The Sweet continue their Hellraiser UK tour at Birmingham Town Hall on Thursday December 2nd. Tickets are available from www.thegigcartel.com. This is the Sweet's first major outing since restrictions were eased due to the global pandemic. Due to illness Limehouse Lizzy will no longer be appearing as guests to The Sweet on their December dates. The Sweet's remaining UK dates are going ahead as..
The Flower Kings announce 15th studio album ‘By Royal Decree’, plus Swedish live dates for 2022
Prog icons The Flower Kings are pleased to announce the release of their 15th studio album 'By Royal Decree', set for 4th March 2022. The band have also announced the first live dates in support of the album, taking place in Sweden beginning end of March 2022. The band are back at their most creative, flowery and..
Dion releases “Stomping Ground” album ft. Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Joe Bonamassa
DION'S NEW ALBUM "STOMPING GROUND" NOW RELEASED WORLDWIDE AVAILBLE FROMWWW.KTBARECORDS.COM FEATURING THE SINGLES "ANGEL IN THE ALLEYWAYS" WITH PATTI SCIALFA & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, "TAKE IT BACK" WITH JOE BONAMASSA, AND "I'VE GOT TO GET TO YOU" WITH BOZ SCAGGS AND JOE & MIKE MENZA INCLUDES COLLABORATIONS WITH ERIC CLAPTON, MARK KNOPFLER, BILLY F GIBBONS, RICKIE..
AMANDA LEHMANN – Innocence And Illusion
As a piece of pure songwriting, [Memory Lane] is an astonishing piece, with a vocal always teetering on the edge of despair but never tipping over it. In purely 'song' terms, there is nothing here to touch it. The word 'enjoy' may not be the most appropriate, but this song will touch your soul. You..
TARJA TURUNEN – SINGING IN MY BLOOD (Book Review) (Rocket 88 Books)
This book is not endeavouring to win some sort of pretentious literary award for saying precisely nothing in a very erudite way - it is here to tell you, the reader, what the world of Tarja is like on a day to day basis, what she loves and hates, what her proudest moments and greatest..
King Zebra – Survivors (Crusader Records/Golden Robot Records)
The Swiss hard rock band King Zebra began life in 2012 and put out a couple of self-released albums but it has taken quite a while for their first and official full length album to finally come out on Crusader Records which is sure to build on the clamour that the band's self-titled EP created..
DEATH ANGEL release live video for ‘Absence of Light’ + new live album ‘The Bastard Tracks’ is out now
Bay Area thrash legends Death Angel has released their heavily anticipated new live record titled The Bastard Tracks today via Nuclear Blast. Recorded live at The Great American Music Hall in their hometown of San Francisco on May 22nd 2021, and streamed live soon after, The Bastard Tracks is a deep cuts collection of rarely and never performed songs from the band's celebrated catalogue that..
Insania – V (Praeparatus Supervivet) (Frontiers Music)
We now come to an album that, perhaps, many thought would never happen as it is the fifth album by the Swedish power metal outfit Insania and you have to go back to 2007 for the previous release so a gap of 14-years is what you could call well overdue! Insania - and be careful..
KREATOR – release live single ‘Reconquering The Throne’ from 20th Anniversary Edition of ‘Violent Revolution’, LIMITED EDITIONS TO FEATURE LIVE BOOTLEG RECORDINGS AS BONUS + LTD. LP+CD BOXSET WILL INCLUDE EXCLUSIVE KREATOR COMIC BOOK!
German thrash metal gods KREATOR will release a very special re-issue of their 2001 masterpiece Violent Revolution for its 20th anniversary! This new edition of Violent Revolution is scheduled for a January 21, 2022 release through Nuclear Blast Records and it will include a huge selection of assorted live bootleg recordings, grouped together under the name Bootleg Revolution. The 20th anniversary edition of Violent Revolution will be available on various formats,..
ASIA – The Official Live Bootlegs, Vol. 1 (BMG)
Looking for something different, as the times were most definitely a-changing in 1981, four stellar talents - Geoffrey Downes (keys), Steve Howe (gtr), Carl Palmer (drums) and John Wetton (bass & vocals) - formed what was then described as a ‘supergroup’ and, in 1982, they hit the ground running with their eponymously titled debut album,..