With an opening track like the rebel-rousing ‘Bastard of Society’ you know from the off that the ever-reliable H.E.A.T. has stepped it up even further. It’s a track that takes up the gauntlet, races for the […]
It’s been six long years since we had a studio album from the legend that is Alice Cooper (which coincidentally that was the last time we got to speak to the man himself) and there’s always […]
UK grungy rockers Temple Of Lies are back with another album “The Serial Killer Suite”, a little over a year after their brilliant 2016 release “From Sand” which scored one of our top picks […]
There’s a lot of hype around ‘The Night Fight Orchestra’ and their brand of keyboard heavy, riff-laden vintage flavoured rock and when you first hear opening track ‘Midnight Flyer’ you get it. It sounds like […]
It’s no secret that I’ve long been an admirer of The Erotics and Mike Trash’s ability to write the prefect ‘fits in the air’ punk-fuelled sleazy barroom rocker and so whenever a new release rears […]
Muscular hard rock with vocals that feel like they’re whiskey soaked at the bottom end and vaguely Soundgarden-like at the top end, make the driving rocker that opens this album ‘Celebrate and Kneel’ and interesting […]
Empire (in this instance the German Hard Rockers with guitarist Rolf Munkes at the helm) released four albums in the years between 2001 and 2007. On each of these releases, Munkes was accompanied by a varying line-up of numerous well-known musicians. First album ‘Hypnotica’ featured […]
As iconic singers go for time and place and distinctiveness you can’t go past names like Kevin DuBrow who once fronted this revered band famous for being the first Metal act to have a US […]
There’s an almost vintage Rockabilly vive to opener ‘My Devotion’ that has me thinking of Australia’s own Living End or a far, far lighter tae on Bullets and Octane. In reality though L.A.’s Warner Drive are […]
Back in 1990 Riverdogs released their criminally underrated self-titled debut and the music world may well have been a little richer had someone picked up on it at the time, but its that age old […]
I have these vague memories of reading music papers as a kid -an article on Van Halen and their rise, and I recall the name ‘Snow’ as being one of their contemporaries who used to […]
To those familiar with Rex Brown‘s work in his previous bands, then this solo effort titled “Smoke On This…” is perfectly titled as it gives the listener an idea who Rex Brown really is. […]
With an intro of a guy getting into a car and flicking through the radio before the meaty riff to ‘Eyes’ kicks in there’s a nice little homage to Kiss to blast off Kickin’ Valentina’s […]
There’s certainly a lot happening on Darcee Fox’s long-awaited debut album ‘Islands’ and after a few spins it seems, yet again, Australia has produced the goods in the gritty, bluesy, rock ‘n’ roll stakes. Wonderfully hard […]
It’s been barely a year and a half since groove/hardcore metallers Prong released the brilliant “X – No Absolutes” which we picked out as last year’s metal album of the year and before we […]
Every once in a while a really special album comes along that is so good it makes labels and genre classifications irrelevant – it’s just damned fine music. Wherever you sit on the scale of […]
It’s been 5 years since thrash metal party animals Municipal Waste unleashed the horror/sci-fi epic “Fatal Feast” and fans have been waiting patiently for the follow up which is finally upon us with “Slime […]
Back in April Michael Monroe released the single ‘One Foot Outta The Grave’, a new song which grabbed you with such immediacy and force so soon after the magnificent 2015 opus ‘Blackout States’ that you knew […]
I’ve long been a fan of Dave King’s Flogging Molly and even longer been a fan of Dave King’s vocals since the first time I saw him onstage way, way back in a band called […]
Earlier this year Jack Russell’s Great White finally put out their response to Great White’s 2012 Russell-less album ‘Elation’ – it was an album that covered a lot of ground musically but one which stepped […]
There have been many, many great AOR and Melodic Rock records released over the past twelve months and over the past decade as a genre the quality you might even argue is at an all time high. […]
What’s so great about a Wednesday 13 album is that it always feels like a horror movie in itself with all the interludes and creepy noises and general all round fun horror vibe. Tongue […]
Formed in 1980 by identical twin brothers Jay and Michael Aston, Gene Loves Jezebel transformed early from a brooding Goth band on ‘Promise’ (1983) and ‘Immigrant’ (1985) to a far more commercial yet unique rock band […]
Dirtbag Republic’s self-titled debut album was one of my favourite releases of 2015 and if you were to ask me again today I could honestly say it’s one of only two albums from that year […]
There’s a laid back charm and certain precise progressive yet melodic dexterity to Raw Silk’s latest album ‘The Borders of Light’ which follows the acclaimed debut from the 90’s ‘Silk Under The Skin’. It’s certainly been […]
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