For fans of both Opeth’s 'Deliverance' and 'Damnation' albums, and having recently signed to InsideOutMusic, Norwegian Progressive Rock/Metal group, Avkrvst, will release their debut album, 'The Approbation’, on Friday 16th June, and the band have also shared today's Video Of The Day for their first single, ’The Pale Moon’. At the age of just seven, Martin Utby (composer, drummer and synths) and Simon Bergseth (composer, guitars, bass and vocals), made a pact that they would form a band when they got older. Now, 22 years later, they’ve done just that, 55 minutes of music inspired by everything they grew up listening to, from Mew, Anekdoten and Porcupine Tree to Neal Morse and King Crimson.

Was it really over seven years ago now that contemporary Blues-Rock band, and former WRC award winners, Albany Down, not only appeared at our 2015 BluesRockFest on a memorable Independence Day at the Red Lion in Gravesend, but also later that year, headlined our Christmas bash at The Horn In St. Albans? Well, on Thursday night they were back in the Garden Of England, now as a three-piece, playing The Beaverwood in Chislehurst, with support from exciting local Classic Rock covers band, Hell On Tap, and today we not only have John 'Mr.Rockrpix's Photo Gallery from the gig, but also check out our Albany Down Video Of The Day, filmed last July at Ross On Wye's Linton Festival.

Beastie's latest Rock Show, originally broadcast live at www.voodooradio.online at midday on Thursday, is today's Podcast Of The Day, 90 minutes of chelp, chunter and wonderful Rock music, featuring Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Golden Earring, Loverboy, Mink DeVille, The Motors, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown (pictured) and more.

For fans of Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, The Afghan Whigs and Big Wreck, and having been thumping crowds and raising the roof with their unique brand of music for decades now, Kansas City Rock quintet, Amenazar, comprising Scott Foulk (vocals), Bruce Condon (lead/rhythm guitar), Brandon Daniels (bass), Dennis Mendoza (guitar) and Everett Jonas (drums), return with soul, fury and focus on their new single, 'Miss U Like I Should', that's also one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Volucrine, Talia Holt, Beast Eagle, Lusitanian Ghosts and Schattenmann.

Today's April Fools Day WRC Bulletin looks forward to a number of April gigs at https://www.wrinklyrockersclub.com/gig-calendar-wrinklystock including our six of the best 'April Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, featuring Felix Rabin, The Zombies, Skillet (pictured), Massive Wagons, Sari Schorr and Focus, and we also look back at our prolific March gig review/photo gallery coverage respectively including Ana Popovic (London and Faversham), Pat McManus Band, The Answer, Beth Hart, Marcus King, Hayseed Dixie, Chantel McGregor, Martin Turner's ex Wishbone Ash (February), The Karma Effect, KT Tunstall, King King, Laurence Jones, Oli Brown & The Dead Collective, The Skids, Thomas Atlas, plus our Half Moon Panic EP review, not forgetting our usual comprehensive March news archive. Finally, don't forget that if you want to receive our monthly e-mail bulletin, please submit your e-mail address in the box below.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day, has another two hours of non-stop Best in Blues and Beyond with More Music and Less Chat, featuring new releases, classic tracks and UK IBBA Presenters' Picks from The Nighthawks, Tom Hambridge, Georgia Cecile, Andrea Motis, Mica Miller, Marc Broussard (pictured), Will Jacobs, The Durham Project, Gemini Dragon, Joe Bonamassa plus many more.

"Suffice to say after yet another mesmerising performance from this delightful, diminutive Bluestress, we will continue our six-month pilgrimage on Friday 8th September at her more familiar London surroundings of Oxford Street's The 100 Club. Just make sure that you join us!" Our half-yearly pilgrimage to see the wonderful, diminutive Bluestress, Chantel McGregor, took us to London's iconic The Half Moon in Putney on Wednesday night, surprisingly a first for Chantel as we later found out, although the bonus ball was the support of the aptly named Half Moon Panic, who we saw supporting Laurence Jones in Sevenoaks at the end of January, so not only check out today AJ's complete review, but also Chris Griffith's awesome photos plus McGregor's spellbinding, 'Anaesthetise' Video Of The Day, filmed on the night.

For fans of Earthless, Hawkwind and The Who, Proto Heavy-Rock x Dirty Blues power-trio, Dead Shaman, deliver a fuzzy maelstrom infused with the weirdest sounds of the 60s and the 70s, when they release their upcoming album, 'Under the Influence', this Friday 31st March via Sixteentimes Music, of which the first audio excerpt from their sophomore effort, the single 'Grounded', is today's Video Of The Day. With both a moonshine smell plus Space-Rock from the fifth dimension, the Swiss outfit released their first full length album, ‘Out Of Phase’, in early 2020, named in tribute to the great Peter Green and his legendary 1959 Les Paul sound. Combining an A-side made of five high energy numbers and a B-side composed by one long smokey Sunday morning jam, their debut LP will also show you the full spectrum of a band who loves to take different directions.

Today's Podcast Of The Day is Beastie's Blues Club, originally broadcast live last Thursday afternoon on www.voodooradio.online straight after Beastie's Rock Show, and this latest ninety minute slice of the best in Blues, Rhythm and Blues and Music touched by the Blues, features Big Harp George, Hard Stairs, The Private Dicks Band, The Terraplanes Blues Band, Steve Bailey featuring Mississippi MacDonald (pictured) and more.

Not just living up to the promise of their previous two EPs, 'Consecration' (2016) and 'Sanctum' (2019), Chicago Stoner Doom aficionados, High Priest, carry us straight to the heavens on a chariot of fiery riffs, as they deliver their eagerly anticipated debut full-length album, 'Invocation', on Friday 23rd June via Magnetic Eye Records, and their first single taken from the album, the Psychedelic 'Divinity', is also one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further recent and forthcoming releases from Endless Exam, Kong, Circle Of Dust, Sovereign Council and Seven Impale.

"Proving the class of the originals, these somewhat stripped back versions are instant singalongs and make for a fantastic atmosphere, such as particular favourites, 'Hells Bells', 'Paranoid', 'War Pigs' and a superb 'Ace of Spades', but it’s all so much fun, including their originals littered through the set, that walking back from the camera pit through the crowd, I was met by a mass of smiles. It’s engrossing and highly recommended - even if you just go once to see them, you really must go!" Bluegrass rockers, Hayseed Dixie, who started out as an Appalachian style tribute to AC/DC, playing traditional instruments such as fiddle, and then branched out, playing songs by other Rock luminaries, as well as a few original compositions, stopped off at London's The Garage last Thursday night, on their 16-date UK tour, with special guests, the Queens of “colourful chaos”, The Hot Damn!, so today not only read Les Linyard's complete take on the gig, but also check out Les's photos plus our 'Highway To Hell'/'Freebird' Video Of The Day, filmed the night before at The Old Fire Station in Bournemouth.

Celebrating it's thirteenth event next month across the weekend of 14th-15th April, at the O2 Academy in Sheffield, Hard Rock Hell Prog XIII will be hitting this venue with a spectacular line-up, and today's 'HRH Prog XIII Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day showcases just six of the great bands taking part, namely Asia (featuring John Payne), The Flower Kings, Ozric Tentacles, Stray, The Blackheart Orchestra and The Paradox Twin.