Powerplay 219 May 2019
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Offering up the band’s best release since ‘1987’, David Coverdale talks about hard rocking new Whitesnake album ‘Flesh & Blood’, his relationship with Ritchie Blackmore and his recently installed bionic knees. With festival season approaching, we bring you our usual round-up of the summer’s action and this year with so many events happening it’s bigger, better and badder than ever (p10). Also this month Jim Peterik resurrects World Stage after a nineteen-year hiatus (p19), AOR legends Fortune return with a glorious new album (p12), and Scott Ian tells us all about the revival of supergroup venture The Damned Things (p21). Plus we chat to Eluveitie (p16), Paul Gilbert (p25), Alan Parsons (p24), Grand Magus (p29), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (p20), Myrath (p22), Lonely Robot (p8), Astral Doors (p6), Jonny Lang (p28), Elles Bailey (p23), Mike Machine (p17), Robert Randolph (p14), and promotor Max lifts the lid on Steelhouse festival (p15).
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, Mason Colt, The New Power Files.
POWERED UP!
Slash, Queensryche, Thunder, Doro, Blue Oyster Cult, Winters End Festival, Hard Rock Hell AOR, Overkill, Tyketto, Kamelot, Destruction, Evergrey, Dan Reed, Flotsam And Jetsam, John Corabi, Wolf, Cats In Space, Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons, The Pineapple Thief, Erja Lyttinen, The Ocean, Gorilla Riot, XLR8R, Kingdom Of Madness, Downfall Of Gaia, Samantha Fish, Glitter Machine, Primitai, No Sleep For Lucy, Kane’d, Blues Engine, Ork, Herod, Blue Nation, Cheri Lyn.
POWER PLAYS
Whitesnake, Lonely Robot, Jim Peterik & World Stage, Death Angel, Astral Doors, Left For Red, Fractal Universe, Manegarm, Saint Vitus, Emerald, Death Tribe, Celestivl, Sister Shotgun, The Damned Things, Fortune, Fleshgod Apocalypse, A Day In Venice, Antropomorphia, Frozen Crown.
POWER CUTS
Solitude, Monkey 3, New Years Day, Port Noir, Forged In Black, Dwarrowdelf, Sabbath Assembly, Marianas Rest, Cormac Neeson, Saint Agnes, Dark Stares, 2 Wolves, Booby Trap, Eternity’s End, Ketzer, Bloodbound, Lightfold, Inhepsie, Aeon Zen, Faith In Trance, Frozen Poppyhead, Year Of The Locust, Continoom, Marvel, Qantice, Lord Vapour, Smoulder, Amon Amarth, Skylake, Crown Of Autumn, Falling Into Red, Mind Driller, Amyl And The Sniffers, Jack Slamer, Danko Jones, Jesus Chrüsler Supercar, Datura 4, American Bombshell, Aera, Black Palle, Big Business, Sleepkillers, Our Dying World, Cities Of Mars, Duel, Maraton, Left Hand Solution, Pristine, West Of Hell, Dead Girls Corp, Tanagra, Rain Or Shine, Extrema, Avandra, Brightlight City, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Misshapen, Circus In Town, Ruthless, S91, Kampfar, Mike Machine, Myrath, Spirit Adrift, Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw, Iron Age Mystics, Oceanwake, Overkind, Dave Bickler, Little Villains, Last Flight To Pluto, Range Of Movement, Gone Cosmic, Shallow Side, Setmeonfire, Die On Friday, Starmaker, Tell Tale, Ohnova, Wormwitch, Molly Karloff, Calico Jack, Rattlesnake, The Wildhearts, Nitro Zeus, Antarticus, Devil And The Almighty Blues, Alan Parsons, Almost Honest, Mad, Pendulum Of Fortune, George Wilhem, Foul Body Autopsy, Atorc, King Kobra, Splintered Throne, Long Night, Cormada, Iced Earth, Down To The Bunker, Glitter Wizard, Mustan Kuun Lapset, The Nile Deltas, Anabasis, She Made Me Do It, Jaret & Kelly, Mass, The Ivory Hawks, Gasoline Outlaws, Ritual, Aiden Hatfield, The Ryk Mead Band, The Faithless, Kvinna, Asomvel, Masked Intruder, The Great Discord, Axenstar, Othuum, Parallel Minds, Three Dead Fingers, Kaisas, Status Quo, Dimh Project, Gypsy Rose, Heretic’s Dream, Youth Fountain, Defying Decay, The Wooden Pearls, Hardline, Protector, Driven Under, Dark Blue Inc, Under Fire, Hotrod Deathtoll, Pharlee, Pectora, Scarcrow, Outright Resistance, Leverage, Serein, Heleven, Hosemen, Black Label Society, Nunchucker, Attika, Lonerider, Rory Gallagher, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Inner Outlines, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Possessed, Massimo Canfora, Steel Night, Buso Von Kobra, Black Lung, Idle Hands, The Mammuthus, Chip & The Charge Ups, Forth, Lik, Helloween, Metall, Radiodust, Verity White, Evil Conspiracy, American Sin, Asylum Pyre, Sad Planets, Sabrina Fallah, Finis Mentis, Sick, Swim To Drown, Eugenic Death, Michael Thompson Band, Steel Prophet, Wendigo, Brainsqueezed, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Megadeth, Thousand Thoughts, The Nightmare Stage, Slush, Venom, Deafhorse, Samael.
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Offering up the band’s best release since ‘1987’, David Coverdale talks about hard rocking new Whitesnake album ‘Flesh & Blood’, his relationship with Ritchie Blackmore and his recently installed bionic knees. With festival season approaching, we bring you our usual round-up of the summer’s action and this year with so many events happening it’s bigger, better and badder than ever (p10). Also this month Jim Peterik resurrects World Stage after a nineteen-year hiatus (p19), AOR legends Fortune return with a glorious new album (p12), and Scott Ian tells us all about the revival of supergroup venture The Damned Things (p21). Plus we chat to Eluveitie (p16), Paul Gilbert (p25), Alan Parsons (p24), Grand Magus (p29), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (p20), Myrath (p22), Lonely Robot (p8), Astral Doors (p6), Jonny Lang (p28), Elles Bailey (p23), Mike Machine (p17), Robert Randolph (p14), and promotor Max lifts the lid on Steelhouse festival (p15).
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, Mason Colt, The New Power Files.
POWERED UP!
Slash, Queensryche, Thunder, Doro, Blue Oyster Cult, Winters End Festival, Hard Rock Hell AOR, Overkill, Tyketto, Kamelot, Destruction, Evergrey, Dan Reed, Flotsam And Jetsam, John Corabi, Wolf, Cats In Space, Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons, The Pineapple Thief, Erja Lyttinen, The Ocean, Gorilla Riot, XLR8R, Kingdom Of Madness, Downfall Of Gaia, Samantha Fish, Glitter Machine, Primitai, No Sleep For Lucy, Kane’d, Blues Engine, Ork, Herod, Blue Nation, Cheri Lyn.
POWER PLAYS
Whitesnake, Lonely Robot, Jim Peterik & World Stage, Death Angel, Astral Doors, Left For Red, Fractal Universe, Manegarm, Saint Vitus, Emerald, Death Tribe, Celestivl, Sister Shotgun, The Damned Things, Fortune, Fleshgod Apocalypse, A Day In Venice, Antropomorphia, Frozen Crown.
POWER CUTS
Solitude, Monkey 3, New Years Day, Port Noir, Forged In Black, Dwarrowdelf, Sabbath Assembly, Marianas Rest, Cormac Neeson, Saint Agnes, Dark Stares, 2 Wolves, Booby Trap, Eternity’s End, Ketzer, Bloodbound, Lightfold, Inhepsie, Aeon Zen, Faith In Trance, Frozen Poppyhead, Year Of The Locust, Continoom, Marvel, Qantice, Lord Vapour, Smoulder, Amon Amarth, Skylake, Crown Of Autumn, Falling Into Red, Mind Driller, Amyl And The Sniffers, Jack Slamer, Danko Jones, Jesus Chrüsler Supercar, Datura 4, American Bombshell, Aera, Black Palle, Big Business, Sleepkillers, Our Dying World, Cities Of Mars, Duel, Maraton, Left Hand Solution, Pristine, West Of Hell, Dead Girls Corp, Tanagra, Rain Or Shine, Extrema, Avandra, Brightlight City, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Misshapen, Circus In Town, Ruthless, S91, Kampfar, Mike Machine, Myrath, Spirit Adrift, Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw, Iron Age Mystics, Oceanwake, Overkind, Dave Bickler, Little Villains, Last Flight To Pluto, Range Of Movement, Gone Cosmic, Shallow Side, Setmeonfire, Die On Friday, Starmaker, Tell Tale, Ohnova, Wormwitch, Molly Karloff, Calico Jack, Rattlesnake, The Wildhearts, Nitro Zeus, Antarticus, Devil And The Almighty Blues, Alan Parsons, Almost Honest, Mad, Pendulum Of Fortune, George Wilhem, Foul Body Autopsy, Atorc, King Kobra, Splintered Throne, Long Night, Cormada, Iced Earth, Down To The Bunker, Glitter Wizard, Mustan Kuun Lapset, The Nile Deltas, Anabasis, She Made Me Do It, Jaret & Kelly, Mass, The Ivory Hawks, Gasoline Outlaws, Ritual, Aiden Hatfield, The Ryk Mead Band, The Faithless, Kvinna, Asomvel, Masked Intruder, The Great Discord, Axenstar, Othuum, Parallel Minds, Three Dead Fingers, Kaisas, Status Quo, Dimh Project, Gypsy Rose, Heretic’s Dream, Youth Fountain, Defying Decay, The Wooden Pearls, Hardline, Protector, Driven Under, Dark Blue Inc, Under Fire, Hotrod Deathtoll, Pharlee, Pectora, Scarcrow, Outright Resistance, Leverage, Serein, Heleven, Hosemen, Black Label Society, Nunchucker, Attika, Lonerider, Rory Gallagher, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Inner Outlines, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Possessed, Massimo Canfora, Steel Night, Buso Von Kobra, Black Lung, Idle Hands, The Mammuthus, Chip & The Charge Ups, Forth, Lik, Helloween, Metall, Radiodust, Verity White, Evil Conspiracy, American Sin, Asylum Pyre, Sad Planets, Sabrina Fallah, Finis Mentis, Sick, Swim To Drown, Eugenic Death, Michael Thompson Band, Steel Prophet, Wendigo, Brainsqueezed, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Megadeth, Thousand Thoughts, The Nightmare Stage, Slush, Venom, Deafhorse, Samael.
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
Offering up the band’s best release since ‘1987’, David Coverdale talks about hard rocking new Whitesnake album ‘Flesh & Blood’, his relationship with Ritchie Blackmore and his recently installed bionic knees. With festival season approaching, we bring you our usual round-up of the summer’s action and this year with so many events happening it’s bigger, better and badder than ever (p10). Also this month Jim Peterik resurrects World Stage after a nineteen-year hiatus (p19), AOR legends Fortune return with a glorious new album (p12), and Scott Ian tells us all about the revival of supergroup venture The Damned Things (p21). Plus we chat to Eluveitie (p16), Paul Gilbert (p25), Alan Parsons (p24), Grand Magus (p29), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (p20), Myrath (p22), Lonely Robot (p8), Astral Doors (p6), Jonny Lang (p28), Elles Bailey (p23), Mike Machine (p17), Robert Randolph (p14), and promotor Max lifts the lid on Steelhouse festival (p15).
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Editorial, Mason Colt, The New Power Files.
POWERED UP!
Slash, Queensryche, Thunder, Doro, Blue Oyster Cult, Winters End Festival, Hard Rock Hell AOR, Overkill, Tyketto, Kamelot, Destruction, Evergrey, Dan Reed, Flotsam And Jetsam, John Corabi, Wolf, Cats In Space, Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons, The Pineapple Thief, Erja Lyttinen, The Ocean, Gorilla Riot, XLR8R, Kingdom Of Madness, Downfall Of Gaia, Samantha Fish, Glitter Machine, Primitai, No Sleep For Lucy, Kane’d, Blues Engine, Ork, Herod, Blue Nation, Cheri Lyn.
POWER PLAYS
Whitesnake, Lonely Robot, Jim Peterik & World Stage, Death Angel, Astral Doors, Left For Red, Fractal Universe, Manegarm, Saint Vitus, Emerald, Death Tribe, Celestivl, Sister Shotgun, The Damned Things, Fortune, Fleshgod Apocalypse, A Day In Venice, Antropomorphia, Frozen Crown.
POWER CUTS
Solitude, Monkey 3, New Years Day, Port Noir, Forged In Black, Dwarrowdelf, Sabbath Assembly, Marianas Rest, Cormac Neeson, Saint Agnes, Dark Stares, 2 Wolves, Booby Trap, Eternity’s End, Ketzer, Bloodbound, Lightfold, Inhepsie, Aeon Zen, Faith In Trance, Frozen Poppyhead, Year Of The Locust, Continoom, Marvel, Qantice, Lord Vapour, Smoulder, Amon Amarth, Skylake, Crown Of Autumn, Falling Into Red, Mind Driller, Amyl And The Sniffers, Jack Slamer, Danko Jones, Jesus Chrüsler Supercar, Datura 4, American Bombshell, Aera, Black Palle, Big Business, Sleepkillers, Our Dying World, Cities Of Mars, Duel, Maraton, Left Hand Solution, Pristine, West Of Hell, Dead Girls Corp, Tanagra, Rain Or Shine, Extrema, Avandra, Brightlight City, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Misshapen, Circus In Town, Ruthless, S91, Kampfar, Mike Machine, Myrath, Spirit Adrift, Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw, Iron Age Mystics, Oceanwake, Overkind, Dave Bickler, Little Villains, Last Flight To Pluto, Range Of Movement, Gone Cosmic, Shallow Side, Setmeonfire, Die On Friday, Starmaker, Tell Tale, Ohnova, Wormwitch, Molly Karloff, Calico Jack, Rattlesnake, The Wildhearts, Nitro Zeus, Antarticus, Devil And The Almighty Blues, Alan Parsons, Almost Honest, Mad, Pendulum Of Fortune, George Wilhem, Foul Body Autopsy, Atorc, King Kobra, Splintered Throne, Long Night, Cormada, Iced Earth, Down To The Bunker, Glitter Wizard, Mustan Kuun Lapset, The Nile Deltas, Anabasis, She Made Me Do It, Jaret & Kelly, Mass, The Ivory Hawks, Gasoline Outlaws, Ritual, Aiden Hatfield, The Ryk Mead Band, The Faithless, Kvinna, Asomvel, Masked Intruder, The Great Discord, Axenstar, Othuum, Parallel Minds, Three Dead Fingers, Kaisas, Status Quo, Dimh Project, Gypsy Rose, Heretic’s Dream, Youth Fountain, Defying Decay, The Wooden Pearls, Hardline, Protector, Driven Under, Dark Blue Inc, Under Fire, Hotrod Deathtoll, Pharlee, Pectora, Scarcrow, Outright Resistance, Leverage, Serein, Heleven, Hosemen, Black Label Society, Nunchucker, Attika, Lonerider, Rory Gallagher, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Inner Outlines, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Possessed, Massimo Canfora, Steel Night, Buso Von Kobra, Black Lung, Idle Hands, The Mammuthus, Chip & The Charge Ups, Forth, Lik, Helloween, Metall, Radiodust, Verity White, Evil Conspiracy, American Sin, Asylum Pyre, Sad Planets, Sabrina Fallah, Finis Mentis, Sick, Swim To Drown, Eugenic Death, Michael Thompson Band, Steel Prophet, Wendigo, Brainsqueezed, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Megadeth, Thousand Thoughts, The Nightmare Stage, Slush, Venom, Deafhorse, Samael.