Six years after the release of their come-back album “Coup de Grace” in 2010, Swedish rockers Treat released the follow up “Ghost of Graceland” through Frontiers Music on 15th April. This is one of those instances when the end product has been worth the wait! Sometimes you just know you’re going to like an album after the briefest skim through the tracks and that is definitely the case with “Ghost of Graceland”. The title track was released as a single and I played this on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 1st April.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Ghost of Graceland" by TREAT
Shiraz Lane are 5 young guys from Finland who released their debut album “For Crying Out Loud” through Frontiers on 15th April. The band formed in 2011, released their first single in 2014 and signed to Frontiers the following year following a number of international festival appearances. The track “Wake Up” was the closing track on the NI Rocks A-Z Show on 29th March.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "For Crying Out Loud" by SHIRAZ LANE
NWOBHM legends Diamond Head released a new self titled album on 22nd April. I spoke to founding member, guitarist Brian Tatler, via Skype on 18th April and we chatted about the new album, the recent record deal, upcoming tours, a new DVD and more. This interview was included on the Friday NI Rocks Show that was broadcast on 22nd April.
That Show is available now on our MixCloud page - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-brian-tatler-of-diamond-head-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-22nd-april/
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I’ll be honest and say I’ve listened to “Death Rattle & Roll” by Norwegian band HellHikers quite a lot over the past week or so because I’ve been a bit undecided about it. There are tracks that I really like (which is why I decided to download the promo copy originally) and others that I’m not so sure about. At the end of the day though I decided there was enough that I liked to make it worth a recommendation; and then you can decide for yourself from there! “Death Rattle & Roll” was released via Mighty Music on 15th April.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Death Rattle & Roll" by HELLHIKERS