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Album review: NICOLE ATKINS – Drama
Sun Records/ Wicked Games Records [Release date 18.09.26] Nicole Atkins returns with her first all-new album in over six years. The album came together at the behest of her close friend and touring partner Chris Isaak, who signed her to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Issak, country, Drama, Nicole Atkins, pop, review, singer songwriter, Wilco
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Album review: TEN YEARS AFTER – Cricklewood Green (Deluxe Edition)
Chrysalis [Release date 28.08.26] Ten Years After are a British blues rock group who really don’t get enough love. After several breaks, reunions and line-up changes, they’re still going strong, after their formation in the mid 60s. With their roots … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, classic album, classic rock, Cricklewood Green, deluxe edition, reissue, review, rock, Ten Years After
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Album review: ALBERT BOUCHARD – Imaginos IV: Rhyme of the Star Clock
Deko Entertainment [Release date 25.09.26] The story so far… In 1981, Albert Bouchard was fired, mid-tour, from Blue Öyster Cult, the band he helped to form back in the 1960s. His immediate response was to hook up with the band’s … Continue reading
Album review: EVA UNDER FIRE – Villainous
Better Noise Music [Release date 10.07.26] The female-fronted pop metal genre is a fairly crowded space these days. We have – for example – Ad Infinitum (Switzerland), Elysion (Greece) and not forgetting the trailblazers who are sounding as good as … Continue reading
Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Works Live
BMG [Release date 24.07.26] Recorded in Montreal, Canada in 1977, this live album was originally released in 1979 as the single LP ‘In Concert’ it was originally intended to be a double album, but that idea was kiboshed by the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Carl Palmer, classic rock, ELP. Emerson Lake & Palmer, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, prog, prog rock, review, Works Live
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Album review: LALU : A Mythmaker’s Demise
Frontiers Music [Release date : 31.07.26] Looks like Progrock supremo, Vivien Lalu’s got the band back together for his fifth album.In fact today’s Lalu is a lot like yesterday’s Lalu, both in compliment and style, with Mekong Delta’s Martin LeMar … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontiers Music, Joop Wolters, Martin LeMar, progrock, review, Simon Philips, Vivien Lalu
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Album review: PAULIE BOY BLUES – Back from the Dead Live in Brooklyn New York
Facebook Paulie Boy is on a mission to spread the blues, but is this album of six songs recorded rough, ready and live, the blues, or is it psychedelic rock? It’s certainly channelling Hendrix, and it’s certainly covering classic blues … Continue reading
Album review: OSIRIS – Within A Dream
Escape Music [Release date 14.08.26] Osiris is an all-Bahraini prog rock band founded in 1980 by brothers Mohamed Alsadeqi (guitars, vocals) and Nabil Alsadeqi (drums, percussion). They have been active ever since, bar a hiatus between 1993 and 2000. Osiris … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bahrain, Camel, Clive Nolan, Escape Music, melodic, OSIRIS, prog, prog rock, progressive, review, Within A Dream
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Album review : ICONIC – II
Frontiers Music [Release date : 31.07.26] Long haired, MTV look rock bands are well and truly back in fashion, in an under the mainstream radar kind of way. Cue Iconic. Recruited from headline bands Stryper, Whitesnake, Blue Murder, and the … Continue reading
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Album review: BYWATER CALL – Broken Souvenirs
Bandcamp [Release date 29.07.26] Diversity is definitely this Bywater Call’s strength. From Al Green type soul to stark americana acoustic Davey Graham style guitar picking with a vocal, to almost goth style moods, and the glue sticking this all together … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Green, album, Americana, blues, Broken Souvenirs, Bywater Call, Meghan Parnell, review, rock, soul
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Album review : LEMMING PROJECT : Hate and Extinction, 2 CD Edition
Cherry Red [Release date : 31.07.26] If you consider the Death Metal genre to be defined by heavily distorted, low-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and fast blast-beats, then Lemming Project is the archetype. This is a band – Thomas Jasjke, Torsten … Continue reading
Album review: WINTER IN EDEN – Never Untold
Explore Rights Management/Cherry Red [Release date 03.07.26] We’ve commented previously that this band is not exactly prolific and, sadly, we’re not aware of any live shows either. This probably says more about the state of music and opportunities to gain … Continue reading
Album review : MANIA – Changing Times (CD Edition)
Cherry Red [Release date 24.07.26] German Speed / Power Metal Band, Mania released one EP, Wizard Of The Lost Kingdom (which is in no way as corny as the title suggests), and one full length album, the cult classic, Changing … Continue reading
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Album review: BILLY MORRISON – Hollow
TLG/ZOID/Virgin Music Group [Release date 07.08.26] Billy Idol’s rhythm guitarist Billy Morrison has been carving out a successful solo career, including hit singles on the US mainstream rock charts with Ozzy Osbourne on ‘Crack Cocaine’, and again with Ozzy and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Idol, Billy Morrison, country, Duff McKagan, Godsmack, Hollow, metal, nu-metal, Nuno Bettencourt, Ozzy Osbourne, punk, rap metal, review, rock, Run DMC, Steve Stevens, the Offspring
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Album review : ZAN / CODY – Beautiful’n Damned
Frontiers Music [Release date 24.07.26] As most will know, Zinny Zan and Harry Cody are both ex Shotgun Messiah, a band from the past whose two remaining members, rebranded, are making a future for themselves. There are some exciting tracks … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful'n Damned, Frontiers Music, Harry Cody, review, Shotgun Messiah, Zinny Zan
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News: Albums of the Month (April – June 2026)
A quarterly feature highlighting album releases rated highly by the GRTR! review team and worthy of your investigation. We try and pick out a cross-section of albums that reflect the range of genres reviewed at the website. The star rating … Continue reading
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Tagged 2026, albums of the month, April, blues rock, classic rock, hard rock, June, May, melodic rock, metal, Progressive Rock
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Album review: ELEKTRADRIVE – 40th Anniversary Live!
Andromeda Relix/Maracash Records [Release date 17.05.26] www.elektradrive.com Any album that has a wildcat shredding guitar on the cover has my vote. My interest in Elektradrive goes a bit deeper than cat worship though. In 2009 we reviewed the band’s last … Continue reading
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Album review: PARKER BARROW – Hold The Mash
Website [Release date 17.07.26] Oh boy The Stones and Parker Barrow release new albums within a week of each other. The old guard release a masterpiece, and the new guard release what could be their masterpiece but it’s a little … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Fanny, Hold the Mash, Megan Kane, Parker Barrow, review, rock, rock 'n' roll
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Album review: DAN BYRNE – This Is Where The Show Begins
Frontiers [Release date 22.05.26] Revival Black were a promising band who released their last album in 2022. Frontman Dan Byrne broke away soon after and released an excellent EP ‘Beginnings’ in 2023. As our melodic rock supremo Andy Nathan commented … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dan Byrne, hard rock, melodic, review, Revival Black, This Is Where The Show Begins
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Album review: THE FORTUNATE FEW – Isn’t That So
[Release date 29.05.26] The first thing I thought when I first heard this album by the Fortunate Few is Joe Cocker Sheffield Steel era, which is good for the drummer and bass player as Sly and Robbie were the rhythm … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Covers, Isn't That So, review, rock, The Fortunate Few
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Album review: MORK – Monolitt
Peaceville [Release date 19.06.26] mork is an acclaimed Black Metal project formed by Norwegian multi instrumentalist Thomas Eriksen in 2004, this is their 8th album. The title translates as Monolith; inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, it explores … Continue reading
Album review : TESLA – Homage
Frontiers Music [Release date : 17.07.26] Tesla released their debut album, Mechanical Resonance in 1986 and now release their eighth, Homage, forty years later. Six studio albums and five live albums in between, and a relatively stable line up over … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis. Supertramp, Etta James, Frontiers Music, Homage, Jeff Keith, Mechanical Resonance, Motown, Queen, review, Tesla
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Album review: THE ROLLING STONES – Foreign Tongues
Polydor [Release date 10.07.26] I know, I know, I can’t give six stars. Well in that case this definitely gets a big cheeky bombastic five. Kicking off with ‘Rough And Twisted’ the B-side of the first single ‘In The Stars’, … Continue reading
Gig review: DEF LEPPARD/ EXTREME – BP Pulse Live, Birmingham, 4 July 2026
BP Pulse Live was already humming with midsummer anticipation long before the first band stepped out. Birmingham crowds know their rock history, and on this night they welcomed two acts who helped shape it — Extreme and Def Leppard — … Continue reading
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Album review: SCHEFF TOLLE ADRIAENS – Let’s Stop The World
Pride & Joy Music [Release date 26.06.26] The trio of Darin Scheff, Christian Tolle and Morris Adriaens each have plenty of musical experience. Darin Scheff is the brother of former Chicago vocalist Jason (who guests on a couple of songs … Continue reading
