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Blood Red Shoes formed in late 2004, featuring  Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter,  naming the band after a fred Astaire / ginger Rodgers movie scene, influenced by the likes of Babes in Toyland, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, considering themselves as punk musicians, after releasing several singles releasing a …

Multi-cultural blues rockers, Blues Pills, have just announced that they will be performing an exclusive acoustic show at the Vans Store in Camden, London on Saturday 26th April at 3.45PM. You can only gain access to this acoustic set with a Desertfest wristband and due to a limited capacity, entry …

As a spiritual son of Tom Waits, The One Armed Man, has no name: just a nickname. In waiting for the release of its debut full-length album, “Black hills”, planned for the April 22nd through Flying Cow Prod, The One Armed Man has just unveiled an official music video, available on YouTube, for …

On May 25, 2014, Swedish Heavy Metal band SABATON will release their new full-length album, Heroes, via Nuclear Blast Records. Today marks the release of the band’s first new single from Heroes,entitled ‘To Hell And Back’, which is available for purchase at these online location:   iTunes:                        http://smarturl.it/Sabaton-Hell-iTunes NB …

UK prog-metallers DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE call on fans to help them record their new album by launching Pledgemusic campaign and raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust along the way.   As the follow up to the critically acclaimed debut ‘The King and the Bishop’, the new record is hotly tipped to …

Black Label Society’s last offering, “Order Of The Black” was released back in August 2010, I had to double check that date, as I did not think it was so long ago, having the aforementioned always in the cd player really does help time fly. On April the 8th Black …

In March of 1974, Rush released their self-titled debut through the band’s own indie label, Moon Records in Canada, and quickly sold out of the initial 3500 copies originally pressed. Moon Records would soon become Anthem Records, which launched in 1977, and continues to serve as the band’s only Canadian …

This is an album I’ve been itching to get my teeth into, I’ve had this promo a good few weeks now, sitting there, teasing me to rip open the wrapper and take a listen. However other things have always cropped up, as they do. One of these ‘things’ dropped through …

Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated hard rockers SALIVA are thrilled to reveal the brand new, vengeful, action-packed music video for their new album’s title track, ‘Rise Up’! The music video can be watched exclusively via Loudwire.com today. Take a look at the brand new music video via Loudwire.com here, and afterward, make sure …

If you haven’t heard of the Nashville metal underground’s best kept secret VOODOO PROPHET yet, get ready. The five-piece metal act hailing from Music City, USA is set to begin tracking drums and bass for its sophomore EP, tentatively titled The Flood, this June with legendary Zing Recording Studios in …

Following the release of their latest, strangest and most complicated album, ‘Demon’ in March 2014, Norway’s Gazpacho will perform two shows in the UK this month. Joining the band on both nights in London and in Leamington Spa will be newly formed duo and Kscope label mates Se Delan. Made up of Justin Greaves, the multi-instrumentalist leader of Crippled Black Phoenix, and Belinda Kordic on vocals, …

Agent are hitting the road this month and will be playing shows across the UK and even in Germany. If you like a fusion of prog rock and punk and great live shows then you should definitely be in attendance.   Check Agent out here: https://soundcloud.com/agentbandhq/sets/kingdom-of-fear   Links: www.facebook.com/agentbandhq www.agentband.com  

SVART RECORDS announces May 23rd as the release date of VAINAJA’s debut album, Kadotetut. Taking influences from early ’90s death metal and doom, VAINAJA is a three-headed beast from Finland, and their Kadotetut debut is one of the heaviest records ever made in the Finnish language. Besides the crushing riffs …

FM are the opening band on the current Foreigner UK tour, they had just 30 minutes to get the crowd on their side, and they did this with ease. It was good to see a nearly full venue for FM, as it proves that they can still pull a crowd, …

NAPALM DEATH are another one of the greatest bands ever to walk the Earth, but even they know that Cardiacs are the greatest of them all. Hence this cranium-decimating cover of one of Tim Smith’s spikiest and snottiest creations, To Go Off And Things, recorded in tribute to the man …

Opening tonight’s bill were Pop Evil from Michigan USA, and here in the UK for the first time.  Straight away they impressed me – they sounded great and put everything they had into their performance.  The band members were constantly running around the stage, jumping, and generally burning off more …

Crossover pirates SENSER have hidden a treasure chest containing a £50 merch voucher and tickets to their London Jazz Cafe gig on 12 April at a very significant location in the band’s history. Can you find the treasure chest? Fans are invited to search for the hidden treasure, but only …

When “Lights Go Out”, the new era of FOZZY will officially be upon us.   FOZZY – frontman Chris Jericho, guitarists Rich Ward and Billy Grey, bassist Paul Dileo and drummer Frank Fontsere – will release their new single “Lights Go Out” April 28 across all digital platforms. It will …

A selection of photos of all the bands that played the AOR/Blues stage on the Thursday of HRH AOR 2.

Las Vegas breakthrough rockers, OTHERWISE, have begun recording their highly anticipated sophomore album, tentatively scheduled for a late Summer/early Fall release. Their sophomore release “Peace At All Costs“, is being produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Bottrill (Tool, Muse, Stone Sour, Godsmack, Staind, Peter Gabriel) at Audio Mix House and …