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Album Review : TEN – Something Wicked This Way Comes

January 2, 2023 LifeMusicMedia

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

TEN
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Released – Jan 20^th 2023
Frontiers Music

British hard rockers TEN have an outstanding history of releases in their lengthy back-catalogue. Starting out as a solo project built around singer and songwriter Gary Hughes, TEN found their audience playing a hard rock sound influenced by such classic / prog rock giants as UFO, Thin Lizzy, Magnum, Giant, and Whitesnake, in a time when playing this particular sound was considered commercial suicide.

The band’s early records such as The Name Of The Rose, The Robe, Spellbound, and Babylon established the band as mainstays in the melodic hard rock genre, which has continued throughout their now 26 year career.

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Album Review : Troy Redfern – The Wings of Salvation

September 21, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

TROY REDFERN
Wings of Salvation
Released – September 23^rd

Blues-rock guitarist, singer- songwriter and dubbed Britain’s “King of Slide Guitar” Troy Redfern has followed up the excellent 2021 release The Fire Cosmic with a new record in The Wings of Salvation. This record was crowd-funded through a Kickstarter campaign, and I am happy to say I added my name to the supporting cast for this.

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Album Review : Dead City Ruins – Shockwave

September 4, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

DEAD CITY RUINS
SHOCKWAVE
Released – Sept 16^th
AFM Records

Melbourne hard rockers Dead City Ruins had developed a reputation in that City in particular as a full-on, flat-out, classic rock band in the Casanovas / Airbourne / AC/DC mould, and released their first album in 2011 which had more of an Ozzy / DIO-era Sabbath feel to it, and instantly broadened their appeal!

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EP Review: Wayward Sons – Score Settled

June 20, 2022 LMM

by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

WAYWARD SONS
SCORE SETTLED EP
Released – 17^th June 2022
Frontiers Music

UK rockers Wayward Sons have announced the release of a special new EP, Score Settled. The EP follows the release of their latest studio album, Even Up The Score which came out in October 2021. The EP features three new, unreleased songs that were recorded during the sessions for Even Up The Score as well as three tracks that were previously only released on a physical format, and a live studio version of a track previously released as a studio bonus track in Japan.

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Album Review : Simon McBride – The Fighter

June 6, 2022 LMM

by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

SIMON McBRIDE – THE FIGHTER
Released – 27^th May 2022
EarMusic

Northern Ireland native, Simon McBride is currently on the road with Deep Purple filling in for Steve Morse and has released what he is calling his debut solo album The Fighter, via EarMusic. There were three prior albums released, the last of them 10 years ago, so this is a fresh start in recording terms at least.

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Album Review : Fozzy – Boombox

May 23, 2022 LMM

by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

FOZZY – Boombox
Released – 6^th May 2022
Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group

This is the first studio album in 5 years for Fozzy, the powerhouse rock band fronted by the larger than life Chris Jericho, one-time professional wrestler and vocalist for the band for over 20 years now.

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Album Review : Casey Barnes – Light It Up

April 30, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

CASEY BARNES
Light It Up
Released – Feb 25^th 2022

Casey Barnes has been around for more than 15 years now since appearing on Australian Idol in 2009, after releasing his debut album in 2007. Spending the next 10 years as a hard-working journeyman, recording EPs 3 more studio albums, he released Live As One in 2017 which spawned a couple of solid singles in Just Like Magic and The Way We Ride, as well as the video for the title track.

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Album Review : Lee Kernaghan – Live At Deni Ute Muster

April 19, 2022 LMM

Review by David Jackson

Goulburn Valley Country Music Festival 2022

https://leekernaghan.com/

Released on April 15, 2022, to coincide with his birthday. Lee Kernaghan has provided his thousands of country fans with an opportunity to cruise the highway listening to his past thirty years of hits and memories.

Recorded Live in 2019 at, the Deni Ute Muster live is a compilation of Kernahans greatest hits recorded in one of the unique places on the planet.

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Album Review : THUNDER – Dopamine

April 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

THUNDER – Dopamine
Double LP
Released – April 29^th 2022 via BMG

Thunder may be the band who will just never give up – having been a fan from the earliest Terraplane days in the late 1980’s, and having been lucky enough to be present at the 10^th Anniversary “farewell” tour in 1999, and the 20 Years & Out show at Hammersmith Odeon in 2009 (despite moving to Australia in 1998) and even getting to shoot the sold-out Hammersmith Apollo show in March 2015, we felt thrilled to get the band to Australia in 2017 for some intimate, but very raucous club shows.

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Album Review : FM – Thirteen

February 28, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

FM – THIRTEEN
Released March 18^th 2022
Frontiers Records

It is always a joy to get to hear a new FM album…….from the very first listen to that first FM record Indiscreet in 1986, having been a fan of Wildlife before then, and seeing them as the ultimate AOR support band over the next couple of years, including the epic Astoria show in 1987 with White Sister as the opening act.

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Album Review : Kris Barras Band – Death Valley Paradise

February 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Pete Coates – facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

KRIS BARRAS BAND – DEATH VALLEY PARADISE
Mascot Records
Release Date 4^th March 2022

Steamrolling out of the end of 2021, the Kris Barras Band have announced their brand-new album, Death Valley Paradise, along with their most anthemic, call-to-arms song to date, My Parade. The new album produced this time by Dean Weller (Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, SiKth) will be released on 4th March 2022 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (Black Stone Cherry, Fozzy, Crobot).

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Album Review : The Karma Effect

January 25, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

THE KARMA EFFECT
Released – 18^th March 2022
TMR Rock Records

Debut albums are always really interesting to review, and while this one only has 8 songs on it, it delivers a solid punch. Closer to home for me is that the band are from my home town of Oxted in the UK, and are launching the album at one of my early watering holes – where us cocky 16 year olds could always get served!

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EP Review : NAKED GYPSY QUEENS – Georgiana

January 17, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

NAKED GYPSY QUEENS – Georgiana EP
Released – Feb 11^th
MASCOT LABEL GROUP

I heard the first release from this EP a few months ago and started raving about the band then – loving the vintage classic rock sound, heavily amplified blues, rock solid drums and a twin-guitar assault steeped in the likes of MC5, Free, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company – all brought up to date with some supercharged hooks that combines that true classic rock sound with a modern southern-rock swagger!

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Album Review : Wille and the Bandits – When The World Stood Still

January 10, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

WILLE & THE BANDITS – WHEN THE WORLD STOOD STILL
Release: 28^th Jan 2022
FAT TOAD RECORDS

Wille and the Bandits are a British-based band from Cornwall who play a mix of different genres spanning across the Blues, Rock, Roots and Folk rock styles, with a somewhat epic overall effect that channels the monstrous riffs of Led Zeppelin and the atmospheric warmth and depth of Pink Floyd, but all the time seeing the band push the boundaries of sound and rhythm to create a dynamic and unique sonic experience that should appeal to a broad range of classic and contemporary rock music fans.

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Album Review : Jack J Hutchinson – The Hammer Falls

January 5, 2022 LMM

Review by Peter Coates – www.facebook.com/InsideEdgePhotography

JACK J HUTCHINSON – THE HAMMER FALLS
Release – 4^th Feb 2022

London-based guitarist / vocalist Jack J Hutchinson has been one of the busiest musicians out there during the COVID-19 pandemic, doing live streams, special edition recordings, cover versions (including an epic version of War Pigs) and released his last studio album – Who Feeds The Wolf – in Oct 2019, along with a “Live” album Who Feeds The Lockdown in 2020.

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