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Rock Metal Machine
Dec 25, 202413 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Journey
Ask any music fan to name the Top-5 AOR bands of all-time and there’s one that’s sure to appear in everyone’s list, probably at #1...Journey
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Rock Metal Machine
Sep 29, 20245 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: T-Rex
Dave Crompton makes an emotional return to his youth to celebrate a Pop Rock institution that shone bright, bold, bombastic... but all too b
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Rock Metal Machine
Sep 20, 20249 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Blue Öyster Cult
Mick Burgess looks back over the decades-long career of a US phenomenon... “On Tour Forever” says their tour T-shirt
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Rock Metal Machine
Jun 14, 20249 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Rush
Az Chaudhry takes a ride in a time machine to revisit Canada’s finest musical export and one of the world’s most successful and innovative
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Rock Metal Machine
Oct 5, 20236 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: AC/DC
Dave Cockett meanders down memory lane to revisit the back catalogue of one of the most successful bands the Rock world has ever seen.
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Rock Metal Machine
Oct 2, 20234 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Mr. Big
Shrugging off their initial “supergroup” tag, Mr. Big became an enduring band whose consistently excellent material is rivalled ....
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Rock Metal Machine
Jan 1, 20234 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: The Flower Kings
Gary Marshall casts an expert eye over the studio output of a modern-day Progressive Rock phenomenon. The band was formed by musical...
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Rock Metal Machine
Sep 1, 20223 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Thunder
To celebrate the recent release of the band’s first double LP ‘Dopamine’, which is their 14th studio album to date ...
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Rock Metal Machine
Jul 31, 20226 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: The Allman Brothers Band
Ken Roberts takes a retrospective look at the eighteen-album catalogue of one of the founders of the American jam band scene.
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Rock Metal Machine
Mar 31, 20224 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Spock's Beard
Gary Marshall chronicles the output of the Prog-Rock outfit.
Having tried to ‘make it’ in the mainstream music industry ...
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Rock Metal Machine
Jan 1, 20222 min read
The Enthusiast's Guide: Abba
I know what you’re thinking; does ABBA really belong in a Rock music magazine? Well, a large number of us here at Fireworks HQ ...
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