Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Sleaze, Southern & AOR ... everything goes! And they say rock is dead ... 50 BLACKØWL Fly Away Spain Released on April 3, 2021 Debut album Bandcamp Spotify 49 TOXIC ROSE In For The Kill Sweden Released on September 24, 2021 Sophomore album Spotify 48 ESTRIVER Outcry Italy Released on December 10, 2021 Album #3 Spotify 47 THE MIGHTY ONE Torch Of Rock And Roll Canada Released on March 26, 2021 Album #3 Bandcamp Spotify 46 BLACK DIAMONDS No-tell Hotel Swit

Is real rock maintaining potential? I'm not talking about the horseshit promoted as "rock" by the mainstream. No. Hell no! Seven out of the ten titles rounding up my 2nd quarter Top 10 Rock Albums are debut releases! I keep hearing daft statements: this or that is bringing rock back ... Breakingnews: rock music was always around, in the present! Unfortunately, for the last 3 decades, the people responsible for promoting music managed to dilute the term "rock" to cover music t

Hard'N'Heavy - AOR - Glam Metal Far too long hard rock has been eclipsed by the more extreme offerings of the metal realm. For the past 25 (or so) years, hard rock (and mainly it's direct descendant, the glam metal) continued to take the bad rap for the decline of rock and metal in the music mainstream of the early to mid 1990s, and beyond. Whether you agree or not with this theory, here are ten new albums that bring further proof that #RockAintDead! 10. BLACKRAIN Dying Breed

Recommended Underground Titles - Part II "If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off." Bruce Dickinson Heavy metal, in its purest of forms, was rather dimmed out in the most recent years, by the amount of releases from its more extreme and darker relatives. Fortunately, power metal has proudly carried the torch in the meantime. Furthermore, the last couple of years saw an increase in quality releases from newcomers and veterans alike, fact that lead me to

The Forgotten Chapters of Rock & Metal … Part II - Hard Rock/Glam Metal Has been a few months now, since Part I of this article was published. As promised, a few of the bands named in the previous article made their way into this specifically curated new batch of ten albums. Same rules applied here as well: the featured efforts were either underrated or just plainly overlooked, at the time of their release, due to the circumstances already discussed in Part I. Many of the al

EMIL'S DEEP UNDERGROUND RECOS (part V) HARD'n'HEAVY Edition Well, well, well ... what do you know ... a HARD'n'HEAVY edition of Straight Outta Catacombs! Unfortunately, nowadays the softer side of metal and hard rock doesn't seem to be very underground popular, for lack of a better word. In fact, after I started researching Bandcamp for new and excited bands and releases that fitted the style, it became rather evident. So after digging, no, scratch that, excavating for a whil

The Forgotten Chapters of Rock & Metal … Part I - Hard Rock/Glam Metal What we have here are ten hard-rock/glam-metal albums that were overlooked and/or underrated at the time of their original release, and despite the fact that they are all gems of the genre! Obviously, we’re pretty much just scratching the surface here, but it’s a start. Rather that just presenting the readers with the music only, I’ve decided to compile some facts about these bands and the by-gone tim

Band: Dangerous Curves Album: “So Dirty Right” Label: Independent Release date: April 6, 2018 Country: Australia Format reviewed: FLAC The Glam Metal (an integral part of Hard Rock) of the mid 80’s into the early 90s was at the time, a very well regarded rock/metal genre, receiving ample airtime on music TV and on dedicated FM radio stations across the globe. Glam Metal was then considered mainstream, and it’s popularity helped usher in many other rock/metal styles to the