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Hell In The Club are in my personal opinion one of the best and most consistently great bands in the hard rock scene today, Their last album F.U.B.A.R was a fantastic record and following that […]
Madhouse are a very musically consistent band, All of their records to date have been great. Plead The 5th is their fourth full length album which follows their absolutely jaw dropping previous record Down N’ Dirty, That […]
Shiraz Lane is a bird of a different feather in the modern world of hard rock in that you can’t fully classify them as a straight up hard rock band, There’s a pop element to […]
Sister are a band wholly unique among their contemporaries in the Swedish sleaze metal scene, I’d even say they are a band unique in the rock scene worldwide period. Over the course of the last four […]
Black and Death Metal are genres that have no middle ground for me, I either like a band a lot or I don’t in this musical style. Cradle Of Filth are a band I like […]
If Like A Man was the spark and Hurt was the burn, P.T.A is the wildfire. Envy Marshall’s third single of 2025 cements her as one of rock’s fiercest new architects — an artist who […]
Last full length outing ‘Grand Explosivos’ had me musing that: “Some bands look back at their early work and feel that they have to move on, others just get fixated on endlessly repeating themselves. Here you […]
It’s the kind of milestone only a handful of songwriters ever reach. Paul Kelly turns seventy, celebrates fifty years in the business and releases what stands as his thirtieth studio album, Seventy. Half a century […]
Where do you go after four classy albums of 80’s Hard Rock styled anthems and ballads, with arguably each new release surpassing the previous release? Well let’s just say for the moment that 5th time […]
Hearing 5 of the still to be mixed tracks from this album a year ago I knew that we would be in for something special. But whilst the wait may be over for me […]
It’s been a long time between solo albums for Jon Stevens and so the news of Jon hitting the studio last year was the best possible prompt for fans that something was in the pipeline. […]
Shoot Me Lover begins with an invitation, a rare drum groove fade-in that immediately gets to work. Then suddenly you’re not in the studio anymore but in a room full of bodies that know every […]
You hear it first in the keys, those hesitant notes like the start of a sermon or the spark of a movement. And then Mark Cassius’ voice — assured yet restless — cuts through. Get […]
Music at it’s best takes you to another place and works with your emotions. I personally love music that takes me to that happy place, music that moves me. At its best music can […]
“Mike Tramp, the legendary voice of White Lion, closes out his powerful trilogy with Songs of White Lion Vol. III — a heartfelt tribute to the band that defined his legacy. Revisiting ten classic tracks […]
This album is a nod to the past through gritty blues, dark humour and theatrical rock brilliance. Channelling vintage Alice Cooper energy with a modern sneer, it blends seductive menace, dark satire, and vintage horror […]
Rock songs, the good ones, are always more than the sum of their parts. They contain a ghost architecture: the echoes of other songs, other rooms, other lives. David Jones’ Between My Shadow and the […]
You hear Feeling Low and the first thing you notice is that nothing is trying too hard. There are no hooks with lights on, no overreaching chorus begging you to remember it. It’s built from […]
One of the many things I appreciate about the blues scene is how much more open older artists are to collaborating with artists younger than them, From what I can tell based on the interviews […]
2025 is turning out to be an extremely challenging year as we continue to compile our shortlists for our album of the year selection, as each an every week another release blows us away and […]
In Full disclosure I bought their debut album which to this day is still one of my favorites. I followed their career and have always liked them because they’re quirky and different but in a […]
“Sweet Fanny Adams Revisited” is a fiery live reimagining of The Sweet’s seminal 1974 album Sweet Fanny Adams, recorded live in 2012 by Andy Scott’s lineup. The album had become pretty rare since its release […]
Of all the British Rock bands of the 70’s that went on to find glory overseas UFO was certainly one of the very finest yet one that seems to be less celebrated than the likes […]
Blues in my opinion is a very pure form of music, At it’s best it’s not music you just listen to, It’s music you feel. It was born out of struggle and because everyone knows […]
Mark Knight & The Unsung Heroes just dropped their brand-new album, ‘Sixth Time’s the Charm’, today on July 15, 2025 — marking Knight’s eleventh studio release and the fifth with The Unsung Heroes. All 11 tracks were […]
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