The Rock 'N' Rant Blog

Hard rock and heavy metal playlist curated by The Rock 'N' Rant Blog. Mixture of old and new songs, and maybe something you haven't heard before. 

Avantasia's A Paranormal Evening with The Moonflower Society is an exhilarating and euphoric musical adventure. It is a stirring aural encounter full of impassioned bombast and larger-than-life melodies.

Released on October 7, 2022, Digital Noise Alliance is Queensrÿche's 16th studio album and is the fourth recording with Todd La Torre. This release is a keen classic sounding album mixing in current styles and present day production.

Released on October 14, 2022, Pawns & Kings is Alter Bridge's seventh studio release. Their record company, Napalm Records, states that it is their most aggressive record to date. 

Recorded in Nashville at the famous RCA Studio A. 4 is the first album recorded for the new Gibson Records label. Released on February 11, 2022, the album has a hard rock swagger and is pure magic. Slash and Myles Kennedy are a perfect match.

The Finnish, all-powerful, power metal group, Stratovarius, is back with a vengeance after seven years. Survive is the culmination of their mighty passions. Released on September 23, 2022, Survive is the group's 16th studio release and the 5th of the post Timo Tolkki era. 

Talas come back from the mists of legends to take us back to 1985. This was the year they were supposed to release their first major label debut. But as fate would have it, Billy Sheehan, bassist extraordinaire, left the band for David Lee Roth's Eat 'em and Smile band. Finally, after 37 years, Talas returns. 

The Road Starts Hear is a nice little nugget from the Aerosmith vaults. Recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine during one of their rehearsals, it gives us a glimpse into the raw brilliance of a band working out the arrangements of their songs and musical personas, to become the Aerosmith we all know and love. 

Body Count is a heavy metal band formed by the rapper Ice-T and his school friends. He states in the song "Raining in Blood/Postmortem" that he formed the band so his friend Ernie C can play guitar. 

Coming off their stellar debut "Holy Diver", "The Last in Line" is the follow up, and it delivers. The band sounds energetic and ready to take on the world. Kicking off with "We Rock" all the way to "Egypt (The Chains are on)" it does not disappoint.