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RATING: 8.5/10 Best known as current frontman with RITCHIE BLACKMORE‘s RAINBOW, Ronnie Romero has, to put it mildly, a set of pipes. Away from his higher profile endeavors, the Spaniard has also been putting in the hours with LORDS OF BLACK — an incendiary melodic heavy metal band with occasional toes dipped in symphonic and progressive waters. “Alchemy Of Souls” is their fourth album and, much like its predecessors, will probably make you wonder why Romero and his comrades aren’t already a lot more successful. Everything about the band’s sound is classy: simultaneously traditional and inventive, with shades of everything from ICED EARTH to QUEEN, it’s a convincing and strident hybrid that reaches new heights here. At this point, it should go without say...

Last month, AC/DC released “Shot In The Dark”, the first single from the band’s long-awaited comeback album, “Power Up”, which is due on November 13. The follow-up to 2014’s “Rock Or Bust” features AC/DC‘s reunited lineup of Brian Johnson (vocals), Phil Rudd (drums), Cliff Williams (bass), Angus Young (guitar) and Stevie Young (guitar). Johnson and Williams both left in 2016 for health reasons; and Rudd was sidelined in 2015 with various legal issues. In a new interview with Radio.com, Angus spoke about the songwriting process for “Power Up” and the contributions of his late brother, founding AC/DC rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, who died in 2017 from effects of dementia at age 64. Malcolm is credited as a writer on all 12 t...

In a new interview with “The Jasta Show”, SEVENDUST singer Lajon Witherspoon spoke about how the group’s music has evolved over the past two and a half decades and how he and his bandmates are influenced and inspired by things going on around them. He said (see video below): “I feel like we’ve done music enough to where now, at this time, people say, ‘SEVENDUST‘s heavy. They’re nu metal. They’re rock. They’re soft,’ or whatever — I don’t care; we’ve done it. We can do heavy. We can do it all. “I cannot continue to do the same music over and over again. We’re all growing as artists, as men. We’re not those same kids. I was 21 years old when I signed [my first] record deal. I didn’t have a c...

Frontiers Music Srl has announced the signing of Danish vocalist Ronnie Atkins to a solo deal. The acclaimed PRETTY MAIDS and NORDIC UNION frontman is currently wrapping up work on a new solo album, “One Shot”, to be released in the spring of 2021. “To be honest, I initially had no intention to do a solo album to begin with, but for various reasons and in particularly my own personal health situation I finally decided to have a crack at it,” says Atkins. “Around Easter 2020 and only some six weeks after I was told that everything seemingly looked very positive for my health, I was, unfortunately, diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told it was incurable, which was devastating news for me. Needless to say, that was a total game changer and I went into kind of a p...