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The Darkness: Dreams On Toast

Label: Cooking Vinyl Release date: 3/28/2025Producer: Dan HawkinsAlbum length: 33:05 minGenre: Rock'N'Roll / Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 The Darkness love picking 'crunchy' titles for their albums. Just think of the comeback record "Hot…

Metropolis: Metropolis

Label: Nika RecordsRelease date: October 21, 2022Production: MetropolisAlbum length: 31.49 minGenre: Rock 'N' RollRating: 8.5/10 Metropolis are a rock'n'roll trio from Ljubljana. Anyone in Slovenia who follows the rock scene even a…

The Darkness: Motorheart

Label: Cooking VinylRelease date: 11/19/2021Album length: 35.25 minProduction: Dan HawkinsGenre: Hard Rock/Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 You either love them or you hate them. There's no in-between. The Darkness. Two years have flown by…

Mi2: Črno na belem

Label: ZKP RTV SLORelease date: April 1, 2021Production: Drago PopovičAlbum length: 45:12 minGenre: Art Rock/Rock'N'RollRating: 10/10 “Črno na belem” is the eighth studio album from the now-legendary Slovenian rock'n'roll and art…

40 Years of Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades”

What is there left to say about an album that's already had everything said about it? Did anyone ever even need to say anything about an album like this? A fast 40 years have gone by since it came out in early November 1980. Even a passing…

AC/DC: Power Up

Label: Columbia RecordsRelease date: 11/13/2020Producer: Brendan O'BrienLength: 41:03 minGenre: Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 "The Day That Never Comes", or whatever that Metallica tune is called. And yet, it came. The AC/DC camp teased…

Led Zeppelin’s “III” Turns 50

1969 went down as the year Led Zeppelin's rock'n'roll supernova exploded, and it was impossible to look away. All of a sudden, this new star was blazing at full intensity. That year they built an incredible launch ramp and catapulted…

40 Years of AC/DC’s “Back In Black”!

In early 1980, AC/DC found themselves in a seriously unenviable position. The Grim Reaper tapped their enigmatic vocalist Bon Scott on the shoulder and invited him along. For good. On 19 February 1980, he was found dead in the early…

Deep Purple: Perfect Strangers

"»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…

Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band

"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."

Deep Purple: Stormbringer

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…

Deep Purple: Burn

"»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…

Deep Purple: Who Do We Think We Are

" "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,…

Deep Purple: Machine Head

"'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."

Deep Purple: Fireball

"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…

Deep Purple: Deep Purple

"“Deep Purple” was, without a shadow of a doubt, the best record of the Mark I Deep Purple lineup. The legendary band hit its artistic peak here, with one foot already stepping toward the big stylistic shift that came right after Evans and…

Deep Purple: The Book of Taliesyn

"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: Shades of Deep Purple

"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…

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