#review #recordoftheday BAND Cirith Ungol ALBUM FOREVER BLACK LABEL METAL BLADE RECORDS OUT April 24th, 2020 PIR RATING 90/100 Surely one of of the mst anticipated albums this year year at Hardrockheavymetal and we can say it was worth waiting for. Evocative LEGION ARISE, opened by intro THE CALL, sign the return of cult Us band, seen on stage in many festival throughout last years and out with a single (WITCH’S GAME) in 2018 and a live album (I’M ALIVE) in 2019. With a great

#recordoftheday #review BAND Wolf ALBUM FEEDING THE MACHINE LABEL Century Media Records OUT March 13th, 2020 OUR RATING 80/100 Eight full-lenght after six years since brilliant DEVIL SEED by WOLF, classic metal band from Sweden. It’s not easy to be fresh in the classic metal scene, where many fans are obviously conservative. FEEDING THE MACHINE is the new fatigue after two changes on four members in the line up, with Pontus Egberg (KING DIAMOND) on bass and Johan Koleberg on

#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

#recordoftheday #onerecordeveryday BAND Witchtower ALBUM WITCHES DOMAIN LABEL Unsilent Tombs Records OUT 6/2/2020 FORMAT CD Third album since 2014 by the project put together by VICTOR de la CHICA, from Andalusia Spain, out on Feb 6th, 2020, for the first time on Unsilent Tomb Records. Ten songs and a bonus track in an album recorded in studio by Victor himself, which sing and played all instruments except drums. Again traditional HM on high level, with great changes of time,

#recordoftheday BAND Gotthard ALBUM #13 LABEL Nuclear Blast OUT 13/3/2020 FORMAT CD This is the new album by Gotthard ou last Friday. This is our opinion about. https://www.hardrockheavymetal.info/post/gotthard-13

#review #recordoftheday BAND Elixir ALBUM VOYAGE OF THE EAGLE LABEL Dissonance Productions OUT March 6th, 2020 OUR RATING 88/100 We have the chance to have on our pages a few days ago PHIL DENTON of ELIXIR (https://www.hardrockheavymetal.info/post/phil-denton-elixir) and now it’s time to spread our opinion about new album VOYAGE OF THE EAGLE, out on March 6th on DISSONANCE. With four on five members of masterpiece SON OF ODIN, this platter provides ten song where the trademar

#recordoftheday #review BAND Burning Witches ALBUM DANCE WITH THE DEVIL LABEL NUCLEAR BLAST OUT 6/3/2020 OUR RATING 84/100 Third album by the HM band from Switzerland out on March 6th on Nuclear Blast and first with new (awesome) singer LAURA GULDEMOND. Surely a more various album than previous HEXENHAMMER. The trademark is CLASSIC HM, squared and strong, and the five girls are able to do the best thing. They are able to hit, to be epic when it needs..a rich album where new

review #recordoftheday BAND STALLION ALBUM SLAVES OF TIME LABEL HIGH ROLLER RECORDS OUT Feb 28th, 2020 FORMAT VINYL Third full-lenght by German NWOTHM band STALLION and is absolutely the final leap!! No doubt, will be one of our highlights of the year!! SLAVES OF TIME, out on High Roller on Feb 28th and here shown in this fancy B/W version, is brilliant, thanks to a brilliant production which exalts all instruments and vocals and songs always on high level with no fillers. Si

#recordoftheday #review BAND SYTERIA ALBUM REFLECTION LABEL CARGO RECORDS OUT 21/2/2020 OUR RATING 80/100 SYTERIA are a band formed by Jackie Chambers, lead guitarist of GIRLSCHOOL. After RANT-O-BOOT, for a few days is out the second chapter entitled REFLECTION, with the news STEPH DAWSON on bass; confirmed JULIA and PABLO CALVO on vocals/guitar and drums. The sound is confirmed, the production is clear and powerful, maybe in studio they lose something compared to live versio

#recordoftheday #review BAND Ozzy Osbourne ALBUM ORDINARY MAN LABEL EPIC OUT 21/02/2020 OUR RATING 70/100 Firstly we are happy to have in our hands a new platter by the MADMAN and we’re really happy about that. Ten years after SCREAM we have great expectations, even though some doubts about ANDREW WATT, producer and guitarist, known for the unlucky project CALIFORNIA BREED with GLENN HUGHES. This album is a long journey throughout the life of OZZY, helped by DUFF MCKAGAN on b

#review #recordoftheday BAND BIFF BYFORD ALBUM SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS LABEL SILVER LINING OUT 21/2/2020 OUR RATING 90/100 BIFF BYFORD, legendary singer of SAXON, is out for a few days with his first solo album, after a 2019 not easy thanks to serious health issues. An album which is another confirm by a a top musician, able in this solo fatigue to show all his passions, from direct and classic hard rock (WELCOME TO THE SHOW) to more structured metal sound (THE PIT AND THE PEND

#recordoftheday #review BAND TREBUCHET ALBUM TREBUCHET LABEL SELF RELEASE OUT Feb 13th, 2020 OUR RATING 85/100 TREBUCHET are a project led by Dave Gilbert (Dark Matter and Minor Planet) and Shayne Joseph (Eldrich Rites); this musicians met online and became firm buddies through technology. It all happened, when Dave was asked to record the vocalists voice, for the debut album by Open Door Of Doom, while Aussie band Eldrich Rites (Melbourne) supplied the music. Shayne is their

#review #recordoftheday BAND ANVIL ALBUM LEGAL AT LAST LABEL AFM RECORDS OUT 14/2/2020 OUR RATING 85/100 Out last Friday, on St. Valentine’s Day, LEGAL AT LAST is the new platter by Canadian HM band. The 18th studio album, after almost 40 years of career and the first out on AFM RECORDS. And we believe that the standards, since HOPE IN HELL, are absolutely high and consistent with the glorious past of the band. This album provides great and mature lyrics, a real added value,

#recordoftheday #review BAND HARDLINE ALBUM LIFE LIVE (CD+DVD) LABEL FRONTIERS OUT 14/2/2020 OUR RATING 85/100 St.Valentine’s day with HARDLINE..yesss! On Feb 14th was out the new album by HARDLINE, a special combo cd plus dvd to celebrate the concert at the last (and final) Frontiers Rock Festival. Great melodies, solid and powerful hard rock when it needs..the band led by amazing JOHNNY GIOELI, the lonely original member, seems in best shape, both playin’ seven classics fro

#recordoftheday BAND VARIOUS ALBUM ESSENTIAL NWOBHM - THE BEST OF NEAT RECORDS LABEL GoldenCore Records OUT 2019 FORMAT CD A really great compilation about stunning NEAT RECORDS, compiled by NEUDI, with a fancy NEAT patch and a rich 24 page booklet with liner notes by JOHN TUCKER and NEUDI. Among others songs by names well known on our pages such as Satan's Empire, Fist Nwobhm, Cloven Hoof and others (ARAGORN, STEEL and DEADRINGER). TO SUGGEST!!

#review #recordoftheday BAND Heavy Pettin ALBUM 4PLAY (EP) LABEL SELF RELEASE OUT 14/2/2020 OUR RATING 83/100 HEAVY PETTIN' are out today with their new Ep entitled “4PLAY”. This is the first batch of new HEAVY PETTIN' songs recorded in over 30 years. TRACKLIST 1. Get Back To You 2. Tell Me Why 3. Who We Are 4. Hard to Hold '4Play' was recorded at SOR Studios Great Linford in Autumn 2019. Produced and mixed by Gordon Albert Bonnar. Cover concept by Mike Badaracco and cover de

#review #recordoftheday BAND AXE CRAZY ALBUM HEXBREAKER LABEL CRAZY RECORDS OUT 11/11/2019 OUR RATING 82/100 Axe Crazy from Poland are a well-known name on our pages, heir of best tradition of classic and power metal. After one EP and a full-lenght, RIDE ON THE NIGHT, out in 2016, in the last slice of 2019 was out their second full-lenght entitle HEXBREAKER. With new singer TOMASZ SWIDRAK, AXEBREAKER is a trip throughout benchmarks of the band, with two lead guitars, power ga

#review #recordoftheday BAND Oniromantic ALBUM CHAOS FRAMES LABEL Buil2Kill Records OUT 17/1/2020 OUR RATING 80/100 From the ashes of a long musical experience in HM world, from funeral doom to brutal death, ANDY SORESINA and MATTIA SCIUTTI create ONIROMANTIC in 2009. Since the debut in 2012, THE WHITE DISEASE, the band engrave a dark gothic metal sound, narrating moments and passages, as in a long trip. After EUDEMONIC, out in 2016, darker and more reflecting than the previo

#review BAND ATHLANTIS ALBUM 02.02.2020 LABEL DIAMOND PROD OUT 2/2/2020 PICS’ FORMAT CD OUR RATING 88/100 Formed in 2003 in Italy by STEVE VAWAMAS are well-known on our pages. Now they are ready with their 6th full-lenght entitled 02.02.2020 just like the release date of the platter. The new line up consists of STEVE VAWAMAS, PIER GONELLA on guitars, DAVIDE DELL’ORTO (Drakkar) on vocals, STEFANO MOLINARI on keys ad CHRIS PARISI on drums. An album that we had the chance to ap

#review #recordoftheday BAND ANNIHILATOR ALBUM BALLISTIC, SADISTIC LABEL SILVER LING MUSIC/NEVERLAND MUSIC INC. OUT 24/1/2020 OUR RATING 81/100 New album by the band of JEFF WATERS, producer and involved in studio in all instruments except drums, played by FABIO ALESSANDRINI. The live band sees also AARON HOMMA on guitar and RICK HINKS on bass. A strong album well played with great structures; in vocals of JEFF WATERS tension never drops. Squared thrash in the first song, an