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After two very fine albums in as many years, two singers and several other lineup changes The Dead Daisies are back with their third long-player – ‘Make Some Noise’ and a new guitarist in ex-Burning […]
San Diego brutalists Carnifex return with a new slab of unrelenting terror in the form of the new album “Slow Death”. Steve gives a rundown of the new songs. The very first thing that I […]
It’s hard to believe “Lady In Gold” is only the second full length album by Swedish rockers Blues Pills but on listening to the tracks, you would think the band were seasoned veterans. Which wouldn’t […]
You can’t really go far past the Bon Jovi comparisons on this release from Sweden’s Cruzh. This album indeed has a lot of the hallmarks shared long ago by those New Jersey natives – especially […]
The best female voice in rock is back with the second instalment from her appropriately-titled ‘Ann Wilson Thing’ and whilst some may question the need, the relevance or even the intent of such a […]
Coming out of the cold depths of Melbourne’s metal scene, Toxicon have in a short amount of time built a good name for themselves as a band that know how to write a good riff. […]
King of The North’s debut was one of the albums of the year back in 2014 and new album ‘Get Out of Your World’ sees Higgsy with new drummer Steve Tyssen in tow release an […]
Don’t be scared it’s only an album by a keyboardist not a bassist! All joking aside Ten’s Darrel Treece-Birch probably suffers from people jumping to conclusions all the time about the sort of music he’d […]
If you like your Classic Hard Rock the way it was delivered in the late seventies and the early eighties then Vancouver’s Thunderbird is a band that should be on your radar; and with ‘Heavyweight’ […]
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 […]
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