Chris Forbes

This is a joke, right? This is the same William Shatner from Star Trek. From listening to this, he can’t sing, and all they do is bring in a bunch of “guest musicians” like Mike Jones, Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Al Di Meola, Vince Gill, Dave Koz, etc to guest on a track. The music […]

I am not a Pink Floyd fan, and I know about three songs, but this was some moving music. This is a recording of the band’s 6th album, “Meddle.” Steve Stens and Carmine Appice are on this, too. Some weird music on this I must say. I wasn’t a fan of some songs, and I liked […]

So Matthew Sweet, who had one big hit, “Girlfriend,” decides to get together a bunch of guest musicians (Carmine Appice, Jack White, Graham Bonnett, and more). Let’s do a Beatles tribute. To me, it sounds pleasing to my ears. I don’t know what Beatle fans will think. The lack of Beatle “hit tunes” and many […]

Was not a fan of this at all. This was all that modern rock mixed in with some bits and pieces of nu metal. All that electronic sounds pumping out made me want to run for the toilet. This was like electric rock/metal and not for me at all. If you like Linkin Park, you […]

Fireborn is a German female-fronted hard rock band formerly known as Dislike Silence and Reflections is their first album since changing their name. She has quite a set of pipes and uses them quite well on this. This is a very melody driven band, with plenty of catchy, but metallic hooks as well. There is […]

This a live release from a Motorhead tribute band. They sound fantastic and even the Lemmy bass sound is there. Alan “Boomer” Davey put tribute. The band includes six-string slugger Neil Archer, who has worked with Robert Plant, and skin pounder Gary Bowler, who has played in Motörhead associated band Würzel. The sound is fantastic […]

Oh my fuckin god, is this a fantastic record. I loved these guys in my early teenage years and was sad they didn’t get bigger than they did. They did a recent comeback record that was also great, and this is on par with that release. Great catchy riffs that sucked me in, and melodic […]

I was a huge Pat Travers fan during the “Go For What You Know” live album, “Heat in the Street,” and “Crash and Burn” days. I have not heard music from him in years, and here he returns, and damn if I don’t love this. Pat has always had a blues-based rock n roll sound, […]

This originally came out back in the 70s under another album release name, and now it is being re-released. Humble Pie was a band that was around in the early 70s and onward and even had an MTV hit in the early ’80s, which I remember. This album has a bunch of covers on it, […]

I normally don’t review stuff like this, but David gave it to me, so here goes. There is some soulful singing on this; the tunes are heartfelt and jump out at you big time. This is stuff when you want to cruise in a car, relax with a beer, or curl up with a nice […]

This is a nice soulful mix of soft rock and the blues. The singer has a great voice and sings the songs with many soul puns intended. The tunes are just modern well, crafted pop tunes with catchy hooks big time. Plenty of different musicians are on this as well. The guitar playing is great, […]

This is an all-star tribute to bass player Jack Bruce of Cream it rocks.  Besides the great tunes, you get guitar soles by Eric Johnson and Alex Lifeson, so you know this is no joke. Billy Sheehan is on bass too. Sammy Hagar also lends his vocal talents too. So Jack Bruce and Pete Brown […]

This is the band’s 7th album and is full of musicians you might have heard of over the years, including Simon Phillips and Ronnie Romero; in addition to Simon Phillips and Ronnie Romero, the album also includes Carl Sentance (Nazareth), Biser Ivanov on guitar, Ivo Stefanov on keyboards, Slavin Slavchev, Lina Nicole, and Borislav Mudolov-Kosatkata […]

Andy is a former Hanoi Rocks guitar player and what we have here is his latest release. I wasn’t thrilled with the album’s single, a cover tune by the band Squeeze called “Take Me I’m Yours. Nothing catchy about it, and it bored me rather quickly. The songs are all 3 minutes to 4 blasts […]

This band features ex-members of the band Ghost and this has nothing to do with metal at all. This is some techno dance crap one would expect to hear in a dance club. If you’re looking for metal or rock, you won’t find it on this, I assure you. The song “Perfect Body Machine” sounded […]

Chuck Wright (a bass player for Quiet Riot and who played alongside Slash, Alice Cooper, and others), has released a release to help out the victims of Ukraine. Let me start by saying that it is for a great cause. This incredible record will take you on many rides, and I love the vocals on […]

DOWNRIGHT MALICE/Mechanica Temporis (Self Released) This is a groovy nu/jump metal band and very generic. Stuff that has been done to death and then some. Brutal vocals mixed in with clean vocals are a style I can’t stand. Not thrashing metal, as I’ve read. Another run-of-the-mill band that is doing nothing different. Think a lousy […]

SKOLD/Dead God (Cleopatra Records) Apparently, this is a lost long album now seeing the light of day. It is industrial metal not far off from NIN and throws in Marilyn Manson. The music on this is heavy, groovy stuff with industrial overtones. Keyboard parts at times too. Pretty cool and is quite memorable and worth […]

Guitarist extraordinaire Jimmy Ryan is finally following up his excellent “21st Century Riffology” CD of 2017. Jimmy is an outstanding player, mixing his blues-oriented with classic rock in the vein of Wishbone Ash, which was the first thing I came to think of when listening to the opening track “Starlord.” Killer melodic, instrumental, melodic guitar […]

ELECTRIC SIX formed in 1996; from what I read and on this CD, the band was out doing cover material and approached to record a release of cover tunes. No songs were off-limits. They fooled around with a Garth Brooks tune, but they quickly dismissed it. The band’s sound is garage rock, sounding band with […]

Here’s is an atmospheric, doom, death metal band. The songs on this are pretty long, but that doesn’t matter cause they suck you in and take you along for a ride, and then the next song takes you on another ride. This isn’t just some typical, awful doom metal band that would put you to […]

JACO/Trace (Bervatim Music) This is a pop-rock band in the vein of a band like REM. Back at with their 3rd release. I am not a big fan of what I call “pop-rock,” but this was “ok” for what it was. The tunes are well crafted, with catchy numbers and excellent vocals. The Melodies will […]

JYRKI 69/American Vampire (Cleopatra Records) This is a solo album of Jyrki 69, the lead singer in The 69 Eyes. According to a bio, I was reading, the band was more glam rock until he joined, and then they went to a more gothic sound. Now I am reviewing this solo album release, and I […]

Tommy Bolin was a guitar player in Deep Purple and the James Gang and released some solo stuff before unfortunately dying a drug overdose in 1976. He has no less than over 30 releases out after his death! This release contains archival sessions that would be on his 2nd and final solo album, “Private Eyes.” […]

Some are like, who the fuck are The Outlaws. Well, The Outlaws are a Southern rock band that formed in the ’70s, and when I saw them in 1979, I was in the front row at Philadelphia Spectrum, and I saw them headlining along with Molly Hatchet and 38. Special for five friggin bucks. The […]

The band is very mellow, almost acoustic on the guitar style of the band. They do set a mood and do suck you in, and I’ll say that. The singer sings with a lot of emotion and feeling in these tunes. Each tune also has its vibe and sound, and even though this is not […]

Another long line of groovy thrash metal bands with the Pantera like vocals and then “clean or normal” are sung. Bands like this suck and just sound like any other band I would hear on “Liquid Metal” on Sirius/XM. This band sound no different than any other band on there, pretty much. I hate when […]

Bizarre, release is what we have here. I would say this is alternative rock/metal with a David Bowie-like singer. Sounds of glam, noise, punk, metal, new wave, and everything else you can imagine. You have to in with an open mind giving this a listen for sure. I would not listen to something every day, […]

I know nothing about this band except having a CD out with two covers tunes (Sweet Leaf/Black Sabbath-Blackout/Scorpions). I didn’t find it interesting or inspiring at all. The songs to me were weak and not at all memorable. I need a catchy hook or rhythm, and this had neither. It was like hearing a lousy […]

  This is a three-piece power trio and what I have here is a ten-song cd for review. The band plays rock n roll/metal with that bouncy, almost funk like edge similar to what Faith No More did years go minus the Mike Patton vocals. For one, I could not get into all that slapping […]