Powerplay 248 February 2022

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES

We speak to Dan Reed about his band’s latest offering ‘Let’s Hear It For The King’ which might well be the definitive Dan Reed Network album, one that encompasses past, present, and future. We explore Skillet’s ‘Dominion’ with John Cooper, Noora Louhimo tells us about Battle Beast’s epic new album and the reality TV how that helped to shape her fit new physique, and we speak to Lauren Hart about the hard-hitting third Once Human album. Also this month we catch up with Jethro Tull, Steve Vai, Annihilator, Eric Gales, Lionheart, Elles Bailey, Venom Prison, Hangman’s Chair, Dan Patlansky, Clear Vision, Far From Your Sun, Urgent, and ReaLation, plus we each pick our favourite album of 2021.

POWERED UP

Michael Schenker Group, Cheap Trick, Manic Street Preachers, Joe Bonamassa, Buckcherry, Marillion, Doro, The Dead Daisies, Black Label Society, Kip Winger, Obituary, Hinder, Prong, Samantha Fish, The Immediate Family, Roddy Rothschild.

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.