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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 […]
Crobot’s debut ‘Something Supernatural’ featured highly in our lists of the year back in 2014 and after a wait of almost 2 and a half years the follow up was always going to be interesting. […]
I’ve always been a big fan of Ginger Wildheart – the man is a song-writer of the sort of quality that doesn’t come around too often and seems to be as prolific as anyone out there […]
Zlatanera are a Belfast, Northern Ireland based heavy rock band formed in 2012 who cite influences such as Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Entombed, Clutch, Corrosion of Conformity, to name a few, the latter of which they […]
I don’t know why Delain don’t get mentioned in the same breath as their chosen genre’s symphonic masters more often, after all they tick all the boxes – big songs, fantastic female vocalist, sweeping melodies […]
The band formerly known as ‘Thunderchief’ now release the album ‘Thunderchief’ under the new name ‘Shotgun Sawyer’… Coming out of nowhere this album surprised us by how good it is, chock full of heavy blues […]
There’s a freshness and a fury to Sydney’s Alternative Metal band Breaking Point on their latest EP ’Separated’ which at 5 tracks long is a decent representation of the band at this point of creative […]
The second album from ‘Lost Hollywood’ ‘What lies Beneath’ instantly had me wondering why I hadn’t heard their first because if it got close to the sound and the songs here it would be a […]
Well, it’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard about an awesome new Swedish AOR/Melodic Rock release, right? Well, lets introduce Palace, the band founded by lead singer and guitarist Michael Palace and featuring […]
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Over the last few years, a lot of bands have played a full album in it’s entirity live on stage. QUEENSRYCHE, JUDAS PRIEST, RUSH & MOTLEY CRUE are among the many that have done this, […]
So what do we have here. First things first, the stage consists of a giant screen at the back which alternates between band and crowd shots and random images but looks at it’s best when […]
Any band can mix it up but these guys have managed to gather in all their influences and pretty much stamp it with their own bovine seal of approval. Long live the Buffalo!” Read our […]
Four albums with Stryper, two solo albums and throw in Sweet & Lynch – Michael Sweet sure has been a man on a mission these last 5 years. And I for one, sure am not […]
This 10 track multi-layered progressive instrumental metal album challenges listeners & viewers to consider what we as humans think about when we read or hear the words God, Evolution, Betrayal, Death, Life, Creation, Denial, Hate, […]
We’ve seen Jackyl a bunch of times live and ‘redneck and proud’ as they are, to the extent where sometimes it can overshadow their music, they are actually also a pretty damned good band who […]
German thrashers Sodom have been pretty consistent as far as new material is concerned in their long career, the last 10 years alone has been steady with a new album every 3 years. 2016 sees […]
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