#recordoftheday BAND Sacred Alien ALBUM LEGENDS LABEL Skol Records OUT March 6th, 2020 FORMAT CD And finally on CD the long-awaited compilation of tracks of another underrated band born in #NWOBHM movement..SACRED ALIEN. We had the honor of having SEAN CANNING as special guest on our pages. https://www.hardrockheavymetal.info/post/sean-canning-sacred-alien

#onerecordeveryday BAND Heavy Pettin ALBUM Rock Ain't Dead LABEL POLYDOR OUT 1985 FORMAT VINYL This is the second album by Heavy Pettin out in 1985 on Polydor Records. TRACKLIST Rock Ain't Dead (Moat, Bonnar, Hayman) 4:01 Sole Survivor (Bonnar, Moat, Hayman) 3:37 China Boy (Bonnar, Moat) 3:25 Lost In Love (Bonnar, Moat, Hayman) 4:34 Northwinds (Waugh, Moat, Bonnar) 4:00 Angel (Bonnar, Moat) 4:11 Heart Attack (Bonnar, Moat, Hayman) 3:32 Dream Time (Bonnar, Moat, Hayman) 5:05 W

#interview SEAN CANNING - SACRED ALIEN 💿 Hi, it’s a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal SEAN CANNING of SACRED ALIEN!! Welcome!! Well hello to you and to all the readers of HardrockHeavymetal, it’s certainly a great pleasure to be here...if only in a virtual form. 💿 Can you tell us somethin’about the birth and the name of your band? Sometime in autumn of 1980 when I was just turned 16, I started at Art College in Stockport (just south of Manchester) and via a conv

#onerecordeveryday BAND SATAN ALBUM (EP) Into The Future LABEL Steamhammer ‎ OUT 1987 FORMAT Vinyl, 12" SETLIST A1 Key To Oblivion 4:32 A2 Hear Evil, See Evil, Speak Evil 4:44 B1 You 2:44 B2 The Ice Man 3:37 LINE UP Greame English BG Sean Taylor DR Russ Tippins GT BV Steve Ramsay GT BV Michael Jackson LV #nwobhm Satan (Band)

#review BAND Troyen ALBUM ANTHOLOGY - (1981/2019) LABEL CLASSIC METAL OUT 22/11/2019 OUR RATING 85/100 In the last slice of 2019 was our a great anthology about TROYEN, a week-knows name on our pages and in the #nwobhm cult underground world. About the band we said more throughout last years; alive between 1981 and 1982 and reborn since 2014, they were really present with many self released works. Their 1981 demo was engineered by Gil Norton and it was his first studio job. T

#onerecordeveryday BAND BLACK ROSE ALBUM WALK IT HOW YOU TALK IT LABEL NEAT RECORDS OUT 1986 FORMAT VINYL Black Rose are a #NWOBHM band, formed in 1976 under the name ICE but changed it to Black Rose in 1980. In the original line-up we can find Steve Bardsley (lead vocals/guitar), Kenny Nicholson (guitar), Marty Rajn (bass) and Mark Eason (drums). Over the next nine years the band showed many line-up changes and released quite a few records including two albums: Boys Will Be

💿💿💿SPECIAL💿💿💿 2019: AN YEAR OF NWOBHM on Hardrockheavymetal! Our readers know that we don’t love charts and scores, so we want simply talk about of some best news in NWOBHM’s movement throughout this ending year, with the certainty of forgetting somebody or somethin’..and we apologize all the same for this! It was the year of the return of DIAMOND HEAD with new album COFFIN TRAIN, the first out via SILVER LINING MUSIC; fancy and well groomed, surely a band in best shape

#onerecordeveryday BAND TYTAN ALBUM BLIND MEN AND FOOLS (EP) LABEL KAMAFLAGE OUT 1982 FORMAT 12” ThE 1st EP by TYTAN..great times.. TYTAN #nwobhm

BAND BLITZRIEG ALBUM LOUD AND PROUD (EP) LABEL MIGHTY MUSIC OUT 6/12/2019 FORMAT VINYL In waitin’ for the heir of JUDGE NOT, the new EP by BLITZKRIEG. #nwobhm

SNATCH BACK 💿 Hi, it’s a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal SNATCH BACK!! Welcome!! Hi Giovanni. The pleasure is all ours. It's great that you at Hardrockheavymetal are interested in our work. I think its really difficut for bands that write and perform their own material to get it out to an audience-either live or on record. Your type of media publications are vital to keep fans interested in rock music and help them seek bands like us out. Your interest is

Stormchild - CHRIS MITCHELL 💿 Hi, it’s a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal CHRIS MITCHELL of STORMCHILD !! Welcome!! Hi Giovanni and thanks for inviting me for an interview. 💿 On Nov 22nd will be out your debut album..after 40 years….LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE (our thoughts about on line in the following days). Can you tell us something about it? Produced by CHRIS TSANGARIDES..I said all.. Well, it’s a long story, but Chris Tsangarides first approache

💿 Hi, it’s a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal DANNY HYNES of WEAPON UK!! Welcome!! Thank you for inviting me Giovanni. 💿 On Sept 27th will be out your new platter called GHOST OF WAR. We have the chance to listening to it in preview and we were really impressed! Firstly, Can you tell us something about the meaning of the title and its composition process and style? It’s basically about street violence in the UK & America, stabbings and shottings in the st

BAND Millennium ALBUM A NEW WORLD LABEL Pure Steel Records OUT 25/10/2019 OUR RATING 86/100 NWOBHM band Millenium is a well-known name on our pages. Formed in Billingham in County Durham in 1982. After contributing the three songs “Steal Your Heart”, “Rock Was Meant For Me” and “Magic Mirror” to the “Pure Overkill” compilation in 1983, Millenium issued their self-titled debut album a year later. They eventually split up around 1988 and singer Marky Duffy went on joined To

BAND Troyen ALBUM A NEW DAWN (EP) LABEL VULCAN RECORDS OUT 7/2019 OUR RATING 83/100 It's out for a few days a new EP, entitled A NEW DAWN, by TROYEN, the cult nwobhm band well-known on our pages. With this new job they have the chance to present two new members, bass guitarist Mark Nortley and Steve Haslam, togheter with original members, the lead guitarist/vocalist Steve McGuire (welcome back after an heart operation) and drummer Jeff Baddley. The first shot is LADY EVIL

💿 Hi, it’s a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal ANDRO COULTON of MALLEUS!! Welcome!! Hi and thank you for the interview. 💿 On June 3rd was out your new platter (The 1st MALLEUS full-length!) called YOUR NIGHTMARE CALLS, positive received on our pages. Can you tell us somethin’about its composition process and style? Well, that started many years ago when I wrote the lyrics to Dark Dreams in around 1975, hoping that it would become a Witchfynde song. I had many

💿 Hi, it's a pleasure for us to have on Hardrockheavymetal BILL BEADLE of SACRILEGE!! Welcome!!  Thanks Gio I'm pleased to be here. 💿 On Aug 2nd will be out your new platter called THE COURT OF THE INSANE, positive received on our pages. Can you tell us somethin'about its composition process and style?  After our last album "six6six" I wanted to keep progressing forward and writing different types of songs but keeping the Sacrilege sound at the same time, "six6six" was v

BAND Sacrilege ALBUM THE COURT OF THE INSANE LABEL Pure Underground Records OUT 2/8/2019 OUR RATING 85/100 SACRILEGE will be back with their 3rd album since returning in 2012 after a hiatus of 25 years. The title is THE COURT OF THE INSANE, the band's 7th studio album since they were formed in 1982 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Bill Beadle. Staying faithful to their unique style SACRILEGE have shown on this album a typically British, typically unique and traditional Metal

BAND Blackmayne ALBUM SPAT FROM HELL LABEL Flicknife Records OUT 29/5/2019 OUR RATING 86/100 And finally was out the new album by BLACKMAYNE, one of the best cult underground nwobhm band that we know. SPAT FROM HELL, this is the title, is out for a few days and it contains eight songs plus two bonus tracks, among others a new version of TWILIGHT OF LEAR. They start with DON'T ENVY THE DEAD, epic and powerful, reminding us somethin' from Maiden/Blaze era. The production is n

BAND Diamond Head ALBUM THE COFFIN TRAIN LABEL Silver Lining Music OUT 24/5/2019 OUR RATING 90/100 The new album by DIAMOND HEAD is out! THE COFFIN TRAIN, this is the title, is a stunning full-lenght out, for the first time, via SILVER LINING. It's a pleasure seein' a band like this, so important for full NWOBHM movement and not only, finally well-managed and supported by a top label. Finally they have the respect they deserve! And the outcome, as abovementioned, is really i

BAND Malleus ALBUM YOUR NIGHTMARE CALLS LABEL Kent and Sussex Records OUT JUNE 1st OUR RATING 80/100 Another cult underground NWOBHM band is ready to unleash their new beast: MALLEUS! Their long-awaited first full-lenght will be available on June 1st, via KENT AND SUSSEX RECORDS; YOUR NIGHTMARE CALLS is the title. In 1980, just three days after he left Witchfynde , Andro Coulton together with his future wife Shaz formed Malleus and over the next 2 years the band went on play