🤘ROCK & BLUES/РОК & БЛЮЗ🤘

Just a reminder if you have missed
⚠️ 2021 Hard Rock + Metal Album Release Calendar ⚠️
(today, we present only Jan, 21)

🔴JANUARY🔴

🔹January 8, 2021

⚡️Alta Reign - Mother's Day (Rat Pak)
⚡️Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice (Century Media)
⚡️Hearts & Hand Grenades - Turning To Ashes (Eclipse)
⚡️Magnum - Dance Of The Black Tattoo (SPV/Steamhammer)
⚡️Michael Schenker Group - Immortal (Nuclear Blast)

🔹January 15, 2021

⚡️Bhleg - Odhin (Nordvis)
⚡️Bloody Hammers - Songs Of Unspeakable Terror (Napalm)
⚡️Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat! (Joyful Noise)
⚡️Dragony - Viribus Unitis (Napalm)
⚡️Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare (Metal Blade)
⚡️Edenbridge - The Chronicles Of Eden Part 2 (SPV/Steamhammer)
⚡️Embrace Of Thorns - Revelation Of All Sins CD/DVD (Saturnal)
⚡️Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - The Helm Of Sorrow EP (Sacred Bones)
⚡️Frank Iero And The Future Violents - Heaven Is A Place, This Is A Place (UNFD)
⚡️Razor - Armed & Dangerous Re-Release (Relapse)
⚡️Razor - Live! Osaka Saikou 大阪最 Re-Release (Relapse)
⚡️Saor - Guardians Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
⚡️Starified - Fat Hits (Ripple)
⚡️Voodoo Circle - Locked & Loaded (AFM)

🔹January 22, 2021

⚡️Asphyx - Necroceros (Century Media)
⚡️Creye - II (Frontiers)
⚡️Damon Johnson & The Get Ready - Battle Lessons (Double Dragon)
⚡️The Dead Daisies - Holy Ground (SPV/Steamhammer)
⚡️Ektomorf - Reborn (Napalm)
⚡️Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Songs For The Apocalypse (Frontiers)
⚡️Kickin Valentina - The Revenge Of Rock (Mighty)
⚡️Labyrinth - Welcome To The Absurd Circus (Frontiers)
⚡️Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos (Napalm)
⚡️Phantom Elite - Titanium (Frontiers)
⚡️Therion - Leviathan (Nuclear Blast)
⚡️W.E.T. - Retransmission (Frontiers)
⚡️Wig Wam - Never Say Die (Frontiers)

🔹January 29, 2021

⚡️The Body - I've Seen All I Need To See (Thrill Jockey)
⚡️Demon Head - Viscera (Metal Blade)
⚡️Grey Daze - Amends...Stripped EP (Loma Vista)
⚡️MSG - Immortal (Nuclear Blast)
⚡️Nightfall - Athenian Echoes/Eons Aura Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
⚡️Nightfall - Macabre Sunsets Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
⚡️Nightfall - Parade Into Centuries Re-Release (Season Of Mist)
⚡️Pounder - Breaking The World (Shadow Kingdom)
⚡️Rezet - Truth In Between (Metalville)
⚡️Sargeist - Let The Devil In Re-Release (Moribund)
⚡️Soen - Imperial (Silver Lining)
⚡️Tribulation - Where The Bloom Becomes Sound (Metal Blade)
⚡️Werewolves - What A Time To Be Alive (Prosthetic)

During the era of fellow guitar heroes Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen, West was revered as an equally talented, legendary guitar player.

Born on Oct. 22, 1945, the New York native, who grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, kicked off his career as a member of the Vagrants, a soul band that gained success in the '60s. He changed his surname to West after his parents split.

His band, Mountain, was founded in 1969 and rose to stardom after performing at the Woodstock Festival which they landed in the first year of their inception.

Even after his countless accomplishments throughout his decades-long career, West will forever be immortalized as the roaring voice behind Mountain's timeless, smash hit "Mississippi Queen."

West previously told Guitar Player that the track, "had just everything you need to make it a winner. You’ve got the cowbell, the riff is pretty damn good, and it sounds incredible. It feels like it wants to jump out of your car radio. To me, it sounds like a big, thick milkshake. It’s rich and chocolatey. Who doesn’t love that?”

Mountain co-founder and guitarist Leslie West has died. He was 75.

On Wednesday, Dean Guitars confirmed his death in a statement on Twitter.

“With a heavy heart, we are saddened to hear about the passing of #Dean Artist and part of the Dean family, Leslie West. [He was] legendary and one of a kind. Rest In Peace," the band announced on their official Twitter account.

West (né Leslie Weinstein) died Monday after going into cardiac arrest at his Florida home, Rolling Stone reports.

Dean Guitars CEO Evan Rubinson also shared his condolences in honor of the fallen musician on Twitter. He wrote, “To a man that I truly loved more than most — the funniest, most honest guy I’ve met. #RIP #LeslieWest.”