Hanoi Rocks should’ve been huge. At the beginning of the eighties, Motley Crue, Poison, and not even Guns and Roses were hip enough to look over the top of Hanoi Rocks’ platform boots. “Two Steps From The Move” was released in 1983 to mass critical acclaim.
This little beauty “Animals” was originally released in 1977—a dark, brooding album with words from Roger Waters condemning the occupants of the planet for their lack of ability to think for themselves. Now we have a stunning new version freshly remixed by the band.
After inventing the heavy metal tag in the bikers’ anthem ‘Born To Be Wild’ and flying the anti-drug cause in ‘The Pusher,’ John Kay and the boys turned their attention to the anti-war campaign with their smash hit album “Monster.”
The whole album is a thing of great beauty, sumptuous in both melody and rhythm. It’s the album we all need coming, as it does in yet another tumultuous time in the history of human beings.
In 2022 Arthur Brown celebrates his 80th Birthday and as a treat we get a new album. The fine Long Long Road. The man may well be eighty years old, but the voice is still in the same fine fettle it was in 1968.
Ozzy Osbourne. The Godfather of Metal. The Big Double O. The Prince of Darkness. The man is a true living legend—the genuine article. Released on Friday, 9th September, this is certainly not a run-through for the pipes and slippers brigade. This is a fully-fledged heavy metal rock record, with over an hour of music; no filler, all killer.
With a mighty roar and rocking battery of guitars—Megadeth is back. Through troubled waters Dave Mustaine has brought the beast that is his band back to the forefront of rock music.
As soon as opening song ‘Murder the Summer Of Love’ blasts off you know you are in for a fierce ride. The guitars lock together, the rhythm section thunders, whilst Michael Monroe, after an opening soul searching scream, comes spitting out, “No fun in the California sun.”