Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
After a couple of singles and an impressive debut EP earlier in the year Snakebite Whiskey is back again with another 5 tracks that will take your back to the 80’s Sunset Strip via Brisbane. […]
Always a fan of the sleazier end of the late eighties Sunset Strip, I love bands like Niterain who just seem to get it. If you liked 2013 debut ‘Crossfire’ then you’ll probably, like me, have […]
Well this is a turn up, 2016 just over and one of the many releases sat in my backlog turns out to be a real cracker! For an EP by an unknown Australian band this […]
1. Young Hearts 2. All Eyes On You 3. Breathless 4. Break These Chains 5. Broken Hearted Man 6. I Can’t Stop Tonight 7. Dynamite(Your Love Is Like) 8. Love Affair 9. How Will You […]
Reading the bio attached to ‘An Overnight Low’ you get the feeling that Denny Smith might be an interesting guy to hang with. His musical pedigree and journey is certainly an interesting one, and […]
Always as intelligent as he is beguiling, a new release by Australia’s Graham Greene unfailingly opens your ears just that little wider. We all, of course, know the accolades bestowed upon the man by fellow […]
In their 35th year, Pretty Maids have just released their monstrous new album Kingmaker, another completely essential slab of melodic metal topped with that unmistakable Pretty Maids sound. Recent studio albums Motherland and Pandemonium were […]
There is a frankness to be felt when giving Joy by Melbourne rock band The Peep Tempel a listen. Feeling like the band is holding up a proverbial mirror to the state of […]
It seems like years ago since I saw these guys live with Perth Blues Rockers – ‘Ten Thousand Years’, and I told them on the night they should get an album out, and whilst debut […]
As someone who has almost been there for the whole ride, though I must admit to getting to her debut ‘Immortal’ a little late, I was on board before her stunning 1999 breakthrough release ‘Screamin’ […]
Multi-platinum selling rock band KINGS OF LEON officially release their hugely anticipated seventh studio album WALLS October 14th on RCA Records and Sony Music Entertainment Australia. The Grammy Award winning group decided to return to […]
Kicking off with first single ‘Only the Brave’ one of the biggest surprises I’ve had all year is how good Tygers of Pan Tang sound in 2016. It’s great, solid, traditional Hard Rock, great musically, […]
When Dillinger Escape Plan announced they were ending the band after almost 20 years of insane chaos, it was not only a shock to the system of many hardcore fans but in a way, almost […]
Hardline evolved from being a sunset strip sensation featuring brothers Johnny (vocals) and Joey (guitar) Gioeli to a supergroup of sorts featuring former Bad English members Neal Schon and Deen Castronovo, before finally becoming a […]
Grab the hairspray and don those fashionably tight leather pants, Wild Souls have released another album Game of Love, which rocks you out from track to track. A testament to the 80s hard rock genre, […]
The Violent Sleep Of Reason, the band’s eighth full-length studio album, finds Meshuggah building upon their legacy for fearless metal sculpting within the context of extreme metal, but also recapturing some of the magic and […]
I like Mick Wall as a writer, he’s eminently readable and always manages to draw you in so that without noticing you’re often well into the book before you know it. When you look at […]
According to the press release “Sky Of Forever is a Helsinki-based melodic hard rock group featuring musicians from Stratovarius and Tracedawn. Their music is influenced by a mixture of 1980’s hard rock and film music”. In […]
In the days when American Rock bands ruled the airwaves it was hard for UK bands to get a look in and even when they did – try catching the same breaks when the money isn’t […]
Bay Area thrash veterans Testament have done it again with their latest album “Brotherhood Of The Snake”, making it one of the contenders for metal album of the year. The signature Testament sound, the thrashy […]
01 That’s A Fact 02 Roll Over Lay Down 03 Dear John 04 In The Army Now 05 Hold You Back 06 One For The Road 07 Backwater 08 One Of Everything 09 Belavista Man […]
Things change, time moves seemingly more swiftly at certain points in our lives and with a dull tedious thud at others. Things have changed for The Answer one of Irish Rock’s finest ever bands… And […]
No modern band manages the balancing act that Alter Bridge does quite so well – melding the modern, the Metal and Hard Rock into a package that resonates with so many, making them these days […]
Billed in the press release as the missing link between The Sisters of Mercy’s classic ‘First and Last and Always’ and The Mission’s own debut ‘God’s Own Medicine’ by Wayne Hussy himself expectations were necessarily […]
Killer Bee is a Swedish-Canadian hard rocking band formed in the early 1990s by songwriters Anders ‘LA’ Rönnblom and Brian ‘Bee’ Frank. After a number of years in hibernation from 1997 to 2011 the band […]
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