_{Burning Witches release their fifth studio album, entitled “The Dark Tower”, through Napalm Records on 5^th May. The all female band formed in Switzerland in 2015 and Dutch singer Laura Guldemond joined in 2019. “The Dark Tower” will be her third fronting the band. I had an opportunity to chat with Laura via Skype on 3^rd April and we talked about the new album, the band, tour plans and much more.}

_{That interview was included on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 7th April and repeated again on 5th May - those Shows are available via the Rock Radio NI On Demand Player for a few weeks - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show} 

_{The 7th April Show is also available from our MixCloud page -} 

_{https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/interview-with-laura-guldemonde-from-the-burning-witches-on-the-friday-ni-rocks-show-7th-apr-23/#}

_{The interview can be read below.}

_{A regular feature highlighting some of the best album releases each month. I don’t do album “reviews” – this is simply a personal recommendation to check out an album - just a few words about the albums that appeal to me and about the artists releasing them. These will also be albums from which I’ll have been playing tracks on the Friday NI Rocks Shows recently. This month it includes albums from Stargazer, Demons Down, Frozen Crown, Stonetrip, Cross Country Driver, The Answer, Kamelot, Stormwarning, The Flood, Ad Infinitum and Last in Line.}

There are two NI Rocks Shows uploaded each week on Rock Radio NI. These are the playlists for those Shows for the month of February 2023 – all of which are still available from the On Demand Player. There are tracks by around 140 different artists on the Shows this month. There are also monthly Spotify playlists for the Friday NI Rocks Show featuring most of the tracks from each Show that month.

Playlists for January were published previously and those Shows are also still available via the On Demand Player – http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/reviews/new-releases-review/3867-ni-rocks-playlists-for-january-2023

There was a new interview with Joel Hoekstra and Brandon Gibbs on the Friday NI Rocks Show this month as well as special promo features with Those Damn Crows and Godsmack. All previous interviews can be found here - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/interviews.html and on the NI Rocks MixCloud page as well - https://www.mixcloud.com/NIRocks/  .