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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When Rivers Meet / Saving Grace for people serious about listening to blues that matters

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Pretty much this time last year, When Rivers Meet released their debut album, We Fly Free. I know because I reviewed it, and I loved it. So in a year when not...

Bastette / Exposed is a real slice of super-slick potential

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Bastette like to keep the details to a minimum, sending us their five-track EP, Exposed, and a few pictures, so I can't tell you much more about them, except that they're a...

Review: Rainbow in the Dark / Ronnie James Dio tells his story

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In my favourite TV series, White Collar, one of the characters says that if you want a happy ending, it depends on when you end the story. And Rainbow in the Dark,...

Album Of The Week: Doogie White is still fighting the fight

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Doogie White's As Yet Untitled first saw the light of day in 2011 but has now been released with two bonus tracks, and a whole second CD of cover versions. I didn't...

Midnite City / A big American sound by a British band

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Even before you've heard them play a note or seen a picture of them, when a band are called Midnite City and their latest album is called 'Itch You Can't Scratch', you...

Thunder / A good time approach to their music delivers all the right noises

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Back in 1992, Thunder released 'Laughing on Judgement Day', which for me remains an all-time classic. It got me through a real crossroads in my life but, more than that, it poised...

Suzi Quatro / ‘The Devil In Me’ is a gem, chock full of surprises

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By my reckoning, this is Suzi’s eighteenth studio album and her belief in this one is such that, even before its official release on 26 March, she has told MetalTalk that this...

DIO / Holy Diver Live is a magical memory of a unique night

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I was there. But then again, I was at the Astoria every time Dio played there. This time, though, it was a bit special, to mark the twenty-first (ish) anniversary of the...

DIO / Evil Or Divine a very special a thing of magic

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With a remastered sound, revamped cover artwork and additional goodies added to the CD and vinyl versions, this is a posthumous re-issue of Dio’s 2002 live album 'Evil or Divine'. Dio - Evil...

U.D.O. / Pandemic Survival Show is almighty Heavy Metal entertainment

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You would have to have been circumnavigating the world in a one-person yacht without a radio to know that since March last year, there have not been any gigs. Anywhere. Apart, that is, from...
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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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