Rocking In the Norselands

Moby Grape was a band brimming with talent.

Born To Run was the album when success came knocking for Bruce Springsteen.

As Black Sabbath entered the 1980s, things were changing for the band.

Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, released on 8 November 1971, is not just considered the most classic Led Zeppelin album.

When the book about steel-clad harmony voices in pop music is written, chances are that the first chapter in that book will be about Phil [...]

Max Webster was a Canadian progressive hard rock band formed in 1972.

Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by The Police, released on 17 June 1983.

A few years ago, Mick Jagger said “Rock’n’roll is not supposed to be done in your 70s.”

Big Country emerged on the world stage with their debut album The Crossing on 29 July 1983.

Keith Richards has had his brushes with the law – some severe ones, at that.

Between 1976-78, the Irish Celtic rock band Horslips released a trilogy of albums that stand as conceptual and musical masterworks.

During the final years of his life, David Crosby found new collaborators in the shape of the Lighthouse Band.

Grimly Fiendish is a baroque, gothic rock song performed by The Damned.

In 2003, a news story broke that Ronnie James Dio had accidentally severed his thumb in a gardening accident.

“Oww!”

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia.

When The Doors entered Elektra Sound Recorders on 4 November 1969, they weren’t just starting work on their fifth album Morrison Hotel.

Stonehenge is a group of mysterious standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.

Always Look On the Bright Side of Life is a song by Monty Python, written to provide an end section on their third feature film [...]

They called themselves Heaven & Hell, but we know it’s really the Dio-lineup of Black Sabbath.

Cream is often considered one of rock’s first supergroups.

In the mid-1990s, Paul McCartney was in a Beatles mode.

Sundown is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, released as a single on 25 March 1974, taken from the album of the same [...]

Too Low For Zero, stylised as 2 ▼ 4 0 on the album cover, is Elton John’s seventeenth studio album, released on 30 May 1983. [...]

July Morning is one of the finest tracks ever recorded.

Yes had been doing the album-tour-album-tour cycle pretty intensely for several years, and had finished the first leg of their Relayer tour when they decided [...]

Plastic Bertrand is the alter ego of Belgian recording artist and television presenter Roger Jouret.

Out In the Fields is a song by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, released as a single on 6 May 1985.

Appetite For Destruction was Guns N’ Roses’ first full-length studio album, released on 21 July 1987.

When I Believe In A Thing Called Love appeared out of the blue and turned The Darkness into an overnight sensation, many did not know [...]

Some years back a recording appeared online, supposedly of Swedish guitar maestro Yngwie Malmsteen launching into a furious tirade on a plane.

Quartz is an English heavy metal band from Birmingham.

That primal scream, expressing a mixture of pain, sadness, deep longing, and scorned fury.

Africa is one of the world’s most popular and/or well-known songs.

Immigration Man is a song written by Graham Nash, recorded by David Crosby and Graham Nash and released under their joint moniker Crosby & Nash [...]

As Accept prepared to go into the studio to record their third album Breaker, they brought with them what they considered to be the best [...]

The Alarm were musically at their peak as a live band when they toured the Eye of the Hurricane album in 1987 and 1988.

Alcatrazz is a hard rock band that was built up around vocalist Graham Bonnet.

What to do when the song you are working on has a long, somewhat extended instrumental intro but you want to snare in the listener?

Eight Miles High is one of the defining songs of the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s.

Yes performed two sold out shows at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall on the Tales From Topographic Oceans tour on 28 and 29 November 1973.

The Journey is a Big Country song from their 2013 album of the same name.

Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by the English rock band Deep Purple.

Satyricon is one of the leading bands in the Black Metal genre.

Rainbow is an interesting band in that there are several very different versions of it.

The 1990s were strange times for many bands.

The 1980s was a great time for fans of heavy metal.

Here we are again!

Blood Harmony is the sixth studio album from the guitar-slinging sisters Megan and Rebecca Lowell, collectively known as Larkin Poe.

Star One is a Dutch progressive metal outfit, probably most correctly referred to as a side-project for Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame.