Ahead of their fourth originals studio album, Los Angeles based Retro Rock/Pop band, Fire Tiger have released a ten track covers album.

Midlands based, rock vixen, Jane Gould has been a busy bee since her departure from Iconic Eye.

While people have been asking for years where the next big, stadium filling rock band to take the mantle of the giants would come from and sound like, few would have guessed the answer lay in a Swedish band as much in thrall to ABBA as they are to Black Sabbath.

Much loved in the UK following their appearance at the inaugural Monsters Of Rock and opening for Saxon on their ‘Denim and Leather’ tour, Riot are a band with a frustratingly chequered history that should have instead seen them a major league act.

Touted as the next big thing, Purson were set to take the world by storm with their mix of hard rock, blues, prog and folk. Events conspired against them, and the band imploded before they had the chance to truly take off into the stratosphere.

Joe Satriani, teacher to Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett amongst others, has released his eighteenth studio album which contains fourteen instrumental tracks.

On the 10th August 2021, a morse code teaser was posted by the worlds most notorious great war reciting band.

Sabaton, in their 23rd reigning year as one of Swedens best selling metal bands of all time, didn’t have to wait long for their dedicated fan base to crack the code and release the title of their due to be forthcoming album: ‘The War to End All Wars’.

Mecca is the brainchild of talented AOR/Melodic Rock vocalist Joe Vana and this 3CD collection represents all of the albums released by Mecca on Frontiers Records over the past 20 years.

FM are a British rock institution. They’ve been ploughing their Melodic Rock furrow for not far short of 40 years now and their back catalogue contains some absolutely stunning material that always manages to sound British despite the plethora of American influences that are clearly part of their sound.

Having seen Lawnmower Deth a few times over my time of going to live gigs, normally I know what’s coming - thrash, comedic, loud and lairy - political in some instances.

Faster Pussycat were always going to be trouble. Named after famous director Russ Meyer’s schlock classic ‘Faster! Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’, the LA outfit were born in the glitz of Hollywood but had all the grime of the seething streets that lurk around every corner of the film capital.

Jizzy Pearl has had notable performances in several heavy metal and hard rock bands. He first fronted the band Data Clan, which eventually became Love/Hate.

Way back in 1982, one of my mate’s big brother lent me an album to listen to. That album was going to be one of about half a dozen albums, that shaped my musical tastes that have stayed pretty much the same until this day.

UK AORsters Dare first came to our attention in 1988 with their incredible debut album Out Of The Silence.

Corey Taylor co-founded Stone Sour with drummer Joel Ekman in 1992. He joined Slipknot in 1997 to replace their original vocalist and has subsequently released six studio albums with them.

Born in Johannesburg in 1981 Dan Patlansky was nurtured on a medley of rock, blues, funk, soul and jazz found in his parents record collection.