For fans of both Opeth’s 'Deliverance' and 'Damnation' albums, and having signed to InsideOutMusic, Norwegian Progressive Rock/Metal group, Avkrvst, released in June their debut album, 'The Approbation’, of which today's Video Of The Day for their first single, ’The Pale Moon’, released in April, is one of six nominees chosen from 365 this year, in our 2023 WRC Video Of The Year award, that also includes 'Love Like War' by The Cadillac Three, 'Construct' by Silent Skies, 'My America' by Ayron Jones, 'Lovebite' by Haken and 'Queen Of Sorrow' by Delain. Simply go here https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/2023-wrc-awards-voting and hit the vote button. You have until midnight 31st December to e-mail all your thirteen choices with only one submission allowed per e-mail address.

Doro joins today's latest The Zach Moonshine Show Podcast Of The Day, to play and talk about her latest release, 'Conqueress - Forever Strong and Proud', as well as much more, plus there's music from Swarf Damage, Ashes Of Perishing, Bone Fragments, KK'S Priest, Sapremia, Webb Of Deceit, Never Reborn, Armored Saint, Under A Spell, One Hell of a Christmas, Spreadloves, Mass Punishment, Sebastian Bach, Skid Row, EMBR and Reliquia.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 35 years ago by the late Lou Reed, and with a career expanding more than eight decades, Rock/Blues/Gospel great, Dion, continues to inspire and captivate audiences around the world, ahead of his forthcoming album, 'Girl Friends', due to be released next year on Friday 8th March via Joe Bonamassa's KTBA Records, that showcases powerful female collaborations, of which his brand-new second single taken from the twelve-track album, 'Soul Force', featuring Grammy Award winning powerhouse Susan Tedeschi, is also one of today's six of the best 'Wednesday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Crucial Velocity, Butterfly Bulldozer, Skull & Crossbones, True North and All For Metal.

Combining powerhouse vocals and highly charged riff-driven guitars, next year, not only are Essex Rock band, Slick Cherry, off supporting Hillbilly Vegas on tour, but their highly anticipated new album is due to drop late March, with their third single taken from the album, 'On The Ground', due for release on Friday 5th January, of which their previous single. 'Shotgun', is today's Video Of The Day. Taking influences from Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and early Whitesnake, if you like your Rock a little raunchy and your Roll on the dirty side, then this good old fashioned, Bluesy, guitar driven band is for you.

2022 WRC award-winning Pete Feenstra has spent the last forty years or so listening to, writing about, talking about, and promoting Rock music, with a particular interest in the Blues, and Pete's Rock & Blues show is today's Podcast Of The Day, featuring The Mel Outsider Reformation, Will Pike, Gary Hoey with Jon Butcher, Coco Montoya, The Pleasures, Vanesa Harbek, Annika Chambers & Paul DesLauriers, Guitar Jack Wargo, Guitar Shorty, Dave Helwig, Asia, Hillbilly Vegas (pictured), David Lee Roth, plus many more.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Podcast Of The Day starts and finishes with the gorgeous vocals of Jana Varga & Redtenbacher's Funkestra, ahead of her show tonight at The Tuesday Night Music Club in Coulsdon, plus there's music from Bernie Marsden, Cedar County Cobras, Sheryl Youngblood, B'ee, Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia (pictured) and more.

Today is officially International Day Of Heavy Metal, a day metalheads unite to honour the subgenre of Metal and Rock music that has evolved thanks to pioneers such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, before Hard Rock bands such as Riot, Saxon, and Judas Priest, truly shifted Heavy Metal into a more aggressive sound typical of the early 1980s, such as today's six of the best 'Heavy Metal Day Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, that includes recent and forthcoming releases from Pyre Fyre (pictured), Chamelion, Mister Misery, Beyond This Earth, Firewind and Persevera.

Now into its fifth year and once again being held recently at the famous Fiddler's Elbow in Camden, North London, today we not only have Steven Gilbert's take on Prog The Forest, a one-day Progressive music charity event with all profits being donated to the World Land Trust, but also check out today's 'Rise Again' Video Of The Day, from last minute replacement Kindred Spirit's forthcoming album, 'The Journey Within', filmed on the day.

Early next year on Friday 5th January, Melodic Hard Rockers LastWorld return once again with their fifth album in just under five years via Perris Records, entitled, 'Beautiful Illusion', with all that you would expect from them, plus a few surprises too, of which their first single from the eleven-track album, 'Don't Tell Me I'm Wrong', is also one of today's six of the best 'Monday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from The Noise Who Runs, Zed Head, Beyond Unbroken, Reliquia and Metalite.

For fans of Aiming for Enrike, Mother's Cake and Nerve, last month Swiss Alternative instrumental Rock power-trio, Lagern, released their full-length debut album, 'Motion', through Cold Smoke Records, and today's Video Of The Day of their two album tracks, 'Immersiv' and 'Blauschtrift', was filmed earlier this year at the Foucoupe performance & event venue in Monthey, Switzerland. Formed in 2017 by two experienced Swiss musicians Pablo Lagares (guitar) and Simon Prongué (drums), quickly followed by Téo Lagares (keyboards and bass), also expect clinical drums, a gravelly guitar and electronic strings, as well as some touches of Prog and Post-Rock.

On today's latest Simply Country Podcast Of The Day playlist, there's music from Shelly Jones, Ella Powell, Dean Weston, Francine Honey, Bridget Pross, Dee Morrissey, Jo Caseley, Hurricane Fall, Jamie Donnelly, Steve Sparrow, John Hogan, Joy Adams, Katrina Burgoyne, Mae McCoy, Payton Riley, Redneck Gentlemen, The Gillies, Songbird Jones, Paula O'Reilly, Sorensen, Susan Blee, Tennessee Twin, The Longshore Drifters, Todd Barrow, Trey Calloway, Troy Kemp, Valley Road, The Atlantic Project (pictured), Lainey Wilson, Floyd Thursby and more.

Next year on Friday 16th February, Swiss modern Metal upstarts, Illumishade, will unveil their magical sophomore record and Napalm Records debut, 'Another Side of You', of which their new single cut from the new 14-track album, 'Here We Are', is today's mesmerising Video Of The Day, as Eluveitie's Fabienne Erni’s radiant charisma shines brighter than ever with her crystal-clear vocal delivery. Also fronted by Eluveitie guitarist Jonas Wolf, the song impresses with a stomping chorus and an exciting variety in its middle passage, with Wolf’s guitar work as blazing and emotional as ever, while a fresh dose of modern Prog brings a cutting edge to the band’s elaborate songwriting, an early taste of how the band skilfully balance all things both dark and light on 'Another Side of You'.