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The Graveyard Shift is an album I have been impatiently waiting for to be released this year; since that first glimpse Motionless In White gave us with 570 9 months ago it’s had my interest, after months of waiting I am pleased to say I was not disappointed. Immediately I …

Following her SOLD-OUT and critically acclaimed November 2016 UK tour, and the overwhelming response to her latest studio album, Fire On The Floor, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, Beth Hart and her band will embark on what is going to be her biggest UK concert of her career – London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Friday 4th May 2018. Beth Hart is on fire. …

Danish genre-mashing quartet VOLA will be returning to the UK this summer playing two headline shows at Dingwalls in London and the Sanctuary in Basingstoke as well as Bristol’s ArcTanGent Festival alongside Explosions in the Sky, Tesseract, Converge, Sikth, Future of the Left and Heck. The band released debut album …

Up for review today is the fifth installment from the incredible Seven Kingdoms ‘Decennium’. For those readers who are unfamiliar with the band Seven Kingdoms are an American power metal band who first formed in 2007 in DeLand, Florida. They have undergone a journey including few line up adaptations to …

  A Silent Wound is the new EP from French hardcore outfit Primal Age.  Hailing from the city of Rouen, north west of Paris, the five piece have produced an EP of original material and a medley of Slayer songs as a tribute to late guitarist Jeff Hanneman and Mika Adjennian …

The jeweller of rock stars, Heidi Vornan, designed Tuska Festival’s Anniversary Collection Tuska 20th Anniversary Collection designed by Heidi Vornan is released today. Vornan, whose work adorns the bodies of many a rock star, including Alexi Laiho and Daniel Freyberg of Children Of Bodom, Ville Sorvali of Moonsorrow and Niklas …

VINTAGE TROUBLE ANNOUNCE UK AND EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR NEW SINGLE: “KNOCK ME OUT” RELEASE DATE: 9th June 2017 Vintage Trouble are set to unleash their legendary and incendiary live show with a full UK/European tour this summer. To support their forthcoming shows, Vintage Trouble will be releasing the new single …

It’s Saturday night again at the den of iniquity that is Fibber Magees and the hordes have gathered for the second semi-final of Metal 2 The Masses Ireland. Whether they are here to have their souls saved and their sins purged remains to be seen, but from the buzz in …

Pre-eminent American rock band Gov’t Mule have announced the release of their anticipated 10th studio album Revolution Come… Revolution Go, which will be released on June 9th through Spinefarm Records. You can pre-order the album here. Steeped in the roots and mystique of rock, blues, soul, jazz and country, Revolution Come… Revolution Go enriches Gov’t Mule’s distinguished legacy with cleverly-crafted songs, intelligent …

After a three-months rest, Cornerstone are back with their second single from the longplayer “Reflections”: the song “Northern Light” was released on 03/31 and was mixed and mastered, like the whole album, by Harry Hess (SIMPLE PLAN, MUSE, BILLY TALENT) in Canada. The video for the song, which has been …

2017 is certainly a special year for Wilko Johnson.  Not only does it mark the 30th anniversary of the Wilko Johnson Band, but this year sees the guitarist celebrating his 70th birthday, which he celebrates with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 26th September 2017. Given the …

On January 21-22nd, 2016 world-renowned platinum-selling and Grammy nominated blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Joe Bonamassa performed two unique all-acoustic shows at the iconic Carnegie Hall in New York City. Both performances were filmed and made into “Joe Bonamassa Live At Carnegie Hall – An Acoustic Evening”, which will be released on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and Vinyl on Friday 23rd June 2017. …

I spoke to South African Blues guitarist Dan Patlansky ahead of his UK and European tour. What’s the Blues scene like in South Africa? As you can imagine, I think Blues is a niche market anywhere in the world, so in South Africa it’s a micro-niche market.  It’s really small …

An over the top album launch at Manchester Rebellion club for The First Chapter, the debut album from Bury based metallers Vice resulted in this review. They like to write long songs riddled with over the top guitar solos from Tom Atkinson and Jack Trelawny with Connor Summers smashing the …

Scout Killers have been burrowing away for the past five years shaping and honing their hugely captivating sound. The industrious quintet are now set to reveal their best work to date in the form of their brand new EP, Deception, out 7th July. We had a sit down with the guys …

Tonight’s show had an early start – 7.30pm.  With most gigs the support band would be on stage then or maybe even later, but Joe Bonamassa plays with no support and with an early start.  It’s something that catches out the unwary, but tonight the seats are all full before …

TUSKA 2017 – NEW BANDS, AFTER PARTIES AND FESTIVAL AREA DETAILS – Stockholm-based death metal machine LIK and Finnish acts Huora and Amendfoil added to the bill – Festival area services improved: ”Tulinen Grillialue” BBQ area and Rottanaama Beer Bingo among other fine features – Official After Parties at Virgin …

Mammoth Mammoth (so good they named them twice) return to the fore with an unstoppable and uncompromising album ‘Mount The Mountain’, a release that sees them up the ante and push themselves up into the higher echelons of the music scene The band have been around for some ten years …

On this day over 2000 years ago, the man credited with being the Son of God was in Jerusalem in the build-up to the events which are generally associated with Easter. But before the four day weekend arrives, there’s the small matter of Heat Four of Metal 2 the Masses: three …

BLOODSTOCK has six more bands lined up for the Sophie Lancaster stage and four lucky bands win slots on the New Blood stage to celebrate the start of the ‘Metal To The Masses’ finals. Landing slots on the Sophie Lancaster stage are Leeds metal trio BLIND HAZE, Italian power/classic metal outfit, …