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Metal

Avatar – ‘Don’t Go In The Forest’

Avatar – ‘Don’t Go In The Forest’ Metal Black Waltz Records Release Date – October 31st 2025 Review By Smudge Album number 10 from Avatar and as usual you never know what to expect other than world class metal in whatever form they feel. You have to remember that these guys have [more…]

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Rock

Punchdrunk Saints – ‘Punchdrunk Saints’

Hard Rock/Punk Cadiz Music Release Date – October 24th 2025 Review By Smudge Christmas has really come early. Punchdrunk Saints feature former Cockney Rejects guitarist Micky Geggus who has a real interest in hard rock. Back in 1982 the Rejects recorded a solid hard rock album called ‘The Wild Ones’ which was [more…]

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Metal

For The Forsaken – Hard Rock Music With Feelings

Album – Hole in My Soul Release Date – 19th September 25 Review by Linda McDermott Cambridge outfit For The Forsaken have been steadily building their reputation with a string of hard-hitting singles, and now the real milestone has arrived. Their debut album Hole In My Soul lands on 19th September, pulling [more…]

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Jace Media Music

Rockin’ The Country UK

Sovereign Quarter Horses Horse Creek Farm March, Cambs Saturday 6th September 2025 Sovereign Quarter Horses is owned and managed by the husband-and-wife team of David and Sarah Deptford in the heart of the fens in March, Cambridgeshire. It’s beautifully flat with views for miles. It was originally established by David and his [more…]

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Singles

The Hot One Two – Keep the Anthems Coming!

Single – Alive Again Release Date – 19th September Review by Linda McDermott The Hot One Two aren’t messing about when it comes to flying the flag for rock ’n’ roll. Hailing from Cambridge, the four-piece have been turning heads since 2017, when bassist Nick Blackburn, guitarist Nick Manners, and drummer Joe [more…]

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Jace Media Music

Nicko McBrain & David Frangioni launch ‘Metal Sticks’ podcast

The Steve Morse Band have announced details of their brand-new album, Triangulation, which will be released on 14 November via Music Theories Recordings (Yngwie Malmsteen, Ayreon, Paul Gilbert, Vandenberg). To celebrate, they have unveiled the official video for their new track, Break Through. Break Through is the first new music since the release of 2009’s Out Standing In Their Field.  Talking about the [more…]

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Wolfgang Van Halen’s MAMMOTH reveals new single/video “I Really Wanna” + London event this Friday

HTTPS://MAMMOTH.LNK.TO/IREALLYWANNA MUSIC VIDEO FOR LATEST SONG CAN BE SEEN HERE MAMMOTH CONFIRM ‘IN CONVERSATION’ & STRIPPED BACK SET EVENT WITH BANQUET RECORDS IN KINGSTON UPON THAMES THIS FRIDAY NIGHT GRAMMY® Award-nominated songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Wolfgang Van Halen is back with the third track from his upcoming studio album, The End. “I Really Wanna” comes on [more…]

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Interviews

By The ‘Book’: An Interview with Darker Half

By Justin Smulison I love a good ‘ol fashioned metal album and Darker Half has delivered another powerful entry to the genre with their new LP, The Book Of Fate, available worldwide from Massacre Records. The Australian quartet has picked up where their prior album, If You Only Knew, left off; with [more…]

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