Powerplay 246 November 2021

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES

Playing football with a priest, being trafficked out of the country, and how the sleeve picture for latest album ‘Motorheart’ looked before the number of willies on it was reduced are just a few of the subjects under the spotlight in our latest chat with The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins. Dream Theater albums are always very good, but their latest monster release is exceptional even by their lofty standards. James LaBrie tells us how they managed it. Also this month, we catch up with Kai Hansen about the fantastic Gamma Ray ‘30 Years Live Anniversary’ album, and Beast In Black elevate themselves to the top tier of power metal bands with latest offering ‘Dark Connection’, plus there are interviews with Cradle Of Filth, Lucifer, Temperance, Whitechapel, Ad Infinitum, Mostly Autumn, Fluffer, Smoking Martha, Sunset Sinners, Adarrak, Sorceress Of Sin, and wonderful new one-man prog outfit Fioraidh.

POWERED UP

Black Stone Cherry, Alice Cooper, Foreigner, Billy Idol, Ace Frehley, Steve Hackett, George Thorogood And The Destroyers, Terrorvision, The Raven Age, Kris Barras, The Wave Before The Kick In The Chest, No Fit State.

REGULARS

AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial, MeTube, The New Power Files.

POWER PLAYS

Beast In Black, Electric Guitars, Black Label Society, The Darkness, Opera Diabolicus, Gus G, Strange Majik, Gemini Syndrome, Exodus, Lucifer, 1914, Udo, Ohmwork, Ultra Raptor, Whitechapel, Show-Ya, Supernova Plasmajets.

POWER CUTS

Dream Theater, Alien Force, Dirty Shrines, Mortal Vision, Pat Mcmanus Band, Dawn Of Solace, Carl Sentance, Ad Infinitum, Equilibrium, Jonas Lindberg & The Other Ones, Apollo Stands, Heartland, Babymetal, Crown Lands, High Desert Queen, Temperance, Cory Marks, Coe Hill, Thulcandra, Infrared, Rage In My Eyes, Hrom, Wicked Smile, Freakshow, Lost Reflection, Heart Line, Blitz, Inner Axis, Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission, Settle Your Scores, Armored Saint, Black Falcon, Hot Milk, Stephen Georg, Hulkoff, Habit To, Burning Point, Veils Of Conspiracy, Omnium Gatherum, Between Oceans, Ladybeast, Trident Waters, Warfare, Stepfather Fred, Ian Highhill, Livløs, Astoria State, Leverage, Noisy Diners, Crooked Shapes, Hawthorne Heights, White City Graves, Prophecy, Shadowland, Rattlesnake, Toxic Rose, Solarius, Susan Aquila, Draconicon, Wazzara, Bornholm, Dion, Timechild, Men Without Qualities, Reece, Spirit Bomb, Siren’s Rain, Buried By My Heartache, Screaming Shadows, Ground Force, Snake Mountain Revival, Seething Akira, Gorilla Riot, The End A.D., Autumn Killers, Pepperkid2, Crashtime, Foul Body Autopsy, End Of Horizons, Headless, Filharmonix, Unleashed, Almost Dead, Sons Of Sounds, Damian Wilson, Miles To Nowhere, Devoid, Jeff Scott Soto, Fathom Farewell, Mc Roads, Suffocation, Eternal Flight, Roger Glover & The Guilty Party, Little Thief, Brothers In Arms, Barnabas Sky, Symbolon Obscura, Closure In Moscow, The Agonist, Vandenburg, Sarke, Lords Of Black, Floored Faces, Six Silver Suns, Turanis, Sammy Berell, Eternity’s End, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Raven Black Night, Transport Aerian, Teramaze, Wanton Attack, Zeromancer, Velvet Chains, Etreme Cold Winter, Hammerfall, Bodyguerra, Stagewar, Increase The Anima, Dead Shape Figure, Count Raven, Osukaru, Witch Child, Thundermaker, The Stone Eye, Be’lakor, Lamb Of God, Skam, Válvera, Vampyrean, Loser, Red To Grey, E-Force, Life Of A Hero, Houston, Cyan, Skeletoon, Uriel, The Grandmaster, Wooden Fields, Jd Simo, Cassidy Paris, Khemmis, Danielle Mazza, Unforged, Häxkapell, Tdw, Mysterizer, King Zebra, Mötley Crüe, The Seafloor Cinema, Venus Syndrome, Overkill, Silence Equals Death, Lordi, Dream Ocean, Helgrind, Sweeping Death, Sepultura, Dohny Jep, Rhapsody Of Fire, Stew, Michael Schinkel’s Eternal Flame, Smoking Martha.