Reviews - Music Releases 2024 Archives

The Rockpit: The Best Albums of 2024

4 January 2025 Mark Diggins

2024 was a great year for Rock Music but a strange one in that so much great stuff was released at the very start of the year and then things kind of tailed off with […]

ALBUM REVIEW: DYNAZTY – GAME OF FACES

22 February 2025 Mark Diggins

We’ve been reviewing and chatting to Dynazty at the Rockpit since 2009 – that was the year we started the website and also the year Dynazty dropped their first album ‘Bring the Thunder’. In all […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Toby and the Whole Truth – Look Out! Vol. 1

22 February 2025 Mark Diggins

With a spoken word intro where Toby talks about his struggles of mental health and advises us, his dear listeners, that despite that heavy subject matter this recording – the first of three volume set, […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire

19 February 2025 Mark Diggins

I first saw Lacuna Coil years ago at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, it was a packed house and a great night, ad I’ve seen them at every opportunity since. There’s a few […]

ALBUM REVIEW: CRAZY LIXX – THRILL OF THE BITE

15 January 2025 Mark Diggins

The announcement on 21st March last year that drummer Joél Cirera would be departing Crazy Lixx following their performance in Copenhagen on 11th May means that there is just now one man standing from the line-up that […]

EP REVIEW: Leadfeather – Roll The Dice

9 January 2025 Mark Diggins

First review of the year and I like this EP a lot. Lead Feather aren’t subtle and it’s certainly not hard to hear where their influences begin and end but in all honesty there […]

THE ROCKPIT BEST OF 2024: INDIVIDUAL REVIEWER LISTS

4 January 2025 Mark Diggins

Before we get to the BEST OF 2024 list later in the day, as usual, and for the last 14 years we have always published our top contributor’s individual lists for the year. The overall […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Kill II This – Variant

19 December 2024 Leslie Phillips

21 years is a long time between drinks, and UK-industrial metal pioneers Kill II This return in 2024 with a full length entitled ‘Variant’. When you consider that the band originally lasted 8 years and […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Little Girls – Valley Songs

19 December 2024 Mark Diggins

There’s a real naive, almost Go-Go’s like charm to the sound of this one. L.A.’s Little Girls were one of those bands that are completely new to me and yet a band you feel with […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Prophets of Addiction – Face The Music

15 December 2024 Mark Diggins

It’s been a while between drinks as they say. 6 years going on seven since the pre-pandemic ‘Nothing But The Truth’ hit in 2018. And if I’m honest this might just be the Prophet’s bets […]

ALBUM REVIEW: D.A.D – Speed of Darkness

15 November 2024 Mark Diggins

Some bands just go on making great music long after their moment in the spotlight. Some bands never put a foot wrong and yet end up huge in one part of the globe and virtually […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Lionheart – The Grace of a Dragonfly

13 November 2024 Mark Diggins

If you want a history lesson then Lionheart has a long and winding one: “…formed in late 1980 by Dennis Stratton (lead guitar/backing vocals, Iron Maiden), Steve Mann (lead guitar/backing vocals, Liar, Michael Schenker), Rocky […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Cure – Songs of a Lost World

9 November 2024 William Nesbitt

Songs of a Lost World is the first new studio album from The Cure in sixteen years. Fans always hope for one more classic album from veteran bands (hard to believe debut album Three Imaginary […]

EP REVIEW: Shiraz Lane – Acoustic Archives

5 November 2024 Rob Jones

Hard rock bands recording acoustic albums aren’t really anything new, In fact they were fairly common during the 90’s. A lot of your favorite rock bands actually write a lot of their well known songs […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Black Oak County – III

27 October 2024 Mark Diggins

The press release for Black Oak County’s third album reads: “The Danish hard rock quartet BLACK OAK COUNTY releases their third album, taking them to new musical horizons, with a wide mix of thundering breakdowns, […]

ALBUM REVIW: Kings of Mercia – Battle Scars

26 October 2024 Mark Diggins

Just when you think that your Best of 2024 list is pretty much settled along comes an album like this. If you love great Hard Rock with soulful vocals and heaps of drive then this second […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Triple Engine – Triple Engine

25 October 2024 Mark Diggins

On the eve of release we’ll let the press release set the scene:… Cast your mind back to March 2020… Western Australia is in isolation due to the challenges presented by Covid-19, resulting in the […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Danny Rascal – Cunning Stunt!

24 October 2024 Leslie Phillips

Is Danny Rascal New Zealand’s best kept secret? This collection set of material collected over thirty plus years suggests he may well be. And rather than attempt to ease you in gently, it’s foot to […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Trucker Diablo – Social Hand Grenade

17 October 2024 Mark Diggins

There are few bands that we’ve got to review every single release by on the Rockpit: but forming in 2008 and releasing their first full length ‘The Devil Rhythm’ in 2011 – Trucker Diablo is […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Sister Switchblade – Don’t Try This at Home

12 October 2024 Mark Diggins

Australia has such a great Rock scene and Western Australian music is so strong at the moment, with every genre out there hitting home runs these days it seems. Sometimes though it’s a blast from […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Gone Savage – Retrograde

12 October 2024 Mark Diggins

Formed in 1990 GS have produced a number of demos, singles and EPs over the tears and a couple of years back in 2022 they released digital 12 track ST ‘Pastlife’ which collected some of […]

ALBUM REVIEW: A Rising Force – Truth

5 October 2024 Tommy Sommers

This is the third offering from A Rising Force, a band based out of Minneapolis Saint Paul. Their first record undertow here’s one that I listened to on a regular basis and it featured Mark […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Kissin’ Dynamite – Back With A Bang

3 October 2024 Rob Jones

Kissin’ Dynamite are a rare case where at this point in their career youth meets experience and produces spectacular results, as a result of being signed to a record deal while they were still in […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The New Roses – Attracted to Danger

21 September 2024 Mark Diggins

One of my favourite bands over the last ten plus years has been The New Roses and ever since that first full length “Without a Trace’ back in 2013 they’ve consistently lifted the bar each […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Dirt On My Diamonds Vol.2

17 September 2024 Andrew Slaidins

This is the second installment to last year’s “Dirt On My Diamonds Vol.1” and arrives on September 20. In less than a year this release follows Vol.1. Vol.2 was a no brainer and the one […]