RONNIE ATKINS – Trinity

RELEASE YEAR: 2023  BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/RonnieAtkinsOfficial/ The exceptionally skilled and charismatic Ronnie Atkins of Pretty Maids fame has recorded some of his finest work ever these past few years – both as a solo artist and with Nordic union. His third solo offering, which is rather appropriately titled Trinity, is a musically strong and incredibly well-written…

NORDIC UNION – Animalistic

RELEASE YEAR: 2022  BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/NordicUnionMusic/ I fell head over heels in love with the near-flawless Second Coming (2018) by the wicked constellation that is Nordic Union as that was a fabulous slab of melodically strong and muscular hard rock that ticked all the right boxes for me. Needless to say, I was truly excited about…

JAN ERIKSEN – 40 år med Pretty Maids

RELEASE YEAR: 2021  BAND URL: http://forlagetmomenta.dk/nye-udgivelser/ Quite by chance I stumbled on a copy of this hugely enter­taining book on the Danish hard rockers/heavy metallers Pretty Maids while vacating in Denmark, and although it was published late last year, I simply had to do a short review on the piece. The two founders and sole original…