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INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Taking full control of his creative output, Bryan Adams is striking out with a new album on his own brand new label. Appropriately called ‘Roll With The Punches’, Bryan talks about the challenges of releasing the album without the backing of a major label. “I just really had the idea that rolling with the punches just made sense, because when you’re feeling like that, you have just got to keep going, dust down and keep rocking,” says the Canadian singer. Vicious Rumors return after a five-year gap with their fourteenth album, with a rejuvenated line-up and Mat Sinner back to being fighting fit Primal Fear stun with latest album ‘Dominance’, and Kris Barras returns to his blues roots with new band Hollow Souls. Also this time, interviews with FM, Mob Rules, Burning Witches, Hammer King, The Damn Truth, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Sweet Savage, Bioscope, Vlad In Tears, Ihlo, Defenders Of The Faith, Fury, Silver Dollar Room, Skies Turn Black, Year Of The Goat, The Medea Project, Transcendence, Silk Spinster, and Brocarde.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, The New Power Files, Editorial.
POWERED UP
Slayer, Creed, Alice Cooper, Tons Of Rock Festival, Styx, Michael Schenker, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Rick Springfield, Call Of The Wild Festival, Daughtry, John Waite, Mastodon, Hatebreed, The SatchVai Band, Coheed And Cambria, Mammoth WVH, Francis Rossi, The Kevin Cronin Band, Don Felder, Eclipse, Mike Tramp’s White Lion, Robert Jon & The Wreck, The Artimus Pyle Band, Dewolff, Unto Others, Periphery, Neckbreaker, Brave Rival, My Silent Wake, The Medea Project, Wytch Hazel, Ned Evett, Lowen.
POWER PLAYS
Skies Turn Black, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Hammer King, The Rasmus, Primal Fear, Ihlo, Alterium, Dozer, Fury, Blackbriar, Sinsaenum, Wytch Hazel, Mandragora Titania, Mystopera, Black Majesty, Passengers In Panic, Ambush, Castle Rat.
POWER CUTS
Vicious Rumors, Mob Rules, The Medea Project, Transcendence, Silk Spinster, Madhouse, True North, Halestorm, Edenya, Silver Dollar Room, Masseti, Crucible, Claymorean, Phantom Spell, Royale Lynn, Sixth Wonder, Heathen’s Eye, Hollow Leg, Margarita Witch Cult, Redikin, Double Vision, Z-Cocoon, The Dead Cowboys, Glenn Hughes, Fer De Lance, Night’s Edge, Hearts On Fire, Warhog, Jolly Jackers, Still Dusk, Mirrorglass, Liv Sin, Borracho, Rise Against, Crüzer, Subspace Radio, Taz Taylor Band, Tooth Gore, The Great Alone, Neurotox, Genus Ordinis Dei, Seth Metoyer, Illusia, Stargazer, Bryan Adams, Blind Alice, Wucan, Boiler Room, Birth Control, Savaged, Cold Slither, Libra, Strangers, The Violent Hour, Linx, In/Vertigo, Tangents, Jade Elephant, Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission, Nicklas Sonne, Black Map, Pino Scotto, Disquiet, Dustin Douglas And The Electric Gentlemen, Winterland, Chokesetter, Chronosynthesis, Laguna, Born Of Osiris, Nitro-X, Hooch, Defenders Of The Faith, Grace Hayhurst, Baelfyr, Phantomy, Vendetta Deluxe, Heartbanger, Sweet Freedom, Paula Teles, Bloody Dice, Eternal Idol, Crystal Viper, Ramonda, Storm, Sapere Aude, Svartsot, Storm The Empire, Livin’ Evil, Dragonsclaw, Burning Sun, Diamonds And Guns, Psychic Equalizer, Deep Purple, Wolfskull, Patchwork, Rising Steel, The Far Cry, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Asteroid B-612, Reflection, Black Knight, Lord Helmet, Crowne, Mass Deception, First Light, Celestial Wizard, Honeymoon Suite, Superseed, Before The Dawn, Erdling, Joe Stump’s Tower Of Babel, Martyr, Lost Legacy, Tragik, Walter Trout, Motorhead, 137, Wanted, Chevelle, Burning Witches, Mors Principium Est, Gods Of Tomorrow, Wheel Of Time, Patriarchs In Black, Orchid Symmetry, Higher Power, Tss, Mihrax, Feary Tales, Otherwise, Eden Circus, Dragonsfire, Meridian, Metal Detektor, Rust N’ Rage, San Demas, Barnabas Sky, Whiskey Myers, FM, Rising Alma, Hollow Souls, Left Hand Black, Amorphis, Bengal Tigers, Hot Milk, Chris Catena’s Rock City Tribe, Bioscope, Aurora Ferrer, Suicide Puppets, The Hu, Solace, Headless, Styx, Ashes Of The Sun, Eric Gales, Månegarm, Near Death Experience, Gwyn Ashton, Longshots, Unen, Stygian Fair, Rimmar, Airborn, Deadlands, Dead7, Sweet Savage, Jack The Joker, Mad Dogs, Sodom, Mistress, Blood Dealer, Rage, Year Of The Goat, Alice Cooper.
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Taking full control of his creative output, Bryan Adams is striking out with a new album on his own brand new label. Appropriately called ‘Roll With The Punches’, Bryan talks about the challenges of releasing the album without the backing of a major label. “I just really had the idea that rolling with the punches just made sense, because when you’re feeling like that, you have just got to keep going, dust down and keep rocking,” says the Canadian singer. Vicious Rumors return after a five-year gap with their fourteenth album, with a rejuvenated line-up and Mat Sinner back to being fighting fit Primal Fear stun with latest album ‘Dominance’, and Kris Barras returns to his blues roots with new band Hollow Souls. Also this time, interviews with FM, Mob Rules, Burning Witches, Hammer King, The Damn Truth, Robert Jon & The Wreck, Sweet Savage, Bioscope, Vlad In Tears, Ihlo, Defenders Of The Faith, Fury, Silver Dollar Room, Skies Turn Black, Year Of The Goat, The Medea Project, Transcendence, Silk Spinster, and Brocarde.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, The New Power Files, Editorial.
POWERED UP
Slayer, Creed, Alice Cooper, Tons Of Rock Festival, Styx, Michael Schenker, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Rick Springfield, Call Of The Wild Festival, Daughtry, John Waite, Mastodon, Hatebreed, The SatchVai Band, Coheed And Cambria, Mammoth WVH, Francis Rossi, The Kevin Cronin Band, Don Felder, Eclipse, Mike Tramp’s White Lion, Robert Jon & The Wreck, The Artimus Pyle Band, Dewolff, Unto Others, Periphery, Neckbreaker, Brave Rival, My Silent Wake, The Medea Project, Wytch Hazel, Ned Evett, Lowen.
POWER PLAYS
Skies Turn Black, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Hammer King, The Rasmus, Primal Fear, Ihlo, Alterium, Dozer, Fury, Blackbriar, Sinsaenum, Wytch Hazel, Mandragora Titania, Mystopera, Black Majesty, Passengers In Panic, Ambush, Castle Rat.
POWER CUTS
Vicious Rumors, Mob Rules, The Medea Project, Transcendence, Silk Spinster, Madhouse, True North, Halestorm, Edenya, Silver Dollar Room, Masseti, Crucible, Claymorean, Phantom Spell, Royale Lynn, Sixth Wonder, Heathen’s Eye, Hollow Leg, Margarita Witch Cult, Redikin, Double Vision, Z-Cocoon, The Dead Cowboys, Glenn Hughes, Fer De Lance, Night’s Edge, Hearts On Fire, Warhog, Jolly Jackers, Still Dusk, Mirrorglass, Liv Sin, Borracho, Rise Against, Crüzer, Subspace Radio, Taz Taylor Band, Tooth Gore, The Great Alone, Neurotox, Genus Ordinis Dei, Seth Metoyer, Illusia, Stargazer, Bryan Adams, Blind Alice, Wucan, Boiler Room, Birth Control, Savaged, Cold Slither, Libra, Strangers, The Violent Hour, Linx, In/Vertigo, Tangents, Jade Elephant, Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission, Nicklas Sonne, Black Map, Pino Scotto, Disquiet, Dustin Douglas And The Electric Gentlemen, Winterland, Chokesetter, Chronosynthesis, Laguna, Born Of Osiris, Nitro-X, Hooch, Defenders Of The Faith, Grace Hayhurst, Baelfyr, Phantomy, Vendetta Deluxe, Heartbanger, Sweet Freedom, Paula Teles, Bloody Dice, Eternal Idol, Crystal Viper, Ramonda, Storm, Sapere Aude, Svartsot, Storm The Empire, Livin’ Evil, Dragonsclaw, Burning Sun, Diamonds And Guns, Psychic Equalizer, Deep Purple, Wolfskull, Patchwork, Rising Steel, The Far Cry, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Asteroid B-612, Reflection, Black Knight, Lord Helmet, Crowne, Mass Deception, First Light, Celestial Wizard, Honeymoon Suite, Superseed, Before The Dawn, Erdling, Joe Stump’s Tower Of Babel, Martyr, Lost Legacy, Tragik, Walter Trout, Motorhead, 137, Wanted, Chevelle, Burning Witches, Mors Principium Est, Gods Of Tomorrow, Wheel Of Time, Patriarchs In Black, Orchid Symmetry, Higher Power, Tss, Mihrax, Feary Tales, Otherwise, Eden Circus, Dragonsfire, Meridian, Metal Detektor, Rust N’ Rage, San Demas, Barnabas Sky, Whiskey Myers, FM, Rising Alma, Hollow Souls, Left Hand Black, Amorphis, Bengal Tigers, Hot Milk, Chris Catena’s Rock City Tribe, Bioscope, Aurora Ferrer, Suicide Puppets, The Hu, Solace, Headless, Styx, Ashes Of The Sun, Eric Gales, Månegarm, Near Death Experience, Gwyn Ashton, Longshots, Unen, Stygian Fair, Rimmar, Airborn, Deadlands, Dead7, Sweet Savage, Jack The Joker, Mad Dogs, Sodom, Mistress, Blood Dealer, Rage, Year Of The Goat, Alice Cooper.