Danish hard rock singer/songwriter (and Pretty Maids frontman) Ronnie Atkins released his current studio album, ‘Make It Count’, in March 2022, the electrifying melodic hard rock masterpiece appearing almost a year to the day after the acclaimed ‘One Shot’. As he did with that record, he is issuing an EP …
Read More »RONNIE ATKINS ‘One Shot’ Album
RONNIE ATKINS: ‘One Shot’ – poignant and timely solo album by Pretty Maids frontman out 12.03.21 Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the upcoming release of ‘One Shot’, a solo album by Danish vocalist Ronnie Atkins, who has fronted the much loved and respected hard rock act Pretty Maids …
Read More »Nordic Union – ‘Nordic Union’
Nordic Union is a project which does exactly what its name suggests, bringing together two generations of the Scandinavian melodic hard rock scene – in the form of Pretty Maids vocalist Ronnie Atkins and uber upstart workaholic Eric Mårtensson (Eclipse/W.E.T/Age Sten Nilsen’s Ammunition). It’s a pairing brought together by Frontiers …
Read More »Firefest (Day Two) – Nottingham, Rock City, 25/10/2014
The second day of Firefest’s Final Fling promised to be the strongest, in terms of the quality of the names on the line-up, and this was reflected in the fact that breakfast had barely settled in the stomachs of most of the some 1,800 who queued outside the venue to …
Read More »Bloodstock Open Air 2013 Review – Saturday 10th August
Rather than start my day with a full on dose of metal, I pleasantly started it with a slice of medieval full contact battling. In the past the Viking battling had been a little on the soft side, wielding wooden swords and could get boring pretty quickly. Medieval battling on the …
Read More »Avantasia – ‘The Mystery Of Time’
Originally founded in 1999 as a means for the then 21-year old Tobias Sammet to produce what he regarded the ultimate rock opera project – something which he apparently eventually drew a line under when he announced the end of Avantasia from the Wacken stage back in August 2011. But, …
Read More »Avantasia – Interview with Tobias Sammett
After apparently calling it quits two years ago, German power metal maestro Tobias Sammett delivered a pleasant surprise to his legions of fans when it was revealed that there would, in fact, be a new Avantasia studio album, ‘The Mystery Of Time’, which is being released at the end of …
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