Monk’s latest prime cut sees our favourite hairsprayed Swedish retro-rockers once again jumping on board their musical time machine and ushering us into the company of a certain #LittleMissDangerous with another ‘banger that most definitely would have garnered heavy rotation back in the day when the ‘M’ in MTV stood for “music” and not “muck”:
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German metal titans Accept have been confirmed to play a ÜK exclusive date at this summer’s Steelhouse festival.
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Our lives are blessed with many mercies. Equally, they are blighted by curses. And thus it is with this, the fourth album from Maryland based guitarist and composer Rick Ayers, which this time sees him teaming up with Lillian Axe vocalist Steve Blaze.
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A slightly different gig than the previous night’s psychedelia shenanigans, this evening’s jaunt across to Manchester sees the big man take in a fatal fourway of the finest death metal around in Stormruler, Ingested, Dark Funeral and Cannibal Corpse. 6pm doors is an early start but it doesn’t seem to deter what is a half full room for Stormruler, growing to a hefty 2/3 by the end of their set!
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When Finnish glam legends Hanoi Rocks released their second album, ‘Oriental Beat’, at the start of 1982, they were very much a band on the way up. As it turns out, the band themselves were never happy with the way the album was produced and mixed. In fact they regarded it as a bit of a disaster. Forty years later, after the original master tapes, long since considered ‘lost’, were discovered, the original members of the band had a chance to right all the wrongs and completely remix the whole album. Referred to by Mike Monroe as “the longest and slowest album recording project ever”, the result is ‘Oriental Beat – the 40th anniversary re(al) mix’.
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