Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS

Album review: CLIVE MITTEN – Suite Cryptique: Recomposing Twelfth Night 1978-1983

Posted on March 20, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

Bumnote Records/Twelfth Night Records [Release date 02.04.21] I have to say the band Twelfth Night have completely passed me by. I’ve known vaguely their name but never really investigated their music, that is until the arrival of a new double-CD … Continue reading →

Album review: NICK WATERHOUSE – Promenade Blue

Posted on March 20, 2021 by jason

Bandcamp [Release date 09.04.21] Nick Waterhouse has been making music since the early 2000’s, playing a mix of rhythm and blues, soul, jazz, rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll. His new album sees him working alongside producer Paul Butler (the Bees, … Continue reading →

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Album review: SPIRIT – Son Of America (3CD reissue/remaster)

Posted on March 19, 2021 by brianmc

Cherry Red Records [Release date 26.03.21] Californian band, Spirit, blossomed in the fertile fields of psychedelic rock. A year after forming in 1967, the year of “The Summer Of Love”, they released their self titled debut, on Ode Records (now … Continue reading →

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Album review: KINGS OF THE QUARTER MILE – Whatever It Takes Is What I’ve Got

Posted on March 19, 2021 by petefeenstra

Kings Of The Quarter Mile - Whatever It Takes I've Got

Pete Feenstra chatted to Pete Juzl guitarist of Kings Of The Quarter Mile for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 21 March 2021. Retroflector Records [Release date 29.01.21] Kings Of The Quarter Mile hail from Worcester in the UK. It’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: SAXON – Inspirations

Posted on March 19, 2021 by jason

Silver Lining [Release date 19.03.21] Four decades into a career that has seen them conquer the globe, there seems to be no stopping the mighty Saxon, their own brand of Heavy Metal Thunder still ringing out loud and proud. Whilst … Continue reading →

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Album review: KATATONIA – Dead Air

Posted on March 18, 2021 by alanjones

Peaceville [Release date: 13.11.20] First of all a confession: I did not join the Katatonia train until they de-coupled themselves from their black metal roots around 2009 with the progressive metal behemoth of an album, ‘Night Is The New Day’. … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE ALARM – War

Posted on March 16, 2021 by jason

The Alarm [Release date 26.02.21] The Alarm are back with a new album, written and recorded in isolation, which physically arrived with fans six weeks from its inception thanks to a special limited edition blank CD-R they can burn themselves. … Continue reading →

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Album review: RONNIE ATKINS – One Shot

Posted on March 14, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers Records [release date 12.03.21] Ronnie Atkins, founding member of Denmark’s Pretty Maids, bows out with his one and only solo album, One Shot. Ronnie has recently been diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer. So the album title is … Continue reading →

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Album review: TOUCH – Tomorrow Never Comes

Posted on March 14, 2021 by andynathan

Escape Music [Release Date 26.03.21] Here’s a reunion few ever expected to see. Touch are most famous to the wider world as the band that opened the first ever Monsters of Rock at Download in 1980. Many years later I … Continue reading →

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Album review: TURBULENCE – Frontal

Posted on March 13, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers Records [Release date 12.03.21] Lebanese Progressive Rock/Metal band, Turbulence, are crossing a few boundaries with their provocatively titled Frontiers debut, Frontal. It is a defiantly bold attempt to incorporate the music of the wider world into their work. Something … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEPHEN CRANE- Kicks

Posted on March 12, 2021 by andynathan

AOR Heaven (Release Date 26.03.21) The rock world is littered with hard luck stories of people failed by the record industry. One such is Stephen Crane. Already a seasoned figure on the Texas music scene, he was signed to MCA … Continue reading →

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Album review: PARIS- 50/50

Posted on March 12, 2021 by andynathan

AOR Heaven (Release Date 26.03.21) France is hardly a hotbed of melodic rock but Paris, essentially the duo of Frederic Dechevanne and Sebastien Montet with some guest musicians, have now released three albums. They follow in a distinguished line of … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE EQUALS – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys

Posted on March 12, 2021 by jason

Cantare [Release date 26.2.21] In the continued absence of the original recordings by The Equals on digital platforms, and with previous CDs long deleted, this collection of tracks recorded for radio broadcast is most welcome. One of the few racially … Continue reading →

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Album review: HEART HEALER – The Metal Opera by Magnus Karlsson

Posted on March 12, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers Records [release date 12.03.21] Magnus Karlsson needs no introduction. Neither do the (all female) vocalists who grace Heart Healer. Apparently a “Metal Opera” has been something of an ambition of Karlsson’s for some time. The idea is not new … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEVE HACKETT – Under A Mediterranean Sky

Posted on March 11, 2021 by alanjones

Inside Out [Release date: 22.01.21] Being the modest chap that he is, Steve Hackett would probably not describe himself as a virtuoso. However, in a career spanning getting on for fifty years from the early days of Genesis through his … Continue reading →

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Album review: SUZI QUATRO – The Devil In Me

Posted on March 11, 2021 by jason

SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 26.03.21] Suzi Quatro is back with her new album ‘The Devil In Me’, which like 2019’s ‘No Control’ album is a joint effort between her and son Richard Tuckey. As Suzi Quatro explained “Starting spring 2020, almost … Continue reading →

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Album review: VINCENT FLATTS FINAL DRIVE – Back In The Saddle

Posted on March 11, 2021 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Steve “Bertie” Burton for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio in July 2019. Self release [Release date 01.06.20] Vincent Flatts Final Drive’s ‘Back In The Saddle’ is a barn burner of an album. You flick the … Continue reading →

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Album review: KAT PEARSON – My Roots

Posted on March 10, 2021 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Kat Pearson on Sunday 14 March for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio Tone Trade Records [Release date 06.01.20] Kat Pearson is a London based, West Coast American roots-rock singer with a blues heart. Unlike many of … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOSEPH PARSONS – At Mercy’s Edge

Posted on March 10, 2021 by jason

Blue Rose Records [Release date 01.01.21] Joseph Parsons is a new name to me, however, he has been playing his musical trade for over thirty years now, including releasing thirteen solo albums prior to this one, and a further ten … Continue reading →

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Album review: WINDING ROAD- s/t

Posted on March 9, 2021 by andynathan

AOR Heaven [Release Date 26.03.21] The thriving Scandinavian melodic rock scene is not just one for young bucks. Winding Road are a new band in which three musicians with a long list of credits in their native Sweden have come … Continue reading →

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Album review: GHALIA VOLT – One Woman Band

Posted on March 9, 2021 by petefeenstra

Ruf Records [Release date 29.01.21] ‘One Woman Band’ is much more than it says on the tin. Ghalia Volt is a force of nature, who lets nothing stand in her way to fulfilling her musical vision. You’ll either buy into … Continue reading →

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Album review: STEVEN WILSON – The Future Bites

Posted on March 8, 2021 by alanjones

SW Records [Release date: 29.01.21] There’s a body of music fans who, if their favourite artist dares to stray from their favoured genre, castigate said artist with the tired (and tiresome) clichés “sold out”, “going mainstream”, “chasing the Yankee dollar”, … Continue reading →

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Album review: LEAGUE OF LIGHTS – Dreamers Don’t Come Down

Posted on March 7, 2021 by jason

Eightspace Records [Release date 12.03.21] League Of Lights, the husband and wife duo of Richard (also a member of prog metal band Threshold) and Farrah West, return with their third album. As Farrah explains, “The album is about the past, … Continue reading →

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Album review: ORDEN OGAN – Final Days

Posted on March 7, 2021 by brianmc

AFM Records [Release date 12.03.21] Orden Ogan might not be the band on everyone’s lips when Progressive or Power Metal is the subject of conversation. But they should be. And if their last album, Gunmen, didn’t put them there, Final … Continue reading →

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Album review: THUNDER – All The Right Noises

Posted on March 6, 2021 by jason

BMG [Release date 12.03.21] Thunder have been on something of a purple patch album wise since 2015’s ‘Wonder Days’ and that form continues on this, their thirteenth studio album (if you include 2019’s acoustic led ‘Please Remain Seated’). They have … Continue reading →