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6 days ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
South Wales’ finest, Triaxis, are back with a bang with the long-awaited follow-up to 2012’s critically acclaimed Rage And Retribution. Since their formation in 2006, their no-holds-barred brand of pulsating Metal has continued to recruit the headbanging masses. 2015 could turn out to be a massive year in the band’s fortunes. Release Date: 18th May 2015Words: Brian BoyleLike every true Metal album, you hope to have your ears virtually assaulted from right from the off.
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1 week ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
If ever there was a band who encompass honesty, relatability and downright hard graft, it is Manchester melodic Metalers Absolva. Justice is their seventh album, and if that is indeed a lucky number and scores the band some proper food on-the-table success, then no one will deserve it more. Release Date: 16 May 2025Words: Brian BoyleAbsolva are now a hormone raging thirteen years old, and by the sound of opener Freedom And Glory, you could say their balls have well and truly dropped.
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3 weeks ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
Some bands are just made for a Saturday night in Dublin, and there are not many more suited than Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons. While others sit at home looking square-eyed at the now bile-inducing Britain’s Got Talent, up off Wexford Street, Opium’s Got A Bunch Of Rowdy Welshmen is a much more worthwhile proposition.
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1 month ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
An ivory-tickling goliath, whose Joanna seducing fingertips have illuminated some of the world’s biggest rock anthems, is probably underplaying the genius of the great Don Airey. Not content with scoring a fourth Number One album in a row with his regular day job in Deep Purple, he has now put on his solo hat for his new album Pushed To The Edge.
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1 month ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
In 2020, Adrian Smith and Ritchie Kotzen teased rock fans the world over with a picture of their well-travelled guitars mysteriously and carefully placed against a load-bearing pillar. What subsequently followed was a critically acclaimed debut album that lit a fuse under the backside of classic rock. Four years on, the Smith/Kotzen are at it again with Black Light/White Noise.
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1 month ago | 
metaltalk.net | Robert Adams
With the latest Ricky Warwick solo album released Friday 14th, March, MetalTalk caught up with him via Zoom from Glasgow yesterday to chat about Blood Ties, The Almighty, Black Star Riders and sobriety. Ricky pops up on my Zoom screen bang on 10 am, looking fit and fresh with a “Hi Robert, great to see you again,” greeting. I had briefly spoken with him after his gig at The Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes last Sunday.
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1 month ago | 
metaltalk.net | Brian Boyle
If you thought that touring their gargantuan debut album, Permission To Land, was a sign The Darkness were taking the easy route and dropping down a gear, think again. The Lowestoft legends are back in the creative saddle with their eighth long player Dreams On Toast. Release Date: 18 March 2025Words: Brian BoyleSelling albums is hard work these days. But you gotta do what you gotta do, and that includes sliding down a fireman’s poll on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.
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2 months ago | 
metaltalk.net | Robert Adams
Ricky Warwick returns with his eighth solo album, Blood Ties, and it is the most personal album that Ricky has ever released. Oh, it rocks like a hurricane as well. Release Date: 14 March 2025Words: Robert AdamsMusic has always been the driving force in Ricky Warwick’s life. After being given his first guitar at fourteen, he has never looked back. His career has been varied and plentiful – Touring guitarist with New Model Army, The Almighty, sic, solo, Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders.
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2 months ago | 
metaltalk.net | Robert Adams
New York Sci-Fi rockers Coheed And Cambria drop part three of their Vaxis pentalogy, titled The Father Of Make Believe and continue to raise their sonic bar. Label: Virgin RecordsRelease Date: 14 March 2025Words: Robert AdamsWith each release from Coheed And Cambria, I find myself thinking that they cannot do better than this. Then they go and do it again with their new album. The Father Of Make Believe has done exactly that.
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2 months ago | 
metaltalk.net | Robert Adams
The Almighty, Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy frontman Ricky Warwick takes his solo tour for his upcoming Blood Ties album to Milton Keynes and leaves everything on the stage. Words: Robert AdamsThere is a very healthy crowd gathered this Sunday night at The Craufurd Arms in Milton Keynes as Ricky Warwick and his Fighting Hearts stroll on stage to the dulcet sounds of Frank Wilson’s Northern Soul classic Do I Love You.