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  • Dee Snider Blames Bruce Dickinson For Abandoned Comeback Bid

    He also explains who finally convinced him to back down. Continue reading…

  • DAVE MUSTAINE Wants To Be An Actor In A Post-MEGADETH World

    Dave Mustaine performing live on stage with Megadeth.

    Megadeth frontman says farewell tour could last years as he considers acting roles and teaching the next generation of musicians.

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  • Always is RISE’s Single Out Now

    Good Day Noir Family,
    RISE return with “Always,” and once again they demonstrate an impressive blend of classic atmosphere and modern drive.

    Always is RISE’s Single Out Now

    Their sound carries a legendary quality that recalls great bands of the past, particularly the refinement associated with Genesis, while still embracing stronger rock influences.

    That balance between sophistication and power defines the track’s identity.

    The melodic line stands out immediately for its elegance. It flows naturally, guiding the listener through each section with assurance. The arrangements reveal careful craftsmanship. Every instrument finds its place, and harmony emerges not by accident but through deliberate structure. The band doesn’t overcrowd the mix; instead, they allow space for each detail to resonate clearly.

    As the song builds, it pushes forward without sacrificing melody. The rhythm section maintains steady momentum, yet the vocal line remains central from beginning to end. This combination of propulsion and tunefulness keeps the energy alive. Furthermore, the cohesion among the musicians is evident. In the accompanying video, seeing the band perform together in their rehearsal space highlights how tightly they play. That tightness doesn’t appear overnight; it reflects long hours of practice and shared understanding.

    Around the 2:30 mark, the track shifts noticeably. The tempo eases, and the mood becomes more mysterious. This dynamic change adds contrast and depth, drawing the listener into a different emotional register before the song regains strength. Such transitions reveal compositional maturity. The harmonic and rhythmic variations feel refined rather than decorative.

    Additionally, the guitar solo deserves recognition. It arrives with confidence, expanding the melodic theme without drifting into excess. The phrasing feels purposeful, and the tone remains consistent with the song’s character. That moment reinforces the band’s ability to balance technical skill with expressive clarity.

    “Always” confirms RISE as a band capable of merging classic progressive elegance with contemporary rock energy. The journey they create is cohesive, dynamic, and thoughtfully constructed. It’s a strong release that I would gladly recommend.

    Always is RISE’s Single Out Now!

    Majestic!

    Always is RISE’s Single Out Now

    RISE is a dynamic four-piece band hailing from Liverpool, England. Known for their high-energy performances and distinctive sound, RISE is making waves in the rock music scene. The band features:
    Sam Kinley (aka stayMellow) on bass and vocals Paul Kinley on keyboards and backing vocals Alex Mahoney on drums with Brian Petch on guitar.
    RISE creates a powerful blend of high-tempo rock, driven by melodic vocal hooks and a seamless mix of synths and guitars. This unique combination gives RISE an instantly recognizable sound that draws from melodic rock with occasional nods to progressive rock influences.



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  • The Overjoyed – self titled


    Last year I reviewed an absolutely crackling track called “Don’t Listen!” by Athens-based punk band The Overjoyed. This band has been releasing music since the early 2010s, but I must admit to being unaware of its output prior to last year. But “Don’t Listen!” definitely grabbed my attention, and I was pleased to discover that the band released a new full-length album (its first in seven years) a couple weeks ago. This self-titled album is a fine work of melodic punk rock and power pop that mixes influences nicely while still maintaining a largely cohesive sound. 

    The album opens emphatically with “Can’t Write Music,” an absolute banger of a song. The story behind the track is that singer/guitarist Leo was struggling with writer’s block a few years back, towards the end of the pandemic. At a moment when it seemed like everyone else was using their down time to write and record music, he was going through some heavy stuff personally and found himself adversely affected by Covid-era social-political hysteria. He literally couldn’t write anything. Then one night, he sat down and wrote a song about not being able to write songs — ironically finishing it in a single evening. You can hear the feelings pouring out of him on this song, which is a perfect tone-setter for the rest of the album. I can truly appreciate the irony of a band called The Overjoyed making an album this dark. It’s definitely an album of these times, and the influence that modern-day punk rock had on its sound is undeniable. I can totally a dig a band that can move seamlessly from aggressive punk rock to high energy power pop to old school punk-pop. The band’s love for Green Day remains apparent on “Don’t Listen!” and “Party Eyes,” while “Spark” is classic power pop/punk done to perfection. “Laundromat” and “Already Late” are giving Radioactivity vibes, and I’ve got no complaints about that. “Joy Vampire” brings a heavier sound — think 2000s commercial punk, but not in a bad way. 

    All in all, this is a powerful-sounding record. These guys really put their hearts and their guts into these songs. The album, which was recorded at the band’s own studio in Athens, is the rare example of a punk record sounding super-polished but in no way lacking an edge. This thing sounds massive and raging, and that makes these songs hit even harder. This album totally lives up to my expectations. It manages to scratch my nostalgic itch for ’90s punk rock yet still sound like it’s that one of those records that’s ushering in an exciting new era of power pop/punk. Great stuff from Greece!

  • The Overjoyed – self titled


    Last year I reviewed an absolutely crackling track called “Don’t Listen!” by Athens-based punk band The Overjoyed. This band has been releasing music since the early 2010s, but I must admit to being unaware of its output prior to last year. But “Don’t Listen!” definitely grabbed my attention, and I was pleased to discover that the band released a new full-length album (its first in seven years) a couple weeks ago. This self-titled album is a fine work of melodic punk rock and power pop that mixes influences nicely while still maintaining a largely cohesive sound. 

    The album opens emphatically with “Can’t Write Music,” an absolute banger of a song. The story behind the track is that singer/guitarist Leo was struggling with writer’s block a few years back, towards the end of the pandemic. At a moment when it seemed like everyone else was using their down time to write and record music, he was going through some heavy stuff personally and found himself adversely affected by Covid-era social-political hysteria. He literally couldn’t write anything. Then one night, he sat down and wrote a song about not being able to write songs — ironically finishing it in a single evening. You can hear the feelings pouring out of him on this song, which is a perfect tone-setter for the rest of the album. I can truly appreciate the irony of a band called The Overjoyed making an album this dark. It’s definitely an album of these times, and the influence that modern-day punk rock had on its sound is undeniable. I can totally a dig a band that can move seamlessly from aggressive punk rock to high energy power pop to old school punk-pop. The band’s love for Green Day remains apparent on “Don’t Listen!” and “Party Eyes,” while “Spark” is classic power pop/punk done to perfection. “Laundromat” and “Already Late” are giving Radioactivity vibes, and I’ve got no complaints about that. “Joy Vampire” brings a heavier sound — think 2000s commercial punk, but not in a bad way. 

    All in all, this is a powerful-sounding record. These guys really put their hearts and their guts into these songs. The album, which was recorded at the band’s own studio in Athens, is the rare example of a punk record sounding super-polished but in no way lacking an edge. This thing sounds massive and raging, and that makes these songs hit even harder. This album totally lives up to my expectations. It manages to scratch my nostalgic itch for ’90s punk rock yet still sound like it’s that one of those records that’s ushering in an exciting new era of power pop/punk. Great stuff from Greece!

  • Ryan Allen – They’re Coming For Us


    One of the benefits of this modern age of music is that an artist can opine on current events in real time. If you released a protest song back in the day, by the time the thing got recorded, the records were pressed, and the label was ready to put it out, you might have been singing about something that had happened a year or more earlier. But these days, modern technology has greatly reduced (and in some cases, virtually eliminated) the turnaround time between writing and releasing a song. And if you’re a protest singer in 2026, that’s ideal. Ryan Allen is not always a protest singer, but he certainly doesn’t shy away from using his art and his platform to weigh in on what’s happening in America. He is passionate about social justice and (to put it mildly) deeply concerned about the political climate of the moment. “Shit is fucked” is his technical assessment of the situation, and he’s not wrong. 

    If you had told me even a decade ago that we’d soon be living in times where white supremacy would be rebranded as a perfectly respectable political choice, anti-fascism would become a partisan stance, an outgoing president could incite an insurrection and subsequently get re-elected in an electoral landslide, and half the nation would bend over backwards to justify masked government agents executing protestors in the streets, I would have considered that a fiction too absurd to be published. But here we are. A wise man once asked the musical question “What are we gonna to do now?”, and what Ryan Allen has done is written some songs that he hopes will inspire resistance and raise some money for the cause. They’re Coming For Us, his brand-new EP, is his effort to use his talents “as a weapon against hate, oppression, and the doomscroll world that we’re all living in.” All proceeds from this release will be donated to Democracy Forward. 

    Musically, this EP delivers a little bit of everything that I enjoy about Ryan Allen. The title track finds him going back to his roots in punk rock, and the message is not subtle. If you’re willing to embrace authoritarianism in America because they’re going after “those people,” don’t act shocked when they eventually come for you. “This Ugly” is vintage Ryan Allen indie power pop and confronts the distressing realization that we can no longer assume that most people are decent, kind-hearted humans who reject hate. The EP concludes with “Hurry Up and Wait,” which finds Allen adopting the classic guitar-and-voice only approach to protest singing. The song ponders a question that has been on my mind as well: When will this lunacy end — if it does at all? 

    They’re Coming For Us was produced, mixed, and mastered by Robby Miller. It sounds fantastic, and the songs are as inspired musically as they are lyrically. The EP is a $5 download from Bandcamp. 100% of Allen’s cut will go towards the defense of democracy. Again, not that many years ago, the mere notion that we’d ever have to worry about preserving democracy in America might have seemed ludicrous. But I’ll be honest: I’m pretty damn worried.

  • Ryan Allen – They’re Coming For Us


    One of the benefits of this modern age of music is that an artist can opine on current events in real time. If you released a protest song back in the day, by the time the thing got recorded, the records were pressed, and the label was ready to put it out, you might have been singing about something that had happened a year or more earlier. But these days, modern technology has greatly reduced (and in some cases, virtually eliminated) the turnaround time between writing and releasing a song. And if you’re a protest singer in 2026, that’s ideal. Ryan Allen is not always a protest singer, but he certainly doesn’t shy away from using his art and his platform to weigh in on what’s happening in America. He is passionate about social justice and (to put it mildly) deeply concerned about the political climate of the moment. “Shit is fucked” is his technical assessment of the situation, and he’s not wrong. 

    If you had told me even a decade ago that we’d soon be living in times where white supremacy would be rebranded as a perfectly respectable political choice, anti-fascism would become a partisan stance, an outgoing president could incite an insurrection and subsequently get re-elected in an electoral landslide, and half the nation would bend over backwards to justify masked government agents executing protestors in the streets, I would have considered that a fiction too absurd to be published. But here we are. A wise man once asked the musical question “What are we gonna to do now?”, and what Ryan Allen has done is written some songs that he hopes will inspire resistance and raise some money for the cause. They’re Coming For Us, his brand-new EP, is his effort to use his talents “as a weapon against hate, oppression, and the doomscroll world that we’re all living in.” All proceeds from this release will be donated to Democracy Forward. 

    Musically, this EP delivers a little bit of everything that I enjoy about Ryan Allen. The title track finds him going back to his roots in punk rock, and the message is not subtle. If you’re willing to embrace authoritarianism in America because they’re going after “those people,” don’t act shocked when they eventually come for you. “This Ugly” is vintage Ryan Allen indie power pop and confronts the distressing realization that we can no longer assume that most people are decent, kind-hearted humans who reject hate. The EP concludes with “Hurry Up and Wait,” which finds Allen adopting the classic guitar-and-voice only approach to protest singing. The song ponders a question that has been on my mind as well: When will this lunacy end — if it does at all? 

    They’re Coming For Us was produced, mixed, and mastered by Robby Miller. It sounds fantastic, and the songs are as inspired musically as they are lyrically. The EP is a $5 download from Bandcamp. 100% of Allen’s cut will go towards the defense of democracy. Again, not that many years ago, the mere notion that we’d ever have to worry about preserving democracy in America might have seemed ludicrous. But I’ll be honest: I’m pretty damn worried.

  • News: PHIL LYNOTT Musical Tribute hits London stage on 29 March

    plynott1In January 2026 Pete Feenstra chatted to show creators John and Danielle Merrigan from Fatdan Productions.  This hour special gives background to the production along with classic tracks.  First broadcast on Get Ready To ROCK! Radio, 1 February 2026. In … Continue reading →

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  • Album review : ASIA – Live In England

    ASIA 150 Live England coverFrontiers Music [Release date : 13.03.26] Set in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, at night the Trading Boundaries Café transforms into an award winning live music venue, hosting concerts from world class artists in an intimate setting. Not … Continue reading →

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  • METAL DE FACTO – Κυκλοφορούν το single του “My Plastic Escape” από το άλμπουμ “Land of the Rising Sun – Part 2”

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