Lynch Mob, the band led by ex-Dokken guitarist George Lynch, will release its new album "Babylon" on Oct. 20, 2023, via Frontiers Music Srl (pre-order here). A music video for the album's first single, "Time After Time," is available now. Lynch is joined by vocalist Gabriel Colón, bassist Jaron Gulino (Tantric, Heavens Edge) and drummer Jimmy D’Anda (ex-Bulletboys). "There's been so... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles-based Edge of Paradise will release its new album "Hologram" on July 14, 2023, and has shared the title track as its first single. Pre-order/save the new album here. Edge of Paradise's founding members, singer Margarita Monet and guitarist Dave Bates, are joined now by Jamie Moreno, David Ruiz and Kenny Lockwood. After the its debut album, "Mask," released independently in 2012, Edge... Continue Reading →
Heroes and Monsters--the new trio featuring bassist/vocalist Todd Kerns (Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators), guitarist Stef Burns (Y&T, Alice Cooper) and drummer Will Hunt (Evanescence, Black Label Society)--will release their self-titled debut album on Jan. 20, 2023, via Frontiers Music Srl. The band also has released its second single, "Raw Power," Watch the... Continue Reading →
Veteran hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto will release his eighth studio solo album, "Complicated," on May 6, 2022, via Frontiers Music SRL. It will be available on CD, colored vinyl and digital formats. "Love is the Revolution," the record's first single and video, is available below. Pre-order/save "Complicated" here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIC_tkqYNg&feature=youtu.be As with his previous studio... Continue Reading →
Finnish vocalists Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast) and Netta Laurenne (Smackbound) have united under the banner Laurenne/Louhimo and will release their debut album, "The Reckoning," on July 9, 2021, via Frontiers Music SRL. The first single and video from the album, "Bitch Fire" featuring a guest guitar solo by Samy Elbanna from Lost Society, is available... Continue Reading →
Tommy’s RockTrip, the new band from drummer Tommy Clufetos (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath), has released its second single, "Make Me Smile." Eric Dover, known for singing and playing guitar with Jellyfish, Slash's Snakepit and Alice Cooper, handles lead vocals on the album (though Clufetos grabs the mic for three tracks). Eliot Lorengo (bass), Hank Schneekluth (guitar) and... Continue Reading →
The coronavirus pandemic has put the entire music industry on pause—but someone forgot to tell Mike Orlando. The guitarist best known for his time in Adrenaline Mob is adding to his list of bands seemingly by the day, as you will read below. Next up on his release schedule: the debut album from Her Chariot... Continue Reading →
Review by Jeff Maki ----- In case anyone has yet to notice, Italy's Frontiers Records has made a specialty—and perhaps its reason for existence—of resurrecting just about every '80s hair metal band. The label recently released live or studio albums from the likes of Dokken, L.A. Guns, Kip Winger, TNT and Mr. Big. Now, the... Continue Reading →
Review by Jeff Maki —— And to think, I just re-purchased L.A. Guns' classic album, "Cocked & Loaded," on CD. On eBay—I really did. It was like $4. I had been waiting out its greatest hits, "The Very Best of," to price down, and I was going to snatch that up, too. It turns out,... Continue Reading →
Review by Jeff Maki— OK, so I know what you’re thinking: First a review of the new L.A. Guns (read here) and now this? What is this—Metal Sludge? The bottom line is, music is music, and we keep it alive. Speaking of “alive,” a large portion of our readers probably weren’t in 1989 when San... Continue Reading →
