Italian melodic rockers Airbound, whose sound they admit has been inspired by classic AOR of bands like Journey and Survivor, and to me adds a dash of Bon Jovi to the mix have done pretty […]
“What could be more Rock And Roll than this?” the publicity asks and the answer is that this album, written and played in its entirety by Mauro Cordeiro at his home studio MauCor Music […]
Band splits are always interesting beasts and Queensryche’s split, which resulted in the band ‘sans Tate’ carrying on and Geoff creating ‘Operation Mindcrime’ so far seems to be slightly favoring the former. In truth, despite […]
One of the latest trends in the UK that is gaining some real traction is the ‘neo-pysch’ movement (yea more genre labels!) – a dreamy mix of 60’s pop tunings, weather beaten California surf and British […]
Hailing from Montgomery County, Maryland, Dangerous Curves is an interesting beast not least for launching this 11 track album with the slug-line “Dangerous Curves melts faces with their first self-titled EP” – 11 tracks isn’t […]
Track list: 1) Who am I, 2) Looking in the mirror, 3) Get out, 4) High time, 5) Principle of love, 6) S.O.S, 7) Showdown, 8) Shout it out, 9) Cry on the wind, 10) […]
You do see some bad album covers every year but I think this one is my pick of the year – a dodgy concept that’s been poorly executed – it almost wants you not to […]
Back in 2015 the Super-group that is Revolution Saints released their debut self titled album. Consisting of Night Ranger’s Jack Blades, the recently ex-Whitesnake (now The Dead Daisies) gunslinger Doug Aldridge and Journey’s Deen […]
Everyone it seems these days wants a piece of the Nightwish-styled Melodic Metal action, some grasp for something they will never replicate and others manage to show that it’s just not the Finnish masters that […]
There’s a lilting ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ sound to the opening track ‘Eternal Flow’ on the new ‘A Devils’ Din’ album ‘One Hallucination Under God’ that is quite beguiling, but in the mix there’s far […]
Three songs only but so much promise! This EP does what an EP should do – leave a rather intriguing calling card and leave you wanting more with each listen. For a band born only […]
When a band describes themselves as playing Symphonic Metal these days you pretty much know what you’re in for. These days largely due to the dominance of the scene by bands like Nightwish your average […]
Whatever your take on the whole Bon Jovi saga the new Ritchie Sambora release was always going to attract a certain level of attention from Bon Jovi fans. With Jon going his own way […]
The last time we heard from Lucid Fly was when we received a copy of their magnificent ‘Escape Stage EP’ back in 2012 (the EP itself was released in 2009). This year a copy of […]
Dallas residents ‘Three Lane Road’ are purveyors of some mighty fine Melodic Hard Rock and there’s little doubt about that. It’s a genre that is going through a rather extravagant resurgence at the moment, with […]
The Beatles of course rule the world of music, always have and as far as influence and record sales go they are unlikely to ever be surpassed. I spoke to Jon Stevens the other day, […]
Touted as one of the top ‘live’ Rock acts in the UK and just off a European tour with Tarja (ex-Nightwish) it’s taken Birmingham’s Devilfire 4 years to release their debut album ‘Dark Manoeuvres’. If you’re […]
There’s a lot of bands that want to capture that Nightwish sound – harnessing the symphonic power, sweeping female vocals and huge soundscapes. Sadly most that try don’t get close, either completely overwhelmed by the […]
Sometimes I find it really difficult to keep up with all of these side projects and one-off ‘super groups’ among all the previously unreleased material and reworkings of old demos that seem to flood the […]
If you like a dose of riff driven heavy rock (not heavy metal, not hard rock) then Birmingham’s ‘Crimson Star’ are definitely worth a listen. That Midlands City of course, back in the day, […]
OK you can clearly see by the cover this isn’t one of Italy’s most politically correct of artists, you can also probably tell from the general composition of the cover and band names you’re probably […]
It’s a name that perhaps won’t be familiar to many but Jelly Ellington may well be a name on the rise. Hailing from NC and basing himself in Texas, Ellington has created an album that […]
Hard Rock meets Melodic Metal in a fiery wave of guitar, great songs and real attitude to create a debut of some real weight from Gamma Ray members Michael Ehré (drums) and Henjo Richter (guitar) […]
The Seventies was of course the best decade for music ever, when even the bad stuff was good and all of the really important forms of popular music either burned briefly and died or were given […]
Ahead of their album launch at Badlands Bar on Friday 14th July we caught up with Maverick to find out all about Australia’s newest and most authentic 70’s styled rockers… The Rockpit: It’s been a while […]
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