...the quality of Blue Öyster Cult’s music remains undimmed after all these years and this package really is a perfect anniversary celebration, or I should say: the first of three perfect anniversary celebrations. Blue Öyster Cult fans have a lot to enjoy here and a lot to look forward to! Blue Öyster Cult have produced..

Scottish alt/post/progressive-rock outfit Midas Fall announce new album “Cold Waves Divide Us” out in March 2024
Scottish alt/post/progressive-rock outfit Midas Fall will release their fifth studio album, 'Cold Waves Divide Us' on March 8th, 2024 worldwide on Monotreme Records. Michael Hamilton joins founding members Elizabeth Heaton and Rowan Burn for the follow-up to their 2018 Prog Magazine Awards 'Limelight Award' winning album, 'Evaporate'. 'Cold Waves Divide Us' sees Midas Fall at their..

FISH ON FRIDAY – 8mm (Cherry Red / Esoteric)
Back in 2020, just as the world was heading into a lockdown/pandemic situation of which the gravity was as yet unknown and underestimated, Fish On Friday released their last album, Black Rain. It was without doubt, to these ears at least, their finest work to date, mixing mostly accessible and commercial proggy rock with some..

Emily Wolfe – The Blowback (Crows Feet Records)
Emily Wolfe is a singer, songwriter and musician based out of Austin, Texas in the United States and is another of those incredibly talented musicians who began playing guitar when aged just 5, later adding keyboards and drums to her list of prodigious talents. Wolfe is a sharp and incisive songwriter with her songs being..

BATTLE BEAST – announce re-scheduled UK/EU tour dates for 2024
Battle Beast are pleased to announce that their recently postponed UK and EU tour dates have been rescheduled for next year, now set to take place across late September and early October 2024. Finnish metal band Brymir will be appearing as support. A new show has been announced in Southampton UK at venue The 1865, and the previously sold-out show..

Vitalines – Wheels Within Wheels (Frontiers Music)
Vitalines is another new project on the Frontiers label which has been put together by US vocalist Robbie LaBlanc (Blanc Faces, Find Me, T3nors) and the Swedish musician and songwriter Tommy Denander. LaBlanc is a phenomenal melodic rock vocalist with a powerful yet golden voice and Denander has worked with and written songs for many..

KILL THE THRILL release first single “Autophagie” off new album
KILL THE THRILL is France's most enigmatic post-punk & industrial band, creating music as far back as 1989. They've had a few lineup changes over the years - but long-standing members Marylin Tognolli & Nicolas Dick have been creating atmospheric & bleak sonic landscaped with poignant lyricism ever since the band's genesis. Now, they are back..

Craneium to release fourth album “Point Of No Return” on The Sign Records
The Finnish heavy psych band Craneium has created their own style of fuzzed out music over the past decade now. With a dynamic take on what some describe as stoner rock, the band breathes 70's heavy rock as well as 90's desert psychedelia. The music of Craneium washes over you through a constant ebb and..

Deathstars – Rescue Rooms, – Nottingham (10 November, 2023)
It is a typically bustling Friday night in the centre of Nottingham as people criss-cross to their various entertainment destinations, whatever is on at the Theatre Royal, Poets of the Fall are headlining at Rock City but it is not difficult to tell who is heading to Rescue Rooms, the odd corpse painted face and..

Solitary Sabred release new album Temple of the Serpent
The Cypriot heavy metal warlords return with another killer concept album titled Temple of the Serpent, which chronicles a journey to the lands of demonic djinns and undead sorcerers, and where Solitary Sabred explore the fall of the Akkad Empire over ten blistering tracks of furious epic metal. Line-up:Petros "Asgardlord" Leptos – VocalsDemetris "Spartacus" Demetriou..