If you love your 80’s Hard Rock then 30 years after the close of that glorious decade its hard to find a band as good as Crazy Lixx at taking the essence of Arena Rock […]
Peter Shoulder is a name that is familiar to a good few who have followed & enjoyed his career over the years, which has seen him perform & record with his previous bands Winterville, […]
Swiss hard rock legends Gotthard release their much anticipated new Album ‘#13’ via Nuclear Blast on 13th March this year. The band features Australian Nic Maeder on vocals. We caught up with Nic to find […]
Tony Harnell in Australia… I never thought I’d hear those words… But it’s true, the man with one of the best and most distinct voices in rock is coming down-under for a string of dates […]
The time has arrived for legendary bay area thrash metal giants Testament to unleash new thunder to the masses with their thirteenth studio album, Titans Of Creation, which will be released on April 3 […]
I first saw FM way back on their first ever headline tour of the UK back in the day, when they were supported by White Sister. It wasn’t a show I’d expected to see, but […]
Bred from a long lineage of punk bands out of Southern California, Lagwagon became one of the most influential, pioneering the now-famous ‘Fat Wreck sound’ with their speedy drums, guitar virtuosity and undeniable melodies. […]
Ron Keel is a Hard Rocking legend. Starting out with Tennessee-based ‘Lust’ he soon came to prominence first with Steeler (which at one point featured Yngwie Malmsteen) and then ‘Keel’ who toured the world at […]
A consummate guitarist, singer and songwriter, Kellindo Parker aka Kellindo easily sounds like an artist you should already know. He recently released his new alt-rock single ‘Sugar’, a guitar riff-based song with a trap […]
If you love your Hard Rock to make you think of the Glammier side of the Sunset Strip circa 1987 then Midnite City is the band for you. Hailing from my old stomping ground of […]
Canadian thrash band Annihilator are back with a brand new album “Ballistic, Sadistic” and it’s one we’ve been anticipating, the veterans very rarely let us down and at album number 17, it appears there […]
There’s not that many bands I’ve traveled continents to see but Firehouse is one of them, making a trip from Australia back in 2008 to catch them (OK I’ll admit and a few others) at […]
Formed in 1985, in Phoenix, Arizona, Sacred Reich are credited with being leaders of the second wave of thrash metal in the 80’s, alongside Testament, Death Angel and Dark Angel. With their socially conscious […]
In the first part of our interview we looked back at the early days of Enuff Z’Nuff you can catch up with Part One HERE. In Part Two we look deeper at ‘Beautiful Things,’ Enuff […]
Denmark’s Artillery are easily appointed as one of Europe’s earliest exponents of thrash metal, and the band’s contribution to the classic genre is difficult to ignore. Delivering a sinister array of riffs, fusing pure […]
These days Paul Judge makes music with ‘Gunners’ possibly Australia’s best Guns ‘n’ Roses cover band , but when we first met he was bassist for ‘Baby Jane’ the West Australian rockers who captured the […]
XYZ is a great band and one of those few bands that got me on the road seeking them out in the early 90’s when they played the Astoria in London on a rare visit […]
Since their 2006 inception, Revocation have firmly established themselves as one of the most vibrant forces in progressive death/thrash metal. Consistently innovative in a technically demanding and boundary-pushing genre, Revocation ’s latest release “The […]
To me Donnie Vie is one of the greatest song-writers of his generation. When I listen to the music he has made over the years it’s still never fails to connect, and still to this […]
By the time you read this Bang Tango will have played their comeback show at The Whisky in Hollywood. The show is sold out. It’s a reunion that many thought might never happen and one […]
Kip Winger is a supremely talented musician, and if you are familiar with the music he created with Reb Beech and co. back in the day you will know that Winger weren’t your typical late […]
It goes without saying that the global metal scene would not be the same without SEPULTURA. For 35 years now, the Brazilian icons are not only a band revered worldwide; they have been, are […]
Known also for his work with Down, Pepper Keenan is a tremendous guitar player who seems to pull off some of the juiciest riffs and guitar tones known to mankind. His return to Corrosion […]
Californian Bluesman Kirk Fletcher has slowly being making his way up into the elite Blues guitarist list for some time now. His fourth studio album ‘Hold On’, which was released back in 2018, has […]
Patient Sixty-Seven enjoyed a busy 2019, with singles What’s Left On Us’ and ‘Help Inflicted’ marking the bands two most successful releases to date – having seen Patient Sixty-Seven continue to refine and hone […]
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