Kristoffer Gildenlöw - 'Empty'
Swedish-born Kristoffer Gildenlöw isn’t a name instantly recognisable to many, but it should be!
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Apr 72 min read
Bex Marshall - 'Fortuna'
This album was released in March 2024, ten years since this British Blues Rock guitarist and vocalist released ‘The House Of Mercy’ album.
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Apr 72 min read
Art Of Anarchy - 'Let There Be Anarchy'
‘Let There Be Anarchy’ is the third release from Power/Heavy Metal supergroup Art Of Anarchy
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Apr 72 min read
FM - 'Old Habits Die Hard'
The godfathers of British Melodic Rock are back with album number fourteen, and as someone who has followed them since their debut back in
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Apr 72 min read
Circle Of Friends - 'Cherokee Moon'
A couple of years ago our Editor, Bruce Mee, put together a great little album as a personal tribute to his late mother
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Apr 72 min read
Bruce Dickinson - 'The Mandrake Project'
How best to sum up the ever more engaging enigma (both musical and otherwise) that is Bruce Dickinson?
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Feb 102 min read
Vambo - 'II'
Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for one unforgettable ride. The unforgettable ride is from an intense Hard Rock band out of London named
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Jan 283 min read
Bryan Adams - 'Live At The Royal Albert Hall'
Most people are aware that I’m a colossal Bryan Adams fan. He was the first artist I was truly a fan of after “borrowing” my Uncle’s ...
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Jan 282 min read
Bernie Marsden - 'Working Man'
The music world recently mourned the passing of Bernie Marsden, a tragic event now ever so slightly softened with the release of his final
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Jan 172 min read
Magnum - 'Here Comes The Rain'
“No more sleep through the night, no light through the dark, that’s not rain on the ground, smoke and fire will leave its deadly mark...”
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Jan 82 min read
Saxon - 'Hell, Fire And Damnation'
My love affair with then rising NWOBHM stars Saxon began more than forty years ago when a friend at school introduced me to ‘Wheels Of Steel
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Jan 82 min read
Overland - 'S.I.X'
You could call this a match made in heaven, you could call it an album of pure AOR class, you could call it the dogs dangly bits.
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Dec 24, 20232 min read
Within Temptation - 'Bleed Out'
It has to be said, Within Temptation have evolved so much in their twenty-seven active years that they’re impossibly difficult to categorise
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Nov 1, 20233 min read
The Les Nicol Project – ‘Reflections’
Here in my home town of Hull there is Wrecking Ball Music & Books, a great old school record shop selling CDs and vinyl
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Oct 21, 20232 min read
The Flower Kings – ‘Look At You Now’
This is the sixteenth studio album from the Swedish progsters and sees an unexplained change in line up,
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Oct 6, 20232 min read
Paul Rodgers – ‘Midnight Rose’.
After twenty-five years, legendary vocalist Paul Rodgers releases a new album in September 2023.
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Sep 20, 20232 min read
Jelusick - 'Follow The Blind Man'.
I first became aware or Croatian powerhouse vocalist Dino Jelusick when I reviewed his band Animal Drive’s excellent debut album ‘Bite!’
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Sep 20, 20232 min read
Alice Cooper - 'Road'
This is Alice Cooper’s twenty-ninth studio album, a concept all about travelling in a Rock band and related aspects.
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Sep 20, 20232 min read
Erja Lyttinen - 'Diamonds On The Road - Live 2023'
It’s always a pleasure to meet the exception-to-the-rule where live albums are concerned!
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Sep 18, 20232 min read
Albany Down - 'Born In The Ashes'
Incorporating Classic Rock and British Blues Rock influences that have led to both Rock and Blues songwriting awards, ‘
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