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. BLACK STAR RIDERS PART COMPANY WITH DAMON JOHNSON AND WELCOME CHRISTIAN MARTUCCI Black Star Riders are proud to announce that their new lead guitar player from January 1st 2019 will be Christian Martucci, from Stone Sour. Christian will replace founding BSR member Damon Johnson, who has decided to part …

Black Star Riders (BSR) turned up the heat, bringing their Heavy Fire tour to the city of Wakefield at venue, Warehouse23.  Approximately 900 rock fans sold out the show, as they travelled far and wide to support one of the best British/American rock bands.  Black Star Riders feature former members …

Black Star Riders (Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper and Brother Cane) guitarist Damon Johnson New Solo Album: “Memoirs Of An Uprising” Release Date: 9thNovember 2018 Warwick Johnson Tour Dates Announced For The UK In Sept/Oct 2018 Photo credit Stephen Jensen Damon Johnson is pleased to announce his forthcoming new solo album …

WARWICK JOHNSON ANNOUNCE UK AND EUROPE ACOUSTIC TOUR IN AUTUMN 2018 RICKY WARWICK  (Black Star Riders / Thin Lizzy / The Almighty) DAMON JOHNSON  (Black Star Riders / Thin Lizzy / Alice Cooper) Rock veterans Ricky Warwick and Damon Johnson are pleased to announce a “Sonic Acoustic Attack Tour” in Autumn …

Black Star Riders (Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper and Brother Cane) guitarist Damon Johnson Announces Pledge Campaign For New Solo Album “Memoirs Of An Uprising” Album Release in Late 2018 Warwick Johnson Tour Dates Announced For The UK In Sept/Oct 2018 Photo Credit Stephen Jensen Damon Johnson has announced a Pledge …

Damon Johnson has announced a Pledge Campaign for his forthcoming new solo album “Memoirs Of An Uprising”. The album will receive a full release later in 2018. Damon has an illustrious career as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for Brother Cane, Alice Cooper and currently Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy. …

Black Star Riders Release Fifth Trailer for ‘Heavy Fire’   BLACK STAR RIDERS are set to release their forthcoming album Heavy Fire on the 3rd of February via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Today, the band unveil the fifth video trailer in which Damon Johnson, Ricky Warwick and Scott Gorham discuss some of their early influences and favourite bands and …

Black Star Riders Release Fourth Trailer for ‘Heavy Fire’ BLACK STAR RIDERS are set to release their forthcoming album Heavy Fire on the 3rd of February 2017 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. In anticipation of this release, the band have unveiled a fourth video in which Damon Johnson, Ricky Warwick and Scott Gorham discuss how the album’s title track …

Damon Johnson – Announces Solo EP “Echo” Out On 27th May 2016 Damon Johnson (Black Star Riders, Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, Brother Cane) is pleased to announce his first solo electric project with the ‘Echo’ EP, to be released in May 2016. Recorded throughout 2015, the 5 track EP sees …

There are rock stars.  And then there are rock stars.  There are those with an anally-retentive sense of their own self-generated importance, who are content to ride around in limos and play hundreds of miles from their nearest fans in fields as big as their egos.  And then there are those …

Black Star Riders frontman Ricky Warwick is to release two solo albums early in 2016. ‘When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues)’ and the acoustic album ‘Hearts on Trees’ were originally recorded and released via PledgeMusic at the end of 2014.  Now, they will be repackaged and …

Internationally acclaimed music legends Black Star Riders‘s ten track “second album, The Killer Instinct, is released via Nuclear Blast. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Mastodon, Rush), The Killer Instinct is hard rock in the classic tradition.” In 2012, the band was formed, and contains three former members of Thin Lizzy: …

Slightly more than a year ago, the curtain came down on the long and storied career of the mighty Thin Lizzy, when the band played their penultimate gig on Irish soil as they bade farewell to touring and prepared to launch a new identity through which to progress the Lizzy …

Being a fan of Thin Lizzy I was very happy to be able to sit down with Damon Johnson from Black Star Riders to talk about the new band and how they chose their name as well as their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose. If you haven’t yet bought …

Back in 2002, a guest appearance by Scott Gorham on the title track of ex-Almighty main man Ricky Warwick’s debut solo album “Tattoos and Alibis” may have gone unnoticed by many. To those who took note, there was a notable spark, and a creative seed was sown deep in the …

It’s a discussion which has been held in bar rooms up and down the land – and, indeed, on these very pages: the merits and demerits of what happens after an iconic band loses one of its pivotal members – and particularly someone in turn as iconic as their frontman. …