While the latest offering from Dutch master of everything prog-related Arjen Lucassen is not a concept album per se, there is still a thread running throughout the tracks featured within, and that thread would be tall hippy tipping his hat to the 70s, aka the “Golden Age of Music”. And …
Read More »Alice Cooper Announces New Album ‘Road’
Today, Alice Cooper – iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® Inductee – revs up as loudly as ever on his latest solo album “Road” and reveals the first single “I’m Alice” today. Produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, it’s written, composed, and recorded with his trusted, longtime bandmates – …
Read More »Black Veil Brides, featuring VV, Share Their Version of Sisters of Mercy’s Classic “Temple of Love”
North American gothic metal fans were met with cause for elation last week, when genre-leading outfits BLACK VEIL BRIDES & VV (Ville Valo) announced an epic co-headlining tour for the Fall of this year. The announcement has proven to be an omen of what was still to come, as today, …
Read More »Goo Goo Dolls UK/IE Tour Launches This Week
Goo Goo Dolls have teamed up with O.A.R. for a brand-new cover version of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” A soaring collision of two alt-rock linchpins, the track arrives just before the groups join forces on the road in the US this summer. Before that, however, the band embark on their first UK …
Read More »Review: Extreme – ‘Six’
Fifteen years is a hell of a long wait for an album, but ‘Six’ is totally worth it. The three singles that were released were already worth the weight of a full album anyway, and then we get another nine tunes on top of that, all the way through straight …
Read More »Review: Alter Bridge/Mammoth WVH – O2 Academy, Edinburgh
The festival season in the UK and Europe has grown at a rapid pace over the last few decades or so and has become a vitally important part of the live music calendar. Before treading the boards at such big-name festivals as Download, Sweden Rock, Rock AM Ring, Graspop, and …
Read More »Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington – New Trailer & Tickets on sale
Tickets are on sale now for Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington, TX – A Two Night Event at metallica.film. Presented in cinemas worldwide by Trafalgar Releasing, this unprecedented global theatrical event brings Metallica’s M72 World Tour live from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, to the big screen live …
Read More »Review: Reef / Mother Vulture – The Depo, Plymouth
The Depo, PlymouthThursday 25th May 2023Review and photos – Rob WilkinsSo many gigs in the last two years seem to have been rearranged after cancellation due to the Covid crisis that it made a change to attend one cancelled for a different reason, the original date in Reef’s tour being …
Read More »MASSIVE WAGONS announce nine dates in November
Renowned for their gleeful panache and boisterous live show, MASSIVE WAGONS are excited to announce the second leg of their UK headline tour, supporting their hook-laden new album ‘Triggered!’ which piled into the UK official album chart at #6 upon release, notching the Lancaster-based group their second Top 10 album. …
Read More »AMIGO THE DEVIL: on tour in June – first visit to Europe accompanied by full band
Having toured the UK either side of the pandemic to promote his two studio albums to date (‘Everything Is Fine’ and ‘Born Against’), the unique and charismatic solo artist Amigo The Devil aka Danny Kiranos has recently announced his first ever tour on this side of the Atlantic with a …
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