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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 […]
It’s a name that perhaps won’t be familiar to many but Jelly Ellington may well be a name on the rise. Hailing from NC and basing himself in Texas, Ellington has created an album that […]
There was a time at the end of the eighties and start of the nineties when, even before the rise of Grunge and the tumult of record label greed that stopped 80’s rock in its […]
I must admit that back in the day I never really got into Mr Big even though there were tracks like ‘Green Tinted Sixties Mind’ that were just sparks of real genius. The fact that […]
Hard Rock meets Melodic Metal in a fiery wave of guitar, great songs and real attitude to create a debut of some real weight from Gamma Ray members Michael Ehré (drums) and Henjo Richter (guitar) […]
‘I Go For the Cheap Ones’ isn’t as it turns out a song about bargain shopping, what it is however is a nice punk edged slab of rock pop which at two and a half […]
OK here we go again 51 seconds of rain isn’t a first track, but the groove that builds up to bursting on ‘Vespucci’ makes it all worth it. There’s a clunky garage ethic to the […]
With an opening track like the rebel-rousing ‘Bastard of Society’ you know from the off that the ever-reliable H.E.A.T. has stepped it up even further. It’s a track that takes up the gauntlet, races for the […]
Mix a post Grunge vocal with a bassy Sabbath soundtrack and progressive leanings you get a taste of Italy’s Doctor Cyclops’ first offering on Local Dogs – ‘Lonely Devil’, their second ‘D.I.A.’ sounds more like […]
It’s been six long years since we had a studio album from the legend that is Alice Cooper (which coincidentally that was the last time we got to speak to the man himself) and there’s always […]
42 Decibel of course already have plenty of solid runs on the board: if you heard them before and liked what you heard then you’ll love this. Blues based hard rock may well be one […]
UK grungy rockers Temple Of Lies are back with another album “The Serial Killer Suite”, a little over a year after their brilliant 2016 release “From Sand” which scored one of our top picks […]
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