Pre-order purchase link for the Impact Is Imminent album and other band info are here :- https://shop.afm-records.de/anvil/ I https://twitter.com/AnvilMetal666 I https://www.facebook.com/anvilmetal I https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG045iPvxKbI_NZmuB9q5Pw An impact is imminent rings true as Canadian metal monsters Anvil are still going strong as they return with ‘Ghost Shadow’, a brand new speed of sound …
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How about a thrash metal supergroup? Well here’s one for you as legendary Bay Area band Vio -Lence return with a bang, courtesy of their comeback EP Let The World Burn, recently released via Metal Blade Records. Formed in Oakland, California in 1985 they split in 1993 meaning it’s almost …
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Staffordshire’s I Saw the World Burn explode into the opening track of their 2 part album Sentience with “Echo Your Own”. It’s a brutal assault with a serious groove behind it. The screaming vocals sit in the mix bringing a sense of despair and yet after a couple of listens …
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2022 has already seen some fantastic music come my way to review so step up Dan Patlansky who has completely blown me away with his seventh studio album Shelter Of Bones. Recently released via Virgin Music Label and Artistic Services, the South African blues player has collated eleven songs of …
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As the old saying goes “A tiger doesn’t change its stripes” which certainly rings true from the Tygers Of Pan Tang who have just released their new A New Heartbeat EP via Mighty Music/Target Group. Formed in Whitley Bay, Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1978, they were an integral part of …
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Album links, tour dates and band info are here :- https://whenriversmeet.co.uk/ I https://www.facebook.com/whenriversmeet I https://twitter.com/WhenRiversMeet I https://www.instagram.com/whenriversmeet/ I https://www.youtube.com/c/whenriversmeet I https://open.spotify.com/artist/3r4hYfzQA1yuQFEKMDJzJi When Rivers Meet return on a wave of fury with their latest single ‘He’ll Drive You Crazy (Radio Edit)’, taken from their second studio album Saving Grace. It coincides …
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As Ted Nugent once said many years ago, “You can’t keep a good a dog off your leg” which rings true for NWOBHM stalwarts Tysondog as they crash into 2022 with recently released new single ‘Midnight’, title track of a new studio album due out on April 29th via From …
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Coincidentally released on Valentines Day, ‘Got A Thing Going On’, latest single from Matt Pearce And The Mutiny is four feisty testosterone fuelled minutes of rock and roll vibes whipped up even more by a catchy main riff and the near the knuckle raunchy lyrics. It’s the first single taken …
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All hail the return of Lex! Not Supermans arch rival Lex Luthor but Lex Giggs (more of a superhero than a villain) vocalist with London based band Future Primitives, a trio with Katie Green on bass guitar and drum machinations and Rob Alexander on guitar and production. Lockdown brought them …
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Do you need your heavy metal fix solved? Then look no further as Manchester based Absolva will solve it with their latest studio album Fire In The Sky, due to be released via Rocksector Records on Feb. 18th 2022. Luke Appleton has returned to the band to make for a …
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Staffordshire based noise mongers Jesse’s Divide have not quite outdone Guns And Roses for the eagerly awaited album award but ten years is a helluva long time for their debut studio album Thirteen Steps. Thankfully its eleven scintillating tracks are well worth the wait, point proven by opening track ‘Bad …
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Midwest death metal band Death On Fire unleash a 7″ vinyl single/tee shirt bundle titled The Dying Light due for release on February 18th 2022. It’s a taster for a soon to be released studio album Burial Hymns. The band were formed in 2016 by lead vocalist/guitarist Tim Kenefic and …
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Hardcore Superstar album review Abrakadbra by Alex English
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I first came across Elles Bailey from a track called ‘Woman Like Me’ that featured on The Official New Wave Of Classic Rock – Volume 1 album in 2021, a beautiful ballad to say the least and I was completely hooked when I heard her single ‘The Game’. So fast …
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Fallen Mafia a hard rocking, hard working, five piece formed in 2011 and based in Newcastle are set to release new single Broken on 11th February 2022.
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Following on from their four track E.P Mortuus Daemonia released in August 2020, South Yorkshire band Dead Demons unearth their latest single Another Space In Time on March 1st 2022. It’s a five minute epic composed of two parts. The first half opens with an intro of gently picked guitar …
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I imagine there is an age old conundrum of how to put the experience of a musical performance into words. Every review you read is an effort to do exactly that. It is always, to a certain extent, doomed to failure. We can use all manner of catchy terms in …
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With their Darkside album released in September 2021, South Wales based The Autumn Killers took a completely different path to their previous style as they introduced a more technological approach to the twelve tracks that blew me away on the first listen and on March 4th 2022 they release ‘Social …
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For almost fifty years now, London formed melodic rockers Praying Mantis are still delivering quality music, point proven by their latest studio album Katharsis released via Frontiers Music s.r.l on January 28th 2022. Eleven tracks of the highest order begin with ‘Cry For Nations’ that take us on this musical …
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2021 was an excellent year for me discovering new music and the major highlight came from Montreal based The Damn Truth with their third album Now Or Nowhere that crossed the line between rock and roll tinged with psychedelia. 2022 sees them returning to the UK in February as support …
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