It has been ten years since the Louisiana bluesman’s Live in Chicago album was released, so it could be said that he is about due for another one. In the event though, the COVID-19 crisis has knocked Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s gigging schedule on the head as hard as everyone else’s, so the only way to..
Platinum selling Orianthi releases video for “Sorry”. ‘O’ album available now on Frontiers
The platinum-selling artist and world-class guitarist Orianthi has just issued a video for a song entitled Sorry. The track is included on O, her long-awaited new album that was released on 6th November. Born in Australia, Orianthi was inspired to learn guitar as a youngster after discovering her father's LP collection. She rose to international..
Hellsmoke – 2020 (Pride & Joy Music)
Hellsmoke is a new hard rock band from Helsingborg in Southern Sweden with 2020 being the band's heavy, incendiary and very hard hitting debut. The band began life when guitarist Christofer Dahlman (ex-Alyson Avenue, Bai Bang) and songwriter Torbjörn Månsson' joined forces with drummer Roger Landin (ex-Cloudscape) and their proto-metal built around snarling guitars and..
POWERWOLF Announces 2021 “Wolfsnächte” European Tour
Currently being hard at work on the successor of their 2018 No. 1 hit album, The Sacrament Of Sin, heavy metal's finest, POWERWOLF, have now announced the tour dates for their 2021 Wolfsnächte European tour in support of their as of yet untitled upcoming album due in summer 2021. The tour will lead the band through Germany, Spain, France,..
Squealer – Insanity (Pride & Joy Music)
The German power/thrash metal band Squealer has long been a guaranteed supplier of hard and very heavy metal ever since its inception in the mid '80s with each of their albums being greeted with equal delight by its quite devoted fan base. However, the recorded output is hardly prolific with the publicity stating that this..
Prog Trio Kepler Ten release ‘A New Kind of Sideways’ on White Star Records
PROG TRIO KEPLER TEN RELEASE SECOND ALBUM A NEW KIND OF SIDEWAYS TO GREAT APPLAUSE Buy/Stream nowFFO - Rush, Toto, Muse British Classic meets Prog Rock trio Kepler Ten have released their second album A New Kind of Sideways via White Star Records today. Paying homage to '80s era rock with added prog in the form of..
Shadow Tribe – Reality Unveiled (Pride & Joy Music)
Shadow Tribe' is a new Finnish power metal band put together by the well established bass player Marko Pukkila (Altaria, Stargazery) and vocalist Kimmo Perämäk (ex-'Celesty', 'Spiritus Mortis', 'Masquerage') with guitarist 'Simo Pirttimaa' and drummer 'Petri Heinonen' ('King Satan') coming in to complete the team. 'Reality Unveiled' is an album two years in the making..
OCEAN HILLS release their debut album ‘Santa Monica’ on 27th November, out via AFM Records
"I just want us to be known as Working Class Rock N' Roll." So says vocalist Zoli Teglas (ex-Ignite), having taken 30 years' worth of experience in the music business to launch a project close to his heart, Ocean Hills. Born into a working class Hungarian family, a dedicated animal rights / rescue activist, and..
Cormac Neesson – White Feather (Deluxe Edition) (Social Family Records)
Cormac Neeson is the vocalist with blues infused hard rock band The Answer from Northern Ireland. Neeson released his White Feather debut solo album in 2018 but it seems only to have received only a limited release and it has now been re-issued in expanded format. The plan was for this release to be backed..
Steelhouse Festival: Anthrax and Therapy? confirmed for the 10th anniversary edition 23rd-25th of July, 2021
Following the disappointment of having to postpone the 2020 event, Steelhouse Festival have come back in the best possible way... by announcing a huge headline act for the 2021 edition. So, without further ado: Steelhouse is delighted to announce that the mighty Anthrax will 'Bring The Noise' to the top of the mountain, headlining on Saturday 24 July. Tickets are on sale..
