Paul McCartney este din nou în prim-plan, iar vestea e una mare: după mai bine de cinci ani, legenda revine cu un nou album — The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Dar nu vorbim doar despre muzică nouă… ci despre o călătorie personală, sinceră și profundă.
Acest material nu este doar un album — este o incursiune în trecut. Paul McCartney își întoarce privirea către anii care l-au format, către copilăria din Liverpool-ul de după război, către începuturile alături de George Harrison și John Lennon, cu mult înainte ca lumea să cunoască fenomenul Beatlemania.
🎧 Piesa care dă tonul întregului proiect este „Days We Left Behind” — un track simplu, emoțional și extrem de intim. O piesă despre timp, despre amintiri și despre acele momente care nu se mai întorc, dar rămân cu tine pentru totdeauna.
Dungeon Lane — locul care dă numele albumului — nu este doar o stradă, ci un simbol. Este poarta către o lume fără faimă, fără presiune, dar plină de vise: după-amieze pe malul râului Mersey, chitare ieftine, baruri pline de fum și o viață simplă, dar autentică.
🗣️ Paul spune clar: este un album despre amintiri. Despre locuri, oameni și trăiri reale. Despre Forthlin Road, despre cartierul Speke și despre acea perioadă în care nu aveau multe… dar aveau tot ce conta.
🎙️ Cum a luat naștere albumul
Totul a început acum cinci ani, într-o întâlnire relaxată la ceai cu producătorul Andrew Watt. O chitară, un acord necunoscut… și de acolo, un întreg univers sonor.
Prima piesă rezultată: „As You Lie There” — track-ul care deschide albumul. De aici, Paul a continuat în stilul său clasic: a cântat majoritatea instrumentelor și a construit fiecare piesă cu atenție și libertate totală.
Fără presiune. Fără deadline. Doar muzică.
Înregistrările au fost realizate între turnee, în sesiuni scurte, între Los Angeles și Sussex — iar rezultatul? Un album autentic, liber și extrem de personal.
🎧 Ce găsim pe album
The Boys of Dungeon Lane este exact ce te-ai aștepta — și totodată surprinzător:
🔥 influențe rock în stilul Wings
🎸 armonii care duc spre Beatles
🎶 groove-uri marca McCartney
💔 momente intime și vulnerabile
📖 storytelling pur, construit pe melodie
Totul legat de un singur fir: Paul.
🎵 Tracklist
As You Lie There
Lost Horizon
Days We Left Behind
Ripples in a Pond
Mountain Top
Down South
We Two
Come Inside
Never Know
Home to Us
Life Can Be Hard
First Star of the Night
Salesman Saint
Momma Gets By
🎙️ Rock & More Radio
Aici nu vorbim doar despre un album. Vorbim despre începuturi. Despre povestea dinainte de poveste.
👉 Ascultă „Days We Left Behind” și intră în universul lui Paul McCartney — așa cum nu l-ai mai auzit.
Every day from 19:00 on Rock And More Radio, seven days, we spotlight a name that defines the sound, the spirit, and the attitude of rock, blues, jazz and more music. From legends to rising forces, this is where the volume gets louder and the stories hit deeper.
This week, we bring you an artist you need to hear.
Eric Patrick Clapton (born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone‘s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time“ and fourth in Gibson‘s “Top 50 Guitarists of All Time”. He was named number five in Time magazine’s list of “The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players” in 2009
Here are 10 artists worth giving time, love, and attention throughout not just the rest of the month, but the whole year, regardless of Women’s Month.
Women’s Month feels like a double-edged, or even triple-edged sword at times (despite that not being possible) – there’s a certain amount of gratitude that we’re being recognised, annoyance that it takes a special occasion like Women’s Month to be respected, and irritation that we still need to bring gender into the discussion in 2025, in any way shape or form. True equality means not noticing a gender, and noticing a person, and their skills – period.
It’s the same argument that was outlined in Using Female-Fronted Now As A Genre Is Just As Lazy As It Was 30 Years Ago – gender is fucking irrelevant, and we can sing about that until the cows come home. There shouldn’t be the immediate reaction of, ‘Oh, damn!‘ to hearing that guitar solo you found intriguing to be produced by a woman, but there is. Gender became a marketing scheme, a cog in a greater plot of just selling products, something spectacular and unexpected in the metal genre. And while yes, metal is a predominantly male culture, it doesn’t belong to men. It isn’t men’s. Music isn’t men’s. It’s everyone’s. So, why highlight the obvious? Why is there shock and awe? Can’t we just pay some damn respect to good music? And just care about the good music.
So – that’s what this list is. An acknowledgment of skill and talent, things that make good fucking music. These are 10 artists that rip and are worth giving some time, love, and attention (maybe even a dollar or two) throughout not just the rest of the month, but the whole year, regardless of Women’s Month.
Roman Candle
Roman Candle is currently signed to Sumerian Records and are gearing up to release their newest record on the 24th of April. A melodic thumping post-hardcore essence carries itself throughout the heart of the band. Urgent in places and resigned in others, Roman Candle play with dynamics to make you feel what they’re saying as intensely as possible, but never in a way that feels controlling, but guiding. It works.
Heriot
Heriot have regularly been hailed as people’s “new favourite band” as their most recent LP received love from publications like NME, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Kerrang!, Revolver, and Knotfest, and bands like Trivium and Lamb Of God have brought them on the road. Their most recent Audiotree session shows the dexterity and precision the post-metal group have developed since their beginnings in 2014 in the UK.
Crypta
Crypta has been a name that has begun circling death metal conversations as of late. From social media threads to internet forums asking ‘who are some of your favourite death metal groups at the moment?,’ Crypta is regularly mentioned. The Brazilian trio creates soul-incinerating blaze of death metal for those who are looking to melt into their chair and blast their brain with a symphony of death metal to drown it all out.
Cage Fight
Cage Fight are a UK-based, French-influenced (their lead singer Rachel Aspe is a French national) melodic metalcore group that features growls that wouldn’t be entirely out of place in a death or black metal setting. Signed to Spinefarm at the moment, they’re getting ready to release their newest record, Exuvia, on May 1st, their newest single, “Un Bon Souvenir” a promise of choruses that glide off the tongue and verses that howl.
Tetrarch
Tetrarch are Atlanta-natives, grinding since 2007, crafting out a charged blend of metal that grabs from thrash, doom, death, and classic subgenres. There’s a lot to unpack with Tetrarch, with skin-peeling guitar solos and melodic breaks that give you time to breathe. The now LA-based group released their most recent record, The Ugly Side Of Me, last year which was hailed by Louder as “no-nonsense, earwormy” piece of work.
Nervosa
Nervosa brings something a little new to the thrash table, the Brazilian group occasionally weaving their native tongue of Portuguese into their tracks that focus particularly on social issues such as “Cultura do Estupro” which translates to “Rape Culture,” and “Guerra Santa” which means “Holy War.” Despite the occasional inclusion of their culture, their thrash metal is nearly textbook – Nervosa are precise, unrelenting, and upbeat.
Calva Louise
Calva Louise have one of the most unique origin stories of all time – with the lead singer fleeing Venezuela at 14 to move into a convent with nuns in France and chastised for playing the electric guitar. While not classically trained, Calva Louise use classical Spanish elements on the guitar and piano, singing in Spanish, screaming like a banshee, and growling like a demon, there’s technicality and obscure aspects to their music as they dance around deathcore with electronic and cultural elements.
Bronco Forte
BroncoForte is our obligatory stoner inclusion, with their gritty and groovy forthcoming record a necessity when appreciating good music. Their swinging guitars and smooth melodies make for a discography that is swampy in places with bright tones chiming in on occasion. Their newest single, “Lightning Scar,” is a gleaming, sunny track with thunderstorms that finish as soon as they start, a dynamic dance that glitters with essences of classic rock.
A.A. Williams
A.A. Williams is known for her epic, folk-rooted heavy tones, a trait that gained her notoriety from Robert Smith of The Cure and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins for the release of her solo-cover collection recorded during the pandemic. Currently signed to Reigning Phoenix Music, Williams is already receiving praise for her recent singles off her upcoming record, Solstice, out on June 5th. Moody, ethereal, and cinematic, A.A. Williams‘ newest track will delight.
The Callous Daoboys
The Callous Daoboys have made a name for themselves as activists, and a band that puts their money where their mouth is. Their eclectic punk-fusion is as addictive as it gets, with funk and prog elements tucked into corners that aren’t always visible at first glance. Their protests and consistent action against the current administration aside, their punk exploration is balanced with soaring choruses that are easy to follow.
It’s a double dose of brand new music from Hunnu Rock pioneers The Hu. The Gold-certified global phenomenon deliver “The Men” which is accompanied by an official music video, alongside “Warrior Chant,” both out now via Better Noise Music.
Traditional Mongolian strings herald the arrival of “The Men.” This organic swell gives way to a gritty and gruff groove-laden riff topped off with hypnotic vocals. The band’s signature hybrid of indigenous instrumentation, heavy-as-a-2×4 guitars, and transfixing tribal chanting makes for another essential anthem from The Hu. It’s tailor-made for an epic battle scene, climax of your favorite video game, or workout session. At the same time, it’s evocative of the musicians’ own tradition and heritage.
About “The Men,” Galaa commented, “‘The Men’ is written based on Mongolian philosophy of ‘Man’s Inner Spirit’ or ‘Хийморь’ and the importance of inner strength and kindness of a man to the world. Energy of men should always be reinforced with positiveness, strength and generosity, so this song try to encapsulate that ancient wisdom and share to the rest of humanity. Lyrics are chants that guides young and old men alike to be headstrong and to have dream that cultivate goodness. We only wanted to focus on the positives that can make a man ponder about who he is in this world and wonder about how he can have positive inner spirit when listening to it. Hope our fans will be able to capture every fiber of Mongolian Man’s way of living through this song.”
Then, there’s “Warrior Chant.” It lives up to its title with a hard-charging chorus and a tight and taut metallic soundscape. Between the horse head fiddle and instantly recognizable delivery, it immediately amplifies everything that fans have fallen in love with about the band in the first place.
Regarding “Warrior Chant,” Galaa added, “‘Warrior Chant’ has our signature rhythm that our fans fell in love with and everyone who will listen and know us will say that it is ‘our song.’ Our third album has bit of everything, rhythm-wise, and we see that as a progress of expanding the Hunnu Rock genre… Enkush and I focused on horse head fiddle solos by imitating the horse gait and you will hear the rhythm throughout the song.” Watch “The Man” video below and stream “Warrior Chant”
