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17/10/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 25th October

POWERPLAY 278 NOV/DEC 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
After leaving major label Atlantic, Skillet are taking their destiny in their own hands and are releasing fantastic latest album ‘Revolution’ independently. “We were able to make the record we want to make without so many people messing with it,” says John Cooper. “It’s really catchy, it sounds like Skillet, it’s fun but it’s meaningful.” Andy Scott tells us about the new Sweet album and latest tour, we chat with Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy about his new solo album, and we catch up with those troll-bothering dwarves from Wind Rose. Also in this issue are interviews with Ad Infinitum, The New Roses, Swallow The Sun, Frozen Crown, Skarlett Riot, Doomsday Outlaw, Sinistro, Klogr, Burning Black, Steve Hill, The Rattlebacks, Lions In The Street, Red Giant, Paradise Sins, and Prisoner.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWERED UP
Deep Purple, Maid Of Stone Festival, Stonedead Festival, Lord Of The Lost, BTO, Whiskey Myers, Blackberry Smoke, Haken, Big Big Train, Mushroomhead, Tuk Smith & The Reckless Hearts, Dymytry, Tab Benoit And Anders Osborne, Mike Zito.

POWER PLAYS
Brothers Of Metal, Harpyie, Bobbie Dazzle, Burning Black, Arrow Valley, High Reeper, Fates Hollow, Souls Of Steel, Astral Doors, Texas Hippie Caolition, Lectric, Veonity, Von Hertzen Brothers, Cats In Space, League Of Distortion, April Art, Satan, Crimson Veil, Dead Posey.

POWER CUTS
Lions In The Street, Sweet, Orra, Dark Tranquillity, Savage Existence, The Hot Damn!, Bad Absalom, Frost*, Mallevs, Bleeker, Sinistro, Wind Rose, CWF, Against The Seasons, Solitary, Klogr, Transport League, Battlefront, The Dictators, Cantervice, Frozen Crown, Red Giant, Nasty Savage, Dilemma, Slomosa, Touché Amoré, Marble, Prisoner, Heavenblack, Scold’s Bridle, Oeste, Luna Sol, Spirit Mother, Chrysalid, Dan Dark, Pantheon, Aiwaz, Geometry Of Chaos, Boguslaw Balcerak’s Crylord, Lastelle, Turmion Kätilöt, Silver Dollar Room, Hydra, Antioch, Kings Of Mercia, Disarray, Glorious Bankrobbers, Wolfhorde, Infrared, October Drift, Triumpher, Horse Of Troja, Snarm, Mirror Queen, No Guidance, Equilibrium, Pyracanda, Neptune, Kaisas, Interlaker, Planet Of Zeus, Downcast, Steel City, Radioactive, Forsaken Rite, Apocryphal, Krilloan, Furnace, Deadscape, Mindless Sinner, Mourning Wood, Senses, Beautiful Loser, Elephant Tree/Lowrider, Bird’s View, Valkyrie’s Fire, Jozey And The Corruption, Lars Eric Mattsson, Heartwind, Four Year Strong, Casandra’s Crossing, Alunah, Helvetets Port, Demiser, Fate, Blackmore’s Night, Fat By The Gallon, Lords Of The Trident, Lost In Society, Jr. Juggernaut, Theigns & Thralls, Speedrush, Austin Gold, Kate’s Acid, Fans Of The Dark, Pythies, The New Roses, Voltstorm, Skillet, Whiskey Of Blood, Skarlett Riot, Healthy Junkies, Inner Enemy, In Chaos, Elle Tea, Sieges Even, Wake The Nations, Steve Hill, Cortez, The Rattlebacks, Grand Magus, Die So Fluid, Lordchain, Iotunn, Lay Of The Autumn, Motion Sick, The Petal Falls, Delain, Crashface, Orbita Wiru, Cleanbreak, Fixation, Quireboys, Def Leppard, War Machine, Project Renegade, DGM, Tame The Abyss, Gorilla Riot, Saint, Chaospath, Ohrenfeindt, Devin Townsend, Black Eyed Sons, Doomsday Inc, Sòlstafir, Winterhawk, Winding Road, Chaos Unleashed, Bombus, Beth Hart, Athena XIX, Turbokill, Fight The Fade, Swallow The Sun, Tribulation, Find Me, Gigantum, Shining Force, Nationwide, Aries Descendant, Klone, Ensiferum, House Of Lords, All I Know, San Demas, Massive Wagons, Nightwish, Arkon, Rhett Forrester & Rob Robbins, Never Obey Again, The Hypothesis, Legions Of Doom, Motorhead, Warren Haynes, Grimgotts, Big Big Train, Ad Infinitum, Fast Eddie Clarke, Porcelain Shards, Starcrazy, Myles Kennedy, Opeth, Siege Perilous, All I Know, Paradise Sins, Jerry Cantrell, Rattler Reb.

30/08/2024

On sale on our web site and in the shops now!

POWERPLAY 277 SEPT/OCT 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of UFO album ‘Phenomenon’ Michael Schenker is releasing an album of UFO classics recorded with a star-studded line-up of guests including Axl Rose, Slash, Biff Byford, Kai Hansen, Stephen Pearcy, and Dee Snider. And, according to Michael, some of those guests might be joining him on tour. John Corabi tells us about being welcomed back into The Dead Daisies family for their groovy new album, Blitzkrieg show us how great NWOBHM music can be in 2024, and former UFO front man Phil Mogg launches the debut album from his new outfit Moggs Motel. Also this month we chat to Serious Black, Charlotte Wessels, Tuk Smith, God Is An Astronaut, Unto Others, Pure Reason Revolution, Long Earth, ZacTheLocust, and Cober Mouth.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, Editorial.

POWERED UP
Halestorm, Masters Of Rock Festival, Tons Of Rock Festival, SOS Festival, Sammy Hagar, Anvil, I Previal, Hollywood Undead, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Duane Betts & Palmetto Hotel, Robert Jon & The Wreck, O.A.R., Fitz And The Tantrums, Fit For A King.

POWER PLAYS
Blitzkrieg, Mechanic Tyrants, Oceans Of Slumber, Madison Galloway, A Killer’s Confession, The Funeral Portrait, Sirius, Herbst, Arka’n Asrefokor, Attractive Chaos, Braindrag, Bif Naked, Amerakin Overdose, Amethyst, Backbone Slide.

POWER CUTS
The Dead Daisies, Serious Black, Michael Schenker, Unto Others, Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts, Charlotte Wessels, ZacTheLocust, Crave, Pure Reason Revolution, Seether, Written By Wolves, Eclipse, 1349, DD Verni, Primal, Hillbilly Vegas, Skid Row, Sidewinder, Atlantic, Dog’n’style, Spiral Grave, Our Hollow Our Home, Knightsune, Timeless Fairytale, Witchunters, Dark Heart, Blues Pills, Vola, Kalandra, Mother Of Millions, Purgatory Line, Manapart, Messianic, Chaser, Demiser, Brendan Perkins, Honeymoon Suite, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Lizzard, The Black Dahlia Murder, Haven Of Echoes, Ritchie Kotzen, Rewind, Kunes Clark Band, Stahlmann, V/A Piano That Rocks, Warlock A.D., Wolfchant, Crossbone Skully, Elder, Gloria Perpetua, Cairo Knife Fight, Painted Scars, Sarajah, Changing Tymz, Nikolo Kotzev, S*x Shop Mushrooms, Lord Of The Lost, The Byron Band, Fading Echoes, Halfway To Neptune, John Entwistle, Warhorse, Cats In Space, Blacklist, Sinner’s Blood, Autumn Killers, Dirtbag Republic, Dune Rats, A Thousand Reasons, Sam Millar, Demon Head, Shallow Side, Stepfather Fred, Erronaut, Cocktail Slippers, New Dilemma, Synopsis, Creed, The Aphelion, Brant Bjork Trio, Shadow Of Ithaca, Nebulith, Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour, TKO, High Parasite, A Forest Mighty Black, Endless Chain, Bite The Bullet, Future Palace, Jordan Rudess, Gelatin Skelatin, Stryper, Foster Mother, Brimstone, Hebi Katana, Nehoda, Ireful, The Dangerous Summer, Nighthawk, Lesoir, Gabriels, Chateaux, Michael Staertow, Pump5, Zivanished, Blue Heron, Brain Pain, Vision Divine, Psychlona, Mikhmakh, Hawkestrel, World On Alert, D-A-D, Blast Waves, In Retrospect, Fireball Ministry, Wintersun, Loss, Grasbrand, Zero One Zero, Devolution, Robse, Fish, Forest Field, Uga Buga, Torus, Reaktion, Virgin Steele, Jaws The Shark, Kodama, Moggs Motel, Cober Mouth, Cory Marks, Doomsday Outlaw, Non-Fiction.

21/07/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 26th July

POWERPLAY 276 AUGUST 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Two decades into their career, Powerwolf continue to beguile and intrigue with their unique style of fascinating folklore metal on latest album ‘Wake Up The Wicked’. Powerplay’s favourite Swedish fantasy metallers Hammerfall show us how to ‘Avenge The Fallen’, masked marauders Mushroomhead prove how great they can be when Ms Jackie takes on the front woman role, Stockholm’s Metalite discuss the art of blending power metal with trance music, and we catch up with Mark Mangold and Jake E about the fantastic new Keys album. We also talk to Rhabstallion, Rezet, Brave Rival, Millie Manders & The Shutup, Patriarchs In Black, Stuka Squadron, Tantrum, Mojo Thunder, Druidess, Eddie & The Wolves, Yaki Dah, Warhog, and Chemical Storm, plus following the announcement that they will be playing the whole of their debut album on their latest tour we revisit some classics when we rank W.A.S.P.’s albums.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWERED UP
Copenhell Festival, Nickelback, Blackmore’s Night, Battlebeast, Quireboys, Gwar, The Reverend Horton Heat, Abbath, Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, Troy Redfern, Blackbriar, Imperial Triumphant, Black Anvil, V.I.P. Suite, Kubrick Stare.

POWER PLAYS
Powerwolf, Elles Bailey, Zeal & Ardor, Hammerfall, Horror Dance Squad, Aeons, Leprous, Against Evil, Tungsten, Lodestar, Siamese, Kingcrow, Grendel’s Syster, Yaki Dah, King 810.

POWER CUTS
Rhabstallion, Brave Rival, All For Metal, Mojo Thunder, Stuka Squadron, Dreamgate, Rezet, Mr. Big, Millie Manders & The Shutup, Son Of Man, Wage War, Darwin, Kick The Giant, Surrender, Zerre, Nightmare Screen, Eddie & The Wolves, Druidess, FB1964, Silvera, The Chris Slade Timeline, Sacri Monti, The Human Edition, The Crypt, McCoy, Mister Misery, Jupiter Cyclops, Vanhelgd, Rising Insane, Long Earth, Hell Valley High, Nurcry, Amorphis, Phaethon, Idol Throne, Ebony Archways, Flotsam And Jetsam, Airbag, Jon Anderson And The Band Geeks, Koílos, Ethos, The Anti-Queens, Black Sites, Absolon, Sons Of Arrakis, Applehead, Forbidden Myth, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Turbo, A Day In Venice, Metal Church, Marco Gluhmann, Barbarian Hermit, Mike Tramp, Vredehammer, 2 Wolves, Vicolo Inferno, Fourth Dominion, Jim Peterik & World Stage, The Early November, Servants To The Tide, Nattsjal, Avi Rosenfeld & Stefano Stex Sbrignadello, Mine Road, Chasing The Fall, Zetra, Shadow Witch, We Broke The Weather, April Fool, Paralydium, Gone Savage, Noiz Ritual, Ammify, Dead Karma, Gods & Punks, Voodoo Kiss, Release The Titans, Left Lane Cruiser, Wrex, Ironflame, The Misfires, Wolfheart, Robin George & Glenn Hughes, Mest, God Is An Astronaut, Fallen Letters, Ian Highhill, Warhog, Swedish Erotica, Hail Darkness, Blackhearth, Foali, Snatch-Back, Drenched, Occult Witches, Maziac, Questing Beast, Vower, Sable Hills, God Dethroned, Icy Steel, NZM, King Zog, Waxwing, Earth Lux, Ak & The Red Kites, Dawn After Dark, Empiric, Blue Öyster Cult, The Nail, Sylvan, Tim Bowness, Femegades, Quiescent Mantis, Bobby Mahoney, Chemical Storm, Dampf, Tantrum, Shade Of Sorrow, Half Cab, Eradicator, Nektar, Forlorn Hope, Wolfen Reloaded, Carmeria, Wailing Banshee, Then Comes The Night, Lady Rage, Waysted, Within Temptation, Bones Owens, Autumn Eyes, Meer, Wallop, Victory, Perseide, Mushroomhead, Siege Perilous.

30/06/2024

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POWERPLAY 275 JULY 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Ian Gillan tells us about writing and recording the band’s 23rd album which has the rather odd title ‘=1’ and is the first to feature new guitarist Simon McBride. Ian also recounts how he was assisted by a friend who he describes as a mad scientist! Visions Of Atlantis push the (pirate) boat out even farther this month with their superb sequel ‘Pirates II - Armada’ (p8), Dream Evil return from a seven year recording gap with the modestly but appropriately titled ‘Metal Gods’, and we talk to Tailgunner who are flying the flag for the new breed of British traditional metal. Also this month are chats with Robert Jon & The Wreck, Grand Slam, The Commoners, Evolucija, Hellgrimm, Inner Axis, Death In Paradise, Before Sunday, War Grave, and Petrolbreath, plus Tony Pijar shares his Top 20 favourite list of current new wave of traditional heavy metal bands, and we put Metal Queen Doro’s albums under the spotlight.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWERED UP
Bruce Dickinson, Five Finger Death Punch, Yes, Kansas, Call Of The Wild Festival, Symphony X, Uli Jon Roth, Riverside, Heathen, Lil Ed And The Blues Imperials, Ice Nine Kills, When Rivers Meet, Black Smoke Trigger, Romeo’s Daughter, Kira Mac, Klone, Malevolence, Jayler, Dusk Brothers.

POWER PLAYS
Visions Of Atlantis, Orden Ogan, Halestorm, Nothing More, Whaledog, Beasto Blanco, Scarlet Rebels, Category 7, Sarke, Saint Diablo, Vhaldemar, Orange Goblin, Soulbound, Beaux Gris Gris And The Apocalypse.

POWER CUTS
Deep Purple, Kissin’ Dynamite, Keys, Seventh Dimension, Black Phantom, 96 Bitter Beings, Six Feet Under, Kittie, Vexing Hex, Velveteen Queen, Thola, Rifflord, Ereley, Equus, Paradise In Flames, Boneripper, Burntmill Ghosts, Royal Republic, Hartlight, Frequency Overload, Holycide, Loaded Billy, Factory Of Art, Thomas Nicholas Band, Shaun Stein, Bloody Falls, The Eternal, Status Quo, The Mercury Riots, Silver Horses, Jolly Jackers, Crippled Fingers, Cactus, D.A.D., Sanity, Zygnema, The Ghost Next Door, Hellbutcher, One Step Closer, Meden Agan, Manchester Orchestra, Gyasi, Ear Danger, Beautiful Skeletons, Electro Sound Parade, Black Water Sunset, Bonnie Tyler, Immortal Synn, Terra Nullius, The Killerfreaks, Creature Creature, Grin Cynic, Maailman Aanet, Die Entweihung, Harpazo, Lavire, Portrait, Trail Of Tears, Atlantis Drive, Palace, Motivik, Dark Oath, Cognitive, Inside The Hole, Aisles, Grand Massive, The Mourning, Return To Dust, Teramaze, Grave Forsaken, Daily Thompson, Half Past Two, The Headless Ghost, It Will Last, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Death Lens, Dark Mile, Lost In Exile, Kryptos, Speed Limit, Valfreya, Windwaker, Noirnoise, Lucidity, Auro Control, Sunbomb, Fight The Fight, Sun Descends Alone, Shotgun Mistress, Sykofant, Red Voodoo, Capstan, Cyclocosmia, Legions Of The Night, Superdeathflame, Wormwood, Skyeye, Zed Head, Malkeda, Big Sun, Sailor Hunter, Black Smoke Trigger, Combichrist, Big Wolf Band, Innuendo, Patriarchs In Black, Reverend Hound, Isle Of The Cross, Casey Maunder, Neonfly, Far From Refuge, Ingenue, Telling Secrets, Eden, Fughu, 24 Thorns, Eregion, See You Space Cowboy, Neaera, Coral The Merknight, Rendezvous Point, Bywater Call, Mystery, Floating Worlds, Black Vatican, Mammal, Shumaun, Worshipper, Kayleth, Friday Pilots Club, Mile, Cages For Preachers, Dream Evil, Spektra, D’ercole, Falcon Trails, Necronomicon, Grain Of Pain, Duel, The Georgia Thunderbolts, Amerikan Kaos, Issa, Sulo.

24/05/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 31st May

POWERPLAY 274 JUNE 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Black Country Communion return after a seven year absence with glorious new album ‘V’. We chat to Glenn Hughes about the supergroup, which he believes has the potential to be one of the top five bands on the planet, and we ask him the big question that everyone wants answered: will the band ever tour again? Tico Tores and David Bryan tell us about the making of new Bon Jovi album ‘Forever’ and how they haven’t felt so good about an album since ‘Slippery When Wet’, Tom Englund shares his enthusiasm about Evergrey’s spectacular new album which exceeds all expectations and will certainly be one of our front runners for album of the year, and Kerry King talks about his heavy as Hell debit solo offering. Also this month we catch up with Axel Rudi Pell, Lacuna Coil, Kaipa, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Nestor, Defects, Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers, Sunburst, Millennial Reign, Dendera, and Paula Teles, plus Helloween receive our albums ranked treatment.

POWERED UP
Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, Sabaton, Joe Bonamassa, Slash With Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Lordi, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Mammoth WVH, The 69 Eyes, Wind Rose, Kris Barras Band, Xandria, South Of Salem, All For Metal, Nanowar Of Steel, Shadowsmile, The Bites, Sellsword, The Night Eternal, Celavi, The Nocturnal Affair, Budderside, Crimson Veil, Warlock A.D., Hellbearer.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS
Evergrey, Pain, Axel Rudi Pell, Kerry King, Dendera, Amongst Liars, Flamekeeper, Anvil, Demon, Reliqa, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Dirty Denims, Reach, The Commoners, Greenleaf, Violent Eternal.

POWER CUTS
Bon Jovi, Vain, Millennial Reign, earthtone9, Loverboy, Nestor, Sunburst, Mad Hatter, Evolucija, Dååth, Petrolbreath, Kaipa, Tyrants & Kings, Krissy Matthews, The Watchers, Smash Into Pieces, Warhorse, Altar Of Oblivion, Savage Wizdom, Deviltrain, Bat, Senistro, Hades, The Heathen Scÿthe, Preacher Stone, Maverick, Angels Of Babylon, Kickhunter, Postum – 0, The Outfit, Shrapnel, Evildead, My Diligence, Thomas Nicholas Band, Telltale, Ancient Trail, The Idoru, My Merry Machine, Belmont, Tyran, Pallbearer, Eidola, Man Machine Industry, Grand Slam, Babylon A.D., Dunamit, Floodfall, Mother Of All, Dolmen Gate, Dezperadoz, Dead Pony, Thrower, Folkrim, Return To Earth, Smoke AxD, Nightrage, Maesun, Nightmare, Shark Island, Symakya, Ebba Bergkvist And The Flat Tire Band, Withering Surface, Dekadent Ways, Death In Paradise, Before Sunday, Black Diamonds, Oli Brown & The Dead Collective, Morgul Blade, Rossometile, Unpeople, Maybeshewill, Renegade Angel, Peter Wilson, Lodestar, Sons Of Thunder, Rarity, Hands Of Goro, Nektar, Ingested, Knights Of The Realm, Iterum Nata, Wildstreet, Peter Roxx, Cruel Mother, Greyhawk, Twisted Rose, Backward Blue, Lynx, Manic Eden, Guy Snowdon And The Citizens, Crypt Sermon, Natthammer, Alcest, Intelligent Music Project, Ruinforge, Black Pyramid, Univertigo, Liar, Thief, Bandit, Xeneris, Cloven Hoof, Cadet Carter, Knightfall, Exodus, Full House Brew Crew, Mixed Up Everything, Alvader, Distorta, Hammerschmitt, Young Medicine, Hypersonic, Metaphora, Mob Rules, Night Laser, Lypswitch, For I Am, Age Of Emergence, Gengis Khan, Innerload, Seasons Of The Wolf, The Hu, King Of None, Sum 41, Call Ov The Void, Never Elected, Emerald Eye, Fire From The Gods, Eat Defeat, Ancient Settlers, The Good The Bad And The Zugly, Poltergeist, Fu Manchu, Remedy, Black Country Communion, War Grave, Universe III, Ethereal Flames, Robert Jon And The Wreck, Just One Fix, Cobra The Impaler, Tarja, Inner Axis, Then Comes Silence, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Intranced, Adamant Sky, Pulse R, Jo Below, Tanshuman Das, Pantheon Omega, Bloodstain, Notio, Onlap, Room 11, The Bad Day, Scarefield, Tortuga, Nat Silva, Rival Sons.

20/04/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 26th April

POWERPLAY 273 MAY 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Accept singer Mark Tornillo shares some stories and tells us about the band’s fantastic new album ‘Humanoid’ which includes ten razor-sharp and bone-crushing Accept anthems and one beautiful ballad. Nancy Wilson tells us all about the upcoming Heart tour and what it’s like to be on the road as a seventy-year-old. Sebastian Bach returns with a peach of a new solo album that fans of Skid Row need to hear. And we talk to Billy Idol’s guitarist Billy Morrison about the A-listers who contributed to his debut album. Also this month we catch up with Freedom Call, Lee Aaron, Collateral, Ghostkid, Wheel, Mike Matney, The Last Element, Pirate Queen, Ramblin’ Preachers, Enquire Within, Ruled By Raptors, Nastergal, and The Fires Below, plus promoter George previews this year’s Masters Of Rock festival and we bring you our in-depth look at the festival events for the rest of the year.

POWERED UP
Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep, Black Stone Cherry, FM, Mr. Big, Dragonforce, Amaranthe, Rick Wakeman, Girlschool, Lillian Axe, Alcatrazz, Leaves’ Eyes, Massive Wagons, Mammoth WVH, Nita Strass, Metalite, Infected Rain, Saint Asonia, Northtale, Twister, Brave Rival, Catalyst Crime.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Viewpoint, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS
Accept, Gothminster, Unleash The Archers, Apocalyptica, Drungi, Stormborn, Crosschains, New Horizon, Ghøstkid, Saturday Night Satan, Unshine, Rise Of Asura, Billy Morrison, The Middlenight Men, Chase The Comet, JD Miller.

POWER CUTS
Slash, Pirate Queen, Imminence, Matney, Nastergal, Enquire Within, Collateral, The Fires Below, Wheel, Freedom Call, The Milk Men, Coventhrall, Alicate, Ravage, Shadowdance, Vanden Plas, Guenna, High Desert Queen, Melodious Deite, The Rah’s, Ferrett, The Treatment, Bloodorn, Warlord, Handsome Jack, Symphonity, The Vulcan Itch, Jinjer, Bob Saliba, Rydholm Säfsund, Lost Zone, Mephisto, Keygen Church, Animalia, Concrete Age, Greystone Canyon, Dvne, Marty Friedman, Gatecreeper, Hunter, Northlane, The Ghost Inside, Travis Jon Evans, Anette Olzon, Riffless, The Now, Tidstyv, P***y Sisster, Týr, Defryme, Kitsa, Orion Child, Six By Six, Elvellon, Hardraw, Summoner’s Circle, Dialith, Geezer/Isaak, Since 2000, Sabotage, Quinn Sullivan, Perseus, Grumpster, Achelous, Darko, Attacker, Ancient Remains, Jamart, Blessed Black, Lust For Life, Zero One, Seven Spires, My Silent Wake, Anzi Destruction, Crushed By Waves, Severed Angel, Turbion, Transatlantic, Joe Bonamassa, Hope Darling, Alien Ant Farm, Bloodbound, Prehistoric Animals, Sonic Wolves, Stormhunter, Palooka, In Vain, He Was A God, Abrams, Cobra 1981, Insanity Alert, Scavenger, Battlecreek, Necrophobic, Holler, Black Sonic Pearls, Treasure Seeker, Lowlives, Moonspell, The Loyal Cheaters, A Neverending John’s Dream, Fracture Point, Crying Steel, Oakfarm, Stan Sylvander, Heleven, Captain Hawk, Hellgrimm, Contracult, Critical Defiance, Ivy Gardens, Child, Dyscordia, Gentle Giant, Lesson In Violence, Glyph, Once Upon The End, Stormchild, Bob Dee With Petro, Mortal Man, I Am The Intimidator, Bottenhavet, Def Leppard, Vanta, The Hazytones, Vulgar Devils, Deicide, Bronze, The Troops Of Doom, Rhapsody Of Fire, Marisa And The Moths, Fifty-One, Black Sabbath, Outcast Syndicate, The Tangent, Obscure Reality, Ferocious Dog, Ren Marabou & The Berserkers, Fatal Fire, Ström, Abandon All, Mist Descends, Alase, Chavez Cartel, Blowfuse, Ghosts On Mars, Paula Teles, Little Albert, Tonnerre, The Last Element, Nightblaze. Achelous, Chariots Overdrive.

23/03/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 29th March

POWERPLAY 272 APRIL 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
A band that has always walked its own path, after experimenting with greater use of rap, alt, and pop on previous album ‘Circles’, San Diego metallers P.O.D. have pared their latest album ‘Veritas’ down to it’s much more Powerplay friendly metal core. “Everything about it is a bit heavier and more in your face,” says frontman Sonny Sandoval. Balance Of Power return with their first album since 2003, Feuerschwanz delight the non-German speaking world with a collection of songs in English, and we talk to new prog metal supergroup Whom Gods Destroy. Also this month are interviews with Gun, Rage, FM, Sonic Universe, Folterkammer, Nonexister, Susan Santos, Revenant, These Wicked Rivers, Final Coil, Deadaudiosaints, and Kaos Krew, plus ahead of talking to Accept next month about the release of their metal as Hell new album ‘Humanoid’ we look back on their essential-for-all-metal-fans back catalogue with an albums ranked feature.

POWERED UP
Alestorm, Gun, Korpiklaani, Tesseract, Gloryhammer, Currents, John 5, Beast In Black, Being As An Ocean, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Heidevolk, Brothers Of Metal, Connor Selby, Unprocessed, Oceans Ate Alaska, The Callous Dauboys, Sentinels.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS
Kris Barras Band, Blue Oyster Cult, Sonic Universe, Throne Of Thorns, Khirki, Electron, Feuerschwanz, FM, Rage, Vulture, Freddy And The Phantoms, Blood Opera, The Neptune Power Federation, Setyoursails.

POWER CUTS
Gun, Dead Reynolds, P.O.D., Ayreon, Ramblin Preachers, Kickin’ Valentina, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Coffin Storm, Sebastian Bach, Korpiklaani, Millhaven, Glitter Wizard, Blaze Bayley, King Zebra, Cigar Box Band, Far Beyond, Art Of Anarchy, Kill The Lights, Anubis, About Us, Marble Ghosts, The Day We Left Earth, Waste A Saint, Deadpeach, Voyager-X, Sunday Factory, The Lunar Effect, Suldusk, Emergency Rule, Meanstreak, Datcha Mandala, Deadaudiosaints, Edit The Tide, Rotting Christ, Heavy Temple, Ashes Of Billy, Pushing Daisy, Electric Deathbeat, Conquest, Transport Aerian, Shores Of Null, Mind Control, Venus, Trafic Jam, Friends Of Hell, Mike Tramp, Moonshot, Revenant, Malphas, Drunken Swallows, Neon Rider, Ecclesia, Factory Of Art, White Dog, Asomvel, Tigers On O***m, Attic Theory, Freedom, Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan 9, Greywind, Stone Angels, The Quill, Under A Spell, F.K.U., Ruled By Raptors, Le***an Bed Death, Tarot, My Dying Bride, Sami Yaffa, Cindy-Louise, Bastion Rose, Planethard, Acerus, Silveroller, Khold, Witherfall, Homecoming, Still Dusk, Apollyon Rising, Graywitch, Pat!I, Loch Vostock, Junkyard Drive, Letters Sent Home, In Autumn, Bristol To Memory, Sad Iron/Burning, Týr, Acid Mammoth, Bif Naked, Thunder, Defects, Cruzh, Traveler, Yllgen, Moonin Down, Misophonia, Omnivide, External, Nemedian Chronicles, Alice Cooper, Todd Grubs, Avi Rosenfeld, Naga Siren, Plush, Nik, Novichok, Nocturna, Ellis Mano Band, The Hate Club, Witchorious, Night King, Max Boogie Overdrive, Lie Heavy, Nebularis, Balance Of Power, Dool, Rik Emmett, Deep Purple, Rear Naked Choke, Brume, Marco Cusato, Tom Mansi And The Icebreakers, Verikalpa, Oz Hawe Petersson’s Rendezvous, Upploppet, Feed My Daemons, Autumnblaze, Haunted, Vanderwolf, Midnite Hellion, Quantum, Folterkammer, Lee Aaron, Desperate Measures, Noel Hussler.

17/02/2024

On sale on our web site now
and in the shops from 23rd February

POWERPLAY 271 MARCH 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Almost two decades since his last solo offering, Bruce Dickinson blows us away with his fantastic new album ‘The Mandrake Project’. Created along with Bruce’s long-time collaborator, guitarist and producer Roy Z, the concept album will be complemented by a series of twelve comics that tell its story. We talk to legendary former Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars about his sublime debut solo album, a thoroughly modern affair that will surprise everyone, Scott Stapp tells us about his latest solo offering and discusses the possibility of the Creed reunion tour making it to the UK, and we catch up with the not so British favourite UK prog rock band Big Big Train. Also this month are chats with Dragonforce, New Years Day, Alestorm, Lionheart, Hammer King, Blind Channel, Philip Sayce, Midas Fall, Edge Of Ever, Psychos, and No Worth Of Man, plus heavy metal originators Black Sabbath receive our albums ranked treatment.

POWERED UP
The Darkness, The Outlaws, Spock’s Beard, Bad Nerves, Steve Overland & Jim Kirkpatrick, Wayward Sons, South Of Salem, InMe, Final Coil, The Marianna Hollow, Hats Off Gentlement It’s Adequate, Holding Absence, Muddibrooke, Dark Divine, The River.

REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS
Bruce Dickinson, Leah, Amaranthe, Stygian Crown, Final Coil, Skeletal Remains, Frozen Rain, Savaged, Ancient Vvisdom, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, New Years Day, Steve Hackett, Alterium, Dust Bolt, Revolution Saints, Troy Redfern, Dragonforce.

POWER CUTS
Mick Mars, Blind Channel, Durbin, Big Big Train, No Terror In The Bang, Suicidal Angels, Whiteabbey, Crucible, Susan Santos, D’luna, Cognizance, Crazy Lixx, Social Disorder, Cave, The Great Alone, Blackout Problems, Z02, Goat Major, Faith Circus, Amigo The Devil, Diabol Boruta, Flames Of Fire, Austrian Death Machine, Wax Mekanix, Midas Fall, Byron, Reeper, Dreamworm, Ministry, Midnight, Noage, Wade Black’s Astronomica, Anahata, Palace Of The King, Whom Gods Destroy, Su***de Bombers, Wet Cactus, White City Graves, Big Scenic Nowhere, Traitor, Crucial Velocity, Scott Stapp, Counting Hours, Disastroid, North Sea Echoes, Maggie Lindemann, Edge Of Ever, Dwarrowdelf, Lausch, Smoking Snakes, Dustmice, Borknagar, Electro Charged, Robert Hart, Honeymoon Suite, David Reece, Saffire, Hijss, Arkado, Striker, Armagelion, The Awesome Machine, Cemetery Of Scream, Dream State, The Hellacopters, Vicinity, Black Absinthe, Visions Of Morpheus, John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, No Worth Of Man, Horrorgraphy, Hammer King, The Progressive Souls Collective, Ashen Reach, Nobody’s Fool, Walter Trout, Damnationis, Show N Tell, The End Machine, Bex Marshall, Dirty Laces, Leaves’ Eyes, Children Of Bodom, In Vain, Evergrey, 25 Yard Screamer, Sentry, Comeback Kid, Belushi Speed Ball, Nonexister, Almamor, Raizer, The Obsessed, Bernard Allison, Skull Servant, Alestorm, Last In Time, Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, Fear The Fate, Daniele Brusaschetto, Collapsed Minds, Gost, Mitch Ryder, Exa, Omen, Rocket Fuel, Fortune Teller, Red Temple Pray, Blue Nation, Theragon, Decrowned, Jef Bek, Shane Smith And The Saints, Craneium, Black Hounds, Next Day Shakes, Crowdead, The Seafloor Cinema, Wolves I Feed, Vic Lecar, Ana, Per Wiburg, Tangent Plane, These Wicked Rivers, Arcane Tales, Rascal, Liv Kristine, Mercyful Fate, Today Was Yesterday, Scarefield, Exhorder, Firewind, Greengoat, No One Alive, Inver, Persevera, Distorted Reflection, Johnrose, Skullclub, Armored Dawn, Taken Days, Pressure, Thunder, Sgàile, Uncomfortable Knowledge, Vespertine, Fate, General Jack, Thy Shining Curse, Green Day, Diminium, Forever Mortal, Motörhead, Elfsong, Samael, Leather Lung, Genghis Khan, Riley’s L.A. Guns, Lost In Grey, Xion, Wargods Of The Deep, Lilith’s Black Lotus, Metal De Facto, Lords Of Black, Lord Of The Lost, Fragmented Soul.

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