_{French band Shannon have been around since 1998 and their new album “Circus of Lost Souls” is released by Mad Association Records on 1st March 2013. Shannon deliver melodic rock with a harder edge that appeals to my love of “classic” rock. Favourite tracks on the album would be “Ride to Live”, “Forever Now” and “Let’s Make Rock”. The final track is a surprisingly successful rocked up cover version of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” – I recognised the song but had to google the title to figure out what it was!!}

_{We received this album through from New Ocean Media recently along with a few others including the Adler album. As always I did a quick skim through the tracks to get a feel for the album. Generally I’ll know after sampling a few tracks if I’m going to like an album enough to download it and add it to my iPod. This one passed the test....obviously or I wouldn’t be writing this and you wouldn’t be reading it!!}

_{Turns out the album was originally released back in 2011 but it’s getting a UK launch on 1st April.}

“Hell In My Heart” is a hard hitting rock album full of tracks with powerful lyrics and raging guitars. My personal favourite is probably “Bury Me With My Guns On” which was released as a single. Others of note include the cover of “Sound of Silence”, “Empty Man” and “Low Life”.

_{Wizz Wizzard are a Belgian band formed back in 2008 who play what can only be called traditional rock / metal music. This album, which will be their first full length release, is due out in March on the Rocksector Records Label. The twin guitar driven tracks are very reminiscent of the 80s classic rock era and will appeal to those like myself that grew up with that music as well as a younger fanbase.}