Reviews of albums, EP’s, DVD’s, music books and more
Way, way back as a kid when I was discovering Rock music by rifling the album collection of my best friend’s brother which contained all the classics from Thin Lizzy, Quo, Heep, Hatchet, ZZ Top […]
When you read about a band who is heavily influenced by their heroes, what do you expect? Would they sound like them? Would they be a copycat band? Would they be a cover band? […]
You know what? Over the years I’ve never been disappointed by Steelheart as a live band and to me they were always one of the bands from the early 90’s that threatened to make it […]
For a lover of great Hard Rock like me, especially Hard Rock that has a timeless appeal and a certain 80’s flavour and a nice Southern accent and smokiness then to discover a ‘new’ band […]
If I’m brutally honest a lot of modern Rock leaves me largely unmoved so its always nice when something that sounds rater fresh and new manages to get the foot tapping. And you might […]
After a building opening piece ‘Road to Vega’ shot through with guitars and quite promising, it fades, and ‘Comatose’, a fiery melodic rocker bursts forth. At the same time as you were disappointed that the […]
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 […]
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