Photo: Marek Sabogal. When the sun goes down and the moon comes up, Finnish goth/glam goo-goo mucks THE 69 EYES proudly wear their sunglasses, leather jackets and black eyeliner to become one with the night. Founded in the hazy, murky, twilit bars of Helsinki more than 30 years ago, the band circling around Northern gothic rock epitome Jyrki 69 has done..
Seventh Crystal – Wonderland ( Frontiers Music)
Seventh Crystal hails from Sweden and is yet another in a seemingly never-ending list of perfect, super slick melodic hard rock bands with Wonderland very much picking up where Delerium, the band's debut release, left off in 2021. As I have said previously, it seems incredible that a country with just over 10m inhabitants can..
FALSE MEMORIES : ‘Hybrid Ego System’ – new album by Italian dark metallers out 9 June 2023 on Frontiers | ‘Rising Tide’ single out now
Italian dark metallers False Memories will release a new album entitled Hybrid Ego System on 9th June via Frontiers. A first single and video from it for the song Rising Tide is available from today.Hybrid Ego System is the follow-up to 2021's The Last Night Of Fall and it sees the band continuing to mine dark..
STEVE HILLAGE BAND / THE UTOPIA STRONG – Manchester O2 Ritz, March 25 2023
The show tonight is less about the individual tracks and more about the overall vibe of the evening, with heavy passages and ambient interludes changing places like the interlocking of the tectonic plates PHOTOS: CHRIS WALKDEN This is one that I've been eagerly anticipating ever since Steve Hillage last trod the UK boards in late..
Joe Bonamassa Releases Stunning Live Rendition Of “Time Clocks”
Joe Bonamassa has just released an unforgettable live rendition of "Time Clocks," the beautifully poignant title track of his most recent studio album. Featured on 'Tales of Time,' his sprawling and expansive live concert film and album shot at the breathtaking Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. The record will be released on 14th April via J&R Adventures. Watch the live performance video belowand..
Jethro Tull – RökFlöte (InsideOut)
A dozen tunes shaped around Norse paganism,with some charming throwback moments... You have to admire the tenacity of older artists who still produce music in this day and age. Like many of his contemporaries, Ian Anderson opens himself up to sniping from all corners with each new release. No criteria is off-limits to the online..
DEATHSTARS | present lyric video for new single ‘Angel Of Fortune And Crime’
The tension rises! The world's biggest and undeniably best outfit sitting between the realms of industrial and rock/metal, DEATHSTARS, have released an atmospheric, fierce new track in the lead up to their eagerly awaited new album Everything Destroys You, which will be released on May 5th via Nuclear Blast. Following two extremely successful singles - This Is and Midnight Party- the band presents us with an..
Foghat – Road Fever – The Complete Bearsville Recordings 1972-1975 (Cherry Red)
It all started with Savoy Brown, a classic band that not only pioneered the 1960s British blues boom, but effectively exported it to the States, where they were a massive hit. The band was formed around guitarist Kim Simmonds, a collective more-or-less, with other musicians coming and going at will, but ‘Lonesome’ Dave Peverett had..
Redemption – I Am The Storm (AFM Records)
I would imagine that there are very few hard rock fans out there who do not have anything by Redemption in their collection and even fewer who have not even heard of this phenomenal American progressive metal band; if you fall into either of these categories then an examination of this musical force is very..
JAH WOBBLE & THE INVADERS OF THE HEART ANNOUNCE MAJOR UK TOUR
“My best ever line up, playing my best ever shows …” JAH WOBBLE The legendary and groundbreaking JAH WOBBLE has announced extensive touring plans for this year. The dates revolve around a number of Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub shows which rework the second Public Image Limited album Metal Box with additional tracks from the..