To date, Van Halen have been notoriously selective about releasing official live material. In 1987, they released Live Without a Net, a video of a 1986 show featuring mostly material written with then-lead singer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After hearing the single ‘Re-inventing the Future’ I was suddenly excited again by the Tate/Queensryche saga. Whilst as far as recordings had gone to date the Geoff Tate vs Queensryche split had been somewhat underwhelming […]
Michael Monroe may just have released his best album as a solo artist, and as a long-time fan who has been there since the early days of the eighties that is a huge call. After […]
‘Bring it on back’ the lead single from Buckcherry’s 7th studio release ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is typical of the band – full of piss and vinegar, a loud obnoxious slab of in your face Rock […]
Joe Satriani releases his 15th studio album on 24th July ahead of a November UK Tour and to be frank it’s a revelation: extroverted, ambitious and absolutely unmissable. If you’ve listened to Satriani over recent […]
A lot of melodic rock these days goes under the radar and sometimes you just find a gem amongst the seemingly endless flow of unannounced product. In the ten songs here you get a real […]
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 […]
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