I have many things to be thankful for in life, but among the luckiest of happenstances was the opportunity to be a metal loving teen growing up in the ’80s. That was truly the golden age of all things metallic, with the genre growing, evolving and mutating into multiple sub-genres at a ferocious rate, and I got to be there to experience it all first hand. I was especially fond for that early era when the only genre of metal was metal, hence my special love for the “classic style”.

Escape Music continue to crack on with their re-issues of dear old BOB CATLEY’s solo output. We already featured in exclusive the re-release of ‘The Tower’, ‘Legends’, and ‘Middle Earth’ – they have now re-issued Bob’s forth album – “When Empires Burn”. As with the previous three, there is new artwork, done by legendary artist Rodney Matthews, and bonus tracks.