Powerplay 249 March 2022

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of debut album ‘Lonesome Crow’, Scorpions revisit the sound of classic albums ‘Blackout’ and ‘Love At First Sting’ on brand new release ‘Rock Believer’. Sabaton revist WWI on their explosive new album (p22), Joe Satriani says that he has raised even his lofty standards on his latest album, and Hammerfall continue to do what Hammerfall do best. Also this month are interviews with Arjen Lucassen’s Star One, Beth Hart, Earthless, Nightrage, Absolva, Kris Barras Band, Millie Manders & The Shut Up, Port Noir, Cage Fight, Trank, Humanity Deluxe, and we present our choice for album rankings for the mammoth Status Quo catalogue.

POWERED UP

Metallica, Powerwolf, The Darkness, Thunder, Saxon, Uriah Heep, FM, Vixen, Girlschool, Diamond Head, Massive Wagons, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners, British Lion, Rich Ragany, Cage Fight, Nick Parker.

REGULARS

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

POWER PLAYS

Skillet, Jethro Tull, Existance, Bloodred Hourglass, Dark Heart, Amorphis, Wilderun, Mega Colossus, Once Human, Tony Martin, Star One, Steve Vai, Lana Lane, Battle Beast, Dan Reed Network, Voivod, Venom Prison, Setyoursails, Electric Black, Hazemaze, Another One Down!.

POWER CUTS

Saxon, Kris Barras Band, Komodor, When Rivers Meet, Maule, Kraemer, Quickstrike, Smith/Kotzen, Toxic Ruin, Hootenanny Freaks, Doll Circus, Realation, Bloodywood, Annihilator, Artaban’s Redemption, Artificial Eden, Seeyouspacecowboy, Hot Juice, Elf Queen, Xiphea, Grand Cadaver, The Ferrymen, Empreinte, Ereb Altor, Dymytry, Earthless, The Cruzados, Soma, Hollis Brown, The Outlaw Orchestra, Lars Eric Mattsson, Chinawhite, Sweet Justice, Small Jackets, Death Angel, Hanging Garden, The Silver Bayonets, Edge Of Forever, Trend Kill Ghosts, Zeal & Ardor, Celeste, Billy Talent, The Unity, W.E.B., Copeland, King, Cosma & Belew, Final Transmission, Diamond Dogs, Creye, Down The Stone, Cochise, Eric Gales, Tropa De Shock, David Minasian, Persefone, Beriedir, Urgent, Battosai, Gramma Vedetta, Krusnix, Foxhaunt, Land Of Gypsies, Unrise, Glacier, Heir Apparent, Lionheart, Mad Anthony, Direlands, Pablo Mendoza, Age Of Wolves, Crowdown, Stolen Money, Amoth, Hangman’s Chair, Freaks And Clowns, Man With A Mission, Infected Rain, Bad Wolves, The Drippers, Custard, Ashes Of Ares, Urban Primate, Jack J Hutchinson, Lalu, Son Of Sorrow, Cap Outrun, Dawn After Dark, Forbidden Myth, Zelbo, Psilocybe Larvae, Reaper, Demonztrator, Edgeline, Sweet Needles, Rage Of Light, Bad Absalom, V/A Leslie West Tribute, Harpyie, What Strange Beasts, Oumua, Tao, S.R. Heller, Rhizone, Sinshrift, Cormada, Devoted Fusion, Wolfnaut, Timothy J, Wille And The Bandits, Ilium, Ice Cold Killers, Brundarkh, Invisions, Fear Of Falling, Blessdivine, Sickomania, Sun Below, Persona, Kandia, Ten Eyed Man, Praying Mantis, Tarysian, Signs Of Truth, Troyen, Bangkok Dollars, Phrenetix, Sinsation, Treasurer, Basement’s Glare, Nite Stinger, Dan Patlansky, V/A Scrap Metal, Last Hounds, Tarmat, Hunka Munka, Vandallus, Kill The Headlights, Mynas, Assimilate, Giant, Emerald Sun, Humanity Deluxe, L.R. Marsh, Kingslayer, Wiegedood, Sgàile, Madzilla Lv, Standing Eight, Trank, The Goodbye Summer, Agarthic, Kill Ritual, Anton Johansson, Hairy Groupies, The Necromancers Union, Daimos, Liberty Lies, Nasson, R!Ot, Stonetrip, Lucer, Tendonitis, Shield Of Wings, Looking For Medusa, Mercury X, Warcall, Tristan Harders’ Twilight Theatre, Death Ss, Mutha Trucka, Illyrian, La Ninia, Deadscape, Perfect Plan, Dohny Jep, Kaelis, Comeback Kid, Pyramid, Faith And Fire, The Dark Horde, Psychoprism, Skid Row, Breed Of Aggression, Todomal, Black Sabbath, The Virulent, The Murder Of My Sweet, The Swaggerlies, Bullet-Proof, In Faith We Fear, Mentor, Memory Garden, Jestr, First Draft, Erzsébet, The Dirty Denims, Green Carnation, Stellar Void, George Theodorou, Shake The Temple, Dirtbag Republic, Left-Övr, Monolord, Anomalie, The Hollywood Stars, Pridelands, Tormentor Bestial, Disillusive Play, Ravenous E.H., Shurakay, Thraxas!, The Quill, Smooth Motion, Barbara Black, Wo Fat, Black Solstice, The Rods, Shaman’s Harvest, Closure In Moscow, Nidhoeggr, Elles Bailey, Anti-Mortem.