It’s set to be a great year for new music with already a heap of great albums, but Sweden’s ECLIPSE might just have released the album to top them all and it’s only March! Read […]
OK so who needs a new Def Leppard live album? OK What about a live DVD? To be honest the answer to those questions might be very different when you see the show. ‘And There Will […]
Denmark’s ‘Bite the Bullet’ could be from anywhere or any time: their quirky take on Seventies Rock that is as ‘Retro’ as it is ‘Rootsy’ also puts their sound right in vogue at the moment. […]
Everything that was once old is new again and vice versa. Today the kids that reject the eighties and nineties rock put of hand seem to want to embrace the 7o’s and of course there’s […]
If you’ve ever been to Collie in Country Western Australia then you’ll know that Sisters Doll is perhaps the band least likely to hail from there, but hail from their they do, though these days […]
On January 27th 2016 San Francisco’s 80’s Glam Rockers Vain announced that their next album ‘Rolling with the Punches’ would be funded via Pledge Music. The album would be out in May 2016. Vain, the band […]
Over the next few months the Rockpit will be talking to the bands of the 80’s that should have been huge, bands who simply never got the breaks or never even got the deal. In […]
To some of us ASIA were that band who bridged the 70’s and pointed the way forward to Rock in the 80’s . For more than a few years, quite unexpectedly for a band born […]
These days Pop Punk bands are about 20 for a dollar, most sound remarkably similar, write to the same formula and for every decent song produce a dozen that dissolve and vaporize as soon as […]
I’ve been writing for The Rockpit for five years now and this year they’ve given me my own list! So I wanted to do something a little differently: this year I wanted to give […]
This is an interesting release, and Jerry Hull’s fourth in a the space of just a couple of years. At 14 tracks it might not be as long as his previous release – Cherokee Moon’ […]
There’s a gentle Spanish style guitar in ‘Calm Before’ that welcomes you to In The Now’s debut album ‘Daggers and Dice’ and it works so well up against the Hard Rocking ‘Trigger’ that acts as […]
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. […]
Tonight in Melbourne a packed house saw the return of Queensryche to Australian shores for the first time in almost ten years and the news is the band who surged to the top of […]
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 […]
There’s a freshness and a fury to Sydney’s Alternative Metal band Breaking Point on their latest EP ’Separated’ which at 5 tracks long is a decent representation of the band at this point of creative […]
The second album from ‘Lost Hollywood’ ‘What lies Beneath’ instantly had me wondering why I hadn’t heard their first because if it got close to the sound and the songs here it would be a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Melbourne’s Drown This City plays Electronica swamped Metalcore with female vocals. Now if Metalcore is your thing then the novelty of a female Metalcore vocalist might just peak your interest but in truth like all genres it’s […]
There’s only one man in Australia who could have pulled this off so well – Melodicrock.com‘s Andrew McNeice who has been shouting loud for the cause of Melodic Rock music for as long as […]
Known outside Australia largely for the single ‘Better’ The Screaming Jets were always one of those bands you felt could take on the world and yet never really did. After a gap of 8 years […]
It’s hard not to immediately fall for Melbourne’s ‘Tequila Mockingbird’ after hearing opening track ‘I Smell Rock N Roll’ there’s that sort of primal energy that you either have or you don’t. And as you […]
The first thing that struck me about this album was that it came to me with a press release completely in German, not unusual for a German band I suppose but to send it out […]
This was a voyage of discovery for me and it ended up like meeting an old acquaintance and getting on so well you wished they’d been a friend for years. First of all let me […]
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