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MÖTLEY CRÜE are back! The band will release the ”Cancelled” EP on October 4, 2024. The three-song effort contains the title track, MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s cover version of the BEASTIE BOYS classic “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)” and “Dogs Of War“, which was made available in April.
All three songs were recorded in April 2023 with longtime producer Bob Rock. The Crue sounds raw, modern, heavy on these new recordings, leaving us eager to hear more.
This is their first release with guitarist John 5, who replaced Mick Mars following his retirement from the band in October 2022…

Danish hard rock veterans D-A-D will release their brand new, thirteenth album titled “Speed Of Darkness” on October 4, 2024 via AFM Records. One of the factors of the band’s success is the fairly consistent line-up, which not only allows the group to have a very strong common base, but also provides a musical vision and direction from day one.
D-A-D are committed to thunderous hard rock that covers the entire range of the genre – from very dynamic rock songs to more soulful moments. Of course, “Speed of Darkness” doesn’t deviate from these chosen trademarks, and yet the four-piece always adds a new twist to the sound, making each album a treat for the ears.
D-A-D today is the best of both worlds. The band sounds very mature on the new album and at the same time the guys have kept the rebellious spirit of the early days alive…

American heavy rockers TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION are riding again with their eighth studio album, ”Gunsmoke”, via MNRK Heavy on October 4, 2024. This time, Big Dad Ritch and his crew wholeheartedly embrace their country and Southern rock stylings as well as a lifelong passion for westerns.
With drinks poured, fists raised, and smiles wide, TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION (THC) always know how to have a good time. A collective of tried-and-true rabble-rousers and dyed-in-the-wool storytellers, the Texas quintet—Big Dad Ritch [vocals], Cord Pool [guitar], Nevada Romo [guitar], Rado Romo [bass], and Joey Mandigo [drums]—spike ass-whopping hard rock with a kick of country swagger and a whole lot of Texas grit and gusto.
This comes through loud and clear on the title track “Gunsmoke”: rustic acoustic guitar crawls through a stomping beat punctuated by waves of groaning distortion. It climaxes on a chantable chorus.
TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION offers something different, and they are very good at it. Southern heavy groove, metallic country at others – these guys rock hard…

Three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer ERIC CLAPTON will be releasing a new studio album titled “Meanwhile“, made up of six new songs and some previously released standalone singles, featuring guest appearances by the late Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, Bradley Walker, Judith Hill, Daniel Santiago and Simon Climie.
His last album featuring new material was 2016’s ‘I Still Do’, so it’s nice to hear new music from the talented guitarist combining blues, rock&pop and classic rock. Clapton feels revitalized on these tunes, and as proof he started a world tour right now…

German ’80s-inspired stadium rock band THE NEW ROSES make a triumphant return with their upcoming new album, ”Attracted To Danger”, scheduled for release on October 4, 2024. The band has already proven their ability to captivate a broad audience, especially with their latest album, ‘Sweet Poison’, which reached #13 on the German charts.
Over the years, they have solidified themselves as a staple and listener favorite on international rock radio, but the best way to experience their incredible and untamable rock’n’roll energy is during their famous live shows. They were not only the first German band to perform at KISS Kruise in 2018 and 2019, but they also supported the living legends on their German shows and shared stages with immortal Aerosmith, Foreigner, and the German rock icons Scorpions. In 2023, they welcomed back guitarist Norman Bites and united as a quintet.
”Attracted To Danger” is an outstanding classic hard rock album providing everything the band is loved and appreciated for: catchy sounds, true rock anthems, and incredible rock’n’roll energy.
Turn the intensity up to 11 and beyond and enjoy this really good 10-tracker…

Warner Music Group has just released your perfect soundtrack for the upcoming Halloween: a selection of ALICE COOPER most creepy, scary tunes packed under the properly titled “Halloween Horror“.
”Halloween Horror” is a really cool exploration into the horrifyingly delightful personas across Alice Cooper’s discography. We find the freaked out ‘I Love the Dead’ (1973), ‘Skeletons in the Closet’ (1981), ‘The Ballad of Dwight Fry’ from the LP Love It to Death (1971), and of course the classic ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ in its original version – among other songs.
Get ready for the next Halloween with “Halloween Horror” to play the entire month… if you dare.

Now were featuring in exclusive Timmo Tolkki’s REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE second album “Age Of Aquarius” in its fresh 2024 reissue including no less than 7 bonus tracks, previously unreleased recordings from the group’s first album sessions.
For this second REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE opus Tolkki was looking for a more ‘band’ sound enlisting a stable line up of musicians, including melodic vocalist Gus Monsanto as main front man. Musically, the approach is much more heavy than previous album ‘New Era’, still melodic and with hard rock overtones yet symphonic passages and a progressive metal development on some tracks. All strong material.
But the interesting thing in this reissue are the bonus tracks: songs recorded during the pre-production sessions of previous album ‘New Era’, some are previously unreleased and some are early versions of the album tracks.
If you ask me, these early versions are even better, muscular melodic hard rockers. And while are listed as ‘demo versions’, the mix and sound quality are fantastic…

Talented Finnish musician Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius, Revolution Renaissance, Avalon) will release a new solo album soon, and it’s proper to feature his super group REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE album ”New Era”, originally released by Frontiers Music and King Record Co. in Japan including a bonus track.
The group features impressive vocalists: Michael Kiske (Helloween, Place Vendome) an the majority of the songs, Tobias Sammet (Avantasia), and Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone) plus talented musicians – Tolkki play guitar and produced.
While the hearkening back to older Stratovarius days are definitely on full display, things definitely pull equally if not more so in an Avantasia direction whenever Kiske or Sammet takes the lead. This is edgy melodic hard rock with a touch of metal, catchy choruses and hooks.
The music sometimes takes on a nature not all that far off from Black Sabbath’s “Tyr”, though a bit more flowery and keyboard oriented – no epic feel, just catchiness. Some songs are really awesome…

While formed almost a decade ago, “Bedtime Stories” is the second album from Vienna based Melodic / Symphonic Metal  4-piece AUTUMN BRIDE. In a time when the biggest and most popular acts in this type of music are seemingly drifting further and further from the path of true symphonic metal, the world has never been more in need of someone to save the colors, raise the mood and carry this fantastic genre onward to a new fresh and younger audience of listeners.
AUTUMN BRIDE could indeed fulfil that promise and lead the charge from a whole new generation of upcoming symphonic metal bands. ”Bedtime Stories” is a proof of that, a mature, organic, and at the same time modern platter of sympho metal done with intelligence. And AUTUMN BRIDE provides the necessary flow to listen to ”Bedtime Stories” in a mere 42 minutes of entertaining music…

We have here in exclusive more HEART from the excellent IAC Music “Alive The Live” series only released in Japan (CD manufactured in Taiwan), this time capturing the band at the at the Memorial Auditorium, Greenville, SC, in 1983.
”Live 1983” documents the Wilson sisters during the ‘Passionworks Tour’ presenting the studio album of the the same title, before their massive mainstream rock era and being signed by Capitol Records. And while in the new songs we can hear a commercial approach already, the band’s hard rocking edge is still much all over this live show.
The ”Passionworks” tour ran through 1983 to 1984 with a setlist that reaches as far back as their esteemed 1975 debut ‘Dreamboat Annie’.
This show at the Memorial Auditorium, Greenville, South Carolina in November 1983 sees Heart saluting their new step into mainstream rock, but reminding everyone present that minus the hairstyle, two new members (bassist Mark Andes and drummer Denny Carmassi) and two new hit singles (‘How Can I Refuse’ and ‘Allies’), Heart is as much a part of the great American songbook as any of the post-Woodstock rock veterans…

DIRTBAG REPUBLIC, the powerhouse rocking 5-piece known for their electrifying performances and infectious energy, is set to release their fourth studio album, “Bad Decisions“, showcasing the band’s evolution and musical prowess. What you’ll get is a non-stop barrage of hard rockin’ earworms.
Through its 11 face melting track list, “Bad Decisions” is simply one of the best sheer Rock and Roll albums we’ve heard this year – from songwriting to attitude this might just be Dirtbag Republic’s most complete album so far.
They hit the ground running with opener “I Don’t Care” – a snotty rant set over a boogie style refrain that leaves you in absolutely no doubt that this is a band that is completely refreshed and extremely lively after their three year hiatus. “Wait A Minute” carries on in a similar vein and is a rolling Diamond Dogs-like jaunt, before giving way to the gloriously cut glass vocal assault of the ’70s inspired “Bipolar Rollercoaster”. That track may give you slight cause for concern regarding Sandy Hazard’s throat welfare but is nevertheless an almost flawless fist pumping scowl; a comment that could easily also be applied to the defiant and vaguely threatening “I Fought Them All”…

German metal upstarts TURBOKILL return with their sophomore album, ”Champion” – a record that, as it turns out, more than lives up to its name.
It’s hard to believe that this is only TURBOKILL’s second full length album release. Having already been branded by Rock Hard magazine as “among in the elite in Teutonic metal” and having been at the forefront of the “New Wave of German Metal” tour earlier this year, ”Champion” demonstrates a band already at the height of their powers.
And their recipe is a winner; fusing a modern production with the sound of late 80s early 90s catchy, lite power metal, ”Champion” is an album that brings the best of all worlds; catchiness, hard rock hooks, melodies – and a huge bright sound with many points in common with the current Scandinavian sound.
Songwriting-wise “Champion” is an album that refers to some of the ‘champions’ of the second half of the 80s, and it feels like a little time travel to a era when this kind of music had its first glory days. Now, in 2024, the album has a certain retro character.
Listening to these 12 melodic anthems is entertaining, easy to the ears…

A true defenders of AOR / Melodic Hard Rock style & sound, MARENNA are celebrating their 10 year debut releasing “Ten Years After“, their new album featured in exclusive at 0dayrox.
Instead of compiling their best songs selected from each album / EP and simply make a Greatest Hits, MARENNA recorded several gigs and present these songs in a live setting. And many of the new live versions sound more energetic, vital – a much more heave guitar work and parping keyboards everywhere.
And to make it even more attractive, “Ten Years After” includes two brand-new studio tracks, “Runaround” and “How Long“, both very strong numbers showcasing MARENNA’s maturity after a decade together.
You’ve seen it first at 0dayrox

LORDS OF THE TRIDENT is an American heavy metal band from Madison, Wisconsin with almost 2 decades in the business. The five piece band is known for its mixture of classic, power, and modern progressive metal combining strong vocals, complex instrumentation, and an expansive fantasy backstory to create energetic live shows. They toured with varied metal-style acts from Helloween to Steel Panther.
It is perhaps one of the most obvious connections to make, but a pretty large contingent of metalheads are also gamers. LORDS OF THE TRIDENT know all about making things for the sake of sheer enjoyment, as their brand of metal feels tailor made to remembering that heavy rock music can and should be made to be enjoyed from time to time.
This upcoming release, ”V.G.E.P.”, finds them writing and recording songs that pay homage to a favorite video game, such as Final Fantasy, F-Zero, Road Rash – all 80s / early 90s arcade video games.
But apart for being a metal metal band, LORDS OF THE TRIDENT are well known for their love of ’80s culture and a lot of music outside metal. Supporters / Patreon of the band will receive as well cover songs from Stan Bush, Extreme, Scorpions, even Peter Cetera (!) and more…

COUNTERLINE emerged on the melodic hard rock scene in 2017, a project forged by the seasoned talents of Harold Waller and Gg Andreas. Having spent seven years honing their craft in previous bands, where they shared stages with iconic acts like Scorpions, Cinderella, Twisted Sister, Sebastian Bach, etc – Waller & Andreas sought new horizons.
This quest for fresh artistic expression led them to create Counterline, a band dedicated to preserving the best of classic rock / AOR / Melodic Rock sound infused with distinct American overtones. Their debut album ‘One’ was packed with memorable melodies, hooks, and riffs, and sold out its firat CD pressing.
Building on the success of One, Counterline expanded their contract with Lions Pride Music, setting the stage for their follow-up album to be release in October.
Titled “Two“, on this sophomore CD Counterline continues to embody the essence of melodic hard rock, driven by their passion for creating music that resonates with both aficionados of the genre and new listeners. You can hear a maturity on the songwriting and arrangements, more direct n’ catchy choruses, and a polished production…