Powerplay 255 September 2022
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
On fantastic new album ‘The Gang’s All Here’ Skid Row sound vital and back to their classic best with new singer Erik Grönwall exorcising his inner Sebastian Bach. Hansi Kürsch tells us that Blind Guardian’s latest album will signal the start of a new era for the band, Stratovarius blow us away with their incredible new album, and Five Finger Death Punch explore the rather serious matter of life after death. Also this month are interviews with Status Quo, Goo Goo Dolls, Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Spirit Adrift, Bloodbath, Wolfheart, Erja Lyytinen, The Milkmen, A-Z, Buzzed & Loaded, Fraser Edwards, Steve Hill, Bad Luck Friday, Immortal Synn, Apeiron Bound, Blacktoothed, Iron Wings, and Caeli.
POWERED UP
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Halestorm, The Black Crowes, The Pretty Reckless, The Outaws, Blackberry Smoke, SOS Festival, Rival Sons, Avatar, The Struts, Burning Witches, Semblant, Dirty Honey, As I May, Brave Rival, Midnight, Cardinal Black, Amba Tremain, Structural.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial, The New Power Files.
POWER PLAYS
Stratovarius, Troy Redfern, Blind Guardian, Skid Row, The Rasmus, Freedom Hawk, Circle Creek, Machine Head, Anti-Clone, Fans Of The Dark, Mentalist, Vanquisher, Psychlona, Lorna Shore, Hexed, Revival Black, Helena ‘Hk’ Kotina.
POWER CUTS
Erja Lyytinen, The Milkmen, Apeiron Bound, Gun, Bloodbath, Trial, King Buffalo, Big River, House Of Lords, Meridian, Icon For Hire, Cthulhu Dreamt, Venus, Lonely Robot, Until I Wake, Lostalone, Speaking To Stones, Defacing God, Talas, Memoremains, Slyder Smith & The Oblivion Kids, The 69 Eyes, Spellbook, Classless Act, Prowler, Wolfheart, Steelover, Marco Mendoza, Nfd, Tonic Breed, Quartz, Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts, Gathering Of Kings, Emotional Suicide, Intelligent Music Project, Ultima Grace, Lillian Axe, Lillian Axe, Gone Cosmic, Among Legends, 156/Silence, Blind Illusion, Fight The Fade, Sacrimonia, Profiler, The Erinyes, Oath, Eldprov, Into The Valley Of Death, Crone, Armor For Sleep, The Midnight Devils, When Rivers Meet, Destral, Liar Thief Bandit, Steel Cage, Ginevra, Strangeways, Shuulak, Kaledon, Praise The Sun, John Steel, Brymir, Victoria K, October Drift, Mrs Beckett, Stormhunter, Love In Chains, Destrania, Storm, Empress, Revocation, Resistance, Senses Fail, Allen/Olzen, Behind Your Fear, Toxik, Cadet Carter, Deep Space Mask, We Came As Romans, Dark Forest, Sun House, Paul Di’anno’s Battlezone/Killers, Skelator, Masque Of Art, Dark Legacy, Corvus Corax, Lodestar, The Anix, Lunarian, Strikefirst, Figure Of Speechless, Betraying The Martyrs, Kid Kapichi, White Tyger, Voivod, Fraser Edwards, Taboo, Hartmann, The Occult, Priest, Spot McRackin, Dance Gavin Dance, Lacrimas Profundere, Northwind, Bad Baron, Buried Under Sky, Black Pyramid, Illucia, Bleed, Species, Aquila, Feather Mountain, Lugnet, Crosson, Ström, King’s X, Dawnwalker, Grace Solero, Epica, Spirit Adrift, Speed Freak, High Tone Son Of A Bitch, The Black Goo, Aniimalia, Lost Nebula, Hellway Patrol, Solemn Ceremony, Thørborn Risager & The Black Tornado, Bad Luck Friday, Electric Callboy, Hats Off Gentlemen, It’s Adequate, Howling Wolves, P.O.D., Witchery, Atrophy, Taz Taylor Band, Sonja, Supreme Unbeing, Beddy Rays, Status Quo, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Your Highness, Sunless Sky, Freedumb, Clutch, Waiting 4 April, Raven, Yours Truly, Steve Hill, Black Hellebore, Phoebus The Knight, Bladecrusher, Voyager, The Necromancers, Beastwood, Eternal Drak, Blue Nation, We Are Legend, Wizzo, Torture Killer, Firewolfe, Monster Truck, Welshly Arms.