Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)

Album review: PHENOMENA – reissues

Posted on December 22, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Explore Rights Management Ltd [Release date 09.11.18] www.phenomenaproject.co.uk Phenomena was a concept developed by Tom Galley with brother Mel who had featured in Whitesnake and had previously worked with Glenn Hughes in Trapeze.. It brought together various rock alumni including … Continue reading →

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Album review: MASSIVE WAGONS – Full Nelson

Posted on December 19, 2018 by david.wilson

Earache Records [Release date 10.08.18] Massive Wagons must be one of the hardest working bands in the UK. Over the last few years they have toured incessantly up and down the country and have gradually built a huge following which is … Continue reading →

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Album review: ALCATRAZZ – Live In Japan

Posted on December 19, 2018 by david.wilson

Frontiers Records [Release date 28.09.18] This live album captures Alcatrazz on their 1984 Japanese tour at the Nankano Sun Plaza in Tokyo. This is the recently discovered full version of the show which has been remastered and features a set … Continue reading →

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Album review: NORDIC UNION- Second Coming

Posted on December 18, 2018 by andynathan

Release Date 9.11.18 Erik Martensson has maintained a work rate in 2018 that would put the Stalinist-era miner Stakhanov to shame. His own band Eclipse had a quieter year but on top of his significant participation in the W.E.T. and … Continue reading →

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Album review: TEN- Illuminati

Posted on December 18, 2018 by andynathan

Release Date 9.11.18 Ten were standard bearers of the then underground melodic rock scene in the nineties and have recovered after a lean spell to resume a prolific recording schedule- this being their sixth album in this decade alone. Singer … Continue reading →

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Album review: ACE – Five-a-Side/Time For Another/No Strings

Posted on December 18, 2018 by andynathan

BGO Records [Release Date 12.10.18] In most people’s eyes, Ace are a curiosity remembered only for an admittedly classic transatlantic hit single in ‘How Long’ and for giving a first break to one of the UK’s most respected blue eyed … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROADHOUSE – 25 Years And Counting

Posted on December 17, 2018 by petefeenstra

Self release [Release date 04.01.19] There can be few independently run bands that have made it to their 25th anniversary with consistently good new material, but Roadhouse is no ordinary band. Originally a roots-rock and Americana outfit with Southern rock … Continue reading →

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Album review: SALVA – Off The Deep End

Posted on December 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

White Knight Records [Release date 26.10.18] Not another band pillaging the vaults of pioneer classic rock acts such as Genesis Yes, Genesis, Tull, Floyd, Sabbath, Purple and the like? Yes, Swedish proggers Salva, are back with their ‘own’ brand of … Continue reading →

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Album review: HELEN ROSE – Trouble Holding Back

Posted on December 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Monkey Room Music [Release date 21.01.19] I’m not sure what I was expecting from this sax toting singer songwriter debut produced by Marvin Etzioni (Lone Justice bassist and a founder member). Perhaps, a cross between Maria McKee and Rindy Ross … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE C SIDES PROJECT – 10 Days

Posted on December 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

White Knight Records [Release date 26.10.18] Fellow reviewer Alan Jones gave ‘both barrels’ to South Wales proggers C Sides last release – We Are Now (2017) – suggesting that the band, featuring ex Magenta members guitarist Martin Rosser and drummer … Continue reading →

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Album review: TIGER MOTH TALES – Story Tellers Part Two

Posted on December 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

White Knight Records [Release date 26.10.18] We were absolutely blown away this year by Pete Jones’ performances as part of Camel on their Moonmadness tour. His keyboards and vocals were perfect, but it was his sax playing on ‘Another Night’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE MOODY BLUES – In Search Of The Lost Chord (50th Anniversary edition)

Posted on December 15, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Universal [Release date 02.11.18] I’ll be honest, I was never a big Moodies fan. And this 3 CD/2DVD wallet busting re-visitation is clearly aimed at their most ardent followers i.e. those only too ready to meet the hefty £41.99 price … Continue reading →

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Album review: CREYE – s/t

Posted on December 12, 2018 by andynathan

Release Date 12.10.18 It is a sign of the march of time that former new kids on the of Scandinavian melodic rock block are now being succeeded by a third wave of impossibly young bands, and alongside the likes of … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE SENTON BOMBS – Outsiders

Posted on December 12, 2018 by jason

Regolith Records [Release date 07.12.18] I have mistakenly overlooked The Senton Bombs in the past, what a huge error this has been as the Blackpool band release album number 5, “Outsiders”, and what an album, mixing punk, sleaze and classic … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: COME TASTE THE BAND, MOZES AND THE FIRSTBORN, YOUNG FAST RUNNING MAN

Posted on December 11, 2018 by jason

COME TASTE THE BAND Reignition AOR Heaven[Release date 25.01.19] Come Taste the Band is a Norwegian classic hard rock band, founded in 1997 by guitarist Jo Henning Kaasin and singer Vidar Heldal. Since then they have released a couple of Deep … Continue reading →

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Album review: WILLE AND THE BANDITS – Paths

Posted on December 8, 2018 by GRTR! HQ

Farm Hand Records [Release date 01.01.19] Last time we caught up with Wille And The Bandits it was at Giants Of Rock 2017 when they were touring Steal (2017) – a stormer of a blues /rock roots album. So it’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: IAN PARKER – Spoonful Of Gold (Blues For Willie)

Posted on December 7, 2018 by petefeenstra

Eye Pea Records (Release date 23.10.17) It’s over 15 years since Ian Parker originally signed to Ruf records and confounded his fans and probably his record company too by cutting a deeply introspective album that became a best seller. Since … Continue reading →

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Album review: JASON BECKER – Triumphant Heart

Posted on December 6, 2018 by petefeenstra

Mascot (Release date: 07.12.19) Without overlooking the desperate circumstances of guitar virtuoso Jason Becker being stricken by motor neurone disease, the idea of an album filled with some of the greatest rock guitarist of our time playing mostly his music, … Continue reading →

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Album review: EVERGREY – The Atlantic

Posted on December 6, 2018 by jason

AFM Records [Release date 25.01.19] ‘The Atlantic’ is the eleventh album from Evergrey, the masters of dark and atmospheric metal. Tom S Englund and the band have really worked on every detail of the album, be it the sea theme … Continue reading →

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Album review: RYAN McGARVEY – Heavy Hearted

Posted on December 5, 2018 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Ryan McGarvey for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio featuring tracks from the album ‘Heavy Hearted’. This edited version was first broadcast 16 December 2018. Self release [Release date 27.11.18] Ryan McGarvey has made a name as … Continue reading →

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Album review: WALTER TROUT – Survivor Blues

Posted on December 3, 2018 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Walter Trout, playing tracks from the new album. First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 17 March 2019. Provogue Records [Release date 25.01.19] Walter Trout doesn’t do things the easy way, especially when it comes … Continue reading →

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Album review: SLIM CHANCE – New Cross Road

Posted on December 1, 2018 by jason

Fishpool Records [Release date 18.01.19] Slim Chance were the backing band to former Small Faces and Faces member Ronnie Lane (who died aged only 51 in 1997), with three members in the current line-up of Slim Chance featured on those … Continue reading →

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Album review: RED DRAGON CARTEL – Patina

Posted on November 30, 2018 by jason

Frontiers [release date 24.10.18] “Patina’ is the newly released sophomore album from Red Dragon Cartel, the band formed around one time Qzzy Osbourne and Badlands guitarist Jake E Lee. As soon as the needle dropped (metaphorically, of course) I wanted … Continue reading →

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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – Stay Tuned (Deep Purple etc.)

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jason

EarMUSIC [Release date 30.11.18] Drummer Bernhard Welz, known for his work with Schubert In Rock, is the brains behind this all-star charity album, aimed at benefitting the Linda McCartney Fundraising Centre. Welz certainly has a decent contacts list of fellow … Continue reading →

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Album review: ADRIAN BELEW – Mr Music Head/Inner Revolution

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jason

BGO Records [Release date 26.10.18] Adrian Belew is a well respected guitarists having worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, King Crimson and David Bowie amongst others. Even today he is forging ahead in music with his FLUX … Continue reading →