FESTIVAL NEWS: STEELHOUSE FRIDAY WILL BE AN ‘INGLORIOUS’ AFFAIR
Steelhouse has announced it’s biggest ever Friday night bill, with a full-blooded six band line-up.
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TOUR NEWS: Midnite City to scratch that itch on February dates
The ÜR-approved kings of ÜK hair metal, Midnite City return to the road this February for second leg of their ‘They Only Come Out At Night Tour’, in support of last summer’s third album, ‘Itch You Can’t Scratch’.
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Tygers Of Pan Tang – ‘A New Heartbeat’ EP (Mighty Music)
There are few names more synonymous with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that the North East’s Tygers Of Pan Tang, with albums like ‘Wild Cat’ and ‘Spellbound’ up there with the best of the era. That original band may have disbanded a long time ago now, but guitarist and founding member Rob Weir has been keeping the Tygers flag flying with differing line-ups since first re-forming the band back in 1999. As we hit 2022, the Tygers are back with a new guitarist, Francesco Marras, a new bass player, Huw Holding, and a new EP, ‘A New Heartbeat’, that contains both something old and something new.
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Nocturna – ‘Daughters Of The Night’ (Scarlet Records)
Duality is today’s word of the day as Jonny B get to grips with up-and-coming new band Nocturna who are set to unleash their debut album ‘Daughters Of The Night’. Founded by the mastermind Frederico Mondelli (Frozen Crown/Be the Wolf), who provides the artwork for the album but is not a performing member, Nocturna’s key focus is the combination of the two vocalists – Grace Darkling and Rehn Stillnight. Rocking a heavily symphonic influenced style that promises to appeal to fans of Nightwish and Within Temptation combined with the pedigree backing of Mondelli, there’s enough here to convince me to dive in and check it out.
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Out Of This World – ‘Out Of This World’ (Atomic Fire Records)
Many different artists find themselves taking on what are titles “side projects” in collaboration with other artists that the wish to work with. However, Kee Marcello of Europe and the rest of the musicians on this band see this as work of a band rather than something to pick up and put down when they have nothing else to do in readying the publicity blurb. So, what has this to offer?
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