Rick Brindle

WRITER Rick Brindle has been part of the MetalTalk team since 2020 and a lifelong Heavy Metal fan since the '80s, when spandex and perms ruled the world. Rick's day job is healthcare, but Metal is never far from his world. Since joining the MetalTalk family, he has reviewed albums and interviewed musicians, and very occasionally has reviewed gigs. Rick has also written a series of novels about a fictional Metal band called Cold Steel, as well as several other books.

Suzi Quatro / ‘I can’t say I’ve never done a room wreck’

The self-titled Queen of Rock and Roll, Suzi Quatro, has just returned to the UK from her Australian tour, but she still made the time for a chat with MetalTalk. @suziquatroreal

Suzi Quatro / Uncovered is an excellent insight into the artist

Suzi Quatro, The Queen of rock 'n' roll, has been putting her in-between concert time to excellent use with the release of a six-track EP called Uncovered.

Joe Lynn Turner goes thoroughly badass on Belly Of The Beast

Here is a singer who has utterly re-invented himself and shown what an absolute hugely talented singer and songwriter he is. What vision he has as well. @joelynnturnerofficial Photo: Agata Nigrovskaya

Ronnie James Dio’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

In line with the premiere of the DIO: Dreamers Never Die film this week, I was asked to put together a top twenty of Ronnie James Dio's best-ever songs. @_ronniejamesdio

Crobot / Feel This “for me, is the best album so far this year”

Crobot - Feel This album review. (Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group). Pottsville rockers Robot deliver what, for me, is the best album so far this year. @crobotband @mascotlabelgroup

Suzi Quatro / Queen of rock reigns supreme in London’s Royal Albert Hall

Suzi Quatro - Royal Albert Hall - 20 April 2022. Photography: @robert_sutton_photography We all came away from the Albert Hall having been thoroughly entertained but also with a much greater insight into the life and history of one amazing musician, who, without many of us even realising it, has transformed so much about music. @ suziquatroreal @royalalberthall

Udo Dirkschneider is supremely qualified to do things his way

Udo Dirkschneider, over his long career, has surely done it his way, and if anyone is supremely qualified to say yes, he did it his way, it is most definitely him. And doing it his way is exactly what he has done on every track. @u.d.o._official @official_dirkschneider @atomicfirerecords

Udo Dirkschneider / From Solingen, the city of steel, to Frank Sinatra

Udo Dirkschneider Interview. Like everything Udo has done, the new album is built with his own slant. He really couldn't call it anything other than My Way. Udo discusses My Way and why "the language of rock 'n roll is English." @u.d.o._official @acceptworldwide @atomicfirerecords

Tony Martin / Thorns utterly endorses this singers impeccable pedigree

Tony Martin is a singer with an impeccable pedigree, and the new album Thorns utterly endorses that. @t0nymart1n

Lordi / The undisputed tainted visionaries of Heavy Metal

Okay, this is a seven-album, yes, seven-album box set by Finnish monster rockers, Lordi. Seven albums? Where did they come from? And didn't they release an album less than two years ago? Lordi...

Rick Brindle

WRITER Rick Brindle has been part of the MetalTalk team since 2020 and a lifelong Heavy Metal fan since the '80s, when spandex and perms ruled the world. Rick's day job is healthcare, but Metal is never far from his world. Since joining the MetalTalk family, he has reviewed albums and interviewed musicians, and very occasionally has reviewed gigs. Rick has also written a series of novels about a fictional Metal band called Cold Steel, as well as several other books.
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