Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS

Album review: ANETTE OLZON – Shine

Posted on February 23, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Interview edit: Anette Olzon, 26 February 2014 The full interview is featured in ‘Assume The Position’ Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sunday 9 March, 22:00 GMT More information earMUSIC [Release date 31.03.14] For those who don’t pick their fruit from … Continue reading →

Album review: BATTLEAXE – Heavy Metal Sanctuary

Posted on February 23, 2014 by jason

Steamhammer/SPV [Release date 24.02.14] Originally part of the mid 80s era New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWoBHM), Battleaxe released tracks on several compilations as well as two albums in 1983 and 1984; both have since been reissued on CD, … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE DAMNED – Tiki Nightmare: Live At Shepherd’s Bush Empire July 2002

Posted on February 23, 2014 by jason

Salvo/Union Square (2CD/DVD) [Release date 10.02.14] Widely recognised as the first UK punk band, releasing a punk album and single (and I’m near the front of the queue to stick that up the nose of the Sex Pistols), The Damned … Continue reading →

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Album review: VANDEN PLAS – Chronicles of the Immortals : Netherworld

Posted on February 23, 2014 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Release date 24.02.14] It has been a while since Vanden Plas released The Seraphic Clockwork back in 2010 but that’s not to say they haven’t been busy…far from it. German best-selling author Wolfgang Hohlbein suggested a collaboration with … Continue reading →

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Album review: TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAIN KILLERS – The Devil You Know

Posted on February 22, 2014 by petefeenstra

Alligator records [Release date 20.01.14] While this album is a slimmed down version of Tommy Castro And The Pain Killers, there’s actually some 14 guest musicians helping him out in the absence of his previous horn section. … Continue reading →

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Quick Plays: HEAVY METAL NINJAS, TIDE, KATIE COLE

Posted on February 21, 2014 by david.wilson

HEAVY METAL NINJAS – Interstellar Abduction Warner Music [Release date – out now] Heavy Metal Ninjas hail not from Japan as you might expect but from New Zealand. Lead by virtuoso guitarist Richie Allan, this instrumental six piece are here … Continue reading →

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Album review : DOG DAYS REVOLUTION – Overloaded

Posted on February 21, 2014 by david.wilson

Turenki Records (Release date – out now) Rock ‘n’ Roll and Finland have long gone hand in hand for some reason, maybe it’s the long dark nights? The latest addition to Finland’s rock heritage are Dog … Continue reading →

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Album review: PERC3PTION – Reason And Faith

Posted on February 21, 2014 by david.wilson

MS Metal Records (Release date – out now) Perc3ption are a Brazilian outfit who have been together since 2007. This debut album was released back in their native country last year and is only now reaching … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHRISTINA SKJOLBERG – Come And Get It

Posted on February 21, 2014 by petefeenstra

Ruf Records [Release date 28.01.14] Christina Skjolberg’s ‘Come And Get It’ is the tale of a blonde Norwegian leather clad blues-rock guitarist recording in English under the watchful eye of a Finish producer/guitarist, on a German … Continue reading →

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Album review: LAURENCE JONES – Temptation

Posted on February 21, 2014 by petefeenstra

Ruf Records [Release date 10.03.14] It may be a PR cliché, but the phrase ‘hotly anticipated album’ was never more apt than when applied to Laurence Jones’s ‘Temptation’. Having made a big splash on the UK … Continue reading →

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Album review: MATT SCHOFIELD – Far As I Can See

Posted on February 21, 2014 by petefeenstra

Provogue [Release date 17.02.14] ‘Far As I Can See’ could be the breakthrough album for Matt Schofield, a major Brit blues talent who has teetered on the brink of success for some time. This is an … Continue reading →

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Album review: HELL – Curse & Chapter

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Yiannis

Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Theatrics and Rock music have been enjoying a symbiotic relationship for many years and it is this interesting partnership that is often responsible for the atmospheric and lyrical themes of our beloved music. With legends … Continue reading →

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Album review: IRON SAVIOR – Rise Of The Hero

Posted on February 20, 2014 by jason

AFM Records www.afmrecords.de There is a fair number of German metal bands that have a direct link to Helloween in one form or another. Iron Savior were founded by ex-Helloween man Kai Hansen, then Blind Guardian drummer Thomen Stauch and … Continue reading →

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Album review: FREEDOM CALL – Beyond

Posted on February 18, 2014 by jason

SPV [Release date 24.04.14] Album number eight from Freedom Call and a couple of line-up changes with a new drummer Ramy Ali, along with the return of original bass player Ilker Irsin. I have to admit Freedom Call are one … Continue reading →

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Album review: MAGNUM – Escape From The Shadow Garden

Posted on February 14, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Interview with Tony Clarkin of Magnum, first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 2 March 2014 (12:31) SPV [Release date 24.03.14] It is fair to say that with Magnum you will probably never get a naff album. Tony Clarkin’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: VAN CANTO – Dawn Of The Brave

Posted on February 13, 2014 by jason

Napalm Records A capella metal anyone? Amazingly this is Van Canto’s fifth album and they perform all the music on here bar the drums, so that’s all the bass and guitar solos. They have a good sense of humour as … Continue reading →

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Album review: VANDENBERG’S MOONKINGS – Vandenberg’s Moonkings

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Yiannis

Mascot Records [Release Date: 24.02.14] Adrian Vandenberg is back! The man responsible for the sensational guitar solo in Whitesnake’s all time classic “Here I Go Again” and whose collaboration with David Coverdale built the foundations for the amazing “Slip Of … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: ROBBY HECHT, DAVID BERKELEY, PETER MULVEY, DAMIEN DEMPSEY

Posted on February 10, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

ROBBY HECHT Robby Hecht (Old Man Henry Records) [Release date 24.03.14] DAVID BERKELEY The Fire In My Head (Straw Man Music) [Release date 17.03.14] I’ve brigaded these two singer songwriter’s releases together, not just because they’ll be touring the UK … Continue reading →

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Album review: WICKED FAITH – Under No Illusion

Posted on February 10, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Self-released [Release date 18.11.13] It’s always good to hear a young band giving it their all but referencing – perhaps subconsciously – some of those female-fronted bands that you grew up with. Wicked Faith formed in Norwich in late-2011 and … Continue reading →

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Album review: BRAM STOKER – Cold Reading

Posted on February 8, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

sunn creative [Release date 27.01.14] The band, taking their name from one of the great horror stylists, might well conjure up dark and nefarious activity akin to their early contemporaries Black Widow. Forget all that. 40 years after their debut … Continue reading →

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Album Review: FREEDOM TO GLIDE – Rain

Posted on February 7, 2014 by alanjones

Rubystorm Records [Release Date: 11.11.13] For a pair of musicians whose day job involves being in one of the top tribute bands around, it must be very difficult to break free of the constraints of that musical straight-jacket and decide … Continue reading →

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Album review: ADRIAN GALYSH – Tone Poet

Posted on February 6, 2014 by jason

www.adriangalysh.com [Release date 03.12.13] Not a name I have come across before, although Adrian Galysh has been releasing albums since 1998 (this is his fourth solo album) and has toured in Uli Jon Roth’s band. He has won plaudits from fellow … Continue reading →

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Album review: MISSING PERSONS feat. Dale Bozzio – Missing In Action

Posted on February 5, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Cleopatra Records [Release date 04.03.14] The digipak at the top of the stack didn’t look that inviting. Could it have been Dee Snider’s half-brother on the cover? There’s an awful lot of ivory around that lady’s neck. The name Dale … Continue reading →

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Album review: SEPULTURA – The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Yiannis

Nuclear Blast – Out Now. It’s been seventeen whole years since Max Cavalera, singer and rhythm guitarist of the Brazilian Thrash Metal combo Sepultura, decided to end his working relationship with the band he helped form in Belo Horizonte back … Continue reading →

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Album review: VANISHING POINT – Distant Is The Sun

Posted on February 4, 2014 by jason

AFM Records www.afmrecords.de Another German metal band you might think…but no…Vanishing Point are Australian, they play progressive metal and this is their fifth studio album and the first since The Fourth Season back in 2007. The band has been lead … Continue reading →