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The album cover for Inglorious' 'V' (2025). The album cover has a space theme going on with the red "V" in the blue star, the outer space background with lots of stars and a striking visual of a red humanoid robot in the middle of a big, red circle.
Album Reviews

INGLORIOUS – V

June 16, 2025 Lana Teramae 0

In 2022, following seven years of non-stop touring and recording albums, UK hard rock band Inglorious went on hiatus to catch a slight breather. Then, summer 2023 kicks in and lead vocalist Nathan James meets …READ MORE

INSANIA - The Great Apocalypse - album cover. The image depicts anruined city, with no human life in sight. Ons small plant breaks throught the pavement, as life returns to the city. Central to the image is a Doe and her fawn.
Album Reviews

INSANIA – The Great Apocalypse

June 16, 2025 Bryce Van Patten 0

From humble beginnings in Stockholm in the early ’90s, Insania carved a name for themselves with a blend of melodic power metal influenced by genre titans like Helloween and Iron Maiden. What began as a …READ MORE

The album cover for 'The Devil Wears Nada - Postalgia' depicts a gothic, somewhat unsettling painting. In the center is a large, old brick house with multiple windows and a turret, surrounded by bare, gnarled trees. A graveyard with gravestones and skeletal figures is in the foreground, behind a black wrought-iron fence. Two large, disembodied hands with long, red fingers hover ominously in the sky above the house, as if manipulating strings. The band name 'the DEVIL WEARS NADA' is prominently displayed in white text, with 'Postalgia' in a smaller, golden script below it. The overall style is dark and somewhat eerie.
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THE DEVIL WEARS NADA – Postalgia

June 10, 2025 Dan Skiba 0

The Devil Wears Nada is a Swedish band that plays Melodic Hard Rock and incorporates haunted castle keyboards and other off-kilter instrumentation. Their debut album originally came out under the title Adecence in 2023, only …READ MORE

Album cover for 'Magic Power: All-Star Tribute to Triumph.' It's a dark blue background with silver, shining lights, it lists the featured vocalists on the album, and in the very back, there's a stadium all lit up. The Triumph logo is big and silver.
Album Reviews

VARIOUS ARTISTS – Magic Power: All-Star Tribute To Triumph

June 8, 2025 Lana Teramae 0

There are certain bands that don’t get the credit they deserve and Triumph are one of those bands. The group was formed in 1975 by drummer Gil Moore and bassist Mike Levine in Mississauga, Ontario, …READ MORE

A strange landscape with an old pocket watch on one side and an hourglass on the other, with misty snippets of Chris Caffery album covers in between.
Album Reviews

CHRIS CAFFERY – 20 Years Of The Music Man

June 6, 2025 Bryce Van Patten 0

When you’ve played pivotal roles in both Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, your solo work has some major shoes to fill. Fortunately, Chris Caffery has never been one to shy away from a challenge. With …READ MORE

The album cover for 'Ronnie Romero - Live At Rock Imperium Festival' shows a black and white image of Ronnie Romero, a man with long dark hair and a beard, singing passionately into a microphone. He is wearing a dark, studded vest and has tattoos on his arms. Behind him, a large, blurred crowd can be seen, and the band's logo 'Ronnie Romero' is prominently displayed at the top, with 'LIVE AT ROCK IMPERIUM FESTIVAL' at the bottom in gold lettering.
Album Reviews

RONNIE ROMERO – Live At Rock Imperium Festival

June 5, 2025 Dan Skiba 0

Vocalist Ronnie Romero was the voice of modern-era Rainbow and Michael Schenker Group, and more recently, Lords of Black with guitarist Tony Hernando and The Ferrymen. He was invited to play at the Rock Imperium …READ MORE

Album cover for Masseti's 'Odds and Ends.' The album is a plain, black backdrop with the skull of a deer on the right side of the cover.
Album Reviews

MASSETI – Odds and Ends

June 2, 2025 Lana Teramae 0

Masseti is the ambitious, brand new project by progressive metal innovator Tiago Masseti. Born and raised in the south of Brazil, Masseti became a little fish in a big pond when he moved to the …READ MORE

Live Reviews

CONTINENTAL LOVERS / TRENCH DOGS / SUICIDE BOMBERS (Live)

May 31, 2025 Mick Burgess 0

What can a tenner get you these days? A meal out? No. A ticket to a football match? No. A train ride to the nearest city? Definitely not. How about a ticket to the hottest …READ MORE

Live Reviews

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT (Live)

May 27, 2025 Mick Burgess 0

Last night’s scarce outing by Soft White Underbelly at the Islington Assembly Hall left many aghast at how Blue Öyster Cult could possibly top that performance which saw the band mining their vaults including a …READ MORE

castellano, Bloom, Radino, Dharma, Miranda
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SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY (Live)

May 27, 2025 Mick Burgess 0

If Carlsberg did weekends then they’d probably be like this. After a somewhat shaky start with cancelled trains and travel chaos ahead of Sunderland Football Club’s Championship Play Off Final at Wembley things got even …READ MORE

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