Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Release Date 22nd May 2020 – Rock People Records
Formed in 2014, These Wicked Rivers are a four-piece rock band from Derby in the UK, and have previously released two EPs: The Enemy and II, alongside a double A-side single Shoulda Known Better, which gained the band a first wave of critical acclaim.
Continue reading Album Review : These Wicked Rivers – EdenReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Release Date June 19th 2020 (Off Yer Rocka Recordings)
Thirteen Stars are a Southern Rock band with a bluesy/country swing all the way from the West Coast of Cumbria. Finest Ramshackle Jam is an album that I have found really hard to categorise – not that I really want to pigeonhole any artist – from a band than spans the whole spectrum from bluegrass through country to soul, grunge and then flat out southern rock. The common thread running across the whole thing is the rough gruff vocal delivery of main man Hoss Thompson who founded the band back in 2009, and in fact wrote, sang and played all the instruments on the 2010 debut release!
Continue reading Album Review : Thirteen Stars – Finest Ramshackle JamReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
The UK band’s self-titled album from the following year was widely acclaimed by critics and fans alike, so the 4-piece’s follow up Lost Souls which was released this week, is expected to make huge waves in the NWOCR scene especially, but given the slightly progressive elements here, local fans of Cog, Dead Letter Circus and Karnivool would all find plenty to get interested in.
Continue reading Album Review : RYDER’S CREED – LOST SOULSReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Release Date June 5th 2020
This is a debut album to be rightly proud of – after a couple of earlier EP releases, Welsh southern blues rock band Everyday Heroes have produced A Tale of Sin & Sorrow, that is in part a concept album following the redemption pilgrimage of a young outlaw, Texas Red, as he tries to turn his life around and become a better person.
Continue reading Album Review : Everyday Heroes – A Tale of Sin & SorrowReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Self-titled album – released May 8th 2020
The second album from London-based Swiss rockers Daxx & Roxane has been at least partly crowd-funded, and is the follow up to their 2017 debut Ticket To Rock. Produced by Colin Parkinson (ex Inglorious) and demanded to be played LOUD, this shows a development towards a more sophisticated and mature sounding record – still very much a few-frills rock album, but with a bit more polish.
Continue reading Album Review : Daxx & Roxane (Self-titled)Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Album Release Date 12th June 2020 (Frontiers)
VEGA have been a favourite of mine for a few years now, having picked up their first album Kiss of Life around 10 years ago, and also having known singer Nick Workman from previous band Kick. Always melodic, with a touch of modern nu-metal edge that set them a little apart from the crowd, they have released a handful of albums now, and have played with the likes of FM, Magnum, Dan Reed Network and Skid Row, and are due to be out supporting H.E.A.T. on their UK Tour in October which will be a cracking match of hard-edged melodic rock.
Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Release Date – June 19th 2020
If you remember the excitement back in 2006 when The Answer, a relatively unknown band from Northern Ireland found themselves nominated for album of the year for Rise by Classic Rock Magazine, supported Deep Purple in London, and Whitesnake and Paul Rodgers across Europe to great acclaim…..then you might get a sense of the buzz that Bad Touch are generating across the UK currently.
Continue reading Interview/Review : BAD TOUCH – KISS THE SKYReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
The heavy card envelope from the UK arrived in the mailbox here in Australia and out dropped the promo copy of this much-anticipated new release from Robert Jon Burrison and his crew – The Wreck!
Continue reading Album Review : Robert Jon & The Wreck – Last Light On The HighwayReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
This is the debut release from young French blues rock guitarist Félix Rabin who has been based in London for the past 3 years developing his craft and reputation, including his first main support slot with Wishbone Ash around the UK, which then led on to his own UK club tours and summer festival shows before heading over to LA to record what has ended up as a 6-track EP with engineering from Ross Hogarth (Van Halen / Ziggy Marley / REM).
Continue reading EP Review : Félix Rabin – PogboyReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Roulette Records / Cargo Distribution
This is a little slice of NWOBHM history being re-released on May 1st, from a band that first started life in 1974, with one Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) as a founder member of the band along with David Smith who is back fronting the band today after finally reforming the band in 2018 under pressure from many areas, for a charity festival.
Continue reading EP Review : Gypsy’s Kiss – Heat Crazed Vole: Re-tailedReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
British rock band VEGA will release their new album Grit Your Teeth on Friday 12th June 2020 via Frontier Records. Band members Nick Workman, Tom Martin, James Martin, Marcus Thurston, Hutch and Mikey Kew have a rich history; including stints with UK rock bands Kick, Sugartown and Paul Dianno, but it was their meeting of musical minds back in 2009 that gave the rock-genre one of the finest releases of that year in the form of their debut album, Kiss Of Life.
Continue reading Single Review : Vega – “Grit Your Teeth”Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
South Carolina-born Hannah Wicklund releases The Inbetween a very special 10” inch vinyl EP of four stripped back solo performances on Friday 17th April 2020. The EP is available via the webstore (https://www.hannahwicklund.com), and if you order the vinyl edition of the EP you will automatically receive the EP digitally.
Continue reading EP Review : Hannah Wicklund – The InbetweenReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Since the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP, Dancing for Money (2018), this Oxfordshire (UK) based three-piece band have toured their contagiously hook-filled, fist pumping sound to packed venues around the country, as one of many rock bands in the NWOCR universe.
Continue reading EP Review : Molly Karloff – SupernaturalationReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
Wille and the Bandits are a British-based band who play a variety of different genres spanning across the Blues, Rock, Latin and Folk styles. The band currently consists of Wille Edwards, Matthew Gallagher, Harry Mackaill and Finn McAuley, and this album, Paths, was released in early 2019 in the UK.
Continue reading Album Review : Wille and the Bandits – PATHSReview by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography
An Australian modern rock three-piece who released this, their first full-length album in October 2019, having previously issued two EPs, WARBIRDS have been around for a while with Anth Nekich as the front-man on lead guitars and vocals, and Lee Strapp behind the kit – Lee’s brother Ben is currently the live bass player, although does not appear on the record, with the bass lines provided by Anth, producer Mat Robins, previous bassist Jared Piatkowski and Jason Meracis.
Continue reading Album Review : WARBIRDS – Order From Chaos
