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Phil joked with me the other day about the title to his fist solo album ‘Old Lions Still Roar’. The name for the album, he told me, had actually come from one of his […]
I was introduced to Kickin’ Valentina via their 2013 self-titled EP and after two fine full length releases – ‘Super Atomic’ (2015) and ‘Imaginary Creatures’ (2017) we’re back with a new singer D.K Revelle […]
When you think of French music ‘Rock’ isn’t normally the first genre that comes to mind, but for over a decade now Blackrain has been delivering the goods on behalf of our Hard Rocking French […]
On the eve of their 40th anniversary its great that a band like New Model Army is still making great music. Back in the day New Model Army was a band very much on […]
These days with technology the way it is recording your debut album with a help of guest musicians isn’t the logistical balancing act it used to be. As a result anyone with the connections […]
Michael Monroe’s new album ‘One Man Gang’ is twelve tracks of great Rock and Roll from an artist who seems to defy the odds with each release and just get better and better. OK […]
Thrash metal’s favorite partiers Municipal Waste have returned with a bit of a teaser release in the way of an EP titled “The Last Rager”. With only 4 short tracks on offer, there isn’t […]
For a lot of fans, their favorite Metallica album is one of the first five. Each one has something to recommend it. Debut album Kill ‘Em All (1983) with its rough, raw, mile-a-minute riffs […]
2018 was a huge year for Melbourne-based acoustic blues trailblazer Lloyd Spiegel, with his outstanding ‘Backroads’ album collecting #1 Blues & Roots accolades everywhere you looked. 2019 looks to be no different as Spiegel’s […]
Of all the fine independent bands out there are the moment I don’t think there are any better than Blacktop Mojo, a band we’ve been championing since we first heard them. This year things […]
If you want to hear an album by a young band that is brimming with promise and only seem inches away from hitting the nail on the head this is it. Like many new bands […]
Finally in 2019 we get another record from punk thrashers Toxic Holocaust and only fitting is the title “Primal Future: 2019”. It’s been 6 long years since “Chemistry Of Consciousness” was released and this […]
Matt Pearce is a founder member of UK rockers Voodoo Six and this May he’s stepped out and done something a little different with his first solo project with his band The Mutiny – putting […]
Some albums aren’t the sort of work you can easily categorize and the more personal they are the more the reviewer is doomed to failure by trying to put them in a box. Mike Thompson’s […]
Blues as we all know is an old man’s game, always has been and always will be. Somebody just better let Christone “Kingfish” Ingram know that as this 20 year old from Clarksdale, MS seems […]
Steel Panther the band the critics either love or hate but simply can’t ignore are back with another odyssey into the twilight world of spandex augmented Metal with their new offering ‘Heavy Metal Rules.’ […]
The Blues is wonderful, there you are working your way through the greats and everywhere you turn there’s ‘new’ artists like Big Daddy Wilson to discover who just blow your mind! The Blues is alive […]
Formed in 2016 in Southern Indiana Blind Perception is a 4-piece hard rock band with, as they say in their bio, “an eclectic mix of influences spanning 4 decades” and this 4 song EP is […]
It’s been a while since NYC’s Black Dawn released new material and I still consider their last release – 2014’s ‘Until We Meet’ EP a damned fine independent release. It’s a shame therefore that 5 […]
Ten albums in why is this a new name to me? Alas with my misspent youth firmly fixed on the Rock scene, it’s taking me years to catch up on all my essential Blues. The […]
If you crave the days when Rock was fun and a good time was had by all then this is your soundtrack. ‘Zokusho’ is a Japanese word meaning ‘sequel’ or ‘the next chapter’, and therefore […]
Persistence pays off you know, I had so much trouble downloading this EP to review I almost gave up but thanks to the persistence of Matthias I didn’t and I am so glad I didn’t […]
After a number of great EP’s The New Savages are back with their take on The Delta Blues on their first full length release. ‘Seventh Son’ opens with a title track with a biblical context […]
When you read the words ‘Sweet Oblivion (feat Geoff Tate)’ for most fans the attraction is that second bit, ‘feat Geoff Tate,’ after all like many I’m sure I have no idea who or what […]
Here’s a new name to me – Germany’s License have a Metallic Hard Rocking sound that will hit the right note with many. True there’s nothing new here, but then you don’t always need to […]
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