Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Tritonus Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes The more album reviews I write, the more I see just how big Sweden’s hard rock movement is these days. It seems like every hard rock album that makes it to me is another Swedish band. This movement…
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A TRIBUTE TO THE PAST-A Very Brief And Incomplete History Of Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Tribute Albums
A TRIBUTE TO THE PAST A Very Brief And Incomplete History Of Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Tribute Albums (Version 1.1) by JP PREFACE As we hit the 50th anniversary of Heavy Metal this year (2020), as Managing Editor of Metal-Rules.com, one of my goals is to try to add…
SVEN GALI The Canadian Hard Rockin’ Metal Band Inks A Worldwide Record Deal With RFL Records & Entertainment
One of Canada’s pioneer acts of the fusion of 80s screaming Hard Rock and 90s blazing Heavy Metal, inks a record deal with the growing label, RFL Records & Entertainment. The band comments: “We are excited about being a part of the RFL family and are looking forward to delivering…
Lordi – Killection
Reviewed: March 2020 Released: 2019, AFM Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter You know LORDI, right? Finland’s monstrous masked metallers and winners of Eurovision in 2006? The band may not quite have the collective mainstream’s consciousness to the extent that it did back when they shocked Europe’s annual musical cheese-fest,…
Steel Panther + Wayward Sons @ Brixton Academy, London, February 7th 2020
STEEL PANTHER + WAYWARD SONS BRIXTON ACADEMY FEBRUARY 7TH 2020 PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY REBECCA BUSH Friday night is the best night to party and there’s no better gig to be at than Steel Panther; they always promise a good time and they never disappoint! First up on tonight’s bill…
Bonded – Rest in Violence
Reviewed: February, 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry You’d be forgiven for thinking Bonded are a brand-new up-and-coming metal band upon first glance, having just released their debut album; a band with members out to prove themselves. This is not the case, however. Formed in 2018,…
Girl – Wasted Youth (Box-set)
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2020, Cherry Red / HNE Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP These Cherry Red/Hear No Evil Box sets keep coming fast n’ furious and I for one am so glad! The first one for 2020 is a re-visitation and exploration of the band Girl. Any Hard Rocker…
Clutch + Graveyard + Kamchatka @ The Roundhouse, London
Clutch + Graveyard + Kamchatka @ The Roundhouse, London 18th December 2019 Review & Photography by Ryan Whitwell (Shotison Media) Please follow and like us:
Alter Bridge – Walk The Sky
Reviewed: December, 2019 Released: 2019, Napalm Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Hard rock outfit Alter Bridge have had a meteoric rise in popularity since forming in 2004 and the release of their gold-certified debut album One Day Remains. From its incredible follow up Blackbird in 2007 to 2016’s The Last…
Airbourne + Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Airbourne + Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London November 26th 2019 Review by Jack Merry Photography by Miguel de Melo Please follow and like us:
Airbourne – Boneshaker
November 2019 Released: October 25th, 2019 / Spinefarm Records Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine There are only two bands I have come across who take the AC/DC brand of rock-n-roll, tweaked it a bit, and made it their own. One of those bands is Broken Teeth, the…
Volbeat/Baroness/Danko Jones – Glasgow Academy 24th September 2019
Volbeat / Baroness / Danko Jones @ Glasgow Academy 24th September 2019 Review & Photography by Gavin Lowrey Please follow and like us:
Four Trips Ahead – …And The Fire Within
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Dr. Music Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter “… unique sound that sets [ARTIST] apart from the hundreds of other [GENRE]”. Sound familiar? Any interview or PR statement for a new single or album, etc., usually has something similar accompanying by way of an attempt…
Fretless – Damnation
Reviewed: September 2019 Released: 2019, Pure Steel Records Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes There’s absolutely nothing wrong with basing your sound around something that came before. If you have a set of favourite bands, a favourite genre, and really would love nothing more than to recreate that same kind of…
The Electric Mud – Burn the Ships
Reviewed: August 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes While it’s not a genre I’m the most familiar with, I do know that good blues music just makes you -feel- something, something deep and special. Sure, there’s plenty of room, especially in bluesy hard rock, for good…