Powerplay 254 August 2022
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Nobody could accuse Megadeth main man Dave Mustaine of not being a fighter. He has suffered from serious nerve damage in his right arm, has been afflicted by Lyme disease and most recently throat cancer, and yet he has come out the other side of it all with a new album to rival anything in Megadeth’s back catalogue in the shape of the fantastic ‘The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead’. Dave tells us all about the creation of what may be his best ever work. Also this month those adventurous felines Cats In Space revisit the best of 70s rock on their incredible new double album which Greg Hart says is the biggest album they are ever likely to make, Kenny Leckremo rejoins H.E.A.T for their searing new album, and we welcome melodic death metal supergroup The Halo Effect, all of whom have played in In Flames, plus there are interviews with Loudness, Soilwork, Hammer King, Nightblade, Conan, and Bang Bang Firecracker, and in our special feature this month we name our favourite rock and metal lyricists.
POWERED UP
Green Day, Download Festival, Copenhell Festival, Tons Of Rock Festival, Call Of The Wild Festival, Yes, Sammy Hagar And The Circle, George Thorogood And The Destroyers, Fallout Boy, Weezer, Eric Gales, Dom Martin, Rhabstallion, Displaced.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial.
POWER PLAYS
Cats In Space, Rebel Priest, Hammer King, Thundermother, The Halo Effect, H.E.A.T, Oceans Of Slumber, Edenbridge, Dead City Ruins, Amon Amarth, Megadeth, Soulfly, Goldsmith, Lessmann/Voss, Anthea.
POWER CUTS
Loudness, Five Finger Death Punch, A-Z, Fellowship, L.A. Cobra, Dali Van Gogh, Fireproven, Low Gear, Daidalos, Blacktoothed, Rituals, Vanden Plas, Immortal Synn, Compass, Nasty Reputation, Banks Arcade, Dynazty, Venom Inc., Ivy Gold, Crippled Black Phoenix, Caeli, Mother Mersy, Dub War, She Bites, Bernie Marsden, Liv Kristine, Einherjer, Ephemeral, Hexing, Mike Tramp & The Rock ‘N’ Roll Circuz, Mexicoma, After Evolution, Planet Of The 8s/Duneeater, Monotrone, Conan, Secret Rule, Existence Depraved, Mirror Queen, Dreamtide, Kirk Fletcher, Fragmentum, Christian Tolle Project, Dead Register, Heart Attack, Goo Good Dolls, Hydra, T.S.L., American Terror, Jack J Hutchinson, Iron Wings, Spectrvm, Hail Mary, October Thorns, National Napalm Syndicate, Splintered Throne, Electric Mountain, Fatal Vision, Tough On Fridays, Midnight Road, Fear Not, Nightblade, Black Sun, Graveshadow, Hulder, Moodring, Restless Spirits, Fallujah, Ryo Okumoto, Aeternam, Excuses Excuses, Justice Theory, Holding Absence/Alpha Wolf, Raider, Charlotte, Evil Conspiracy, Ataraxia, Bells And Ravens, Pistols At Dawn, Sick Joy, Seventh Storm, Flames, Clarent Blade, Nagual, Durcel Haze, Electric High, Lunear, Wicked Jackals, Jeanice Lee, Reternity, Wolves Until…, Traitor, Laura Evans, Janus Stark, Celestial Wizard, Six By Six, Sense Of Justice, Baron Carta, Hard Blue, In The Kingdom Of Nightmares, Screamachine, Centershift, A Vulture Wake, Miss May I, Juan S Garces, Infanteria, H27, Maniac Abductor, Jimbo’s Garage, Magnolia Park, Dvne, Parasite Inc, Sunstorm, Horned Wolf, Monasterium, Härdrocker, Eruption, The Beast Of England, Majesty Of Revival, Nordic Union, Farewell To Fear, Remains Of Destruction, Primal Fear, Wicked Envy, Charles Sangnoir, Idol Throne, Soilwork, The Soap Girls, Slugchop, Hollywood Undead, Jessica Lynn, Vice, Patriarchs In Black, V/A Ziggy Stardust Tribute, Mystery Dudes, Indign, Jack Starr’s Burning Starr, Highway Sentinels, Chaos Frame, Rezet, Rain City Drive, Mad Max, Critical Defiance, Black Nazareth, Sacral Night, David Paich, Sorcery, Krisiun, Grandval.