I’m a sucker for a one-person “band”, and Immolate moTh popped onto my radar recently. The band is Thom Bleasdale, and – as mentioned in the interview below – he writes and records his music partly as therapy to help deal with fibromyalgia. I’ve got friends who also suffer from this and [...]

Some more album news for you on this fine Thursday…. Mötley Crüe On 4 November 2016, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release “The End – Live In Los Angeles” by Mötley Crüe on DVD, Blu-ray, DVD+2CD, DVD + 2LP, Deluxe Edition and Digital Video. This show captures the madness and the [...]

It’s been a while since we popped a Classic Cover up here, and it’s back with a smash. Aerosmith’s original “Dream On” is one of the classic heavy rock ballads with a quality bit of riffwork. Blacktop Mojo have released a version that does the 43 year-old (!) original proud [...]

“Epic” is such an overused word in modern day parlance. Like ‘awesome’ before it, it’s been used so frequently and in so many inappropriate contexts as to totally drain it of its original meaning. So pity anyone charged with trying to describe the operatic grandeur, the tremendous scale, and the [...]

The end of the week is rolling towards us like a very patient, and slow, bulldozer… Hopefully these will tide you over in the meantime: Deprive – “A Mournful Prophecy” Death metal brimming with emotions, leaning towards the doom spectrum as well (think of the UK doom trio), Deprive’s latest [...]

Thanks to the lovely folk at PlanetMosh for allowing us to republish their video interviews from this year’s Bloodstock after our recording equipment was eaten for dinner by gremlins! Here’s a quickie with the wonderful Yorkshire nutters Pulverise. If you could bottle their energy, the oil companies would go bankrupt. [...]