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If you aren’t familiar with Harem Scarem but love classic Melodic Rock with powerful songs, melodies to die for and enough real class to stand well ahead of the pack then this career-spanning double live […]
Initial impressions can be wrong; for instance there’s an almost ‘Def Leppard meets the modern day’ feeling about ‘Blood Red Saints’ on the basis of opening track ‘Kickin’ Up Dust’. Equally if you loved Bon […]
OK so you can tell by the name that this band doesn’t hail from the US, and though there’s a nice vintage rock vibe to the sound there’s enough pop nous and colour to make […]
This is album number two from the collaboration between musician, songwriter and producer Daniel Flores (Issa, Seventh Wonder) and Robbie LaBlanc from Blanc Faces. It’s great Melodic AOR as you might expect. The sound here […]
It’s been years since the last offering from Khymera, so long in fact that I had forgotten how good they were and given up hoping for anything new. It’s worth the wait though, even though […]
steve Perth metallers Sanzu have been getting some positive attention as of late and their debut full length album “Heavy Over The Home” which was released last year, has certainly been no exception. Following up […]
With new output in 2015 from UK Rock legends Motorhead and Saxon it’s fitting that Girlschool return to the fray with their contemporaries with their twelfth (or thirteenth if you see their 2011 reworking of […]
Silent Knight has long been Perth Australia’s big players on the Power Metal scene, armed with songs to take on the world; you feel that it’s just a matter of time despite the remoteness of […]
What an odd name for a band! ‘Honeymoon Disease’ is essentially cystitis caused by sexual activity; you know that burning sensation when you want to pee? No? Me neither… you must be alright then… Whilst […]
There’s more than a touch of vintage Bon Jovi to Radio Exile’s opener ‘High Road, High Price’ but as you listen on you realise there’s a lot more to this modern Melodic Rock band than […]
There’s a spiky punkiness and a great riff rock sensibility to opener ‘Dead to Me’ that has you instantly hooked and wondering where Not Inpublic will take this, and thankfully it’s into a world where […]
First impressions sometimes stick and the cry of “Sounds like Evanescence” went up as soon as opener ‘Monster’ reared its head; but let’s face it that alone would be a glib and unworthy review, even […]
After the full Metal riffage that opens the title track of The Erotics’ latest EP you have to step back for a second to appreciate that one of the world’s Sleaziest bands has managed to […]
Take a hearty dose of symphonic rock and add a sometimes subtle Gothic undertow, a dash of the sweeping vision of Sisters of Mercy and an Eastern edge to the music and you end up […]
With two underground ‘classics’ already on their hands and under their collective belts Richmond’s Windhand (kings of the unhurried Stoner Sludge and Heavy Groove) are a band worth looking out for. After early comparisons to […]
With a great dirty groove, fine sense of a hook, nice big fat guitars and a singer reminiscent of Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks fame, Dirtbag Republic can’t go wrong. If opener ‘Can You Feel […]
One of the worst aspects of running a website is that folder that says ‘listen to later’ – it’s usually thick, full and sadly the one you only get to dip into occasionally as the […]
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 […]
With a surname as instantly recognisable as Slaughter and all the memories of eighties rock that name brings with it – whether it be Vinnie Vincent’s Invasion, Slaughter the band or even Scrap Metal (the […]
Aside from the opening spoken intro in the form of ‘The Fallen (Genesis 3 1 -13) – yes I also hate ‘intro’ tracks; Sin of Night’s ‘Take the Snake’ is decidedly quirky Rock – with a […]
Last year the Quireboys celebrated their 30th Anniversary with a series of festival dates, as well as electric and acoustic tours as well as releasing just what might have been their second best album […]
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’; […]
One of the very best Rock debut albums in a long, long time came in 2013 from The Temperance Movement and so it’s no surprise that January’s release of ‘The White Bear’ is one of […]
With a new album on the way this year here’s a great album we somehow never got around to reviewing at the time… Wow! Groove-laden, classic blues-infused hard rock with some killer guitars and killer […]
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