I must admit, It takes a lot for me to be lost for words, I have met my match with band Scour though.
The extreme supergroup came onto the scene in 2015 and consists of Philip Anselmo, John Jarvis, Derek Engemann, Mark Kloeppel and Adam Jarvis.
The word ‘Legend’ gets thrown about too regularly and has lost a lot of its importance but when it applies to Michael Schenker it fully inhabits the true meaning of the word.
A man whose style has influenced countless players, the German guitarist has led the way since his first outing with the Scorpions, his first gig with the legendary band aged eleven and recording debut with them on their first album ‘Lonesome Crow’ when he was sixteen.
It's an undeniable fact that music transcends many boundaries; cultural, language, geographical and so forth.
The latter, in these pandemic dominated days, has become, most understandably, more of a barrier of late but even in these troubled times music crosses nations and seas alike.
The Gods of Rock are pleased, their smiles radiant and burning through the haze of grey skies.
The cause for this is simple. Not only has the new album by The Dead Daisies met expectations, but it has far exceeded them.
The candles blew and then disappeared. The curtains flew then he appeared. Saying don't be afraid.” Those soul-searching lyrics, dealing with the emotive topics of eternal love and the inevitability of death, resonate as strongly nowadays as they did when I first heard them some 35 years plus ago.
There is a tremendous wave of new artists carrying the flag for good old hard rock and metal and Ravenbreed stand loud and proud amongst the bands at the front of the pack.
The Welsh four piece have only been together for a couple of years but have already made a lastingly solid impression with their own brand of muscular and heavy-duty tunes.
Some three years on from 'Retribution', his last solo , accomplished American rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto returned at the tail end of 2020 with the highly polished long player 'Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)' on Italian label Frontiers Music s.r.l.
Inglorious haven’t been idle during the 2020 lockdowns, managing to write and record `We Will Ride’, the fourth album from the UK based Rockers.
It will be the first studio release to feature new members guitarists Danny Dela Cruz and Dan Stevens and bassist Vinnie Colla, who join original members vocalist Nathan James and drummer Phil Beaver.
Well hello you lovely lot! I hope you are doing ok whilst we endure another lockdown. Keeping ourselves busy is important and it does help, please allow me to distract you for a moment.
Today's selection is band SCULPTOR and their recently released debut album 'UNTOLD SECRETS' via Frontiers Music SRL.
Denmark’s Mike Tramp, alongside Dan Reed is one of those names that is synonymous with great memorable 80’s AOR.
Starting out in Mabel, followed by White Lion, where the band gained several chart successes, he then moved on the create Freak Of Nature and since then has had a very successful solo career with eleven albums and it’s the latter that this twenty track retrospective concentrates on which also includes four new songs.
Accept have always been leaders, their commitment to pushing metal ever onwards as breathtaking today as it was it when they first formed forty-five years ago.
With a career littered with furiously fast and heavy anthems, it was 1982’s thrash classic ‘Fast As A Shark’ that saw them elevated to the upper leagues and it’s been a position they’ve held ever since.
'Im very proud and grateful for everything we've accomplished as KVELERTAK. I am genuinely thankful for everything we've experienced together and wish the band the best of luck and success in the future.
This was part of Erlend Hjelvik’s final statement he made upon exiting his band KVELERTAK in 2018, where he spent 12 years of his career. As the founding member, it must have been difficult making such a decision to move on.
A fan wrote of this about track 3, Underneath The Scars: “Angrily dipping my Oreos in milk to this.” And I can see why. This is Kataklysm’s 14th studio album.
Since 1991, this Canadian Death Metal group has won nothing but accolades from their cult following; and in 2015 the band won its first Juno Award for ‘Best Heavy Metal Album of the Year’ for Of Ghosts & Gods.
2021 could well be the year when rising stars Mercutio reach the outer limits of the stratosphere and this new four track EP is the ultimate launch pad for that fast-moving trajectory.
The London outfit have been making themselves heard with their own brand of widescreen modern rock that tips its hat to some of stadium filling acts that they’re destined to share stages with very shortly.
It was 1995 when a band from Helsingborg, Sweden, came to fruition called Inferior Breed, and the name would eventually be changed to Soilwork, meaning ‘working from the ground up’.
Soilwork, together for almost 26 years, has managed to create and build a musical catalog that other groups can only dream of doing: 15 works of art in total including 1 demo, ‘11 studio albums, and a multitude of various EP’s including their newest A Whisp Of The Atlantic that was released in mid-April 2020 by Nuclear Blast Records.
P.H.U.Q yes! A new official live offering from The Wildhearts! For just over 30 years Ginger Wildheart has been leading his rag-tag rabble of rebel rousing raconteurs in a disorderly, riotous assault upon the musical world; all conducted from a secretive base located somewhere in NW3.