Estrin’s Nightcats clearly have a sense of humour calling their new record ‘Contemporary’ when sonically it’s a real showcase for the Blues of days gone by – paying continued homage as it does to […]
2020 has certainly been an interesting year with the pandemic affecting touring worldwide. However one positive consequence of that has been the creativity and focus on new music which is always great to see […]
There are many who have graced the stages across the years with their own take on a vast and expanding rock scene, there aren’t too many who can boast sharing those bills with the […]
Whenever I’ve thought of Blues music, my mind always immediately takes me to places like Chicago, Memphis & Detroit. Greece would never have even registered to me as a place where high-quality Blues rock […]
If you like your rock n’ roll stripped back to basics and raw & rowdy, then look no further than the debut self-titled EP from Melbourne’s Rockin’ Volts. The four-piece band have put together […]
I’ve had this album for a while now and really enjoy it, I remember it landing late last year and being snapped up by an eager young contributor but when I scanned the site a […]
Sadly no one sent me this one at the end of last year so here’s another great release from 2019 that we didn’t get a chance to review it. Shark Island of course back […]
Another one that passed me by last year was Hardline’s ‘Life’ and it’s my own fault as my unwillingness to ‘stream’ anything (I aim to be the last man on Earth to stream music) means […]
There’s a real Bon Jovi feel to Johnny Gioelli’s new album ‘One Voice’ and perhaps no more so than on opener ‘Drive’ which is, if you love that kinda thing, excellent. ‘It’ that follows has […]
3 years after their debut ‘Nothing Happens Overnight’ Brazilian rockers Rebel Machine is back with a second long-player ‘Whatever It Takes’ on the Swedish label Big Balls Productions. And this time they’ve expanded their range […]
Everyone of course knows Mr. Tony Harnell from his days with TNT but it seems now that those days are over for good with the latest fall out between Tony and guitarist Ronni LeTekro […]
Fighter V? Never heard of them? Neither had I. No one sent me this one, someone wrote in at the end of the year and recommended it. It’s a shame really as this is just […]
Aside from the semi-comical name which always gives me a chuckle and an opening track titled ‘Touching You Every Day’ which gives me a light smile I really enjoy these guys and their outlandish AOR […]
If you’ve not yet fallen for the charms of Denmark’s ‘Electric Guitars’ then this might just be the album to push you over the edge. Taking the best of their back catalogue as well as […]
There are always a few releases that we just don’t get time to review over the course of the year and before the floodgates open on 2020 there are a few I’d like to […]
OK so I know we don’t review ‘Best Of’s’ but there are always exceptions to any rule and there’s few reasons in the case – Gun just happen to be in my short list […]
This is an interesting one at the start of the year – the impressive pipes of Animal Drives’ Dino Jelusic plus the guitar of George Lynch creating Hard Rock in the style of vintage Rainbow […]
I love the days after putting out the Best of the year lists when I get deluged with comments and e-mails telling me what I’ve missed. the truth is that The Rockpit gets sent about […]
With 11 tracks, 53 minutes of music and a deluge of captivating riffs, it is set to be a tour de force of blisteringly fast and crushingly heavy metal. Never have there been truer […]
There’s a rich psychedelic swirl that sells around the opening track ‘Sooner or Later’ and a stomp and groove to ‘Gimme Something’ that give High Water II the most satisfying of openings. This is […]
Since their formation in 2014 and with two EPs already under their belt already, in the form of 2015’s ‘Two Steps to Oblivion’ & 2016’s ‘Dirty’, Brisbane sleaze rockers Snake Bite Whiskey have finally […]
It’s hard to compare apples with oranges let alone bananas so this year we’re not even going to try. This year our Top 10 Hard Rock albums were picked by some of our contributors […]
Another great year of music has gone by and 2019 saw a mix of the old returning and the new bringing fresh blood to the metal genres. Here then is our top picks for the […]
The February 2020 release makes me feel like an insider having already lived with this album for a few weeks now a good 120 days before the release that has already been preceded by […]
When talking about Adelaide’s The Babes I once said… “Some bands have that indefinable ‘something’ – an attitude and a belief that both transcends the music they make and also helps define it. The Babes […]
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