Powerplay 247 Dec 2021/Jan 2022

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES

“We like to do a thing called ‘Purpleising’,” says Ian Gillan about Deep Purple’s latest release, their first ever whole album of cover songs, “and in that I mean that musically the band get to stretch out and expand the songs, and the arrangements are fantastic, and I’ve enjoyed listening to this record more than most.” Bob Catley talks about Magnum’s latest album and their upcoming fiftieth anniversary, Volbeat main man Michael Poulsen tells us what a post-pandemic pick-me-up their new album is, and we speak to Sean Peck about The Three Tremors’ ultra-metal second album. Also this month are interviews with Black Label Society, Running Wild, Exodus, Gus G, Swallow The Sun, Kissin’ Dynamite, Electric Guitars, The Tea Party, Khemmis, Feuerschwanz, FireWolfe, When Rivers Meet, Sandstone, Samantha Fish, Nekromant, Headless, The Sonic Overlords, Cedars, Trident Waters, Yeos Band, Crooked Shapes, and Foul Body Autopsy, plus we rank those legendary AC/DC albums.

POWERED UP

Roger Taylor, 3 Doors Down, Inglorious, Skindred, The Quireboys, Blackberry Smoke, Raging Speedhorn, Matt Mitchell, Screamin’ Eagle Band, Mercutio, Station, Tim Prottey-Jones, Death Blooms.

REGULARS

AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS

Northtale, Jim Peterik & World Stage, Spiritworld, There’s A Light, Wicked Sensation, Hitten, The Lust, Samantha Fish, Sainted Sinners, Wonders, Letzte Instanz, Fans Of The Dark, Handsome Jack, E.B. & The Deadlights, Metalsteel, Ice Nine Kills, Wolftooth, Crazy Lixx, The Kentucky Headhunters.

POWER CUTS

Deep Purple, The Three Tremors, Epilog, Firewolfe, Ross Jennings, Sixx:Am, Eclipse, Breakaway, Ghosts Of Sunset, Alan Parsons, Feuerschwanz, Repentance, Lou Siffer & The Howling Demons, Hypocrisy, Inner Core, Arthur Falcone’s Stargazer, Emigrate, Imago Imperii, Takeaway Thieves, Bentrees, Magnum, Sandstone, Volbeat, Thrice, Knights Of The Realm, Naked Gypsy Queens, Burntfield, Mastodon, Redscale, Blood Sport, Versus, Toothdrinker, Ceddy Braugs, Tower, Nekromant, Himmellegeme, Swallow The Sun, Bernie Marsden, Signum Draconis, Valyear, Disbeliever, Voidfallen, Crom, Insania, Black Rose, Seven Sisters, Thola, Erdling, Memoria Avenue, Restless Spirit, Bonded, Uriah Heep, Project Renegade, So Long Until The Séance, Enuff Z’nuff, Hard Disk Drive, The Fifth, Station, Pass Away, Confess, Amanda Lehmann, Black Map, The Ocean, Edge Of The Blade, Me And That Man, Rising Insane, Fortress, Thalarion, Jamie Porter Band, Scarlet Rebels, Imaginature, Nils Wandry, Victory, The Rods, Blackthorne, Ezra Brooks/Serpent Rider, Crohm, Midnight Phantom, Thrash La Reine, Femegades, Lightchapter, Minus Life, The End Of Melancholy, Groundbreaker, Clear Vision, Only The Strong, Asia, Dooms Children, Manora, Kissin’ Dynamite, Westenra, Raising Conviction, Endvs, Gutterfire!, Twentydarkseven, The Design Abstract, Eyrem, Hellz Abyss, Various Artists - Alice Cooper Tribute, Hollow, Evil Hunter, Bowneck, Poor Little Things, The Tea Party, Rev Jones, Kill City, The Oddeven, All Hail The Yeti, Crimson Driver, Estertor, Tony Mitchell, Ulfhednar, Unanimated, Trigger Mafia, Winterburn, Thsl, Eldritch, Mötley Crüe, Schemata Theory, Theatres Des Vampires, Deeohgee, Watchtower, Plush, Kaasin, High Fighter, Of Mice & Men, Thirty Fates, Lynx, Raul Portugal, Athlantis, The Moody Blues’ John Lodge, Nightland, The Losts, Devil Cross, Flesh Roxon, Bear Chest, Vrsty, L.A. Guns, Various Artists – 25 Years Metal Addiction, Royal Hunt, Nova The Band, Waltari, Aephanemer, Painters Of Ether, The Temperance Movement, Lucid Furs, Mindless Sinner, It Will Last, Guy Snowdon & The Citizens, Alex Canion, Firehouse, Fit For An Autopsy, Motorhead, Fearout, Serpent Lord, Epica, Nathan Smith, Rachel Mother Goose, Far From Your Sun, Stahlmann, Narnia, Emissary, Dion Bayman, Split Heaven, Archives, Elisa Day, Saga, Somnent, Unfaced, Adiant, Naughty Dog, Three Fourths Francis, Real Friends, Samael, Hot Sunday Blood, Shadowstrike, Rival Order, The Cult, A Broken Design, Malacoda, Terra, Hanlon’s Razor, Wolves Among Us, Black Soul Horde, Sodom, Every Hour Kills, Cynic, Spillage, Savatage, The Bloody Nerve, Longhare, Black 7, Wax Mekanix/Troll Teeth, The Lurking Fear, The Sonic Overlords, Toledo Steel, Surturs Lohe.