Powerplay 271 March 2024

INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES

Almost two decades since his last solo offering, Bruce Dickinson blows us away with his fantastic new album ‘The Mandrake Project’. Created along with Bruce’s long-time collaborator, guitarist and producer Roy Z, the concept album will be complemented by a series of twelve comics that tell its story. We talk to legendary former Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars about his sublime debut solo album, a thoroughly modern affair that will surprise everyone, Scott Stapp tells us about his latest solo offering and discusses the possibility of the Creed reunion tour making it to the UK, and we catch up with the not so British favourite UK prog rock band Big Big Train. Also this month are chats with Dragonforce, New Years Day, Alestorm, Lionheart, Hammer King, Blind Channel, Philip Sayce, Midas Fall, Edge Of Ever, Psychos, and No Worth Of Man, plus heavy metal originators Black Sabbath receive our albums ranked treatment.

POWERED UP

The Darkness, The Outlaws, Spock’s Beard, Bad Nerves, Steve Overland & Jim Kirkpatrick, Wayward Sons, South Of Salem, InMe, Final Coil, The Marianna Hollow, Hats Off Gentlement It’s Adequate, Holding Absence, Muddibrooke, Dark Divine, The River.

REGULARS

AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.

POWER PLAYS

Bruce Dickinson, Leah, Amaranthe, Stygian Crown, Final Coil, Skeletal Remains, Frozen Rain, Savaged, Ancient Vvisdom, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, New Years Day, Steve Hackett, Alterium, Dust Bolt, Revolution Saints, Troy Redfern, Dragonforce.

POWER CUTS

Mick Mars, Blind Channel, Durbin, Big Big Train, No Terror In The Bang, Suicidal Angels, Whiteabbey, Crucible, Susan Santos, D’luna, Cognizance, Crazy Lixx, Social Disorder, Cave, The Great Alone, Blackout Problems, Z02, Goat Major, Faith Circus, Amigo The Devil, Diabol Boruta, Flames Of Fire, Austrian Death Machine, Wax Mekanix, Midas Fall, Byron, Reeper, Dreamworm, Ministry, Midnight, Noage, Wade Black’s Astronomica, Anahata, Palace Of The King, Whom Gods Destroy, Suicide Bombers, Wet Cactus, White City Graves, Big Scenic Nowhere, Traitor, Crucial Velocity, Scott Stapp, Counting Hours, Disastroid, North Sea Echoes, Maggie Lindemann, Edge Of Ever, Dwarrowdelf, Lausch, Smoking Snakes, Dustmice, Borknagar, Electro Charged, Robert Hart, Honeymoon Suite, David Reece, Saffire, Hijss, Arkado, Striker, Armagelion, The Awesome Machine, Cemetery Of Scream, Dream State, The Hellacopters, Vicinity, Black Absinthe, Visions Of Morpheus, John ‘Rhino’ Edwards, No Worth Of Man, Horrorgraphy, Hammer King, The Progressive Souls Collective, Ashen Reach, Nobody’s Fool, Walter Trout, Damnationis, Show N Tell, The End Machine, Bex Marshall, Dirty Laces, Leaves’ Eyes, Children Of Bodom, In Vain, Evergrey, 25 Yard Screamer, Sentry, Comeback Kid, Belushi Speed Ball, Nonexister, Almamor, Raizer, The Obsessed, Bernard Allison, Skull  Servant, Alestorm, Last In Time, Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, Fear The Fate, Daniele Brusaschetto, Collapsed Minds, Gost, Mitch Ryder, Exa, Omen, Rocket Fuel, Fortune Teller, Red Temple Pray, Blue Nation, Theragon, Decrowned, Jef Bek, Shane Smith And The Saints, Craneium, Black Hounds, Next Day Shakes, Crowdead, The Seafloor Cinema, Wolves I Feed, Vic Lecar, Ana, Per Wiburg, Tangent Plane, These Wicked Rivers, Arcane Tales, Rascal, Liv Kristine, Mercyful Fate, Today Was Yesterday, Scarefield, Exhorder, Firewind, Greengoat, No One Alive, Inver, Persevera, Distorted Reflection, Johnrose, Skullclub, Armored Dawn, Taken Days, Pressure, Thunder, Sgàile, Uncomfortable Knowledge, Vespertine, Fate, General Jack, Thy Shining Curse, Green Day, Diminium, Forever Mortal, Motörhead, Elfsong, Samael, Leather Lung, Genghis Khan, Riley’s L.A. Guns, Lost In Grey, Xion, Wargods Of The Deep, Lilith’s Black Lotus, Metal De Facto, Lords Of Black, Lord Of The Lost, Fragmented Soul.