After 2 years, the great architects of Power Metal return, steering their way through the much anticipated 17th studio album with the same force that defined their iconic sound in 1987.

One of the UK’s premier blues guitarists and founding member of Whitesnake, Bernie Marsden, has released a follow up to his `Kings’ album called `Chess’ which is the second in the series of inspiration albums.

Finnish-Hungarian-Greek Power Metallers Beast in Black return to action with their third album for Nuclear Blast, entitled Dark Connection and very, very good it is too!

Above all things, Joe Bonamassa is a musician’s musician and a man admired as much by his peers as he is by the countless thousands who buy his records and pack out concert halls worldwide to see him.

Them good ole boys, The Outlaw Orchestra, who hail south of the big smoke and east of the great river (that’s Southampton to you and me!), have released an eleven-track album brimming full of southern rock goodness. 

UK Hard Rockers Wayward Sons return to action with their third album. Even Up The Score on Frontiers Records. Recorded when the Covid pandemic was at its height, Even Up The Score contains some new tracks and also a number of tracks left over from the writing sessions from their previous album

Back in the early 1990s, a band called Kiss of the Gypsy burst onto the UK Rock scene playing a very cool mix of AOR and bluesy Melodic Hard Rock.

In The Court Of The Dragon' is the new album released by Trivium and guess what guys? It's a smashing release.

The Orlando based quartet have experimented in many assortments of genres since they made their first appearance in 1999, varying from thrash to metalcore and melodic metal.

For those like myself that remember 1987 and the rise of hard rock /metal acts such as HELLOWEEN,WASP, and the monumental, Somewhere in time tour from IRON MAIDEN and of course the beginning of the explosion which was GUNS N ROSES

Following a stellar career with Nightwish, it’s been a busy nine years for former singer Anette Olzon, so much so that this belated follow up to her first solo outing ‘Shine’ in 2014 only gets recorded and released now.

The world wide pandemic has tested us all to one level or another, the fog of negativity still lingers and has left a bad taste in our mouths.

Few bands get to join the cream of the crop in releasing a game changing first album, one that marks them out to be a force to be truly reckoned with and promises potentially world beating things to come.

ToxicRose are a Swedish sleaze metal band who have been around for over a decade, although you can be forgiven if you’ve not heard them before, as they’re only released two studio albums during that time: 2016’s ‘Total Tranquillity’, and now ‘In For The Kill’, their sophomore album.

From the first time I set my eyes and ears on London based rockers Dead Man’s Whiskey at HRH AOR back in 2018 I have found the music they produce and their rousing live shows completely captivating and exhilarating.

Heading for an arena near you soon, Glasgow’s Black Star Jackals have mastered the art of ridiculously catchy songs that demand you master the twin coordination of dancing whilst rocking out.

Every now and then the question “If you could say anything to your younger self, what would it be?” pops up. I always respond by asking “Which younger me?”