Michael Schenker is undoubtedly one of the premier rock guitarists of the past half century. Snagged by UFO from Scorpions when a teenager, Schenker rose to prominence (as indeed did UFO) wi… Read More

Tokyo Blade to release a new album in January 2025. It’s titled Time is the Fire with the release date slotted for 17th January via Dissonance Productions. Tokyo Blade go… Read More

The run of impressive new albums from original New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands this year rolls on and on with the release of Songs in Crimson by Satan, just a few days after the self-t… Read More

Phil Mogg kept UFO flying through the good times and bad for over fifty years. However Phil’s well known serious health issues a couple of years or so ago saw UFO permanently grounded… Read More

New Wave of British Heavy Metal mayhem here with the release of the self-titled album from Blitzkrieg. They go all the way back to the original NWOBHM days and are still with us in 2024 prod… Read More

Amazon is very slick at selling are they not…..? Was on there the other day ordering something when in the “you may also like” part something caught my eye. ‘Twas th… Read More

Seventh Son were formed in Barnsley back in 1980. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was taking off including a little band also from Barnsley by the name of Saxon. We all know how things w… Read More

My Favorite Headache, former Rush bassist/vacalist Geddy Lee’s solo album from 2000 has a 2024 reissue. This coincides with the reissue of Alex Lifeson’s solo album Victor from 1… Read More

Victor, former Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson’s solo album from 1996 has a 2024 reissue with a remix by Alex himself. On hearing the news, it prompted me to dig out my copy of the origina… Read More

In September 2022, Blue Oyster Cult marked their half century by playing three consecutive nights at the Sony Hall in New York. Each of the three nights had the band playing one of their fir… Read More

Two veteran bands from the origins of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal are both to release new albums next month (September 2024). Due first is the self-titled album from Blitzkrieg on 6t… Read More

Waysted were of course the band put together by Pete Way back in 1982 after his exit from UFO. This superb four disc box set from the always reliable Cherry Red covers the band’s initi… Read More

When I was a young whipper-snapper growing up in South Yorkshire, the then emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene was very much thriving in the region. Not least a band named after a… Read More

Indulge me if you will in a spot of “re-living my youth” circa 1976. Way back then a kid who was a near neighbour at the time told me about an album by a band oddly named 801 tel… Read More

Long Earth is a progressive rock band based in Glasgow. An Ordinary Life is the band’s recently released third album. My thanks to vocalist Martin Haggarty for sending me a copy of the… Read More

Forbidden Myth is a spectacular epic in the style of all that made 1970s prog rock so good though with an uplifting modern feel to it. What makes it somewhat unique is that there is no guita… Read More

Eyes in the Night is a superb seven-disc box set spanning the height of Scottish progsters Pallas over the first half of the 1980s. Including of course their masterpiece The Sentinel. I&rsqu… Read More

Chateaux becomes the latest New Wave of British Heavy Metal era band to be given the chunky box set reissue treatment by the excellent Cherry Red. The band’s three albums from the 1980… Read More

Troyen become yet another New Wave of British Heavy Metal era band to release a most fine new album in 2024. It’s titled Unfinished Business and it’s a firecracker. The band were… Read More

The series of Jethro Tull albums in the superb box sets with all the additional bells and whistles continues with Bursting Out – the band’s classic live album from 1978. Indeed … Read More

Until I got my grubby little paws on To Follow Polaris I’d not come across The Tangent before. For that I have to thank Simon from For The Lost PR who got in touch suggesting I might l… Read More

Grand Slam is the band formed by Phil Lynott back around 1984 after Thin Lizzy split. They didn’t last too long and were unable to land a record deal. Various old studio recordings and… Read More

Mendes Prey were one of the better bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal days who did not get the big break their talent surely deserved. Active for the first half of the 1980s, ple… Read More

A very nice three-CD box set of John McCoy’s music given the treatment by Cherry Red Records who do excel at these box set retrospectives. John of course being the larger than life in… Read More

Here’s another band originating in the good old New Wave of British Heavy Metal days still pumping out the good stuff over four decades later. This time it is Rhabstallion and their ne… Read More

Cloven Hoof originated back in the late 1970s in the burgeoning New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene. Still going in 2024 and with original member Lee Payne remaining, the band release Heat… Read More

Here’s a real “under the radar” one for us from New Wave of British Heavy Metal days. Do you remember a band called Medusa? Perhaps you don’t – I didn’t… Read More

Demon celebrate 45 years in business. Forming back in 1979 and lining up as one of many bands seeking to make their mark in the (then) emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene. They ma… Read More

Pagan Altar’s debut album from all the way back in 1982 gets a 2024 re-issue via Dying Victims Promotions. It is not only one of the classic albums from the New Wave of British Heavy M… Read More

Long standing British progressive rock band Pendragon give a 2024 slight refresh to and reissue of The Masquerade Overture – their biggest selling album originally issued back in 1996… Read More

Plan Nine is a project by Arjen Lucassen and Robert Soeterboek which has its origins back in the early 1990s. Lucassen should need to introduction – Ayreon, Star One his solo stuff etc… Read More

With The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things, German progressive metal band Vanden Plas have one of the finest albums of the genre you’re likely to hear. It’s got the lot… Read More

Captain Hawk Ghosts of the Sea is a rollickingly good listen. The glorious artwork cover notes it as a “metal opera”. That’s about right. It is heavy but also has symphonic… Read More

Power Games – Jaguar’s classic debut album back 1983 back the New Wave of British Heavy Metal days get a spruce-up from High Roller Records with a reissue including a slip case c… Read More

Six By Six consist of guitarist Ian Chrichton (Saga), drummer Nigel Glocker (Saxon) and multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry taking care of bass, keys and vocals. Their self-titled debut album… Read More

Ghost Stories is not strictly a new studio album from the Oyster Boys. There are no new songs here. Instead it is a collection off odds and sods recorded a couple of years either side of 198… Read More

The Tygers have been around for decades now and of course were up there right from the start of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. And still pumping out the good stuff today as evidenced b… Read More

Spirits Burning is a sort of spacey progressive rock collective fronted by Don Falcone joined by an ensemble cast of collaborators. Here with the End of All Songs Part 1, Don’s continu… Read More

I think 2024 sees Praying Mantis celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. Or if not fifty years it is around that. Going all the way back to the early New Wave of British Heavy Metal days and t… Read More

Sun Q is a duo comprising of Ivan Shalimov and Elena Tiron. Myth is their second album on which Ivan and Elena are joined by a host of guest musicians. The CD arrived via the band and Bad Do… Read More

Van Der Graaf’s live album – Vital – from 1978 has a remastered reissue on double CD (other formats available…..) which restores the full running order from the orig… Read More

The irrepressible Hawkwind release their 36th studio album – Stories From Time and Space – a year or so following The Future Never Waits. Now in their sixth decade and as active… Read More

The wonderful Obscure NWOBHM Releases label have somehow unearthed another couple of New Wave of British Heavy Metal era bands who went very much under the radar. Both are due to be released… Read More

All the way back in the late 1970s/early 1980s as well as listening to as much New Wave of British Heavy Metal as my ears could handle – Diamond Head, Tygers of Pan Tang, White Spirit… Read More

The mighty Shakin Street captured in a pulsating live performance at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco in 1979. Fronted by the glorious and distinctive force of nature Fabienne Shine, it was lo… Read More

With Future Days, The Raging Project, fronted by Ivan Jacquin joined by an ensemble cast of other musicians, has a thumping album of interesting music which on balance I’d say is progr… Read More

Is it Loud Enough is a superb six disc box set comprising of the first four Michael Schenker Group studio albums from the 1980s and two discs of various demos, alternative versions etc. Oh:… Read More

New Wave of British Heavy Metal heaven here. A four CD box set of a massive eighty two tracks of a selection of classic NWOBHM singles as originally released on Neat Records back then. Neat… Read More

Lakesongs of Elbid is the debut album from Albion. The band being fronted by Joe Parish-James, who you may know from being guitarist for Jethro Tull in recent years until leaving Tull to con… Read More

Caravan is a band which, during my five decades or so of listening to “proper” music I’ve always intended to check out though had not until recently. Same goes for the &ldq… Read More

Here’s something a little different yet with a New Wave of British Heavy Metal connection being set back in 1984 and the long and bitter miners’ strike here in the UK at that tim… Read More