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Album review: FOREST FIELD – Seasons

Posted on October 20, 2019 by jason

Rock Company [Release date 18.09.19] Forest Field are the brainchild of Peter Cox, who plays all the instruments, songwriting and production, with Phil Vincent on vocals and guitarist Vince O’Regan guests on two songs. ‘Seasons’ is a concept piece, based … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE DARKNESS – Easter Is Cancelled

Posted on October 17, 2019 by jason

Cooking Vinyl [Release date 04.10.19] Album number six from the Darkness, with an album cover that will certainly cause some comment, although the band have always liked to push the boundaries. It also marks one of their heaviest albums overall, … Continue reading →

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Book review: Where’s My Guitar? by BERNIE MARSDEN

Posted on October 17, 2019 by jason

4th Estate [Publication date 28.11.19] Previously self-published by Bernie as a limited release via a Pledge campaign in early 2017 under the title ‘Where’s My Guitar?: On the Tour Bus with the Snakeman’, the book now gets a full publication … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: THIRD EYE BLIND, MICK DEVINE, KEYWEST

Posted on October 15, 2019 by jason

THIRD EYE BLIND Screamer [Release date 18.10.19] Album number six from Third Eye Blind and this reviewer enjoyed their last album, 2015’s ‘Dopamine’. Stephan Jenkins is back (in previous interviews he stated Third Eye Blind wouldn’t reach six albums) and … Continue reading →

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Album review: SASCHA PAETH’S MASTERS OF CEREMONY – Signs of Wings

Posted on October 15, 2019 by jason

Frontiers Music [Release date 13.09.19] UK audiences may not be too familiar with German-born Sascha Paeth but the multi-instrumentalist and producer has had a hand in many, many dozens of albums for an extensive roster of bands over the past … Continue reading →

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Album review: POSSESSED – Revelations of Oblivion

Posted on October 14, 2019 by jason

Nuclear Blast Records [Release date 10.05.19] If you were told to imagine how a Possessed album would sound given the circumstances, no matter how vivid of imagination one may have, there is now way that this outcome could have been … Continue reading →

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Album review: XENTRIX – Bury The Pain

Posted on October 14, 2019 by jason

Listenable Records [Release date 07.06.19] To me, Xentrix has always been the leading UK thrash metal band back in the day. When it comes to having the whole package meaning musicianship, compositions, ferocity, melodic lines they came up on top … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: STEELEYE SPAN, GALLAGHER & LYLE, HUMBLE PIE

Posted on October 13, 2019 by jason

GALLAGHER & LYLE - Live at De Montfort Hall Leicester 1977

STEELEYE SPAN Live at De Montfort Hall Leicester 1977 Store For Music/Angel Air [Release date 04.10.19] One glaring error on this CD is the concert was in fact recorded in 1978 on the band’s then farewell tour (although the band … Continue reading →

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Gig review: THE DIVINE COMEDY – O2 Academy, Oxford, 13 October 2019

Posted on October 13, 2019 by jason

Seeing the Divine Comedy live has been top of my bands to see list and I was very happy to be able to finally see them at a sold out show at the Academy (or the Zodiac as it was … Continue reading →

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Interview: GARY MOAT (Burnt Out Wreck)

Posted on October 13, 2019 by jason

On the day Burnt Out Wreck’s new album ‘This Is Hell’ is released Darren Johnson caught up with the band’s front-man and former Heavy Pettin’ drummer, Gary Moat. So the new Burnt Out Wreck album is released today. Tell us … Continue reading →

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Book review: THE MOODY BLUES – Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Geoffrey Feakes

Posted on October 10, 2019 by jason

Sonicbond Publishing [Publication date 22.08.19] The format follows the tried and tested Every Album, Every Song formula by tackling each album in chronological order. In this book though Feakes adds in piece about the album cover – the Moody Blues … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DATURA4 – CherryDon, Marseilles, 6 October 2019

Posted on October 10, 2019 by jason

Five Australians blokes walk into a bar in Marseilles on a Sunday night……and just kill it. Having appreciated these guys from a distance and reviewed Datura4’s excellent trio of albums (Demon Blues, Hairy Mountain and Blessed Is The Boogie), GRTR!’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: DAVID HASSELHOFF – Open Your Eyes

Posted on October 10, 2019 by jason

Cleopatra Records [Release date 29.09.19] David Hasselhoff, or the Hoff to his many fans, is no stranger to the recording studio having released his first album way back in 1985. He has always been big in Germany, indeed this album … Continue reading →

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Album review: STONEWIRE – Life As We Know It

Posted on October 9, 2019 by jason

Independent [Release date 01.11.19] Step aside Anne and Nancy, there’s a new Favorite Bitch in town – big-lunged Sky Hunter and her cohorts who testify as StoneWire and they kick up one helluva sandstorm. This is an outstanding album of … Continue reading →

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Album review: DANDELION CHARM – Maybe Dreamers

Posted on October 8, 2019 by jason

Independent [Release date 01.11.19] Dandelion Charm – John Fowler and Clare Fowler – return with their second studio album and ‘Maybe Dreamers’ marks a big leap forward for the band, as they widen their musical horizons further. Sadly this album … Continue reading →

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Album review: COLD – The Things We Can’t Stop

Posted on October 5, 2019 by jason

Napalm Records [Release date 13.09.19] Cold return after an extended break – eight years to be precise – with main man Scooter Ward admitting to suffering writers block, which he overcame after discovering Nick Cave’s ‘One More Time With Feeling’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: LUKE JACKSON – Journals

Posted on October 5, 2019 by jason

First Take [Release date 08.11.19] Luke Jackson returns with his fifth album where he is joined by Andy Sharps on bass and Elliott Norris on drums, with both adding harmony vocals. Luke Jackson tackles a number of subjects on the … Continue reading →

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Interview: PETE WAY

Posted on October 5, 2019 by jason

Ahead of his UK tour Darren Johnson talks to the former UFO bass supremo Pete Way. It wasn’t that long ago that the only news we’d be reading about Pete Way was in connection with his various ongoing health battles. … Continue reading →

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Album review: KING CALAWAY – Rivers

Posted on October 3, 2019 by jason

BMG [Release date 04.10.19] King Calaway formed last year, released an EP earlier this year and now are set to unleash their debut album ‘Rivers’. I will admit this is not your standard GRTR! fare, however good songs are just … Continue reading →

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Album review: CRASHDIET – Rust

Posted on October 2, 2019 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 13.09.19] “Rust” is a welcome return for Sweden’s Crashdiet, their first album since 2013’s “The Savage Playground” and the first to feature new(ish) vocalist Gabriel Keyes. The album is top quality melodic yet sleazy rock, with heavier … Continue reading →

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Album review: SLASH, MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS – Living The Dream Tour

Posted on September 30, 2019 by jason

SLASH, MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPRIATORS - Living The Dream Tour

Eagle Vision [Release date 27.09.19] Recorded live at London’s Hammersmith Odeon (yes, technically it’s not called that anymore but I’m still stuck firmly in the past) earlier this year, this newly released double CD and DVD package serves to show … Continue reading →

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Album review: LEE ABRAHAM – Comatose

Posted on September 29, 2019 by jason

F2 Music [Release date 27.09.19] I really enjoyed Lee Abraham’s 2017 album ‘Colours’, a veritable AOR meets prog delight and now Lee Abraham is back with a new solo outing, this time a concept piece. ‘Comatose’ tells the story of … Continue reading →

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Album review: TURBOKILL – Vice World

Posted on September 29, 2019 by jason

SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 25.10.19] What we have here is a contender for the next generation of classic rock. In 2019 we get album based on the kind of classic trad metal that, at the heavier end, influenced and then rode … Continue reading →

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Album review: EDENBRIDGE – Dynamind

Posted on September 29, 2019 by jason

SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 25.10.19] Classic melodic symphonic metal from Austria, Edenbridge have up there with the best of them since their formation in 1998. Still going strong, this is their 10th studio album. Formed by vocalist Sabine Edeisbcher and guitarist, … Continue reading →

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Album review: NAZARETH – Coloured vinyl re-issues (October 2019)

Posted on September 29, 2019 by jason

‘Snaz (2LP, orange / green vinyl, gatefold, innersleeves), 2XS (turquoise vinyl LP), Sound Elixir (orange vinyl LP, inner sleeve), Cinema (white vinyl LP, inner sleeve), No Jive (clear vinyl LP + insert), Move Me (red vinyl LP) BMG [Release date … Continue reading →