Author: Gus
Given the fact that "Spirits" was my uncontested best album of 2022 and that NOTHING MORE has really become one of my favorite modern rock band, I would not afford to miss their show in Paris. It was also a great opportunity to ask them a few questions on the preparation of their new record [...]
Paris, Trabendo, February 27, 2024 First concert for the radio in what feels like an eternity, but given everything we missed in the past five years, it seemed like a good time to get back in the game. And what could be better than the European tour of NOTHING MORE, whose record “Spirits” is still [...]
The 10 best albums of 2023, according to Gus. Here, at Real Rebel Radio, we only have one guiding principle: we only talk about the music we enjoy. For a long time, I asked myself why we have this policy, especially when I see how successful the ‘worst of’ lists are every single year. Why [...]
I still remember what someone told me in 2006: “MACHINE HEAD are done, they have self-sabotaged since “The Burning Red”” Two years later, I thought about him again... “The Blackening” was a tour de force. No more, no less. The best thrash record of the 2000s, it is that simple. However, the ones in the [...]
CANDLEMASS is a name that still resonates through the darkerst nights. One of the few bands who managed to channel the quintessence of Doom. When Messiah Marcollin left the band, following another episode of his huge soap opera, the true bandleader, bassist Leif Edling, announced his replacement as none other than Robert Lowe from SOLITUDE [...]
The trve cult record... Beyond that: the myth, the legend, the untouchable one. The holy of holies, the thing that no one dares even criticize in fear of being trampled to death by hordes of uncontrollable fans. However, let us say it right away; “Reign In Blood” is annoying. Yes, annoying, and I do not [...]
Sex, noise and fun. Oh yeah, beer as well. Those are the ingredients of a successful hard rock concert/festival/party (delete as appropriate). Because, as it turns out, hard rock fans are not a difficult crowd to satisfy. However, TURBONEGRO is above all that. TURBONEGRO is refined, delicate and subtle. The sensitiveness showed on “Ass Cobra” [...]
Guitar legend Jeff Beck, guitar hero of all guitar heroes, died at the age of 78 years old on Tuesday January 10 2023. He leaves behind one of the most important and creative output in the history of rock and electric guitar. Geoffrey Arnold Beck was born in 1944 in the south of London. At [...]