Tag Archives: Review

Look out! They’re back! The Hot Damn, the four fiesty females replace LOL with ‘Live,Laugh,Love’, their latest single out now! It follows their debut single ‘Dance Around’ and follow up ‘I Didn’t Like You Anyway’ to make my ears think they’re the UK version of The Runaways. Quite rightly they …

Prepare to be blown away by the Wreckage Vol.2 , latest album from Orange County, California based band Robert Jon And The Wreck due for release on September 30th 2022 on Joe Bonnamassas’s record label KTBA (Keeping The Blues Alive). It’s a collection of exclusive in-studio and live concert performances …

There’s a new guitar hero coming around the bend as Troy Redfern throws a lucky six as he releases his sixth studio album The Wings Of Salvation on Red 7 Records on September 23rd 2022, following The Fire Cosmic album that lit up 2021 with its sheer audacity! It’s a …

Formed in 2019 by lead vocalist/songwriter Caroline Eve Kenyon, Blackburn based alt-rock band Bastette (The Egyptian Goddess Of Protection) release new single ‘Fiction’ taken from their four track EP Awakening via Rock People Management on September 30th 2022. It’s an eerie song, point proven by Caroline saying “Fiction is about …

Old musicians rule, ok! Point proven by the debut CD single ‘Shangri-La/Gypsy Blood’ from Crossover, taken from their debut album The Endless Road. They formed in 2017 by guitarist Paul Gaskin (Gaskin) and drummer Gary Pearson (Vardis). Line up changes resulted in new members joining as the single begins with …

Shake The Roots, the fifth studio album from Tyler Bryant And The Shakedown has just been released via their own record label Rattle Shake Records since leaving Spinefarm Records for more control of their music. Frontman Tyler Bryant formed his first band at 15 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in …

RECKLESS LOVE bring their Turborider Tour to The Warehouse Leeds and they are joined by special guests The Treatment with support from Collateral! It may be 1st September but tonight’s show is ‘hot, hot, hotter than hell’. What was to be a co-headline show between Reckless Love and Dan Reed, saw Reckless Love …

Let’s shout out a big “Hell yeah” for the return of Robert Jon And The Wreck as they give us a taster of their forthcoming new studio album Wreckage Vol.2 by releasing ‘Rescue Train’, a brand new single taken from it. Formed in Orange County, California, 2011, the album will …

Mumbai, India metal returns courtesy of the most metal Sahil ‘Demonstealer’ Makhija the driving force behind the wheel of Demonic Resurrection with their sixth studio album Decades Of Darkness as it celebrates two decades of the band. The album consists of four single releases and four instrumental versions of the …

Staffordshire based The Midwich Affair step away from their usual high energy covers gigs to record another attention grabbing original song as they hit hard and heavy with the utterly bonkers new single release of ‘Energy’, something we all need these days if we can afford it. This tune to …

Stoke On Trent based The Revenants were a revelation as they put the power into power trio when I caught them play at The Rigger in May this year with an incendiary performance and they’ve channelled that vibe in the studio with their latest single ‘Mutiny + Griffin Castle’. ‘Mutiny’ …

Another day and another band that almost slipped passed my radar until fellow Planetmosh collleague Alex English put Dirty Honey my way. Formed in Los Angeles in 2017 the quartet have come on in leaps and bounds as they release their fourteen track debut release ‘Dirty Honey EP/LP’ on Dirt …

Just when you thought Massive Wagons vocalist Barry Mills could not bark at the moon any louder, he goes even more motormouth than the Motorcity Madman Ted Nugent on Generation Prime, new single taken from forthcoming studio album Triggered, released on October 28th via Earache Records. How he’s managed to …

Swedish melodic rockers Dynazty come back fighting from the frustration of lockdown with their eighth studio album Final Advent, released via AFM Records on August 26th 2022. This self produced ten track monster falls mainly on their heavier side as lead singer Nils Molin admits “We decided to come up …

The last time I saw Slyder Smith he was playing guitar/singing for the Last Great Dreamers but he now takes on a more prominent stance with his new band Slyder Smith And The Oblivion Kids, who put the power into power trio! As well as guitar he also takes on …

Tearing out of Upplands Vasby, Stockholm, Sweden in 2007, H.E.A.T are making the temperature rise with their brand of hard rock, point proven by Force Majeure, their seventh studio album via earMUSIC. These eleven thermometer bursting songs begin with ‘Back To The Rhythm’. A colossal drum intro along with earworm …

Liverpool based rockers Revival Black burst back onto the scene with their second studio album Under The Light, due for release via TMR Rock Records on Friday August 26th 2022 with stunning artwork from Andy Pilkington at Very Metal Art. To say it’s a heavy album is an understatement as …

Cheltenham based duo Verity White are not just knocking on the doors of the music industry but kicking them in with a big Dr.Martens boot! Their recently released Distilled EP by WDFD Records is my first hearing of the husband and wife band as Verity provides vocals and jumping around …

Bernie Marsden, still walking in the shadow of the blues after all these years, delivers the utterly exhilarating Trios album via Conquest Music. It follows his two previous releases the Kings and Chess albums, part of his ‘inspirations’ series where he pays tribute to the songs and artists that shaped …

Fittingly enough, when I started to review Nightside, the eighth studio album from Swedish death metallers Witchery, the bright sun was pushed aside for heavy thunderstorms. Recently released via Century Media Records its easily the heaviest album I’ve heard in 2022. Formed in Linkoping 1997 it’s their first concept album …