“Torn From The Pages” is a new album, released on 6th September by Mighty Music, featuring the talents of guitarist and producer Stevie D and Living Colour frontman Corey Glover. This is the first collaboration between the two musicians and initially Glover was to record just the one song, but this soon expanded to all thirteen tracks on the album. The single “Your Time Has Run Out” was included on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 26th July and “Wake Up Call” is on the Show this week.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Torn From The Pages" by STEVIE D FT COREY GLOVER
“Burning Sermons” is the second album from Liv Sin and it was released on 6th September by Despotz Records. The Swedish metal band is fronted by former Sister Sin singer Liv Jagrell. They released their first album in 2017 and Liv was my guest on the Friday NI Rocks Show at that time. The track “Blood Moon Fever” from the new album was featured on the Show on 9th August followed by “Chapter of the Witch” on 23rd August. The latest single “Hope Begins to Fade” is on the Show this week.
Black Star Riders released their fourth album, “Another State of Grace”, on 6th September via Nuclear Blast Records. It was released in several formats, including on picture disc, on green vinyl and on gold vinyl as part of a boxset (the option that I went for!). The album is released just ahead of a tour of the UK and Ireland that sees them play shows in Dublin on 16th October and in The Limelight, Belfast on 17th October. The latter is preceded by an acoustic show in HMV Belfast, open to those who bought the album there.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Another State of Grace" by BLACK STAR RIDERS
There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those shows for the month of August – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 150 different artists on the Shows this month. Playlists for July were published previously and these Shows are also available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3632-ni-rocks-playlists-for-july-2019.html
This month the Friday NI Rocks Show included interviews with Bobby Barth from Axe and Rob De Luca from Spread Eagle. I also posted an e-mail interview with Eighteenth Hour.