Live Review: Ugly Kid Joe @ Hard Rock Hell
Ugly Kid Joe – Stage 1 - Saturday
Team RAM went down to Hard Rock Hell in Hafan Y Mor, Pwhelli (Wales) to check out...
Mick’s Jaguar find Salvation
With a name like Mick’s Jaguar, I was expecting a Stones based band and yet their debut, Fame and Fortune was more like New...
Hands Off Gretel are the well-oiled alt-rock machine you never knew you needed
Venue: The Globe, Newcastle
If you read a lot about newer bands, or bands 'on the rise', it might mention something to do with this...
Kamikaze Test Pilots Album Review
An all-American sounding album, heavily influenced by System of a Down (or at least that’s what it sounds like), Kamizake Test Pilots offering is...
Review: Ben Poole – Time Has Come
'Square-jawed but vulnerable', implies the cover photo for Ben Poole’s new studio album Time Has Come. Well that’ll pull a much more attractive audience than...
Graveyard dig deep on 6
It is rare I buy a CD by a band I don’t know but in 2011 I was recommended an album called Hisingen Blues...
Bonfire reach Higher Ground
Between 2020 and 2025, Bonfire spent time rolling back the years by working on re-recording their first three studio albums and releasing a semi-unplugged...
Sevendust return with new album ‘All I See Is War’
With all original members, alt-rockers Sevendust are back with their twelfth studio album All I See Is War.
The record is set for release on...
Review: Cold Years – Northern Blues
Britrock has had a tough couple of decades. In the nineties, we were producing bands like The Wildhearts, Terrorvision and The Manic Street Preachers....
Review: Thundermother – Road Fever
With a Chuck Berry lick giving us the come-on Thundermother are off and running with the hard rocking coy-rhyming reverse-sexism couplets of ‘It’s Just...

























