There are few bands that fascinate me as an adult. As a teenager musical discovery was an obsession. And each new sound that entered my head became another adventure.

The blues have always been with us, it’s origins as music starting centuries before what is perceived as the modern iteration came in with artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Robert Johnson.

Multi-platinum selling Danish rockers Volbeat return on 3^rd December with their eighth studio album Servant of the Mind and mighty fine it is too!

On this album, Volbeat effortlessly combine a dazzling array of influences to create another unique and high-quality piece of work.

12 million records sold worldwide, 2 grammy nominations and an undeniable claim to the progressive metal throne. Dream Theater stand firm as progenitors of the genre, delivering their usual package of leather bound complex compositions in their latest album ‘A View from the Top of the World’.

30 years ago LA Guns prowled the streets of 1980s Los Angeles with enough grease to oil a Harley and dirt smeared grime to fill ‘the Whiskey’.

Picture the scene: Dark clouds lurk menacingly on the horizon, lightning flashes intermittently, illuminating a dark, miserable landscape populated by countless lost souls mindlessly going about their daily drudgery.

Alternative melodic hard rockers Crooked Shapes hail from Reading, UK, and comprise George Twydell on guitar and lead vocals, George ‘Ivesy’ Ives on bass and Craig Carlaw on drums.

Alt rockers MuddiBrooke may only have formed early in 2020, but their work has already made one hell of a splash.

The term ‘living legend’ is often a journalistic cliché, but in the case of Dion I think its use is justifiable. His career has spanned the 1950s to the 2020s, and his considerable influence on other musicians cannot be overstated. He’s now poised to release ‘Stomping Ground’, the follow up to his critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2020 album ‘Blues With Friends’.

Can you feel the earth shaking? The ground beneath your sorry shoes giving way to a delicious lick of three tone powerhouse harmonies? If it’s yes, you already know what you’re in for.

Hard rockers Hearts & Hand Grenades hail from Buffalo, New York, and the band was originally formed in 2012 by guitarist Mike Bress as a cover band.

Time for something heavy, time for something high energy, time for Toledo Steel. This metalliferous Southampton quartet have stoked the very inferno that feeds Pyriphlegethon, Hades' burning river of flame with their latest release 'Heading For The Fire'.

In Norse mythology there are those that are destined for Valhalla and those for Fólkvangr; their paths cross at times. Those crossings of significance are, no doubt, recollected on stormy nights aside a roaring log fire with a flagon of ale to hand.

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!