Powerplay 262 May 2023
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Extreme get the funk in with surprisingly heavy new album ‘Six’. Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt tell us all about their first new album in 15 years. Def Leppard reinvent some of their biggest hits and deeper cuts alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, we have a close encounter of the dark kind with Whiplasher from Deathstars, and we find out how Ad Infinitum singer Melissa Bonny losing a bet to Feuerschwanz guitarist Hans Platz resulted in the formation of the wonderful The Dark Side Of The Moon. Also this month are interviews with Yes, Sirenia, Liv Kristine, Elvenking, Empyre, Grave Pleasures, Enforcer, Arielle, Twisted Illusion, Baldasarre, Eulogy, Mudshark, and we talk to Masters Of Rock promoter George Nemec about what awaits fans this year.
POWERED UP
W.A.S.P., Black Veil Brides, Lamb Of God, Don Broco, Papa Roach, Quiet Riot, Beartooth, Motionless In White, Kreator, Static X, Fear Factory, Angel, Devin Townsend, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Marshall Tucker Band, Haken, Beth Hart, Mushroomhead, Municipal Waste, Larkin Poe, Between The Buried And Me, Ana Popovic, Klone, Lilith Czar, South Of Salem, Dope, Cryptodira, Dom Martin, Fixation, Cultus Black, Toby Lee.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.
POWER PLAYS
Extreme, Revolution Saints, Deathstars, Burning Witches, Ring Of Gyges, Saint Deamon, Mystic Prophecy, Unchosen Ones, Dozer, Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Renovations, Glorious Bankrobbers, Presa, Empyre, Smoulder.
POWER CUTS
Rival Sons, Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution, Ignea, Def Leppard, Sintage, Kickhunter, Lost Circus, American Jetset, Wizards Of Hazards, Battle Born, Cry Of Dawn, Thou Shall Not, Cradle Of Filth, The Ocean, Stryfe, Gyasi, Bite The Bullet, Yes, Alcatrazz, Big Wolf Band, Grave Pleasures, Fimbulvet, Sirenia, Carbon County, Bar Stool Preachers, Dead Soul Revival, Seventrain, Royal Autumn, Sweet & Lynch, Vonavibe, Archetypes Collide, Cloak, Oceans On Orion, Texas Hippie Coalition, Tarchon Fist, Luke Appleton, The Daybreakers, Unearth, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Iced Earth, Unto Others, Words That Burn, Die Like Gentlemen, De Forbandede, Gwyn Ashton, Century, Ruby Tuesday, Elegant Weapons, Asylum Pyre, Stone Nomads, A Road To Damascus, Weathers, Mission In Black, Pressure Points, Oryad, Kings Never Die, Trold, Coridian, Nightwolff, Nighthawk, Flitcraft, Kip Moore, Grand Design, Beast Eagle, Black & Damned, Arrival Of Autumn, Axeheart, Fateful Finality, Signs Preyer, House Of Shakira, Dead Express, Tankzilla, Brundarkh, Skam, Dead End Finland, Attractive Chaos, Ol’ Time Moonshine, Samiam, Redshift, Kaskadeur, Arrogant Destruktor, Necro Weasel, Legacy, Freternia, Tanith, Martiria, Primal, Wes Galczynski & Power Train, King Of The Dead, Picturesque, Big Red Fire Truck, Ross The Boss, Motions, Alase, Trespass, Risin Sabotage, Render Me Useless, Mars Red Sky, Heezer, Ghost In The Machine, Symphony Of Sweden, Morass Of Molasses, Ren Marabou And The Berserkers, Impending Triumph, Screamachine, Exitus, Babylon A.D., One Horse Band, Michael Thompson Band, Great Voyager, Downshot, Heaven’s Edge, Devildriver, Circus Of Rock, Mdxx, Wicked Bears, Rosslyn, Erase Theory, Dawn Of Extinction, The Blood, Die Entweihung, On The Loose, Therapy?, Nine Altars, Curse Of Cain, Hammerfall, Stonetrip, Mace ‘N’ Chain, Eb And The Deadlights, Whitesnake, Frozen Soul, The Milkmen, Evermore, Crimson Dawn, Lost Asylum, Foxhaunt, Siren, Riffobia, Temtris, Graveworm, Black Spiders, Luis Maldonalle, Duskwood, Wildeornes, Danama, Vesuvian, Ember Sea, Necronomicon, D’ercole, Enforcer, The Intersphere, Memoria, Floor Jansen, Artch, Death & Legacy, Wolfnaut, Enemy Of Reality, Finality, Lankester Merrin.