My review of the Testament / Overkill / Destruction concert from the Worcester Palladium on Friday March 27th, 2026 can now be read via this KNAC.COM link. It features photos from my fellow site writer/photographer @rockisgeorge!
JIMMY WAYNE JAMISON
S/T
Iconoclassic Records - 2024
The latest archival release for the late Jimi Jamson (ex-Survivor) is billed as a bit a sea change for the noted rock singer.
Released under the moniker Jimmy Wayne Jamison (aka his real birth name) and spearheaded by former Survivor...
BETH HART
You Still Got Me
Provogue Records - 2024
Singer Beth Hart's 11th solo studio album, You Still Got Me, serves up plenty of musical styles across the album's eleven tracks. Produced by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Joe Bonamassa), the stated aim of the album to explore Hart's vocal power...
My Top 11 rock and metal CDs of 2024 are:
01A.) Metro Society The London Conspiracy: Chapter I - 1898 (Metro Society Records)
01B.) Judas Priest Invincible Shield (Sony/Epic)
02.) Kings of Mercia Battle Scars (Metal Blade)
03.) North Sea Echoes Really Good Terrible Things (Metal Blade)
04.)...
HAMMERFALL
Avenge the Fallen
Nuclear Blast Records - 2024
My music collection does contain a couple of HammerFall albums including the Legacy of Kings album which I absolutely love. But I think it would be fair to describe me as pretty much a casual fan...at best.
Then a couple years ago, I...
SAXON
Hell, Fire and Damnation
Silver Lining Music - 2024
With the addition of Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler to the lineup, Saxon has once again turned up the volume for their 24th studio album Hell, Fire and Damnation.
The opening track "The Prophecy" is just under 2 minutes long and...
BRUCE DICKINSON
The Mandrake Project
BMG - 2024
The Mandrake Project, the seventh solo album from Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, has taken a long and winding road with me since it was originally released back in March.
While I'm a fan of both his solo work and Iron Maiden, the first...
Accept
Humanoid
Napalm Records - 2024
With the immediate intro for the song "Diving into Sin" providing a cinematic vibe, the Accept album Humanoid gets off to quite the dramatic start.
After that opening, the more forceful metallic pacing kicks in and gives both the song and the listener a...
This post will be for various "old" albums that I've never reviewed here or anywhere else. They could be for albums released decades ago or even albums released in 2024 that I can't get a review done for before the year ends. My idea of brief might be longer than others, but it is unlikely that...
For those of us rockers looking to add to our physical media music collections, have you found any great sales going on for Black Friday (or earlier)?
Nuclear Blast Records is running a 20-30% off sale in their US shop on over 700 items.
Metal Blade Records has a sale that's been running since...
MY TOP 5 CONCERTS OF 2024
It is that time of year again. Like numerous others I'm putting together all my best of 2024 lists. While I still have work to do on the other lists I'll be writing, my concert ranking is pretty short and sweet this year.
So why just a Top 5 list for concerts this...
The Metro Society album The London Conspiracy: Chapter I - 1898 combines my love of murder mysteries and rock / metal music for a gripping tale of a detective on the hunt for the killer of his mentor in a city that even 10 years on is still in the shadow of the Ripper murders.
You can check out...
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