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ALBUM REVIEW: Eye Of The Enemy – Titan
As we come to the end of the year, we tend to go back and pick up the last of what we may have missed along the way which is common when you literally […]
Reviews – Music Releases 2019
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Album Review: Ditchwater – Never Say Never
In April of 2018 guitarist Mark Anderson and vocalist Mike Meadows began writing for a new album. Leaving behind all past influences and concentrating on creating something unique yet true to the Ditchwater sound. […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Piston – Piston
It’s hard to sit here in the same year as an album is released and contemplate if it will be one of the greats, but seven years in the making and many gigs and many […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Buffalo Crows – Picnic At Buffalo Rock
2016’s ‘Bovonic Empire’ was a great release from Buffalo Crows, but turning this one over in the hands from the artwork you’d be pushed to realise that ‘Picnic at Buffalo Rock’ is by that […]
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ALBUM REVIEW – Raddar – Transmission
Get ready for a seventeen song time-capsule. Texan Rockers Randee Lee, Razar King and Gary Priest have unearthed some old recordings from 40 years ago that are finally seeing the light of day on […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kings County – Kings County
Every band these days needs to grab your attention fast and Kings County’s rather short bio is bith unusual and intriguing… “Originally from Long Island, NY, Orlando, FL-based KINGS COUNTY creates hard-hitting rock n’ roll […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Albatross Overdrive – Ascendant
Now there’s Stoner Rock and there’s Stoner Rock and Orange County’s Albatross Overdrive may well leave the sting of desert sands in the nostrils but they do so much more too. Three albums in ‘Ascendant’ […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Heavy Pettin’ – Lettin’ Loose
Some bands just evoke a place and a time and to me Heavy Pettin’ always reminds me of the early days of my lifelong love affair with Rock and Roll when I first started […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Dirty Rats – End In Tears
Formed in 1982 Melbourne’s The Dirty Rats finally got off the mark with their debut album release last year and now they’re back with a second in quick succession. If you expected the ensuing decades […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Enter 6 – Black Dolphin
It’s taken almost two decades for Sydney’s Enter 6 to release this second studio album and it’s one that has me firmly sat on the fence here. The production is awful for a start, the […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Graham Bonnet Band – Live In Tokyo 2017
2019 has seen a huge number of great live albums released and this is really one of the best all year. After last years Alcatrazz reunion that resulted in the live release ‘Parole Denied – […]
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EP REVIEW: L.A. Guns – Another X-Mas in Hell
Let’s face it there have been very few classic Christmas songs and even fewer classic Christmas song collections in the rock arena over the years. Can I just spoil all that humbug by saying […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Matty T Wall – Transpacific Blues Vol.1
2019 has once again seen (and heard) Australian Blues players produce some of their finest work to date and Perth-based blues-rock guitarist Matty T Wall has thrown his hat into the ring with his […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Cold Chisel – Blood Moon
Cold Chisel are back with Blood Moon, their ninth studio album, which is released through Cold Chisel Music & Universal Music Australia on 6 December. Messrs Barnes, Walker, Moss, Small & Drayton have been […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Cinder – The Machine
Modern Rock with a late 90’s flavour to it is what you get in these 11 tracks from Cinder that make up ‘The Machine.’ So logically if you like the sort of Rock that is […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Stevie D featuring Corey Glover – Torn From The Pages
I’ve always been a great fan of Glover’s voice but this is the sort of territory I love him inhabiting – nice guitar-driven hard rock courtesy of Stevie D. From opener ‘Your Time Has Run […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Steelwings – Back
If you want some good old fashioned Hard Rock with lashings of early 80’s flavour then this is something you might want to have a listen to. Sweden’s Steelwings are unapologetically retro from openers ‘My […]
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EP REVIEW: Prong – Age Of Defiance
Prong are back with some new material but it’s just a teaser in the form of an EP release titled “Age Of Defiance”. Considering the quality of recent albums, an EP release just isn’t […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Anchor Lane – Casino
‘Blood & Irony,’ a song co-written with Black Star Riders Ricky Warwick, that opens Anchor Lane’s first long-player is a song that leaves a lot of doors open. It’s laid back, built on a repetitive […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood (30th Anniversary Edition)
Mötley Crüe have been in the news lately, you might have seen them. You know that band that could never, ever tour again because they’d signed a ‘cessation of touring agreement’ saying just that. […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Hepcat Dilemma – Art Imitates Life
Some bands are just difficult to categorise, and whilst that never bothers me as a listener (I either connect, or don’t or somewhere in between) it does mean when you review their music you […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Journey – Live in Japan 2017
I’m not sure I really need to see or hear another live DVD by Journey, much as I love the band and think they are great live the thought of another DVD to add to […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Quiet Riot – Hollywood Cowboys
Quiet Riot do keep making albums unlike some of their contemporaries who packed it all in years ago, and for that you have to commend them. Whatever your thoughts on the legitimacy of a band […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Suicide Bombers – Murder Coiture
OK they got me again, despite my aversion to ‘intro tracks’ in this case I will allow one that introduces the band like an awards show before storming into the wonderfully sleazy slice of hook-laden […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: Molly Hatchet – Battleground
One of the bands that really reminds me of discovering 70’s Rock back in my youth via my mate’s brother’s extensive record collection is Molly Hatchet. As a kid I loved just looking at the […]