You always remember the great ones, like that first time you dropped the needle on ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ or ‘ZZ Top’, the very first time you heard ‘The Black Crowes’ or the time ‘Mountain’ came on […]
This has to be one of my favourite albums of the year so far: Black Diamonds, formed in 2004, are a hard rock band based in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland and if you […]
In my humble opinion THUNDER is the UK’s greatest Rock band of the 80’s and I’ve been a paid up member of the ‘Thunder Channel’ ever since I saw them supporting AEROSMITH back on the PUMP tour. […]
Years ago when I was a kid they used to have these comics called Marvel Team-Up that threw together two of your favourite superheroes and let the games begin. Well Frontiers records seems to have […]
Great band Armored Saint – to me they were the one band that perfectly stood astride Metal and Hard Rock and really ‘got’ both genres. Since The Rockpit’s inception there have been two albums – […]
Best known for his own band Prophets of Addiction and his stint in 80’s Glam legends Pretty Boy Floyd Lesli Sanders latest solo release may only be 5 tracks long but it packs a punch […]
Black Star Riders will be known to most as the band that was formed by the current day line-up of Thin Lizzy in December 2012 as a vehicle for new music. Since making that decision they have […]
Over 35 years in the business and thrash legends Overkill show absolutely no signs of wear and tear with the fittingly titled “The Grinding Wheel” referencing the longevity of Overkill. In a world where […]
There’s a lot of albums out by ‘former lead singers of 80’s bands’ recently – the latest comes from ex-Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy. Indeed ‘SMASH’ hits the shelves just weeks after the latest talk of […]
Aaron Keylock of course will have been on many people’s radars since he started appearing in the music press even before Metal Hammer hailed him as “shredding like Gary Moore” at the tender age of […]
Coming Home It’s Not How We Do It Spring Would I Lie To You Rust And Dust Leaving One Day Time And Place What More Can I Say Why Even Worry At All Maybe […]
So, while Great White, who split from Jack back in 2010, managed to get their ‘debut Jackless’ album out (the rather decent ‘Elation’) back in 2012, we’ve not really heard a long-form reply from Jack till […]
Kreator have been consistently solid in their over 30 plus years as a band. It can be easy to relax and be comfortable in that kind of consistency and just coast through on the […]
Brazilian metal kings Sepultura release their latest effort with “Machine Messiah”, their 14th studio album and one which brings in some new elements yet again. We take a closer look at the new tracks […]
It’s been 8 years since Metallica released a studio album, 2008 with “Death Magnetic” which saw a return to a lot of the elements that made Metallica in the early days. In their defence […]
From the eerie opening stanza of the instrumental title track that paints the first strokes of the album ‘Back to Zero’ and the vocal opening of ‘Shine’, which rolls on with its sweeping groove, elevated […]
‘KENTUCKY’ the new album by BLACK STONE CHERRY is out on APRIL 1st on new label MASCOT – named after their home State it packs a huge punch – and it could be argued that […]
My there’s some great Blues out this year, I’m still playing Joe Bonamassa’s new album on heavy rotation and reaching out for something else a bit bluesy and this lands on the turntable. Now you […]
So here we are just a year after the G.A.S.S. project commenced -which saw a crowd-funded three songs a month released to subscribers – and all of which are all collected here for our delectation. […]
As a long-time fan of The Cult; who got on Board way back when they were still the Death Cult, I often get dismayed when most people’s vision of the band is solely centred on […]
It only seems like a few seconds ago George Lynch released his solo album ‘Shadow Train’ and that itself came so soon after the debut from Sweet and Lynch earlier this year: add to that […]
Tracklisting: Never Again – Rockin In The City – I Can’t Stop Loving You – The Rains About To Fall – Even Now – Tears Will Fall – Mad As Hell – Sweet Sensation – Tonight’s The Night- The Quest – Stones By The River On […]
When you think ‘Live’ albums you immediately think of Rock, and when you think about the great Live Rock albums of the past few decades some immediately jump out – Thin Lizzy’s ‘Live and Dangerous’; […]
Coldspell’s second album has all that you will love about their debut, but adds extra depth and richness to their classic sound. Coldspell hasn’t really changed the formula here, which is great news, as their […]
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