Five years ago to this very week, there's a German flavour today as yet another (at the moment) healthy WRC representation are at the Munich Oktoberfest, resplendent in their special edition 'Wrinklyrockersclub.com Official Oktoberfest Drinking Team' t-shirts, dutifully enjoying the beer and listening to the music, although later this evening there is a chance we might catch Swiss Electronic/Alternative Rock outfit, The Beauty Of Gemina (pictured), who are not only playing Munich's Backstage, but are also today's Video Of The Day. Prost!

Today is the State Funeral of our beloved Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, and our tribute today simply reflects our thanks to her devotion to duty, that played such an important part in the life of our nation, as we revisit the key moments in how our nation has mourned her passing (Video Of The Day), we honour her memory with River Dee Radio's beautiful classical tribute (Podcast Of The Day) and finally six fitting Tracks Of The Day taken from her Coronation in 1953 and her Diamond Jubilee. God bless you and thank you ma'am.

Three years after their very-well received debut full-length effort, 'IONO', Progressive Metallers Spheres are about to release their sophomore album, 'Helios', this coming Friday 23rd September through M & O Music & Spinoza Records, and the band have just unveiled a first glimpse, with their single, 'Spiritual Journey', which is today's Video Of The Day. For fans of Opeth, Tool, Mastodon, Gojira and Devin Townsend, the French band was founded at the end of 2017 by Jonathan Lino (composer/singer/guitarist), who is joined by Clémence Santé on bass, Olivier Moreau on guitars and Jess on drums.

Blackie Lawless from W.A.S.P. talks to today's Three Sides of the Coin Podcast Of The Day about his friendship with Ace Frehley, when they first met, touring with Kiss, plus their upcoming 40th Anniversary W.A.S.P. World Tour.

Currently working on completely new music material, and for fans of Epica, Nightwish and Delain, Polish Symphonic Metal outfit Imaginature, with the dazzling voice and an impressive stage presence of new singer Gaia now on board, released on Friday the digital singles, 'Weather the Storm' and 'Edge', of which the latter is one of today's six of the best 'Sunday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from RivetSkull, Grin, Metalite, The Speed Of Sound and Incursion.

Completing the final UK leg of their headline tour tonight at Birmingham's O2 Academy 2, before heading off towards mainland Europe, check out today not only Chris Griffiths brilliant photo gallery of chart-topping Finnish collective, Blind Channel's exciting London O2 Academy Islington gig from Thursday night, with great support from Lost Society, but also the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest finalist's Video Of The Day of 'Dark Side'. The Post-Hardcore outfit released their fourth album, 'Lifestyles Of The Sick & Dangerous', this July, which was quick to prove a huge hit, topping the album chart in their homeland for two consecutive weeks, while it also went Top 20 in Germany, plus in the UK it has been met by swathes of critical acclaim.

Recorded and produced by singer and mastermind James Christian, alongside keyboard wizard Mark Mangold, 'Saints And Sinners', the new studio album released yesterday by respected Hard and Melodic Rock US outfit, House Of Lords, is the group's eleventh full-length release since debuting in 1988 with a self-titled effort that is still regarded as a key arena Rock record of its era, of which the new album track, 'House Of The Lord', is also one of today's six of the best 'Frontiers Rocks Again!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by three similarly timed Frontiers releases from Ginevra, The Erinyes and Fans Of The Dark, plus two further tracks from We Are William and Gravelle-Perinbam.

A Summer tour that has already taken her to England, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Scotland - where she was the first female artist to headline the Wildfire Festival, Blues Rock singer and songwriter Sari Schorr's Back to LA 2022 Tour (part 2) continues into this Autumn, and for today's Podcast Of The Day, we turn the clock back to just over six years ago at London's 100 Club, when we interviewed Sari backstage both before her acoustic set, and during headliner Tommy Castro & The Painkillers' soundcheck!

British Pop group The Dowling Poole, comprising the singer-songwriting duo of Willie Dowling and Jon Poole, are back on Monday 3rd October with their new album, 'Refuse', that's available now to pre-order, consisting of a couple of brand new unreleased tracks plus nine previously released ‘digital only’ tracks, that have been carefully remixed and remastered, of which their original recording of the track 'Deep Breath', is one of today's six of the best 'Friday Rocks!' Tracks Of The Day, complemented by five further new and recent releases from Seventh Servant, Black Market Karma, Near Dusk, Premortal Breath and Burnt Out Wreck.

Today's latest Blues Club Podcast Of The Day has another two hours of non stop Best in Blues and a bit of this and that, with More Music and Less Chat, featuring Bob Corritore & Friends, Elles Bailey (pictured), Laura Evans, Anthony Geraci, Stevie Watts Organ Trio featuring Alice Armstrong, Average White Band, Dr John, The Doors, Brian Setzer, Ivy Gold, Black Pearl, John Nemeth, Tape Five, The Sheepdogs and many more.

Announced just before the three year anniversary of his passing, Neal Casal's second studio album, 'Rain, Wind And Speed', originally released in 1996, will be reissued on Friday 2nd December on limited edition vinyl via the Neal Casal Music Foundation (NCMF), of which one of the 11-song collection, 'All The Luck In The World', is today's Video Of The Day. With all proceeds benefiting the NCMF, .the album will be presented on three colour vinyl variants of which 333 LPs of each will be pressed: Blue Rain, Peach Wind and Black Speed, along with previously unpublished photos and new liner notes by Casal's longtime champion and former publishing representative, Jim Cardillo, who details the period in the late singer/songwriter's life when the album was created.

Born in 2018 as a brainchild by Iconcrash's and Swallow the Sun’s guitarist/vocalist, Jaani Peuhu, Mercury Circle offer dark Rock infused with electrifying synth wave and slow, epic Doom, and last year they released their first full-length album, 'Killing Moons' on Noble Demon, of which their track, 'Black Mirrors', is today's Video Of The Day. Truly a genre of its own, the band, also comprising Jussi Hämäläinen - guitars/synths, Juppe Sutela - guitars, Ande Kiiski - bass and Jaska Raatikainen - drums, is establishing their very own kind of "New Doom" - think Sisters Of Mercy and The Cult shaking hands with Depeche Mode and Cathedral.