All About Rock & Metal

A strong word when applied to any situation and a word that would become inseparably associated with Nickelback in the mid-noughties after the release of their biggest selling album ‘All The Right Reasons’. With memes aplenty it clearly affected the band – as witnessed in the recent film documentary ‘Hate To Love’ – although they put on a brave face and, in the main, faced up to it with good humour. Criticisms aimed at them include lead singer Chad Kroeger allegedly not be

Nursing and Def Leppard; not the likeliest of bedfellows I grant you, but on another monotonous coach journey to our university base, I slipped a second-hand copy of ‘Pyromania’ into my portable CD player – yes, I’m that old – and a love affair began that has nearly stretched into its fourth decade!

Ask any music fan to name the Top-5 AOR bands of all-time and there’s one that’s sure to appear in everyone’s list, probably at #1...Journey

Bruce Mee pays homage to one of the greatest Rock and Metal vocalists of all time...

Dave Crompton makes an emotional return to his youth to celebrate a Pop Rock institution that shone bright, bold, bombastic... but all too b

Mick Burgess looks back over the decades-long career of a US phenomenon... “On Tour Forever” says their tour T-shirt

Az Chaudhry takes a ride in a time machine to revisit Canada’s finest musical export and one of the world’s most successful and innovative

Dave Cockett meanders down memory lane to revisit the back catalogue of one of the most successful bands the Rock world has ever seen.

Shrugging off their initial “supergroup” tag, Mr. Big became an enduring band whose consistently excellent material is rivalled ....

Gary Marshall casts an expert eye over the studio output of a modern-day Progressive Rock phenomenon. The band was formed by musical...

To celebrate the recent release of the band’s first double LP ‘Dopamine’, which is their 14th studio album to date ...

Ken Roberts takes a retrospective look at the eighteen-album catalogue of one of the founders of the American jam band scene.

Gary Marshall chronicles the output of the Prog-Rock outfit. Having tried to ‘make it’ in the mainstream music industry ...

I know what you’re thinking; does ABBA really belong in a Rock music magazine? Well, a large number of us here at Fireworks HQ ...