Category: Rock

REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT If there was an Olympic Games for Melodic Rock then Sweden would take home the majority of the Gold medals without question. For some reason, the ability to produce this kind of music seems effortless to the Swedes, and the new record from Nighthawk is no exception. It’s [more…]

Finnish rockers Shiraz Lane have never been a band to shy away from evolution, but with In Vertigo, their upcoming album set for release on October 24, 2025, they don’t just evolve—they explode into an entirely new dimension. Released via Frontiers Music Srl, and available on CD, digital, white vinyl, and a [more…]

Heavy Rock Third House Communication Released – June 13th 2025 Review By Smudge Smith Hollow Leg were formed in Florida in 2009 and say this release, their first full album which is two previous EP’s stuck together, is both the soundtrack to Armageddon and a map to survive it. Apparently, they channel [more…]

Hard Rock Rock Company Records Review By Smudge Smith Released – May 2025 It’s been seven years since I last reviewed a Tragik album. This is album no.13 and it features the main man Phil Vincent on vocals, guitars, bass, drums and keyboards although he is ably assisted at times by Vince [more…]

Review By Darren McIntyre Orianthi Penny Panagaris aka Orianthi is a guitarist / singer / songwriter from Adelaide, Australia who has been wowing audiences since 1999, she has been playing in bands since she was 14 and performed her first stage show for Steve Vai aged15. Orianthi has jammed with Santana, played [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes When a band decides to record a live studio album at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, expectations are understandably high. Thankfully, Marisa and The Moths don’t just meet those expectations—they bulldoze through them. With Live in Studio 3, Abbey Road, the Reading-based modern alt-rock band delivers a no-frills, [more…]

Review By Glen Parkes By the time Buckcherry drop their eleventh studio album Roar Like Thunder on June 13, 2025, they’ll have long outlived the hype of their 2006 heyday — and blown straight past it. This latest release is a turbocharged reminder that few bands do sweat-drenched, party-starting, unapologetic hard rock [more…]

Release Date: July 18, 2025 | Label: Lockjaw Records Review By Halina Wegner In an era where punk often teeters between commercial polish and basement purity, Surrey’s DARKO plant their flag firmly in the fertile soil of the grassroots scene. With Canvas, the final piece of a thematically interconnected trilogy alongside Greyscale [more…]

Review BY Halina Wegner Croatian blues-rockers Voodoo Ramble return with fire in their bellies and soul in their strings on their fourth studio album, In The Heart Of The City, released via CD Baby. More than just another step in their evolution, this album is a culmination of everything the band has [more…]