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Sydney’s deathcore giants Thy Art Is Murder bring yet another slab of brutality to your ears in the form of “Dear Desolation”. Now I don’t need to go into the history of this band, […]
Most within rock circles would have heard the name Bob Kulick, and if you’re a fan of Kiss, Lou Reed or Meatloaf you may even be familiar with his work. Fewer though I’m guessing would […]
“Terra” (in science fiction) it means planet Earth, so Terra Cerebral might sound like a beast coming out from the depth of earth to unleash their wrath and grab us by the neck and […]
There’s a lot of bands that want to capture that Nightwish sound – harnessing the symphonic power, sweeping female vocals and huge soundscapes. Sadly most that try don’t get close, either completely overwhelmed by the […]
With a decent boogie-driven hard rock sound like on ‘War Thunder’ Dobermann certainly catch your attention. There’s a certain bluesy good time feeling about that track but not in the way say the Quireboys play […]
In all the years of The Rockpit I don’t think I’ve ever been more certain that I’ve just listened to the album of the year. What makes that statement even more surprising to me is […]
When you hear the first notes of opener ‘Walk All Over You’ you feel like you might be getting a melodic take on vintage AC/DC, but when the vocals kick in you get that Klaus […]
From the opening strains of ‘Run, Run, Run’ you sort of know what to expect from Black Paisley – what you aren’t prepared for though is the quality of their take on vintage Hard Rock. […]
Sometimes I find it really difficult to keep up with all of these side projects and one-off ‘super groups’ among all the previously unreleased material and reworkings of old demos that seem to flood the […]
It’s not too often we hear from Hungary, indeed my only real exposure to Hungarian music was the Folk music an old drunken Hungarian sailor used to sing in the biker pub I frequented as […]
1. Jesus, Mary and the Holy Ghost | 2. Strange Highways | 3. Don’t Talk to Strangers | 4. Pain/Guitar Solo/Pain | 5. Mob Rules | 6. Holy Diver | 7. Man On the Silver […]
I honestly don’t know how Frédéric Slama manages to keep putting out these AOR releases with such frequency and such consistent quality. Every time I look up there seems to be something new to review […]
If you like a dose of riff driven heavy rock (not heavy metal, not hard rock) then Birmingham’s ‘Crimson Star’ are definitely worth a listen. That Midlands City of course, back in the day, […]
Interesting release this one, a project set up by Canadian bassist Stewart Sutherland and with a press release suggesting the album might be for “fans of Journey, Boston, Aerosmith, Motley Crüe and Skid Row”. In truth […]
I really enjoyed the last Tygers of Pan Tang album so it was always going to be interesting to hear current Tyger’s vocalist Iacopo Meille’s other band. To bring you up to date here’s an […]
OK you can clearly see by the cover this isn’t one of Italy’s most politically correct of artists, you can also probably tell from the general composition of the cover and band names you’re probably […]
Bands from the 80’s these days tend to be written off out of hand by those pompous souls that thought Nirvana’s self obsessed misery dwelling really came out of the darkness and ‘spoke to us’. […]
Dark, visceral, layered, vintage, organic, analogue, authentic and political. Shaman’s Harvest have always been a band to embrace music rather than merely regurgitate sounds in the hope of gaining nods of approval. They’re also a […]
It’s interesting that the very next album I get for review after Cats in Space’s excellent ‘Scarecrow’ which features both Greg Hart and Andy Stewart from the original line up of Moritz is from that […]
Whatever you think of the music of Status Quo and whatever part it plays in your musical upbringing it’s hard to deny that they are a British institution, maybe not up there with roast dinners, […]
Track listing: 1: She Knows | 2: Here’s Where I Am | 3: Favourite Pleasures |4: Take Me Down |5: Silent Lovers | 6: Black Heart | 7: Without you in my life | 8: tragic heroes | 9: Go to […]
First of all let’s get the peeves out of the way – this 13 track debut album is in reality just 10 tracks long and contains just 8 originals (‘intro’; ‘outro’ and ‘interlude’ you can […]
Whilst most bands that channel the Rock sounds of the 70’s take the easy option and the well-worn path of aping Sabbath or Zeppelin in all their muscular glory, there are some out there whose […]
For Dio fans this is an interesting historical document – recorded in the October of 1983 just three months after their live debut it precedes the RAINBOW IN THE DARK CD which was […]
Following up last year’s widely acclaimed ‘Desperate’ album so soon just shows the grit and determination of Barb Wire Dolls, it perhaps also shows that despite how good that album was it didn’t quite set […]
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