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Over 50 years of rocking the blues, with a recent UK tour under their wings, Savoy Brown release their 40th album City Night on Friday 7th June 2019 through Quarto Valley Records (distributed by Proper). Following 2017’s Witchy Feelin’ being a number one Billboard blues hit in 2017, expectations are high for the band formed in London back in 1965 by guitarist Kim Simmonds. With ...

Israel’s leading progressive metal band Scardust has signed to M-Theory Audio who will reissue the group’s acclaimed full-length debut, Sands of Time, on 24th May ahead of several major summer festival performances. The deal calls for Sands of Time to be made available for the first ever on vinyl, in a limited-edition double record release that will include the group’s ...

Formed over 15 years for live dates but never previously committing to a record deal, Hookers & Blow, the band formed by Guns N’ Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed and Quiet Riot guitarist Alex Grossi, has now signed  with the world’s fastest growing independent record label Golden Robot Records for a 2019 release. Alongside Reed and Grossi, Hookers & Blow‘s line up now includes drummer Johnny ...

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the late Rory Gallagher’s recording career.  To mark the occasion Universal will release rare and unreleased recordings of him playing his favourite blues material, taken from the vaults of the legendary guitarist estate’s archive. Aptly named Blues it will be released on 31st May. For those too young to be aware, Rory Gallagher was a man both The ...

Bloodstock has many rightful claims to the metal festival throne. Apart from the stellar line-up we witness year after year and the en masse crab walking (just YouTube Evil Scarecrow’s 2014 performance on ‘Crabulon’ and it will make sense-ish), is the festival’s nationwide battle of the bands competition, Metal 2 The Masses. If you’re unfamiliar, bands from all over the country ...

Black Country singer Rebecca Downes has released ‘If I Go To Sleep’ on video ahead of the release of her third album, More Sinner Than Saint. Available through Mad Hat Records as of 24th May it features some very special guest performances. Featured on More Sinner Than Saint  alongside Downes are guitarist/co-songwriter Birkett , rhythm section Dan Clark and Lloyd Daker ...

Hollywood glam/punk n’ roll outfit Prophets Of Addiction release an unplugged record for their third full length album, Nothing but the Truth available through HiVolMusic. The decision to make an entirely acoustic album arose when drummer Wayne Stokely too seriously ill, eventually being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “We were devastated, of course, and decided to put off the planned full band ...

Securing positive returns, rock band Collateral prepare for the imminent release of a new single in ‘Lullaby’ on Friday 3rd May ahead of their debut album, and an appearance at this year’s  Camden Rocks Festival on Saturday 1st June alongside dates around the country that will take them throughout the year. “‘Lullaby’  is a song that has the basic feeling of the world we all live ...

Swedish power metal band Bloodbound have brought out a lyric video for ‘The Warlock’s Trail’, a song featured on their latest full length epic, Rise Of The Dragon Empire, available through AFM Records. Rise Of The Dragon Empire is their eighth album, Bloodhound once again teamed up with engineer Jonas Kjellgren who has been responsible for the mix on the ...

With Game Of Thrones underway and Avengers: Endgame less than a week away, 2019 is throwing all but the kitchen sink our way, which includes even more god damn bands to announce for this Augusts’ Bloodstock Festival of pure metal extravaganza. Coming to Derbyshire are industrial alt rockers, SULPHER who’ve nabbed themselves a Sophie Lancaster stage slot on Friday, along with ...