20-26! A number, another Summer!!! Or a reprisal and dual 1987 musical gift to all of us who remember. As I write this, as a clenched-fist salute to all of us who all of us were listening on all levels. Revolutionary musicality: Guns N Roses bringing in a hard-nosed, no-holds-barred truth about the streets and addiction with 1987’s Appetite For Destruction (Geffen Records). Songs like “Welcome To The Jungle” and “My Michelle” threw a monkey wrench into the oversaturated eighties glam rock phenomenon narrative GNR shut down with their truth. Continue reading
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Guns N’ Roses Adds Dates for Australia and New Zealand to Their 2026 World Tour
Guns N’ Roses have announced a run of headlining shows in Australia and New Zealand for November and December. Airbourne will provide direct support for the trek. The band recently released two “new” songs via Interscope Records, and promises to play them both on stage. Marking their first new music release since 2023, “Nothin’” and “Atlas!” Slash has said recently that the band will present all-new material for a future full length albums.
ALBUM REVIEW: Atlas – Sunder
Though Ville Valo has often been seen as the sole proprietor of love metal as a genre, primarily because very few can match his vampiric romanticism and poetry, Atlas arises as a formidable and remarkable successor. Infusing love metal with arcane echoes and bestial screams, they delivers a sensually brutal epic in their new record, Sunder (Odyssey Music). Continue reading