Powerplay 257 November 2022
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Legendary Swedish doom masters Candlemass rumble their way into the headlines with earthshaking new album ‘Sweet Evil Sun’. Tobias Sammet does it again with yet another fantastic Avantasia album, Powerplay favourites Threshold return with more superb British prog metal, and those sassy ladies in Thundermother take a huge leap towards stardom with their brilliant third album and a support slot with Scorpions. Also this month we talk to the ever mercurial Devin Townsend, plus Talas, Dynazty, Them, Warkings, Even Flow, Purpendicular, The Commoners, Drenalize, Seraina Telli, Star Circus, Traitor, Jordan Red, and Skipping Stone.
POWERED UP
Scorpions, Alice Cooper, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Rick Springfield, Bloodstock Open Air Festival, Marillion, Steve Hackett, Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Testament, Exodus, Death Angel, Thundermother, Stonedead Festival, Hard Rock Hell Sleaze, Battle Beast, Loverboy, Gloryhammer, Brothers Of Metal, The Halo Effect, Liege Lord, Hellcats, Future Palace, Arion, Carved.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, Editorial, The New Power Files.
POWER PLAYS
Avantasia, Black Mirrors, Eva Under Fire, The New Roses, Kira Mac, The Gloom In The Corner, Lee Aaron, Rising Steel, Avatarium, Devin Townsend, Iron Allies, She Must Burn, The Commoners, Borealis, Manntra.
POWER CUTS
Joanne Shaw Taylor, Disturbed, Claymorean, Parkway Drive, Candlemass, Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts, October Ends, Star Circus, Osyron, Destrage, Thaen Rasmussen Project, Dayseeker, Smash Into Pieces, The Pretty Reckless, The Jokers, Stramonium, Crime, Sodom, Soen, Psychonaut, Them, Drown Again, Hammerstar, Violet, Drudkh, Shatter Messiah, White Skies, Ugly Kid Joe, Cassius King, Heart Attack, Starchild, Quantum Twilight, Legions Of The Night, Images Of Eden, Vermocracy, Glazergirl, Roger Taylor, White Skull, 96 Bitter Beings, Electric Jaguar Baby, Huracan, Kampfar, Confessions Of A Traitor, Onelegman, Sinnery, All Else Fails, Perfect Mess, Rakel Traxx, Mantric Momentum, Silent Lie, Joe Riley, Dystopica, Vante, About Us, Joe Lynn Turner, Captain Caravan/Kaiser, Rosa Nocturna, Hoaxed, Versa, Warkings, Haven Of Echoes, All Ears Avow, Alicate, Polarity, Jordan Red, The Outlaw Orchestra, Therion, Gott, Whirlwind, Mystery, Stitched Up, King Bull, Arc Of Life, Norrskold, Zeke Sky, Pariahlord, Michael Bormann’s Jaded Hard, Centershift, Mosez, Under The Oak, Pig, Autograph, Sagreveht, Swept To Sea, Morbid Jester, Enuff Z’nuff, Pearls And Flames, Wolf Counsel, Ritual Dictates, Black Reuss, Judicator, Sunset Sinners, Vittra, Factory Of Art, Limerick, Munroe’s Thunder, V/A Turkish Delights – Volume One, Drowning Pool, Frontline, Lacuna Coil, Sordid Blade, Pure Assassins, V/A Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip, I’ll Be Damned, Incognito Theory, Ring Of Fire, Stranger Vision, Syryn, Thy Listless Heart, Necessary Evil, Manilla Road, Hellsingland Underground, Intechnicolour, Gothminister, No Return, Atlantis By Rodriguez, Lastworld, Steel Inferno, Folkrim, Sweet Teeth, Paradise Alley, Meteora, X-Wild, Elegeion, Black Widows, Silverkord, Mass, Fear Factory, Rain, Fire From The Gods, Biwo, C.O.P Ii, First Signs Of Frost, Enforces, Flat Earth, Sede Vacante, Avi Rosenfeld, Kmfdm, Aura, A’priori, Dragonland, Alpha Mountain, Headshot, Ivory Gates, Gaupa, Aawks, Tyrant, Sudden Deaf, Laurence Jones, Syn Ze Şase Tri, Sea Of Snakes, Enemy Eyes, Riot City, Sahg.