The number 13, unlucky for some, lucky for others, well that’s what we have here from Dokken, crazy to think that this band has been about in one form or another since 1978, that’s 45 years since inception, and there have been changes and line up comings and goings
Essential, pounding full on metal from the USA based 5 piece. Mosaic is Theocracy's fifth album. I hadn't heard of them before and what a titanic surprise. Theocracy is an interesting name for a band.
Instrumental intergalactic travellers Ozric Tentacles return with 6 new tracks constructed in their very own blue bubble for new album Lotus Unfolding
There is a bittersweet twist with Cirith Ungol’s newest album Dark Parade as it was announced very recently that would in fact the final time, we hear from this 5 piece in a live capacity as they have announced they will no longer be touring from 2024.
One of the hottest up coming bands on the planet release album number two and the bands boogie momentum continues with aplomb.
I’ll admit that AOR tinged Melodic Hard Rock wouldn’t be on my radar apart from a few usual suspects like Journey, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Toto, and long running UK specialists FM. Atlas, from Manchester England is a nice find that completely took me by surprise.
Arena filling giants of Symphonic Rock, Within Temptation have few peers and their co-headlining tour with Evanescence last year saw packed houses all over the globe being dazzled by retina scorching and ear shattering shows.
With a name like Bad Wolves I guess we’d not expect a band playing pink and fluffy pop music, right? Well we’d be correct! With Die About It, their soon to be released album (3.11.23),
Southall are a new band to me, but apparently were formerly known as the Read Southall Band and hail from Oklahoma. They play an eclectic mix of Country-Rock, Southern Rock and soulfully tinged Alt-Rock and were last seen in the UK touring with legendary Southern Rockers, Blackberry Smoke.
The blues was never very far from Gary Moore's life, no matter what he played his love for Peter Green and Eric Clapton was a constant.
A UNIQUE COLLABORATION. 78 year old ex Procol Harum English rock legend Robin Trower providing the guitar and American blues powerhouse Sari Schorr providing the vocal.
No-one would have guessed that the unlikely saviours of hard rock would have come from Lowestoft, Britain's most easterly town.
To say that I was obsessed with the satanic do-wop duo’s debut would be classed as an understatement, it’s an album that has very much stayed in regular rotation and anybody that has heard it would easily attest to just how blasphemously catch it is with choruses and structures that stay with you.
Album six in the Thunder catalogue was Shooting at the Sun which was released four years after the previous album and three years after the band had split up. The reunion and this release came off the back the monsters of rock tour with Alice Cooper.
Album number two in the second tranch or reissues is 1999s “Giving the Game Away”. It was album number five in the Thunder discography and the last release before the band split up for the first time.
The next three albums in the reissue series are upon us and the fantastic The Thrill of it all is up first. Album number four from thunder came just one year after Behind Closed Doors and it continued the popular wave the band were riding in the 90s.