_{Hollywood Monsters is a new project from French vocalist / guitarist / composer Steph Honde (aka Steph Stevens) that has come to fruition with the release of the album “Big Trouble” via Mausoleum Records on 23rd May. Promotion of the album is being handled by Rock N Growl. Honde is probably best known as guitarist for French band Cafe Bertrand and for touring with Paul Di’Anno. The Hollywood Monsters project can trace its roots to Honde’s arrival in California in 2011 and his decision to recruit some well known names to work on an album.}

_{The album “Big Trouble” features Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge & Cactus) on bass, Don Airey (Deep Purple, Whitesnake etc) on keyboards and Vinnie Appice (Dio , Black Sabbath) on drums. There are a couple of tracks that just don’t tick the box for me, but the remainder more than compensate. I’ve already played different tracks on two Friday NI Rocks Shows and I only received the album two weeks ago!! Favourite tracks would be “Move On”, “Big Trouble”, “Underground”, “Village of the Damned” and “Fuck You All”.}

_{Check out https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodMonsters for more information.}

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_{I'm not a reviewer and I certainly don’t claim to be a journalist, but I wanted to acknowledge some of the great music being submitted to Rock Radio NI by artists, promoters and labels. That was the simple idea behind “NI Rocks Recommends”. To be honest I’m not really a big fan of the whole idea of “Reviews” as they just represent one person’s opinion!!  So I'm not giving marks or ratings, trying to categorise bands or compare artists. The albums that I’ll be recommending are merely those that I would buy myself and which you’ll be hearing played on my shows on Rock Radio NI.}

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