I don’t know why Delain don’t get mentioned in the same breath as their chosen genre’s symphonic masters more often, after all they tick all the boxes – big songs, fantastic female vocalist, sweeping melodies […]
The band formerly known as ‘Thunderchief’ now release the album ‘Thunderchief’ under the new name ‘Shotgun Sawyer’… Coming out of nowhere this album surprised us by how good it is, chock full of heavy blues […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For a place so remote and relatively small in size, Perth in Western Australia manages to put out some fine Hard Rock, the latest band to catch The Rockpit’s attention is ‘In the Now’. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With a new, and we reckon their best album so far ‘Make Some Noise’ about to drop on August 5th The Dead Daisies are set to embark on a three month European and US […]
Boston, Massachusetts, USA based rockers 3 Parts Dead will be releasing their new three song EP Master on August 2, 2016. Born out of the ashes of Pretty Little Suicide if you like your Rock N Roll nice and […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I can see these guys polarising opinion but after a few spins I’m very much in the ‘yes’ camp especially when you get to the simpler fare like ‘X-Girlfriend’ which melds acoustic and sleazy aggression […]
Heart’s ‘NEW’ album ‘Beautiful Broken’ isn’t exactly that – comprising of seven reworked songs from their own back catalogue and just three new tracks. On face value then their debut recording for the Concord label […]
OK not something you might expect to be reviewed on a Rock website but sometimes you need to listen to something different just to blow away the cobwebs. For me that album was ‘Bat The […]
This is an interesting release… Jangly strummed guitars and a hypnotic building vocal that leads into an insistent groove of a chorus and then stands off again: there’s something primal and lo-hi pop about ‘Around […]
Shock Entertainment recently announced the DVD release of their documentary David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World, profiling the life and legacy of David Bowie. It may be first cab off what will surely be […]
KING OF THE NORTH is just about to release their second album ‘Get out of Your World’ and it’s a ripper. We caught up with Andrew Higgs to talk about the new album, Hendrix, […]
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