Skribent Jompa Wilmenius

In the ashes of the Glam Rock band TrashQueen, the AOR trio Cruzh (pronounced Crush) was put together in 2013 and after two E.P's - Hard To Get (2013) and Aim For The Heart (2014), the trio - vocalist Tony Ande...

Usually when I hear about middle-aged musicians that has reformed their band from back when that never made any impact - or even records at all for that matter - you know that it usually lasts for that one albu...

Once in every moon (well, probably a bit more often than so) an artist or a band becomes a big hype quite unexpectedly as the music might not be that year's flavor but it was a long time since I have experience...

Ever since I was a kid I have loved to seek out for new music and it's something I apparently haven't grown out of, like many of rockers in my age unfortunately have. I love finding new bands and I also love wh...

I don't know how Erik Mårtensson does it. I mean song writing here. Does he put a coin in himself and push the go-button and out comes a killer song? It doesn't matter who he writes for, be it Eclipse, WET, Nor...

We all love Dee Snider, now don't we? I mean, what's not to love, right? Ever since I got a hold of a copy of You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll back in 1983 I have been a fan of Dee's and of Twisted Sister. I love a...

I've written it before and I'll write it again - when you think of the high quality of Crazy Lixx' albums it's a mystery that they're not bigger than they are. Sure, their brand of 80's Arena Rock might not be ...

After being away from Hard Rock music for some 20 years something when Lee Aaron was raising a family and singing jazz, Aaron has been in a creative state of mind - this is her third album in five years. Her co...

Back in 2015, Frontiers Records released the news that they had signed a new exciting band called Resurrection Kings. The name didn't ring any bells but the musicians involved sure did. Formed by guitarist Crai...

Since Frontiers have gone totally bananas of lately and releases somewhere between eight and ten albums a month, it has been really hard to find the focus to digest them all, more or less impossible as a matter...

So it's time for Hardline's seventh album. Hardline will always be mostly known for their now more or less iconic AOR/Melodic Rock effort Double Eclipse from 1992, back when they were an actual band. They still...

I truly can't remember when I last heard a great Hard Rock/Metal band from Sweden that dwells both in the 70's and 80's with influences from bands like Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio and Ozzy Osbourne. I think of ...

Back in 1999 when American Sleaze/Glam/Hard Rock outfit Buckcherry released their self titled debut album - the band started out already in 1995 - I totally missed out on them. Even though I had heard of them, ...

This project turned band really floored my ass back in 2016 when they had just released their debut album One For The Road. I had no clue what to expect and the members' day jobs in bands such as Children Of Bo...

Never say never, huh? That lead singer Michael Kiske and guitarist Kai Hansen would reunite with Helloween wasn't exactly something you'd put your hard earned cash on. Kiske had while being absent from the band...

Back in 2018, Swedish Melodic Rock act Perfect Plan released their debut album All Rise, an album that struck down like thunder and lightning in melodic Hard Rock circles with raving reviews and thumbs up from ...

There are projects and there are projects. With Frontiers it's either something put together by the label where both song-writing and production are done by the label's go-to men and then there are those that t...

The former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung is back with volume 2 of his East 26 saga - or whatever you wanna call it. And according to the man himself, this will be his bye-bye to all of us, his last ever record. ...

Three years ago, Swedish melodic Hard Rock act The Poodles decided that enough was enough and it was time to call it a day after twelve years and seven records. Unfortunately they decided that a decent-only cov...