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According to the press release “Sky Of Forever is a Helsinki-based melodic hard rock group featuring musicians from Stratovarius and Tracedawn. Their music is influenced by a mixture of 1980’s hard rock and film music”. In […]
In the days when American Rock bands ruled the airwaves it was hard for UK bands to get a look in and even when they did – try catching the same breaks when the money isn’t […]
Bay Area thrash veterans Testament have done it again with their latest album “Brotherhood Of The Snake”, making it one of the contenders for metal album of the year. The signature Testament sound, the thrashy […]
01 That’s A Fact 02 Roll Over Lay Down 03 Dear John 04 In The Army Now 05 Hold You Back 06 One For The Road 07 Backwater 08 One Of Everything 09 Belavista Man […]
Things change, time moves seemingly more swiftly at certain points in our lives and with a dull tedious thud at others. Things have changed for The Answer one of Irish Rock’s finest ever bands… And […]
No modern band manages the balancing act that Alter Bridge does quite so well – melding the modern, the Metal and Hard Rock into a package that resonates with so many, making them these days […]
Billed in the press release as the missing link between The Sisters of Mercy’s classic ‘First and Last and Always’ and The Mission’s own debut ‘God’s Own Medicine’ by Wayne Hussy himself expectations were necessarily […]
Killer Bee is a Swedish-Canadian hard rocking band formed in the early 1990s by songwriters Anders ‘LA’ Rönnblom and Brian ‘Bee’ Frank. After a number of years in hibernation from 1997 to 2011 the band […]
After three years of vigorously touring the world, Red Fang re-emerge with their latest full-length album, Only Ghosts. Produced by the legendary Ross Robinson (At The Drive In, The Cure, Slipknot, and many more) […]
It’s almost 20 years now since Led Zeppelin released the BBC Sessions, an acclaimed two-disc set of live recordings selected from the band’s appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. September 16 2016 sees […]
Like any ‘singer and band part ways’ story the Geoff Tate and Queensryche saga will be playing out for years, but acrimony and law suits aside one thing is clear musically Queensryche 2016 and Operation […]
It’s always interesting trying to dissect what makes a Rock Icon – Punk bands like the Ramones can essentially make the same songs over and over again and become legends and media darlings, whilst those […]
I don’t get ‘Ghost’ – not the image or the sound, but the appeal. Light Melodic pop-laced and sweetly sung it may be, but there are hundreds of other bands out there that do this […]
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ autobiography was the top-selling book in multiple countries last week, earning raves from fans and critics worldwide. ‘Chapter and Verse,’ the audio companion to the gripping 528-page memoir, is 2016’s […]
Well let’s get the formalities out of the way first shall we.. I think my hometown Melbourne boys The Radio Sun have just released my album of the year with their third release, Outside Looking […]
Usually when people think of metal and Norway they automatically think black metal but believe it or not, good old fashioned rock and roll does exist in these Scandinavian countries and it’s usually pretty good […]
Orange County, Californian hard rock trio Idlewar officially unveil their ‘Impulse’ full-length debut. Produced by drummer Pete Pagonis and mastered by Brian Lucey (Ghost ‘Meliora’, Black Keys ‘El Camino’, Arctic Monkeys ‘AM’, plus albums by […]
When I was young Kansas was one of those giant US bands that you read about in the press yet would never quite reach into the pocket to purchase an album sight unseen and never […]
In my humble opinion Tyketto was one of the best Hard Rock bands of the eighties no question about it, and their debut album ‘Don’t Come Easy’ has always sat comfortably in my all-time Top […]
When it comes to the prospect of a fourth Airbourne album, who out there was anticipating the lads from Warrnambool would deliver anything but the loud and proud, raucous riff mongering rock n roll that […]
For years now Claude Hay has travelled the world and criss-crossed Australia playing venues small and large and wowing audiences with his earthy rock-infused, yet funky take on that thing we call The Blues. During […]
Coming out of the Boston area in the North-East of the U.S., The Surrealist is a progressive band consisting of Roopam Garg on guitars and drummer John-Marc Degaard. Their debut release “Naked Awareness” is a […]
11 albums into a career that started back in 2001 it’s always surprised me that psychedelic / space rockers baby Woodrose aren’t better known outside their native Denmark. If you like a languid, breezy approach […]
It’s been 5 long years since ‘Back To Life’ Soul Seller’s impressive debut album. With a new vocalist, keysman and drummer on board there’s also an expansion in sound from the straight 80’s Melodic Rock of […]
As an original fan who saw the band many a time prior to that first album way back when (and still has those independent singles) and also as a latter day fan mightily impressed with […]
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