Powerplay 191 October 2016
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Every once in a while a special band record’s a truly remarkable album. With latest offering ‘The Last Hero’, Alter Bridge might just have delivered the perfect rock album. Myles Kennedy tells us how they did it. A record to rival their seminal ‘Don’t Come Easy’ debut, the latest release from Tyketto is a blinder. Top marks also go to fast-rising country rockers Blackberry Smoke. Also hitting the bullseye this month are the returning Tygers Of Pan Tang with their riffalicious comeback album. Plus we talk to REO Speedwagon ahead of their UK trek with Status Quo, and Mr Lordi shares his thoughts on his band’s latest record, a concept album no less. There are also interviews with Opeth, Hardline, Sonata Arctica, Eden’s Curse, John Wesley, Wovenwar, Bulletrain, Meridian, and Black Moods.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Short Cuts, I Sold My Soul, Multimedia.
LIVE AND DANGEROUS
Bloodstock Open Air, Boston, Heart, Shinedown, Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry, Joe Bonamassa, Queensryche, Cheap Trick, Glenn Hughes, Dennis DeYoung, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Carcass, Whiskey Myers, Punky Meadows, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Crowbar, The SoapGirls, Goul, Night Demon.
POWER PLAYS
Alter Bridge, Sonata Arctica, Opeth, Kee Marcello, Tyketto, Hardline, Heaven Shall Burn, Insomnium, Ancient, Mushuggah, Lord Of The Lost, Ruins, Suicide By Tigers, Brant Bjorn, Monte Pittman, Allegaeon, Rave The Requiem.
POWER CUTS
John Wesley, Blackberry Smoke, Imperial State Electric, Bulletrain, Moose Blood, Ray Wilson, Netherbird, The Dreamer Within, Evil Invaders, Wild Zombie Blast Guide, Trade Wind, Fractal Cypher, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Die No More, Thy Catafalque, Losers, High Spirits, Killer Bee, Fear Me December, Lynam, Sixty Miles Ahead, Vike Tare, Psychework, Idlewar, Cranston, Katana Bloom, Red Fang, Hello Bear, Asphyx, Cover Your Tracks, Leslie West, Aynsley Lister, Violent Revolution, Meridian, Divine Weep, Finding Kate, The Black Moods, Tesseract, Architects Of Agony, Fractal Mind, Vlad In Tears, Seek Irony, Slammin Thru, Kroh, Kayser, Charred Walls Of The Damned, Devil To Pay, The Devil Wears Prada, Void King, Kmfdm, Inflator, Lamorta, Into The Fire, Them, Madame Mayhem, Hanging Garden, Last Setter, Phlegmatic Table, Finsterforst, Diamond Days, Apocalyptic Lovers, As Thick As Thieves, Sumerlands, Kausalgia, Gillan, Anna’s Anchor, Towers, Joe Bonamassa, Rev Theory, The Holeum, Mexican Standoff, Grim Reaper, Grey Wolf, Athorn, The Erik Chandler Band, Justinsane, Kai Hansen, Saga, Svlfvr, Vendetta, Airforce, Daniel Lioneye, Arkham’s Razor, Smokey Fingers, Darkwell, Redline Messiah, Todd Rundgren, The Agonist, Vektrill, Multi Story, Breathe In The Silence, Rage, Divine Intervention, Cornerstone, Enfeeble, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Brave Vultures, Seven, Medevil, Dead End, Sky Of Forever, Korn, Ancillotti, Guns Of Glory, Pariah, Subrosa, Autumn Ruin, Foes, Thank You Scientist, Traktor, Saddiscore, The Bad Flowers, Extreme, Medicine Ball Caravan, Darkness, Peter Grusel Und Die Unheimlichen, Outmask, Second Relation, Worshipper, Gun Machine, Gregg Allman, Illustra8ors, S.N.A.F.U., Reject The Sickness, Not Inpublic, The Stone Angels, The Silent Rage, Buffalo Crows, Icy Steel, Helstar, Uriah Heep, Therion, Svartanatt, A Province Of Thay, Mono Inc, Psykosis, Dayshell, Kanzler & Sohne, Yigga Digga, Anciients, Trees Of Eternity, Zed, Secret Sphere, Kryptos, Cypecore, Envinya, Paul Chain, Calling Apollo, Twelve Foot Ninja, Legion, Anthrax, Pleurisy, Skálmöld, Those Damn Crows, Martyrion, Hibria, Descendents, The Kyle Gass Band, Cloak Of Organs, Soilwork, Korpiklaani, Arena, Silverhead, X-Method, King 810, V/A - I’m A Freak Baby, Wovenwar, Girlschool.