Following her acclaimed performance alongside Annie Lennox at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert in June, blues rock guitarist and singer/songwriter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, will release her new studio album “Almost Always Never” on Monday September 17th, a nationwide UK tour will follow in October, with very special guest Tristan Mackay. Says Classic Rock magazine of…
Eric Johnson, the celebrated American electric guitarist, hailed by Joe Bonamassa as “one of the greatest guitar players of all time,” returns to the UK in 2013 for a tour that kicks off at the London o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Wednesday 3rd April. Planet Rock will start at ticket pre-sale on Wednesday 26th September,…
Australian rock band TRACER start their “Spaces In Between” UK tour on Wednesday September 26 at the Slade Rooms in Wolverhampton with special guests Virgil and the Accelerators. Nominated as Best New Band at this year’s Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, Tracer will be head to LA at the end of the year to…
Napalm/Sound Pollution This taster of the forthcoming “Clash of the Gods” album, which is actually studio release number 16 (including the 1987 DIGGER album), is the best appetizer in a long time. The first three are classics of German underground heavy metal, but since the reformation in 1993 the band has been aiming at knighthood…
SPV/Playground MAGNUM formed as a house band of a night club in Birmingham in the early seventies. Quite some house band, as the nucleus of vocalist Bob Catley and guitarist Tony “The Hat” Clarkin still remains intact. Keyboard player Mark Stanway has been around since 1979, while Al Barrow, bass, joined in 2001, and Harry…
Rocksector Records/Plastichead 1980, Chris Tsangarides, Rodney Matthews, Robb Weir, ok, please find the error. This is 2012, and the revamped TYGERS OF PAN TANG, ok seasoned since they stepped back into action in 2001, with Robb as the main man, are well on their way. Along since 2001 are Dean Robertson, lead guitar, and Craig…
SPV/Steamhammer/Playground Formed in 1981, VIRGIN STEELE has released a massive eleven albums, which are now in the process of being re-released. From the first line-up of Jack Starr, guitars, Joe Ayvazian, drums, who recruited a phenomenal vocalist by the name of David DeFeis, who, in turn, brought bass man Joe O´Reilly, until the complex metal…
Pulverised/Sound Pollution July 2007 saw founding members Julkarn (bass, guitas, vocals) and Bastard (guitar, bass), conjuring up the early stages of what was to become GRAVEYARD. The oair soon hooked up with drummer Gusi from UNDERTAKER. The object was to worship bands from their teens like ENTOMBED, MORBID ANGEL and VENOM, to name but a…
FS Records/GMR Swedish troupe FATAL SMILE is continuing their quest for world domination with the release of their second outing “21st Century Freaks”. The band has been around for approximately ten years, but it was not until 2007 that guitarist/founder Mr. Y changed the lineup and started on their debut, modestly titled “World Domination”. Dominating…
Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto composed by Jon Lord, with lyrics written by Ian Gillan. It was first performed by Deep Purple and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Septeber 1969 and released on vinyl in December of that same year. Recorded live and played live over thirty times over the years, it’s…
”Fire from the sky” is the seventh studio album from Massachusetts band Shadows Fall. Over the last seventeen years they’ve been very consistent, releasing a new album every 2-3 years. In the past they’ve finished a tour and then written and recorded the next album to meet specific deadlines, but for this album they chose…
I spoke with Doris Yeh, bass player with Taiwanese metal band Chthonic shortly after they played the main stage at this years Bloodstock festival. Festivalphoto: You’ve just played the main stage here at Bloodstock, how did you enjoy it? Doris: More than happy to be here, to play Bloodstock is always one of our goals,…