Sometimes a band just passes you by and when they finally come to your attention, it is a WOW moment and honestly that one of the best feelings you can get from music...discovering a band that you instantly fall in love with.
Forty years on and the seismic shift that was 5150 — Van Halen’s first album with Sammy Hagar replacing David Lee Roth and also my first introduction to the band still detonates with a force that few records in the hard rock canon can match.
f you love Eighties AOR then Asia will be familiar to many. Originally formed in 1981, this supergroup comprising John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes and Carl Palmer took the US charts by storm with their self-titled debut album which contains several hit tracks including `Heat Of The Moment’ in 1982.
27 March sees the release of Reckless, the third album from Welsh Melodic Rock siren Chez Kane on Frontiers Music S.R.L. Once again, she has worked with Danny Rexon from the band Crazy Lixx, who has overseen the project, bringing his encyclopaedic knowledge of 80s Melodic Hard Rock back to the table.
From their underground origins as Burn the Priest to five Grammy nominations and over two million albums sold, the Grammy-nominated Richmond groove-metal titans Lamb of God are back with album number 10 – Into Oblivion
It’s evident from the opening chords of 3111 that the 2026 version Exodus mean business. A ferocious start to their 12th studio album, it’s as much a statement of defiance as anything else. A real fuck you to the haters, the doubters, the naysayers, all who sneer at thrash metal.
Willie and the Bandits release their most diverse record to date and Salt Roots is 10 tracks long with 10 very different stories and styles.
Bands with a decades long career and substantial discographies often have that one album that is considered their pivotable, magnum opus.
Rob Zombie has been building his singular, fevered universe since the late 1980s. From the grimy, industrialised swamplands of White Zombie's early New York days through to the chrome-plated, B-movie pandemonium of his solo career.
Melodic, powerful, and proudly German. A rising metal band sharpening their identity with confidence and craft.
Robin Trower is one of the most quintessentially and justly acclaimed British blues elder statesmen, over the past fifty-plus years since his departure from Procol Harum
After 17 years Therion are back with a full orchestra behind them and also for their very first arena show, captivating a sold-out crowd of 11,000 at Mexico City Arena
Launching his own label, Ron Records, in loving memory of his Grandad, this debut solo acoustic album in many ways marks a return to Laurence’s roots, back to where it all began with just his classical guitar.
Grammy Nominated and Critically Acclaimed Genre twisting artist Poppy returns with her seventh studio album Empty Hands - drawing from eclectic influences, with industrial elements, pop sensibilities, and moments that call back to Poppy’s surrealist roots with her signature uncanny, machine-like voice.
London three-piece Urne set their sights on supernova territory with latest album Setting Fire To The Sky which has been produced by SikTh vocalist Justin Hill.
Bristol born Blues and Americana singer-songwriter, Elles Bailey is back with her new album which has been put together over a three-year period drawing from a catalogue of songs written up to ten years previously.