2021-01-09 15:30
Heavy Pettin appeared out of Glasgow in 1981 as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was arguably at its zenith. Their debut album – Lettin Loose – is certainly a classic of the g… Read More
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2021-01-03 21:13
Hailing from Grantham, Overdrive formed in 1977 as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was starting to emerge. Whilst the band didn’t “make it” at the time and split around… Read More
2021-01-01 16:28
Liar released a couple of albums in the mid/late 1970s. Not quite in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal category, they were more akin to what we now call classic rock – though they co… Read More
2020-12-26 10:51
Trevor Bolder. One of rock music’s finest bass players. He sadly passed in 2013. However he was working on a solo album which has been completed with the help of some of his musical fr… Read More
2020-12-20 14:29
Kim’s back with his first album in around thirteen years since. The Big Fantasize being a bit more “chilled” than you might be used to from Kim – no Go for Soda type… Read More
2020-12-13 10:18
Excellent blues rock here from Jamie and this cohorts collectively known as the Worried Men. Jamie kindly sent me a review copy of Excelsior. I knew I’d like it before I listened to it… Read More
2020-12-12 10:45
Incubus. Yet another “lost” New Wave of British Heavy Metal era band have their old stuff from back then out on one of those limited production runs of just 500 CDs. As I type th… Read More
2020-12-06 20:37
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Atlas about their recent second album Parallel Love. And what a fine album that is – see review here. So impressed was I that I also bought their ini… Read More
2020-11-21 10:08
Here’s yet another “lost” band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal days being given the re-discovered treatment. In this case it’s Syar. And it’s double-bu… Read More
2020-11-14 14:29
The potted history here is that Imaginos was originally intended as an Albert Bouchard solo album though his departure from Blue Oyster Cult in the early 1980s and a lack of interest from th… Read More
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