Review: Stargazer – Breakdown (Single) Mighty Music (February 13th, 2026)  Reviewer – David Mark Pearce Is it possible to combine Dokken, TNT and Whitesnake? Of course it is and Stargazer do it superbly well here with their latest single ‘Breakdown’. It starts off with the  crunching riff supplied by William Ernstsen! What a great guitar […]

Review: Stargazer – Trouble (Bonus Single) Mighty Music (January 9th, 2026)  Reviewer – David Mark Pearce Being an artist myself, you write and write as much as you can for an album that you’ll hopefully eventually release and when you have a certain amount of songs, then comes the agonising decision,  choosing what goes on […]

Review: Stargazer – Stone Cold Creature Mighty Music (September 12th 2025) Reviewer – David Mark Pearce 80’s metal is back but, hold on, it never went away and that’s certainly true with the latest album by Norway’s finest, Stargazer!  Their new album, ‘Stone Cold Creature‘, is a massive slab of hard rock, very much in […]

Review: The Dead Daisies – Lookin’ For Trouble SPV (May 30th, 2025) Reviewer – David Mark Pearce First off I’m just gonna say it, I fkn love this band!! Thank the lord they’ve got Corabi back. Hughes wasn’t a good fit for me. Anyway ……. Whilst down in Nashville recording the excellent ‘Light’m Up’ they […]

Review: Yngwie Malmsteen – Tokyo Live Music Theories Recordings (April 25th, 2025) Reviewer – David Mark Pearce PLAY IT LOUD! LESS IS MORE – NO, MORE IS MORE! YNGWIE WHO? YNGWIE FUCKING MALMSTEEN THATS WHO!  ………. are just some of the yngwie’ism’s that come to mind especially when you get to review an album by, […]

Review: Magnum – Live At KK’s Steel Mill Steamhammer / SPV (January 10th, 2025) Reviewer: David Mark Pearce Happy New Year rock fans. I start this years reviews off with this new and sadly final live album from English Symphonic Rock Legends Magnum. This serves very much as a tribute to the late wonderful guitarist, […]

Review: Gone Savage – Retrograde Muzzle Records (October 25th, 2024) Reviewer: David Mark Pearce As soon as this came up for review I snapped it up immediately. Not because I was any kind of life long fan or knew of their music even, because I’d never heard of them apart from, could it be the […]