John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity is a storming guitar-driven instrumental album released in 2020. It doesn’t really matter when it was released; it simply Rocks!

At last, like a shining light in the sky, something to get really excited about in the world of classic rock in these depressing days of the pandemic. This group of young lads from Glasgow, Scotland, have finally managed to get their debut album out Against the Wall and it’s a scorcher.

On the 40th Anniversary of its original release, the present line-up of Diamond Head have re-recorded, re-imagined and re-vamped the seven songs from their debut release.

Since forming from the ashes of their previous band Terraplane, Thunder have become an institution in rock music. All The Right Noises is Thunder’s Thirteenth studio album and upon release went into the upper reaches of the charts in thirty seven different countries.

Transatlantic is the ultimate Progressive Rock Supergroup. This album is all the more remarkable as with the lack of travel during the pandemic, the music had to be transferred from continent to continent to allow everyone to put in their parts. But it sounds as if they were all in the same studio together.

Recorded January 1973 in Kansas in the middle of a snow storm, this delightfully shows off the heat created by this quartet. Sadly not released until nearly forty years after Flash’s demise, nevertheless it is a marvelous reminder of what a great Progressive Rock Band Flash were, especially as a live attraction.

If you like space rock or listening to music that takes you away on an asteroid, then this is the album for you.

Hawkwind’s 32nd studio album, which they released in their fiftieth year (2019), is a collection of Hawkwind Standards re-recorded and then rearranged by Mike Batt of Wombles fame!