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Jackyl – ROWYCO

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Sodom – Decision Day

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

The Dead Daisies – Make Some Noise

9 August 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Carnifex – Slow Death

9 August 2016 Steve Monaghan

San Diego brutalists Carnifex return with a new slab of unrelenting terror in the form of the new album “Slow Death”. Steve gives a rundown of the new songs. The very first thing that I […]

Blues Pills- Lady in Gold

9 August 2016 Andrew Massie

It’s hard to believe “Lady In Gold” is only the second full length album by Swedish rockers Blues Pills but on listening to the tracks, you would think the band were seasoned veterans. Which wouldn’t […]

Cruzh – Cruzh

5 August 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Darrel Treece-Birch – No More Time

9 July 2016 Leslie Phillips

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 […]

Thunderbird – Heavyweight

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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’ […]

Dare – Sacred Ground

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 – Sound of the Live Minority

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Helix – Rock It Science

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Kissin’ Dynamite – Generation Goodbye

9 July 2016 Leslie Phillips

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 […]

Triggerman – Atomic Rock Number 79 (EP)

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Back in Blue – A Blues Tribute to AC/DC

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Kaato – Kaato

9 July 2016 Scotty Rock

KAATO sees the bringing together of frontman Kurt Lowney who upon relocating from Sydney to Nashville, hooked up with melodic rock greatness in Mitch Malloy who features as KAATO guitarist, producer, songwriter. Mitch had already […]

Stone Kings – From Creation to Devastation

9 July 2016 Andrew Massie

It seems the UK is brimming with a lot of that washy, stoner, psych kind of rock right now, a genre that is primarily influenced by such British stalwarts like Black Sabbath and later, Orange […]

Budderside – Budderside

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Revocation – Great is our Sin

9 July 2016 Andrew Massie

Revocation return with a new album titled “Great Is Our Sin” and if you love that trademark signature sound that they forged early in their career with albums like “Empire Of The Obscene” and “Chaos […]

Heart – Beautiful Broken

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Voodoo Highway – Pervert County (EP)

9 July 2016 Steve Warsap

Tracklisting: 1. NY Dancer | 2. Grace Of The Lord | 3. Tears Of A Brand New Sea Line up: Federico Di Marco – Vocals | Filippo Cavallini – Bass | Matteo Bizzarri – Guitars […]

Bat For Lashes – The Bride

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Voodoo in Blue (EP)

9 July 2016 Mark Diggins

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 […]

Despised Icon – Beast

9 July 2016 Steve Monaghan

Canadian Deathcore legends Despised Icon return with a new album after a lengthy absence, 7 years after their last album “Day Of Mourning” was released. Despite that, the band seem hungrier than ever as we […]

Doug MacLeod – Live in Europe

9 June 2016 Mark Diggins

Every country has their own Bluesmen and every country these days it seems have their artists who take the Blues back to the acoustic guitar where it was conceived. A multi award winner in his […]

First Signal – One Step Over the Line

9 June 2016 Mark Diggins

First Signal’s debut release was one of my picks of the year for 2010 and so it’s been way too long between drinks in one respect, on the other hand (I love mixed metaphors) when […]