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Celebrating a quarter-century in the underground scene, legendary Hungarian doom / metal / hard rock outfit Wall Of Sleep has reached a new milestone in their career. The band has been honored with the most prestigious recognition in the Hungarian music industry – they won the Fonogram Award (often referred to as the Hungarian Grammy) […]

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Norwegian prog bards descend to the deepest, darkest and most personal depths of their storied career “Sanguis invites listeners into our darkest inner rooms with some of the most raw and vulnerable songs that we’ve ever written.” — Kjetil Nordhus Had GREEN CARNATION never returned from hiatus; the Norwegian prog bards would always be remembered for completing […]

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Garry ‘Magpie’ Bowler will release a reworking of the Billy Page track The In Crowd on 6 April 2026. The song is a lyrical thank you to original music artists and their supporters. As well as covering drum duties, Garry Bowler wrote the arrangement and lyrics, with bass duties by Alan Davey, Wayne Kramer on guitar and vocals by Enid Williams.

Garry Bowler not only supported Motörhead live, but was asked to join the band to replace drummer Phil Taylor in ’92 and recorded demo tracks for the March Or Die album. Bowler would also record with guitarist Würzel.

“As this year marks the 10-year anniversary of Lemmy’s death, I wanted to pay a tribute to the man who always supported and encouraged original music,” Garry says. “Lemmy himself took inspiration from the American band MC5 when putting together Motörhead. According to Lemmy, without MC5, there would be no Motörhead, no Damned, no Ramones.”

Unusually, the drum track for The In Crowd was recorded as a solo drum piece before any other recording was added. Garry wanted each contributor to add their own identity to the track as it progressed.

Garry Bowler has toured and recorded with bassist Alan Davey, like Lemmy, ex-Hawkwind. “Alan was the perfect player to represent the bass style of Lemmy.” Lemmy named Alan ‘Bass Assassin number two’.

With drums and bass recorded, Garry wanted to continue the Lemmy link, and, on the strength of the drum and bass recording, MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer agreed to contribute his guitar parts to the track. Unfortunately, Wayne sadly passed away only months after recording, but he had said “The track ROCKS.”

The final piece of the jigsaw was to find the right vocalist, who also had a link with Lemmy, to complete the project.

“Girlschool were a band that had strong connections with Motörhead,” Garry said, “so it seemed fitting to approach original Girlschool member Enid Williams, who agreed to contribute vocals to the track.”

With reworked lyrics as a dedication and support to all those involved with the original artists, this is a fitting song. “Without original artists, there would be no cover, tribute or sampled artists,” Garry Bowler says.

The In Crowd is released on 6 April 2026 and can be pre-ordered from here.

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Today, Purity ThroughFire announces April 30th as the international release date for Atronos‘ highly anticipated third album, Gram, on CD and A5 digipak format. The vinyl version will follow later this year. It’s been three long years since the release of Atronos‘ celebrated second album, Erwachen, which saw an infusion of classic pagan metal into their strident Teutonic black metal. Now […]

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Michael Sweet is best known as the frontman and singer of Stryper. With “The Master Plan”, Sweet launches a new solo album that is not rooted in metal. Instead, “The Master Plan” is a rock album that mainly features acoustic moments. It is a spiritual and personal album that Sweet has wanted to make for… Continue Reading →

Produced by the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, Cat Fight is a sleazy Shangri-La

With their 15th studio album ONE arriving May 1, GRAMMY® Award–nominated metal icons SEVENDUST return with a powerful new single, “Threshold.” Comprised of Lajon Witherspoon (vocals), Clint Lowery (guitar), John Connolly (guitar), Vince Hornsby (bass), and Morgan Rose (drums), the band once again deliver a driving, emotionally charged track primed to become a centerpiece of their live set. “Threshold” highlights SEVENDUST’s signature blend of […]

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From groundbreaking psychedelia to lost folk and good-time boogie, here are ten albums truly worth stumbling across

VIAMAER is a project behind which stands Krystian Jurkiewicz and did not emerge from the need to create music, but from the need to express something that cannot be spoken in words. It is a way of capturing states a person goes through; a method of giving shape to the intangible yet deeply real. Sound became a natural […]

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Veonity signed a new multialbum deal with Scarlet Records. The partnership between the acclaimed Swedish power metal band and the Italian record label started in 2020 with “Sorrows”, quickly followed in early 2022 by“Elements Of Power”, and culminated in 2024 with the latest, amazing studio album“The Final Element” (the first one with Isak Stenvall on vocals). «Our mission has […]

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