Powerplay 172 February 2015

INTERVIEWS & FEATURES

Doug Aldritch, Deen Castronovo and Jack Blades... All in the same band. Seems like a dream come true, and their album sounds like it too. Welcome to the world of Revolution Saints. Kings of fantasy metal Blind Guardian lead a trio of power metal features this month, which also includes Orden Ogan and new supergroup Serious Black. Amongst the other top name interviews are Papa Roach, UDO, Black Star Riders and Blackberry Smoke. We also catch up with the singers from three fantastic but very different female fronted acts, Battle Beast, Nubian Rose and newcomers Secret Rule. Plus there are chats with Eclipse, whose latest album will blow you away, Ammunition, Care Of Night, Otherwise and progsters Beardfish.

REGULARS

AOR Underground, Short Cuts.

LIVE AND DANGEROUS

Linkin Park, Firefest, Slash, Motorhead, Status Quo, Accept, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Marillion, At The Gates, The Damned, Steve Hackett, Magnum, Machine Head, Lacuna Coil, Deathstars, Sabaton, HEAT, Seether, Michael Schenker's Temple Of Rock, Mastodon, Triptykon, Morbid Angel, Attitude Festival, Orphaned Land, Behemoth, 1349, Motionless In White, Delain, Fish, Califirnia Breed, Korpiklaani, Tyr, Wolf, Entombed AD, Rival Sons, Nashville Pussy, Voodoo Six, Blues Pills, Devilment, Audrey Horne, Coroner, Decapitated, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Icon For Hire, One OK Rock, The More I See, '77, Massive, New Years Day, Monster Truck, Bosshoss, The Graveltones, Vallenfyre, Darkest Hour, Heart Of A Coward, Ancient Ascendant, Bigelf, Kerbdog, Amplifier, LTNT, Empty Yard Experiment, The Charm The Fury, Peur, Achren, Altered Sky, Orgy, Cancerous Womb, The Raven Age, Grand Magus, Winterfylleth, Nine Black Alps, The Graviators, Santa Cruz, Western Sand, Bend Sinister, Hellbastard, Vintage Caravan, BlackWolf, Morbus Chron, Code Orange, Jolly, The Dead And Living, Feed The Rhino, Pet The Preacher, Atena, Ethereal, Baby Godzilla, Hawk Eyes, Against The Current, Bull-Riff Stampede, Hey You Guys!

POWER PLAYS

Blind Guardian, Nubian Rose, Atlas Losing Grip, Angra, Lancelot Lynx, Battle Beast, Cripper, October Rage, Care Of Night, Blackberry Smoke, Sweet & Lynch, Air Raid, Skarlett Riot, Leah, Finsterforst, Shiran, Revolution Saints, Secret Rule, Alpha Tiger, Jorne Lande & Trond Holter.

POWER CUTS

Level 10, Black Star Riders, Beardfish, Melvins, In Legend, Nightglow, Sodom, Nervochaos, Flayed, Taake, Thomsen, Wolfheart, Cold Snap, Pryti, Tony Wright, Astrakhan, Pat Travers Band, Noctiferia, Serious Black, T Clemente Band, Reason, Psychostick, Firewölfe, Ewigheim, Hadal Maw, The Hate Colony, Freddy And The Phantoms, Stolen Rhodes, Tellus Terror, Total Death, Hellion Rising, Foreigner, Edge Of Haze, By The Patient, Impera, Otherwise, Kevan Keeler, Torche, Caronte, Cea Serin, Powerwolf, P.O.D., Dulcamara, Bigbangbaybees, Skillet, Starbynary, Cruachan, 23 Acez, Dimension, Red Circuit, Rideon, Twingiant, Evilence, Stonewire, Desert Storm, Bloodstained Ground, V.A.R., Saint Rebel, In Tormentata Quiete, Will Wallner & Vivien Vain, The House Of Capricorn, Astralion, Seven7, Leopards, Nightblade, Littlefish, Season Of Ghosts, Enter Shikari, Sivyj Yar, Burning Saviours, Morodh, Treasures, Digits, The Texas Flood, Phantom Riffage, Esosome, Cryoshell, Nameless One, Moribund Oblivion, Andsolis, Mass Hypnosis, Morost, Avenger, The Static Shift, Insanity Alert, Dirty Thrills, The Crown, Raunchy, Despite, Hybrid Sheep, Involution, Amniac, Armageddon, Coronatus, Danko Jones, The Silence, Inedia, Periphery, The Electric Mess, Ladder Devils, As Light Dies, Zero Down, Cursed Dream, Battleaxe, Zaklon, Pythia, If These Trees Could Talk, The Duskfall, Abel Greer’s Toyshop, 6:33, Laugh At The Fakes, Wank For Peace, Cycle Beating, Arcana Coelestia, Dean Wallace, Zex, Born From Pain, Fire At Dawn, Venom, Sebas Honing, Marduk, Thy Fallen Kingdom, Frostbitten Kingdom, Chitral “Chity” Somapala, Blind Race, Stereotypical Working Class, Metal Machine, Attila, A Tempered Heart, Idol Of Fear, Donnie Vie, Whisky Myers, Ascendancy, Xtasy, Kissin’ Black, Salvation, Arrogant Destruktor, Wedge, Hounds, Ufo, Sound Of Silence, Recoil Vor, Bicoloured Men, Death Wolf, Convictors, Highway Dream, Feral Sun, Uriah Heep, Isole, Kevlar Bikini, King Diamond, Anckora, Splintered Throne, Seres, Rise Of The Northstar, Fragmenta, Death Kindly Waits For Me, White Arms Of Athena, Tune, Lotus Thief, Dead Samaritan, In Malice’s Wake, Despite, This Legend, Spiral Trance, Issa, Chapel Of Disease, Insight After Doomsday, Wild Eyes, Fyre!, Ram/Portrait, Unforeseen Prophecy, Today Is The Day, Gaeleri, Down To Date, Thulcandra, It Bites, The Quireboys, Wolfetone, Angelus Apatrida, Hate, Aversions Crown, Diet Evil, Toundra, Faithful Darkness, Messiah’s Kiss, Grand Slam, Girlschool, Hard Resistance, Gary Moore, Morlas Memoria, Pavlov’s Dog, Shredhead, Vanth, A Jokers Rage, Stormcast, Indestructible Noise Command, Nekkralai, Crimson Blue, Envenomed, Souls Of Jack Ketch, Manilla Road, Kill It Kid, Hayseed Dixie, Born Of Fire, Obscurity, Obsessör, Eb11, Slug Lord, Statues, Kolony, Blind Petition, As Light Dies, Rainbow, Thunder, The Silence, First Aid, H.E.A.T, Mortal Factor, Tear Out The Heart, Dreadful Minds, Michael Jessen, Orden Ogan, Diablo Blvd, Wednesday 13, Imperial, Ammunition, Eclipse, Night Demon, Foreigner, Maverick, Papa Roach.