Month: November 2020

The 1980 founded combo around front man David ‘Rock’ Feinstein always stood a little in the shadow of Feinstein’s cousin Ronnie James Dio despite good releases. The New York singer and guitarist could not match his vocal brilliance, which was not necessary. Their melodic metal with clear borrowings from the seventies was part of the NWOBHM’s haze at the beginning of the 1980s and the band played gigs with Iron Maiden or Motörhead. Three meanwhile sought-after albums are now released as valuable CD reissues with bonus tracks, new liner notes and previously unreleased photos by classic rock specialist Rock Candy.

01 Hurricane
02 Can’t Get Enough Of The Fun
03 Witches Brew
04 Go For Broke
05 Hot Love
06 Hot City

The German figurehead of Heavy Metal releases his new, much anticipated studio album “Too Mean To Die” via Nuclear Blast! Special circumstances often lead to very special albums. This is certainly true for “Too Mean To Die”, which of course alludes to the Corona era, even if in a different way than we might have expected. No doubt: With “Too Mean To Die” ACCEPT are once again playing at the top of the Champions League of the genre. Wolf Hoffmann & Co. present the (music) world eleven masterpieces at the beginning of 2021 – eleven songs for eternity.

01 Zombie Apocalypse
02 Too Mean To Die
03 Overnight Sensation
04 No Ones Master
05 The Undertaker
06 Sucks To Be You
07 Symphony Of Pain
08 The Best

FICTION SYXX released their debut, “TALL DARK SECRETS”, which was released via MELODIC ROCK RECORDS and was well received worldwide in 2017. MARK ALLEN LANOUE (Chasing karma/Biloxi/Persian Risk), Tony “The Fretless Monster” Franklin (Kenny Wayne Shepard/The Firm/Blue Murder), JK Northrup (King Kobra/XYZ), Eric Ragno (Joel Lynn Turner/Graham Bonnet), and Rory Faciane came together to create a Smoking release. This first release included other guests such as: Jimi Bell (House of Lords/The Geezer Butler Band), Bill Leverty (FIREHOUSE), Steve Brown (TRIXTER), Christian Wentz (CIRCLE II CIRCLE/Futures End), David Cagle (International session vocalist), Karl Cochran (rated x, farcry), Carl Sentence (NAZARETH/Don Airey), Thorsten Koehne (Edens Curse), Lee Small (

Karl says: “The diversity is still definitely there just like on the first album. But this time around to quote my dad’s boss from the 80s ‘MORE IS MORE’!”

The music on »Tundra« follows the musical direction TUNGSTEN had on »We Will Rise« but with more of everything. The listener will recognize the characteristics of TUNGSTEN but the sound is darker and from time to time more epic than before. The blend-in of catchy metal is still there.

01 Lock And Load
02 Volfram’s Song
03 Time
04 Divided Generations
05 King Of Shadows
06 Tundra
07 Paranormal
08 Life And The Ocean
09 I See Fury
10 This Is War
11 Here Comes The Fall Feat. Jens Johannson

Throughout the show, Clapton shared the stage with other musicians to perform some of his most famous songs, including “Layla? with John Mayer and acoustic versions of “Wonderful Tonight? and “Lay Down Sally? with Andy airweather Low. Clapton bowed with a glowing performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps? alongside Peter Frampton also before his deceased friend George Harrison.

1. Introduction
2. “Native Stepson” – Sonny Landreth
3. “Wonderful Tonight” – Eric Clapton & Andy Fairweather Low
4. “Lay Down Sally” – Eric Clapton & Andy Fairweather Low
5. “Million Miles” – Bonnie Raitt, Keb’ Mo’ & Alan Darby
6. “Son’s Gonna Rise” – Citizen Cope with Gar