Swedish band Eclipse released their latest album, “Monumentum”, through Frontiers Records on 24th March. This is their sixth album since founding in 1999 and the first since “Armageddonize” in February 2015. It continues in the same vein as the previous album with the tracks veering toward the heavier end of the melodic rock genre – which is fine with me. I’ll be including “Vertigo”, the opening track from the new album, on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 14th April.
There are two NI Rocks Shows each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those shows for the month of March – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by over 100 different artists on the Shows this month. Playlists for February were published previously and these Shows are also available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/news/rrni-updates/3091-ni-rocks-playlists-for-february-2017.html
On the Friday NI Rocks Shows in March there were interviews with Blaze Bayley, Jeff Hoad and James Durbin - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html
“Down and Dirty” is the debut album from a band called Dirty White Boyz and it was released via Escape Music on 24th March. Initially the album had started as another solo project for former Kiss of the Gypsy & Kingdom of Deadmen frontman/guitarist Tony Mitchell. Realising the strength of the songs, Mitchell worked with Escape Music to form a band to do them justice. I played the single “Ride With Angels” on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 31st March.
Read more: NI ROCKS Recommends "Down and Dirty" by DIRTY WHITE BOYZ
Local band Part Time Pilots have just released a video for the track “Flashing Lights”. The Omagh based band formed back in 2012 and are due to release their third album “How To Ruin Everything” in June – we’ll have more about that then! Part Time Pilots are Enda McCrory on vocals, Tom Hodkinson on lead guitar, Eamonn Doherty on rhythm guitar, Michael Hodkinson on bass and Aarron McCallan on drums.