Powerplay 265 August 2023
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
KK Downing shares some of his stories and tells us about the incredible new KK’s Priest album, which we reckon features the best ever vocal work from Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens. Cyhra blow us away with their third album, and Dragonforce front man Marc Hudson tells us about his wonderfully varied debut solo album, plus this month we interview Kataklysm, Spirit Adrift, The Dust Coda, She Burns Red, Crypta, Avkrvst, Krysaor, Martin Miller, Electron, Shipwrecker, Raze, and Rat Rod, and in this edition’s special feature we gaze into the rock and metal crystal ball to offer our predictions about the bands that we believe may have a world beating album in their future.
POWERED UP
Iron Maiden, Lord Of The Lost, Copenhell Festival, Sepultura, Kreator, Carcasss, Rhapsody Of Fire, Tarja, Tom Keifer, Winger, Eric Gales, Death Angel, Forged In Black, Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, John Corabi, Windrose, Unto Others, Rosalie Cunningham, The Aristocrats, Eric Johanson, Neverworld, Stormborn.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.
POWER PLAYS
Velvet Insane, When Rivers Meet, Cyhra, Liverbox, Streetlight, Lost Zone, Dragonheart, Megaherz, Crypta, Seraina Telli, Heryos, Holding Absence, Lancer, Godiva, Hell In The Club.
POWER CUTS
Syteria, Spirit Adrift, Neal Morse Band, Mercy Music, Timechild, U.D.O., Albany Down, Blessed Black, Rage And Fire, Electron, Oblivion Protocol, Danko Jones, Blitz, Mario Rossi, Laurence Jones, Gilgamesj, Rainover, Rat Rod, Extrema, Cathalepsy, Princess Alice Manor, Don’t Sleep, Till The Dirt, Shadow Of Nyx, Infinite Spectrum, Bad Marriage, Mass Hysteria, Writing The Future, Royal Beggars, Dysplacer, Winterage, Forged In Black, Course Of Fate, She Burns Red, Corrozion, Bray Road, Exmortus, Jamie’s Elsewhere, The Mark Price Band, Jag Panzer, Des Rocs, Skindred, Messiahvore, Blindstone, Rian, Mur.Doc 104, Coastwise, Sacred Dawn, Meurtrieres, Royal Deceit, Protean Shield, Vordona, Spillage, Mother Misery, Plainride, Voice Of Baceprot, The Guess Who, Antioch, Rockin’ Engine, Sieges Even, Nitroverts, Pat McManus Band, Max Enix, Laniidae, State Of Deceit, The River, Penumbra, Marquis De Sade, Tesla, Alice Cooper, Showdown, Y&T, Fell Harvest, Sass Jordan, Blaze Bayley, Cold Irons Bound, Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree, Imperial Tide, Mortician, Tony Mitchell, Allamedah, Melan Selas, Aortha, Hurricane #1, Overt Enemy, Kent Hilli, X-Wild, Sebia, Domkraft, Must Kill, Marc Hudson, The Rods, Nuclear Power Trio, Heartbreak Remedy, La Project, Dorian Shroom, Zombiekrig, Avi Rosenfeld/Andre Tulipano, Militarie Gun, Sad Park, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Parker, The Final Clause Of Tacticus, Mystfall, Art Nation, Mystery, Greta Van Fleet, Any Given Sin, Dun Ringill, V/A Budgie Tribute, Bloodletter, Neurotox, The Desperados, Sculforge, Kaj Pousar, Street Fighter, The Anix, Status Quo, Phoebus The Knight, Slow Wake, The Fires Below, Wider Sin, Asking Alexandria, Halflighted, Uncle Dave’s Biscuit Barrel, Half Lives, Freedom Call, Endless Exam, Khalil Turk & Friends, Phil Manca, Albert Bouchard, Kataklysm, Skálmöld, The Defiants, Obscurus Rex, Ocean’s Edge, Brian May And Friends, Sonic Addictive, Arav Krishnan Stevie Nicks, Truth Decayed, Mitch Malloy, Arch Blade, KK’s Priest, Knife, Servant, Trouble, Little Feat.