heavy rock

Heavy Pettin, the cult Scottish rock outfit who dropped their comeback album “Rock Generation” last October (24. 10. 2025, via Silver Lining Music), are back with a brand-new music video for the album single X-Rated. Check out the video…

Lord Velvet, American 70s rock revivalists from Denver, will release their second studio album "Wiccan Moon" via Ripple Music on January 8, 2027. The title single is out and already available on all major digital platforms! The album…

Hippie Death Cult, the heavy power rock trio that recently joined the Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records family in the US, are dropping a standalone single and video for the track Grit, Blood & Bone, which you can check out below. …

Cherry Red Records will release a five-CD box set, "Long Hard Road (1980–1985)", at the end of this August, covering almost the entire career of cult heavy rock outfit Nightwing! The collection includes all four studio albums plus the…

inner:i, the Greek heavy progressive rock trio, released their debut studio album "Lavender" on March 6, 2026. All the music and lyrics on the debut were written by inner:i, who also recorded, produced, and mixed the album themselves.…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: June 17, 2022Production: Jorn LandeAlbum length: 58.27 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 7.5/10 Jorn Lande, one of the most esteemed vocalists of his generation, and we can safely say…

Label: Rat Pack RecordsRelease date: May 7, 2021Production: Kurdt VanderhoofLength: 43.04 minGenre Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 Todd Michael Hall. Who? Who the hell is that now? The Riot V singer some of you may have met face to face on…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 1/29/2021Production: Michael Schenker & Michael VossAlbum length: 45.02 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 The great Michael Schenker is back. This time with an album he's…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020Album length: 62:04 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 And here's yet another live album from our well-known, wicked heavy rock'n'roll uncles Blue Öyster Cult!…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: December 4, 2020 (reissue)Producers: Steve Schenck & Richie CastellanoRunning time: 78.08 min (LP/CD) / approx. 120 min (DVD/Blu-ray)Genre: Heavy Metal/Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 …

In mid-June 1970, Uriah Heep released their studio debut »Very ‘eavy … Very ‘umble« in the UK (RockLine review) and laid the groundwork for a musical artistry all their own. It didn't take more albums than their contemporaries needed to…

"Blue Öyster Cult's debut, with a one-of-a-kind essence and substance, still speaks to you and hits home after 45 years, evergreen and practically timeless."

"With »Whoosh!« Deep Purple have made it loud and clear that they're in no rush to retire from the studio and are still having a blast making new music. Once again they've delivered an impressively solid record, on par with everything…

" When it was born 50 years ago, “Very ‘eavy … Very ‘umble” served up remarkable innovation, and with that very first record Uriah Heep proved they were a band with a finely honed musical pedigree, one they could boldly build on and push…

"The story behind the 50th anniversary of one of the most important albums in the history of rock music."

"The release of "40th Anniversary - Agents Of Fortune - Live 2016" is a welcome move, if only because it's a nice wake-up call that the iconic fossils of heavy rock aren't done yet and are coming back (let's hope soon) with a promised new…

"When it came out, the Black Sabbath debut was met with mostly disapproval and incomprehension from the critics of the day, and it took years for it to earn the respect and standing it deserves as one of the most important achievements in…

Label: Ear Music RecordsRelease date: 2017Production: Bob EzrinAlbum length: 45.47 minGenre: Heavy Rock/Hard RockRating: 8.0/10 After a four-year break from the studio, Deep Purple are back with "Infinite", their twentieth studio…

"»Perfect Strangers« was a triumphant return for hard rock legends everyone had already written off. They found their feet brilliantly in the radically changed technological and production landscape of the eighties and delivered one of the…

"The often-overlooked classic »Come Taste the Band« is a worthy farewell to Deep Purple's seventies and an immensely valuable testament to Bolin's unique guitar talent, one that makes you forget Blackmore's absence altogether."

Label: EMI RecordsRelease date: November 16, 1974Production: Deep Purple & Martin BirchAlbum length: 36.31 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 10/10 "Stormbringer" was the ninth studio effort from British heavy rock legends…

"»Burn« was the magnum opus of the newborn Mark III lineup, which blazed with incredible fire from its very first post-birth pangs, hell-bent on showing the world a revitalized face of the legendary English heavy rock champions. For the…

" "Who Do We Think We Are" is by far the least inspired album from the Mark II lineup of Deep Purple, a band that fell apart in a gloomy atmosphere, a by-product of management-forced studio slogging and constant Blackmore-Gillan feuding,…

"'Machine Head' is the golden crown atop Deep Purple's finest studio efforts and the peak of the Mark II lineup, which created the band's most beloved classics to this day."

"The experimental masterpiece »Fireball« is in many ways an even more interesting studio record than its famous predecessor, and it would've overshadowed it in every respect if it didn't have just one single flaw, going by the name…

"Concerto for Group and Orchestra" was an incredibly ambitious project for its time, the late sixties, and it deserves a special place in rock history, because it brought two completely different musical worlds together with real…

"Even though the band was on a rapid creative climb, the album completely bombed commercially on British soil, while the American response was likewise below expectations. Meanwhile, the first irreconcilable differences over the band's…

"Deep Purple's psychedelic-tinged debut is a vivid mirror of the original Mark I lineup, a band that leapt forward with every subsequent release, and today it's especially fascinating for anyone digging into the roots of heavy metal, hard…

With their self-titled debut, Black Sabbath pulled off a genuine revolution: while tinkering with the blues, they unexpectedly stumbled onto a whole new form of rock music, which the critics of the day dubbed heavy metal, making this one of…

"The chemistry between the crowd and the band was incredible all night. Not a single flub to be heard. Purple took our breath away (as always) with their famous trademarks. Flawless solos and songs flowing into one another through witty…

Label: Island RecordsRelease date: 7/25/1969Production: Terry Ellis & Ian AndersonAlbum length: 37.48 minGenre: Folk Rock / Blues Rock / Heavy Rock / JazzRating: 8.0/10 After the bluesy start of "This Was" (1968), Jethro Tull…

Label: Gull RecordsRelease date: 6. 9. 1974Production: Rodger BainAlbum length: 38.49 minGenre; Hard Rock/Heavy RockRating: 7.5/10 This record has very little of what we think of as classic Judas Priest. The band leaned toward…

"The title track Salisbury is basically a Uriah Heep manifesto of exceptional artistic ambition, instantly comparable to Pink Floyd's notorious Atom Heart Mother suite. They were a hair's breadth from breaking through into the ranks of…

" Magic was born. "