Recorded on November 17th 2018 at Boerderji Cultuupodium, Zoetermeer, Netherlands, ‘Caught in the Whirlwind of Time’ is Mystery’s latest live album, released in 2020 in support of the band’s world tour promoting the studio album ‘Lies and Butterflies.’
If you just want to kick up some dirt and have a good time, I suggest you look no further. You can also have some fun listening out for all the name checks scattered about amongst the lyrics. ‘Mambo Sons Play Some Rock and Roll’ would sum up this review in seven words.
This excellent debut solo album from 1975 comes across like a live set. Hunter joins with ex-David Bowie axe man Mick Ronson to create a blistering rock ‘n’ roll album, brushing aside the mourning of the recently demised Mott The Hoople, who Hunter had fronted for the previous five years.
Birth Control was first formed in Berlin, Germany, in 1966. There is a band still going under that moniker in 2022; in fact, they have just released a new album entitled ‘Open Up.’ But of course the Birth Control of 2022 (sic) is not what it used to be. The Birth Control of today is several generations down the line. However, this review is for their best-selling and certainly most renowned album, ‘Hoodoo Man’ from 1972.
45 years after its original release, Kiss – Destroyer gets the big box set treatment. There are two versions: the Deluxe Version and the Super Deluxe.
Senjutsu is the seventeenth studio album from Iron Maiden, the first in six years. However, the album was recorded back in 2019 but held back due to the pandemic. This is also the sixth studio album by this stable lineup. At over 80 minutes you certainly get a lot of bang for your buck.
This is Yngwie Malmsteen’s 22nd album. Parabellum, loosely translated from Latin means, “Prepare for War,” making it a very fitting album title even though it was only adopted as the album title at the last second before release. But with music and artwork of this quality, a title is the least of your problems.
Monster Magnet’s A Better Dystopia is not a collection of your normal run of the mill rock standards. Not at all. The vaults have been dredged for a collection of forgotten, obscure classics by bands that deserved far more recognition. Not only is this a great album, it may also inspire a lot of people to search out and find the original artists. A must-have for rock music enthusiasts.
With the release of their third album, The Lowdown, Baleful Creed have laid down their heaviest mark yet. Saying that, this is not Heavy Metal but bludgeoning Diamond Hard Rock.
A new studio album from Alice Cooper arrived in 2021, and it rocks! Full of Alice trademark horror, hard rock guitar riffs, humour, and catchy rhythms that work their way into your brain, it’s a storyteller’s delight. Smacking into the Billboard Charts at Number One upon release, it became Alice’s first number one since Billion Dollar Babies in 1973.
