Ricky Warwick returns with Fire & Vengeance, a hard-driving new album packed with big guitars, defiant rock & roll and guests including Phil Collen, Doug Aldrich and Charlie Starr.
Ricky Warwick has spent more than four decades building a career on restless creativity, hard work and a deep-rooted love of rock & roll. On Fire & Vengeance, the Northern Irish singer-songwriter brings all of that experience together, delivering another hard-charging solo record just 18 months after 2025’s Blood Ties.
Warwick again teams with former Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson, who co-produced, co-wrote and played on Blood Ties. Their partnership continues to click on Fire & Vengeance, balancing big guitars and Warwick’s unmistakably weathered voice with songs that take stock of where he is now. The album pushes into a few new corners without straying far from the muscular rock & roll that has carried him through every stage of his career.
And it has been quite a career. Raised in County Down, Northern Ireland, Warwick picked up the guitar at 13 before moving with his family to Scotland. By 1987 he was touring the world with New Model Army, and soon afterward formed The Almighty, scoring ten UK Top 40 singles and four Top 20 albums while touring alongside Iron Maiden, Motörhead, the Ramones and Megadeth. His solo career began with 2003’s Tattoos & Alibis, produced by Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, opening another chapter that has continued alongside his work with Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders.
Warwick’s connection to Thin Lizzy remains one of the defining turns in his story. After joining the reformed band in 2010 at the invitation of guitarist Scott Gorham, he eventually helped form Black Star Riders as a vehicle for new material without compromising the Lizzy name. Five Black Star Riders albums followed, while Warwick continued recording and touring under his own name.
Fire & Vengeance also brings a stellar group of friends into the fold. Phil Collen of Def Leppard, Doug Aldrich of Whitesnake and the Dead Daisies, Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr, and Darren Holden of the High Kings all make guest appearances. But the center of the record remains Warwick himself, the same kid who once searched Belfast record shops for the latest Thin Lizzy release and eventually found himself standing at the microphone fronting the band he grew up loving.