the retro feel of a band like ‘Back Robot’ but with a sleazier, bluesier sound and plenty of grunt and gas in the tank. Opener ‘Sin City Living’ […]
Last year we loved Black Paisley’s ‘Let Bloomer’ of which we said ” if like me you’re a fan of 80’s Hard Rock, or even rock and roll stalwarts like Bob Seger – there’s a […]
I always get a little nervous you know when a new Ace Frehley album comes up on the horizon, and these days they do so with decent regularity. The reason dates back to my […]
Ah the smell of cheese I hear you say? Well sure, naming your band ‘Love Stallion’ might suggest a certain type of band, a certain type of music or at the lest suggest a rather […]
Guitar icon Slash and his cohort of hard rock buddies in Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators return once again for their third outing together with “Living The Dream”, 12 tracks of bluesy, hard rock […]
Last year Midnite City came up with one of the albums of the year with their stunning debut and after repeated listens at Rockpit HQ it sounds like album number two is even better. It […]
THE BACKGROUND I’m not kidding last year we got in excess of 12,000 review applications for new music. This year by June we’d had over 14,000 and as our readership grows the numbers increase day […]
Satyr, the Atlanta post hardcore quartet present their debut EP Neutrino. The young band have already faced challenges in the wake of lineup changes and more but here they finally release what all the […]
Tracklist: “Hangover In Hannover” “There She Goes Again” “You Spark My Heart” “Love Is A Funny Feeling” “Gone Gone Gone” “Swampmotofrog” “First The Money, Then The Honey” “Rich Man, Poor Man” “Knocked Out By Tyson” […]
George Lynch has been in a rare vein of form recently and engaged in a number of diverse musical projects over the last 12 months. We spoke to him recently about the latest Lynch Mob […]
I spoke to Michael Voss of Mad Max last week, a great guy from a band that over the years have put out some great Hard Rock and probably non more so that their latest […]
If you like your Metal done rare and with more than a nod to the old school, then hopefully you have already made acquaintance with Bullet who take the ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix […]
After the success of the first album, Metal Allegiance didn’t waste any time in getting back together to start work on the follow up which culminated in “Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty”. Led by […]
Ever since The Black Crowes released their last album back in 2009 I’ve been waiting for this album, the only surprise I guess it that it’s come not from The Black Crowes but from the […]
It’s been 5 years since Alice In Chains released their critically acclaimed “The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here”, an album that put the band back on the rock map and which subsequently cemented vocalist William […]
Imagine a UK band with all the vim and vigor of a US band like Rival Sons and the intimacy and emotion of the lighter moments of early Black Crowes and Free and you have […]
For those that love their European Hard Rock the name ‘Kissin’ Dynamite’ will probably be a familiar name, they have after all been around since 2007 and up until this release already had five fill-length […]
Now if you missed out the first time around I’ve got good news Italy’s finest Melodic Rockers Hungryheart are in the studio working on their fourth album as we speak. Even better is that their […]
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