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Twisted Sister – The Best of the Atlantic Years
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Tesla – Mechanical Resonance Live
Over the last few years, a lot of bands have played a full album in it’s entirity live on stage. QUEENSRYCHE, JUDAS PRIEST, RUSH & MOTLEY CRUE are among the many that have done this, […]
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Kiss – Rocks Vegas
So what do we have here. First things first, the stage consists of a giant screen at the back which alternates between band and crowd shots and random images but looks at it’s best when […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Buffalo Crows – Bovonic Empire
Any band can mix it up but these guys have managed to gather in all their influences and pretty much stamp it with their own bovine seal of approval. Long live the Buffalo!” Read our […]
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Michael Sweet – One Sided War
Four albums with Stryper, two solo albums and throw in Sweet & Lynch – Michael Sweet sure has been a man on a mission these last 5 years. And I for one, sure am not […]
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God – God I
This 10 track multi-layered progressive instrumental metal album challenges listeners & viewers to consider what we as humans think about when we read or hear the words God, Evolution, Betrayal, Death, Life, Creation, Denial, Hate, […]
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Jackyl – ROWYCO
We’ve seen Jackyl a bunch of times live and ‘redneck and proud’ as they are, to the extent where sometimes it can overshadow their music, they are actually also a pretty damned good band who […]
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Sodom – Decision Day
German thrashers Sodom have been pretty consistent as far as new material is concerned in their long career, the last 10 years alone has been steady with a new album every 3 years. 2016 sees […]
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The Dead Daisies – Make Some Noise
After two very fine albums in as many years, two singers and several other lineup changes The Dead Daisies are back with their third long-player – ‘Make Some Noise’ and a new guitarist in ex-Burning […]
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Carnifex – Slow Death
San Diego brutalists Carnifex return with a new slab of unrelenting terror in the form of the new album “Slow Death”. Steve gives a rundown of the new songs. The very first thing that I […]
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Blues Pills- Lady in Gold
It’s hard to believe “Lady In Gold” is only the second full length album by Swedish rockers Blues Pills but on listening to the tracks, you would think the band were seasoned veterans. Which wouldn’t […]
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Cruzh – Cruzh
You can’t really go far past the Bon Jovi comparisons on this release from Sweden’s Cruzh. This album indeed has a lot of the hallmarks shared long ago by those New Jersey natives – especially […]
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The Ann Wilson Thing! – #2 EP (Focus)
The best female voice in rock is back with the second instalment from her appropriately-titled ‘Ann Wilson Thing’ and whilst some may question the need, the relevance or even the intent of such a […]
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Toxicon – Purge
Coming out of the cold depths of Melbourne’s metal scene, Toxicon have in a short amount of time built a good name for themselves as a band that know how to write a good riff. […]
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King of the North – Get Out of Your World
King of The North’s debut was one of the albums of the year back in 2014 and new album ‘Get Out of Your World’ sees Higgsy with new drummer Steve Tyssen in tow release an […]
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Darrel Treece-Birch – No More Time
Don’t be scared it’s only an album by a keyboardist not a bassist! All joking aside Ten’s Darrel Treece-Birch probably suffers from people jumping to conclusions all the time about the sort of music he’d […]
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Thunderbird – Heavyweight
If you like your Classic Hard Rock the way it was delivered in the late seventies and the early eighties then Vancouver’s Thunderbird is a band that should be on your radar; and with ‘Heavyweight’ […]
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Dare – Sacred Ground
I met Darren Wharton a few years ago when he toured Australia with Thin Lizzy and you couldn’t meet a nicer bloke, we chatted about music, about Lizzy and about the old days but I […]
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Crazy Lixx – Sound of the Live Minority
Crazy Lixx has been one of my favourite of the new breed of rock bands worshiping at the altar of 80’s rock over the last few years. Danny Rexon and co have put out some […]
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Helix – Rock It Science
Band’s re-record and re-release material all the time for any number of reasons, normally of course these days for Rock bands it’s original labels or subsequent rights owners unwilling to re-issue often long out […]
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Kissin’ Dynamite – Generation Goodbye
Modern day Melodic Hard Rock from Germany. Not having come across these guys before is pretty much the biggest surprise of the year for me – a Melodic Hard Rock band with four albums and […]
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Triggerman – Atomic Rock Number 79 (EP)
If you’ve not checked out Triggerman before and love swampy Stoner hard rock then you’ll kick yourself if you miss this from Derry’s finest. We love this EP… Opening track ‘The Drift’ builds up a […]
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Back in Blue – A Blues Tribute to AC/DC
There are of course those old timers that say AC/DC bastardised the Blues and made a career out of it and we say good on them, if it weren’t for bands like Krokus (who got […]
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Kaato – Kaato
KAATO sees the bringing together of frontman Kurt Lowney who upon relocating from Sydney to Nashville, hooked up with melodic rock greatness in Mitch Malloy who features as KAATO guitarist, producer, songwriter. Mitch had already […]
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Stone Kings – From Creation to Devastation
It seems the UK is brimming with a lot of that washy, stoner, psych kind of rock right now, a genre that is primarily influenced by such British stalwarts like Black Sabbath and later, Orange […]