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.
Cheap Trick step up In Another World in 2021, a great party record guaranteed to get everybody out on the dance floor.
Settlement is an incredible new album from the Strawbs written, recorded and produced during the band’s fifth decade.
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.
