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A Little Background Info: Revoltons are an Italian band that have been around for a good number of years with their first album coming out back in 2003. New album Underwater Bells part 2; October 9 1963; Act 1 (to give it it’s full title) is their fifth album and probably the one with the […]
A Little Background: One of the great things about writing and reviewing is that you get some lovely offers from agencies to check out bands on their roster. Sometimes they are bands that you haven’t heard of. This happened to me when I opened an email asking if I might be interested in checking out […]
A Little About The Band: Anchor Lane are a group of young lads from Scotland and in particular the Glasgow area. They have what looks to be a great future ahead of them. They have already garnered much praise along with good reviews having successfully supported artists such as Cheap Trick, Eagles Of Death Metal […]
Thursday at Bloodstock Metal Festival is special. Only folks with full weekend tickets are able to enjoy the entertainment put on. As always, there is a line up of bands to get the weekend party started and Bloodstock have announced the bands to perform for the pre-show event at Catton Hall Derbyshire on the 6th […]
About The Band: There seems to be no end to artists that are new to me. I, like many reading this, think I am well up on bands and artists within the rock/metal/prog genres, yet every few weeks I hear a new name to me that makes my ears shoot up. This time it is […]
Background: ADX are a new name on me. As there was no information with the stream that was sent I had to go googling to try and get some background about them. They are supposedly “speed metal” however on listening to the album they are more varied than that. The band originates from Paris, France. […]
Background: Marko Hietala is probably best known as bassist and the harsher voice of symphonic metal outfit Nightwish. For the first time, he has stepped out on his own with his album Pyre Of The Black Heart. The album has been available for a while now in his own language of Finnish, but he has […]
About The Band: After nearly a 3-year wait progressive metallers Sons Of Apollo are back with a brand new album called rather appropriately MMXX which of course is 2020 in Roman numerals. Getting the album out in January means they have beaten everyone else to it. (I am sure this will screw up a few […]
Some Background: Frogg are a progressive or technical metal band from Stamford USA. The band originally were a high school band who did mainly (according to the blurb) Children Of Bodom covers. Singer and guitarist Sky Moon Clark after that went to Berklee College Of Music where he decided to keep things going by writing […]
To get the new year underway Bloodstock announce 7 more bands for the event to be held once again at Catton Hall Derbyshire the weekend of August 6 to 9. In this we have 3 announcements for the main stage named after legend Ronnie James Dio and normally just referred to as the Dio and […]
