Month: January 2017

Country: USA
Genre: Blues Rock, Classic Rock
Year: 2017

Genre: Hard Rock
Country artist (group): USA
Year: 2004/2009

Artist: Truth ‘N Tempest
Album: Infinite Creations
Country: USA
Style: Hard Rock

Regular Über Röck readers (all 1 million plus of you) will know I am a huge – no, make that HUGE – fan of the man myself and many, many others for more years than we collectively care to remember have called, with deep affection and respect, ‘The Professor’. Criminally ignored by the mainstream media, Pat McManus lives for one thing and one thing only – and that is playing music.

Along with ‘In Progress’ from Work of Art, another monster of an album also deserving of a perfect score is Toby Hitchcock’s solo debut entitled, ‘Mercury’s Down.’

DATE: 2017
COUNTRY: Italy
STYLE: Instrumental Guitar, Hard Rock

Joe Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock musician, singer and songwriter. Bonamassa opened for B.B. King when he was only 12 years old.[2] In the last 13 years Bonamassa has put out 15 solo albums through his independent record label, J&R Adventures.

 Artist: Ignition
Title Of Album: Ignition
Year Of Release: 2003
Genre, Style: Melodic Hard Rock
Country: Sweden

In 2003, Rik Emmett met Michael Shotton backstage at an orchestra rehearsal for a show at the Grand Theatre in London Ontario, where the two vocalists were performing separately, fronting the symphonic arrangements of a mutual friend, Peter Brennan. They knew of each other from their respective background stints in Triumph and Von Groove.

Year; 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Heavy, Power Metal