Finnish Melodic Death Metallers Mors Principium Est are back via AFM Records on Friday 23rd October with their seventh album, the short and snappy entitled 'Seven', but no less impressive and epic than its predecessors. It's a perfect continuation from where they left off with 'Embers Of A Dying World' in 2017: Death Metal, which is almost Progressive in its brutality, combined with sophisticated orchestrations that, used sparingly, never drown in bombast, and fuse with dramatic, melancholic melodies. Next year, singer Ville Viljanen and British guitarist Andy Gillion will introduce MPE's ten brand new songs, when they join Wolfheart on an extensive European tour, together with a cast of top notch live musicians.

"As you listen through this collective, you can see why so many big name guitarists, from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, Slash, Joe Bonamassa and Johnny Marr, credit Rory as their hero. Rory regularly switched styles from Blues to mainstream Rock mixing in Celtic riffing and sometimes stretching to the more Hard Rock drive you find in ‘Moonchild’. The stand out tracks for me are the epic ‘Ghost Blues’ (7 minutes 59 seconds), building from an acoustic base, the grooving ‘Bought and Sold’ and the vocal rich ‘Philby’.” Today read another one of our great Lockdown album reviews, as Geoff C. gives you his take here on 'The Best Of Rory Gallagher', that's due to be released on Friday 9th October, of which 'Walk On Hot Coals' is today's Video Of The Day.

Following the announcement last year that NWOBHM drumming legend Thunderstick planned to reform his eponymously named band, he has now confirmed the final addition to the line-up, guitarist, Steve Mantra. Also complementing Raven Blackwing – vocals, Rex Thunderbolt – bass and Vinny Konrad – guitar, Mantra, who first started playing guitar at the age of 15, has always had a love for Rock and Metal, and this is evident in the Academy of Contemporary Music graduate's playing style and ability. Currently the band are using Lockdown to work on new ideas, perfect their stage act and are also busy recording a much anticipated album which will be released through Roulette Records mid-2021.

Today's latest Blues On The Radio Track Of The Day sees another hour of music fly by with contributions from Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Jim Kirkpatrick, Sandra Bouza, Nigel Barker, TBelly (pictured), Kirk Fletcher, Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite, Sam Barlow, Jack Blackman, Anthony Gomes, Bobby Rush, Kim Wilson, John Németh and Trevor Babajack Steger.

Last Friday, Welsh Hard-Rockers Eulogy released today's brand new Video Of The Day, ‘Cross To Bare’, via One Eyed Toad Records, which is taken from their recent EP ‘Memento Mori’. The video itself - featuring the band members performing in front of a fiery backdrop - is home-shot: a testament to the band’s personal hard work and DIY ethic even during the Coronavirus pandemic. Recorded at Coda Recording Studios and mixed and mastered by Neil Garland; ‘Cross To Bare’ showcases the band’s Melodic Hard Rock sound. The powerful vocals of lead singer and bassist Neil Thomas take centre stage; backed by equally powerful lyrics - the track depicts the feelings of losing someone close, and ultimately dealing with that loss.

Don't miss this week's European Blues Awards #BluesHour on Twitter tonight, using the hash-tag every Monday from 9pm CET/8pm GMT/3pm EST. It's the weekly online Blues Music Forum, and it's your chance to share your videos, news and reviews on the Blues worldwide.

Innovative British Rockers Cypher16 have unveiled the third song, and the title track from their upcoming second full-length album, 'It's A Long Way Back (From This Road)', which is today's Track Of The Day. A refreshingly original Rock band, Cypher16 harnesses Metal with a hint of modern Industrial to create a truly massive sound. Consisting of Jack Doolan - vocals/guitars, Will Cass - guitars/vocals, Rich Hinks - bass and Declan Doran - drums, the band’s debut album, 'The Great Surveyor', was released in October 2015 to rave reviews.

Well, it's been a long, long time, but well worth waiting for, as today we share our first gig photo gallery here for over six months, taken by Mr. Rockrpix himself, John Bull, at Bad Touch's Leo's Red Lion gig on Friday night in Gravesend, Kent. Despite it being a masked socially distanced limited capacity seated gig on the outdoor stage, John reported back that Bad Touch were great as expected, as were of course John's photos!

Releasing their debut album, 'Luggage Falling Down', this past April, Los Angeles' Lufeh (a band of both Brazilian and American musicians) recently shared today's Video Of The Day, 'Trial Of Escapade', the last video from the series that they have been sharing over these past few months. It showcases their high energy and knack for performing, and, indeed, Lufeh's debut album was a trying, yet successful first recording for Gera Penna – keys, Duca Tambasco – bass, Dennis Atlas – vocals, Teo Dornellas – guitar and Lufeh Batera - drums, who lived together for two weeks throughout the process, sharing their blend of Progressive Rock injected with Jazz styles, Heavy Metal foundations and rhythmic Brazilian influences. For fans of Dream Theater, Incubus and Haken, Lufeh is smooth and rhythmic Progressive Metal; heavy chords followed by light melodies and the occasional crazy guitar solo.

Kenny Roby has shared the video for 'Silver Moon (For Neal)', today's Track Of The Day, off his new, critically-acclaimed album 'The Reservoir'. Written in memory of longtime friend and collaborator Neal Casal, the initial spark for the song came to Roby a year ago to the day following the memorial concert for the late musician at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York State, on September 25th, 2019. The video created by Angie Pickman, using cut paper art animation, captures the sentiment of the song's lyrics, including stark, moving verses. Indeed, Casal was set to produce Roby's album, but took his own life shortly before the recording sessions were to begin.

David Sinclair Four are live tonight at The Sound Lounge, 102 London Road, Morden SM4 5QT. Doors open at 6pm with music till 9.15pm. Socially distanced seating tickets should be booked in advance by visiting www.thesoundlounge.org.uk

We're playing catch up again on today's Track Of The Day, as you can listen again to the second Rock Vault 107 show broadcast, including Kiss, Sammy Hagar (pictured), Scorpions, Nazareth, Primal Scream, The Eagles and more. Indeed, you can also listen live to Jules and Bob every Friday night at 8pm on 107 Meridian FM. Taking you back in time, they'll bring you tracks that you may know and some you may not, plus they always feature a special year.