THE END MACHINE : ‘Phase2’ – new hard rock album from band featuring former Dokken and Warrant members out 09.04.21 (Frontiers) The End Machine are back with a second album, ‘Phase2’, which follows their well-received and successful self-titled 2018 debut. The End Machine features former Dokken members George Lynch (guitar) …
Read More »THE END MACHINE : self-titled debut album by new group founded by members of Dokken & Warrant – out 22.03.19
Hard rock titans collide for The End Machine, a brand-new project that features classic era Dokken members George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, and Mick Brown, plus current Warrant singer Robert Mason. The band will be releasing a self-titled debut album on 22nd March 2019 via Frontiers Music. Some fans may surely be wondering …
Read More »Ramblin Man 2017 – Saturday
First up after heading onto the festival site, it was a nice start but grey clouds were quickly approaching. The first band on for the day, in fact the only band on at that moment were rock and rollers The Nile Deltas. A great band to kick off day two …
Read More »Rockingham – Nottingham, Rock City – 25 October 2015
In contrast to the previous morning, the third and final day of Rockingham dawns crisp and bright, as the PM team join several hundred fellow fans in heading for the hallowed confines of Rock City for another eight bands over 11 hours. The beautiful afternoon outside is complemented by the …
Read More »Rockingham Festival preview, Rock City Nottingham, 23rd, 24th and 25th of October 2015.
We are well and truly deep into rock music Festival season, Download has been and gone, as has Wildfire; the Steelhouse festival is this weekend and Bloostock the weekend after. For those of us who may not wish to camp, there are also a growing number of indoor festivals to …
Read More »Sweet & Lynch – Only To Rise
It is not the first time a well known vocalist and guitarist have done a project together, the main example being when vocalist David Coverdale (Whitesnake) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) joined forces. Now two titans of classic 80s glam metal, vocalist Michael Sweet (Stryper) and guitarist George Lynch (ex-Dokken), …
Read More »Y&T – Belfast, Limelight 1, 12/11/2014
Sometimes it takes vision. And a simple vision at that. The vision of one clear-sighted, single-minded – some might say stubborn – individual. And that vision is to do what you enjoy, and what you want to do, need to do, to fulfill that enjoyment, no matter what adversity, what …
Read More »KXM – ‘KXM’
Supergroups? Don’t you just love them? Or hate them? Ever since the dawn of the modern music business, the very mention of the the word ‘supergroup’ has sent many fans and critics – including yours truly – scurrying for cover. A rock group is either a rock group or its …
Read More »T&N – ‘Slave To The Empire’
The announcement last year that three quarters of the ‘golden days’ Dokken line up – guitarist George Lynch, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer ‘Wild’ Mick Brown – were working together again had fans seeking a long-overdue reunion of the classic original incarnation of the LA rockers positively salivating with expectation …
Read More »Dokken – ‘Broken Bones’
I have to admit it – I’m a child of the Eighties. I mean that in that is when I got into metal: it was the formative years of that historic decade in rock history that, as a lanky-haired rebellious private school-attending teenager that I first discovered bands such as …
Read More »Blaze – ‘Blaze’
Despite the success of many, many western bands in that part of the world – and the nation’s adoration of all things metal – very few Japanese bands have managed to return the compliment and break out of the land of the rising sun with any degree of credibility or …
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