Powerplay 250 April 2022
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
“I think it’s more important if somebody can recognise your guitar sound or the way that you play if they hear you. I think that’s way more important than whether people recognise you on the street,” says Slash in our interview this month about his new album ‘4’. Marillion tell us about the release of their first album of new music since 2016, Shinedown address the world’s problems on their latest album, Papa Roach and Reckless Love both experiment with adding extra electronics to their sound, and the best band you never heard, The Hellacopters, return with their first new album in fourteen years. Also this month are interviews with Axel Rudi Pell, Watain, Serious Black, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Ignite, Shaman’s Harvest, Matt Pearce, and Vio-Lence, plus after Scorpions recent return with their fabulous new release, we rank their albums, and in our special feature to celebrate the 250th issue we name our top 250 albums of the Powerplay years.
POWERED UP
The Rock Orchestra By Candlelight, Daughtry, Stephen Pearcy’s Ratt, Slaughter, Quiet Riot, Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Bastette, The Damn Truth, Ward XVI, Plush, Ashen Reach.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial.
POWER PLAYS
Rizon, Edgar Winter, Marillion, Moonlight Haze, Silverlane, Axel Rudi Pell, Carmeria, Wolf, Abbath, Crystal Viper, The Black Capes, New Horizon, Sign X, Detset, The Hellacopters, Fm, Chronosfear, Frank Palangi.
POWER CUTS
Ignite, Aor, Evergrey, Shinedown, Mass Worship, Kingcrown, Meshuggah, Blinded By Hope, Destruction, Kar, Deep Drive, Chip Z’nuff, Martin Barre Band, Capricorn, Ronnie Atkins, Scarecrow, Mors Principium Est, Crossplane, Epic, Evil Invaders, Breathe Atlantis, Alterlight, Achelous, Mean To You, Sidious, Estriver, On The Loose, Dare, Eric Wagner, Schwertmann, Firn, Bob Dee With Petro, Daxx & Roxane, Ronni Le Tekro, Cellar Twins, D’or, Telltale, Moldy Roses, Druknroll, Gunjack, Sanhedrin, Spitfire, Dominoe, Aerialis, Orange Goblin, Vantage Point, Kulick, Michael Romeo, Knight And Gallow, Dark Legion, Vanderlust, Xil, Fierce Atmospheres, Rotten Mind, Rt-Zed, Vivaldi Metal Project, Crisix, Powergame, Aktarum, Cage Fight, Space Of Variations, Deepshade, Hit The Ground Runnin’, The Karma Effect, Venrez, Stray Gods, Grande Revival, Atrox Trauma, Hardcore Superstar, Devicious, Vio-Lence, Luzifer, Chapel Floods, Suckerpunch, Orionix, Planeswalker, Reviver, Kalle Wallner, Harley & The Wolf, Knuckle Puck, City Of Lights, Mastercastle, Watain, Immolation, Autumn’s Child, Edge Of Forever, Steve Dalton, Reapter, Tokyo Blade, Blackslash, Wild Ox Moan, Gravety, Feed The Sharks, Hyperia, Canavar, Hellspike, Redshark, Redstacks, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Kvaen, Angeles, Konvent, Vola, Turbo, Satan, Zen Juddhism, Short Stack, Chrome Sky, Erebe, House Of Shakira, Artamene, Find Me, Witchpit, The Final Sleep, E D Brayshaw, Dirty White Boy, Fortune Child, Trick Or Treat, Billybio, Bone Gnawer, Opensight, Insolvency, Obsidian Sea, Voltstorm, Jay Jesse Johnson, Septem, Bomber, Leo Carnicella, Lock Jaw, Playgrounded, Føss, Týr, Slægt, Vass/Katsionis, Agathodaimon, Spartan, The Human Tornado, The Pin Pricks, Kryptograf, Imparity, Solution 13, Dirty Laces, Sleepwulf, Colours Of One, Åskväder, Shewolf, Chaosbay, In Aevum Agere, Malone Sibun, Stalker, Steak, Grace And Fire, No Names, Saffire, Shake Me, Bangalore Choir, Coma Hole, Teaser, Heidra, Fury, Jail Job Eve, 8 Kalacas, Black Lakes, Shining Black, Limousine Beach, Asking Alexandria, Angel Nation, Solitary, Matt Pearce And The Mutiny, Big Big Train, Thunder, Heartscore, Elf Queen, Savage Grace, Warrior Soul, Asgaard, Mamorlis, The Nika Riots, Ravenfield, Stengah, Ann Wilson.