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I met Darren Wharton a few years ago when he toured Australia with Thin Lizzy and you couldn’t meet a nicer bloke, we chatted about music, about Lizzy and about the old days but I […]
Crazy Lixx has been one of my favourite of the new breed of rock bands worshiping at the altar of 80’s rock over the last few years. Danny Rexon and co have put out some […]
Band’s re-record and re-release material all the time for any number of reasons, normally of course these days for Rock bands it’s original labels or subsequent rights owners unwilling to re-issue often long out […]
Modern day Melodic Hard Rock from Germany. Not having come across these guys before is pretty much the biggest surprise of the year for me – a Melodic Hard Rock band with four albums and […]
If you’ve not checked out Triggerman before and love swampy Stoner hard rock then you’ll kick yourself if you miss this from Derry’s finest. We love this EP… Opening track ‘The Drift’ builds up a […]
There are of course those old timers that say AC/DC bastardised the Blues and made a career out of it and we say good on them, if it weren’t for bands like Krokus (who got […]
KAATO sees the bringing together of frontman Kurt Lowney who upon relocating from Sydney to Nashville, hooked up with melodic rock greatness in Mitch Malloy who features as KAATO guitarist, producer, songwriter. Mitch had already […]
It seems the UK is brimming with a lot of that washy, stoner, psych kind of rock right now, a genre that is primarily influenced by such British stalwarts like Black Sabbath and later, Orange […]
I can see these guys polarising opinion but after a few spins I’m very much in the ‘yes’ camp especially when you get to the simpler fare like ‘X-Girlfriend’ which melds acoustic and sleazy aggression […]
Revocation return with a new album titled “Great Is Our Sin” and if you love that trademark signature sound that they forged early in their career with albums like “Empire Of The Obscene” and “Chaos […]
Heart’s ‘NEW’ album ‘Beautiful Broken’ isn’t exactly that – comprising of seven reworked songs from their own back catalogue and just three new tracks. On face value then their debut recording for the Concord label […]
Tracklisting: 1. NY Dancer | 2. Grace Of The Lord | 3. Tears Of A Brand New Sea Line up: Federico Di Marco – Vocals | Filippo Cavallini – Bass | Matteo Bizzarri – Guitars […]
OK not something you might expect to be reviewed on a Rock website but sometimes you need to listen to something different just to blow away the cobwebs. For me that album was ‘Bat The […]
This is an interesting release… Jangly strummed guitars and a hypnotic building vocal that leads into an insistent groove of a chorus and then stands off again: there’s something primal and lo-hi pop about ‘Around […]
Canadian Deathcore legends Despised Icon return with a new album after a lengthy absence, 7 years after their last album “Day Of Mourning” was released. Despite that, the band seem hungrier than ever as we […]
Shock Entertainment recently announced the DVD release of their documentary David Bowie: The Man Who Stole the World, profiling the life and legacy of David Bowie. It may be first cab off what will surely be […]
Every country has their own Bluesmen and every country these days it seems have their artists who take the Blues back to the acoustic guitar where it was conceived. A multi award winner in his […]
First Signal’s debut release was one of my picks of the year for 2010 and so it’s been way too long between drinks in one respect, on the other hand (I love mixed metaphors) when […]
After a debut album that scorched the turntable, Scorpion Child is back. The question is will the ‘difficult second album’ curse strike? Of course not… Opener ‘She Sings I Kill’ hits nice and hard and […]
After listening to Tyler’s first singles from this his debut solo album and as a long-time fan of Aerosmith I wasn’t as much shocked as appalled as he proceeded to, as I saw it, dismantle […]
For a band so young these guys have old melodic rock heads on their shoulders and a sound that although at times hints at something more modern, has its heart and soul clearly in the […]
It’s not long since we saw The Rivals Sons Downunder as support to Black Sabbath, and those that got to the shows early sure thought it was a nice contrast to see the Zeppelinesque Sons […]
The live album these days has a strange place in music, is it redundant? Does anyone care? Or does it now sit as a mere memento of a show or a tour? In truth it […]
Kyuss frontman John Garcia said it best when describing German 5 piece band High Fighter: “You looking for some heavy tunes, look no further, High Fighter brings it!!” The band have a lot going on […]
“Dan Reed Network’s brand new record ‘Fight Another Day’ marks the anticipated return of one of the most infectious and gifted bands to come out in the Melodic Rock World in the second part of […]
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