Aussie band ROXUS fronted by singer Juno Roxas was without a doubt one of the best Melodic Rock acts ever emerged from Down Under. They only released a full length album, an EP and some singles, but all these include some real gems from the genre.
This collector’s unofficial CD “The Jeff Paris Sessions & More” features unreleased demos and sessions recorded by Roxus with Jeff Paris as producer tracked down in America at the beginning of the Nineties, where Juno Roxas moved to pursue a songwriter career.
This 17-track collection feature seven previously unreleased tracks, including a version of the classic single “Body Heat” with Jeff Paris as backup. Also a demo version of the classic VENUS & MARS track “Where Are You Now,” featuring James Christian on backing vocals.
We find as well single B-sides, live recordings, and Juno Roxas’ solo track “Hold On,” featured in the 1987 film “Mul” which never made an appearance on the soundtrack.
This is a must-listen collection for all fans of classic melodic hard rock, unreleased and rare non-album recordings from 1988 to 1992, all with VG+ sound quality. Limited to 200 copies…

Past week we featured the three albums from LANCE POWERS for classic AOR / Melodic Rocker fans delight, and today we bring to you a true rarity; the LANCE POWERS ’80s recordings released by a private label only on vinyl, and now uber rarities.
Lance Powers comes from the American CCM scene, being lead vocalist & keyboardist for melodic rock / power pop band NUTRON, releasing an LP in 1982. However, being a prolific songwriter, he needed to show his own music, and arranged with small Hollywood record label ‘Starborn Records & Tapes’ the release of a single. Soon after things grew to a mini-LP release, as indie / private labels on a budget used to in the ’80s – an EP in fact.
The self-titled “Lance Powers EP” appeared in 1984 included 5 songs, all of course, pure 1983-1984 American AOR influenced by Survivor, Franke & The Knockouts, Synch… including sparkling keyboards (Lance is mainly keyboardist), Simmons drums and that years’ paraphernalia. Lovely stuff!
While playing as session musician, Lance continued writing and recording demos, and in 1986 released another single; ‘I’m Waiting For You’ w/ ‘Is It True’ (B-side), this time with a huge, bombastic production and arrangements from that glorious year for AOR music. All professionally recorded & produced.
A must for ’80 fans and collectors.
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Today we have here in exclusive at max quality the Bad Reputation Records remastered version of HARDLINE classic album “Double Eclipse” including 4 bonus tracks.
0dayrox already featured some time ago the stupendous Japanese release of this essential album on SHM-CD, but this new reissue includes the juicy bonuses that worth the purchase.
In terms of sound quality, this Bad Reputation remaster is a bit deeper in the bass output, fuller and well balanced.
From start to finish, “Double Eclipse” is stellar. Amazing musicians, outstanding songwriting and some awesome vocals makes this record a perfect Melodic Hard Rock album. If you haven’t heard this album yet then you came from Saturn, and if you got a copy it’s time to revisit and replace it with this superb remaster.
The already outstanding production with that unique 1990-91 period glossy treatment is augmented here with top notch definition…

Now it’s time to feature here one of our favorite albums from 1991; RTZ “Return To Zero“, brilliantly remastered by Rock Candy Records. This record, simply put, it’s a Melodic Rock Heaven.
There is no question that Boston, the band, pretty much re-wrote the rule book when it came to defining the sound of melodic (hard) rock. Their self titled debut album established a blue print that provided a touchstone for every similar act that came in its wake, paving the way for numerous artists to carve out successful commercial careers for themselves; Foreigner, Journey and Survivor spring immediately to mind.
After attaining huge success and experiencing all the pressures that such achievement often brings, Boston, understandably, started to fracture, with leader Tom Scholz taking complete control of his vision…

THE ROCK ORCHESTRA was created in 2020 by events entrepreneur and producer Nathan Reed, with a vision of reimagining legendary Rock and Metal with all the grace and power of classical. Complemented by a stunning gothic visual world, The Rock Orchestra breathes beautifully dark energy into your favorite songs and presents them in a wholly unique way.
With over 400 shows and half a million guests in only 4 years, The Rock Orchestra has quickly established itself as a mainstay for rock fans worldwide and calls itself home to a rotating collective of some the world’s most talented musicians and vocalists.
Now THE ROCK ORCHESTRA is releasing their debut album, “Classics Vol. 1” with a song selection ranging from Metallica and Guns N’ Roses to AC/DC and Led Zeppelin that mashes up the worlds of rock and orchestral brilliance. Think Metallica meets Mozart, Led Zeppelin meets Bethoven, and AC/DC with a cello solo.
Expect spine-tingling string sections, thunderous percussion, strong lead vocalists, and choir harmonies that make even the biggest arena anthems sound celestial. All songs sound very ”rocking’, even the slow / ballad moments like Aerosmith’s classic ‘Dream On’…

Cherry Red Records / Dissonance Productions are releasing this wonderful 2-CD remastered digipak ”Climbin’ The Walls / 3-D”, a 22-track double CD from underground U.S. metal heroes WRATHCHILD AMERICA, featuring both of the band’s albums, originally released via Atlantic Records.
CD 1 features their 1989 debut studio album ‘Climbin’ The Walls’, a classic from the genre; CD 2 features the cult, and hard to find follow up from 1991, ‘3-D’, with two bonus tracks.
Formed in 1978 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the band went through several incarnations, before initially hitting their stride under the name Wrathchild and becoming a well-known and highly regarded live act touring relentlessly around the U.S. in the 80s, supporting everyone from Judas Priest to KIX.
Signed to major label Atlantic in 1988, the band added the ‘America’ to their name after a legal dispute with the UK glam act Wrathchild. Their debut ‘Climbin’ The Walls’ was eventually released in 1989 and drew favourable reviews for its hybrid sound blending traditional melodic metal with thrash, and included a sterling cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’.
‘3-D’ followed in 1991 but confused critics with its stylistic approach which kept the metal, but added progressive and even jazz elements, a very original and really captivating metallic album.
This release features extensive liner notes from respected journalist Darren Sadler, who spoke at length with the band members. “They loved to flirt with different sounds from song to song, which was the reason they never caught on more than they did, but also the reason they ruled. It’s basically like listening to a rad, fun, 80s metal compilation where nothing sucks.”..

Now here’s in exclusive at 0dayrox the just released “Unchain the Demos Vol. II“, a well done bootleg CD compilation of hard-to-find unreleased tracks by DOKKEN.
We already featured here ‘Vol. I’ focused in the early years of the band, “Unchain the Demos Vol. II” cover from 1984 onwards. There’s a rare spanish guitar take on ‘Into the Fire’, a great sounding proto version of ‘Dream Warriors’ from the 1986-87 demos, then the quite rare Jeff Pilson own demos of Dokken songs.
We find also the sessions of Don Dokken with Glenn Hughes, songs composed and recorded in the late ’80a when Dokken (the band) were splitting up, and Phenomena were going nowhere else. Hughes had already been working with John Norum when Norum’s involvement with the Don Dokken solo project began, so Glenn became involved tangentially in some of the early songwriting and demo work.
Also, demos from the Nineties, from the ‘Dysfunctional’ album, including the early version of the Japanese edition bonus track, not the final version with George Lynch, but a recording done with Kevin Burns on guitars for a Japanese radio show. Take notice that the song is introduced as “If The Good Die Young”, while in the “Dysfunctional” Japan CD it the definitive recording was renamed “When The Good Die Young”.
There’s 18 tracks in this “Unchain the Demos Vol. II” CD, a collectible…

Now here’s in exclusive the just released “Unchain the Demos Vol. I“, a well done bootleg CD compilation of hard-to-find tracks by DOKKEN. This first volume covers the very fist era of the band in Germany with the very first indie vinyl 7” and later demos of unreleased songs or early versions.
Only a few copies for promotion were done of that early single, even Don Dokken hasn’t a copy of it. While uncredited, alongside Don Dokken on Vocals and Guitar, Rustee Allen play Bass, and Bill Lordan the Drums.
With a surprisingly good sound quality there’s a private live performance from a house party in Burbank, CA, from 1978, captured a few days before Dokken flew to Europe for a serie of gigs. This performance also showcase the last time the original Dokken line up including Steven R. Barry on Bass & Vocals, and Greg Pekka on Drums would play together.
The song “War Lover” was later re-worked and appears on Dokken’s debut album as “Night Rider”. The song “Step On The Gas” never was released and this is the only known recording. We also have the very first version of ”Paris is Burning” with restored audio, and much more.
There’s 22 tracks in this “Unchain the Demos Vol. I” CD, a collectible…

Linked to The B’zz remastered reissue album we featured yesterday, here’s in exclusive the Bad Reputation Records remastered reissue (first time on CD) of American rockers THE BOYZZ 1978’s album “Too Wild To Tame“. After the band dissoluted a couple of years after, 3 members later formed The B’zz.
Based in Chicago, The Boyzz were a true biker bar band with a distinct Southern Rock feel and a gritty hard rock attack. Fronted by the flambouyant Dirty Dan Buck, the band cut just this one album for Epic Records, ‘Too Wild To Tame’, which, although did not sell in numbers enough to maintain their deal, rapidly became an underground classic.
The Boyzz had a unique late Seventies rock sound that presented every instrument to give a full, orchestra-like experience. ‘Dirty’ Dan Buck’s blasting vocals, insane keyboards from Anatole Halinkovich, and Mike Tafoya’s guitar wizardry combine with Dave Angel’s driving bass, Gil Pini’s powerful monster rhythm guitar and Kent Cooper pushing it all forward on drums…

As requested, here’s the Eagle Rock release “DEEP PURPLE – Perfect Strangers Live“, a double CD + DVD combo recorded in Melbourne, Australia, December 1984 when the long-awaited reunion of the classic Mark II lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice headed out on tour to present their comeback album ‘Perfect Strangers’.
This Deep purple MK 2 reunion show is an absolute killer concert with a band firing on all cylinders, and I am quite surprised by their performance here. It is after all a very early reunion show and the band was still tweaking it’s performance (the Australian leg of the tour was considered a ‘warm-up’, hence not even a stage show like in 1985).
But that’s precisely what makes this double live CD so enjoyable.
You can hear power here: Deep Purple sounds incredibly tight, powerful and heavy. There are many goosebumps inducing moments, when the interplay between the band, the sound they create and the energy with which they play easily matches the glory of their heyday…

A few days ago we featured the remastered reissue of ‘Little Monsters’, the 1985 album by the band Holland, led by singer Tom Holland. But Tom previously cut his teeth with major label act THE B’ZZ, and their sole LP, 1982’s “Get Up” which also has been remastered / reissued by Bad Reputation specialists, for the first time on CD.
Signed by Epic and with skilled knob-twiddler Tom Werman (Cheap Trick, Motley Crue) producing, this 1982 record combines dirty sleazy biker boogie with a skinny-tie pop polished sound, some kind of a mix between Bad Company, early Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Duke Jupiter, and AC/DC. Kind of gritty pop / melodic rock from the first half of the ’80s.
Opener ‘Get Up, Get Angry’ is an absolute winner, a very original stadium-ready anthem which starts off dark and broody then just kicks into full motion as it goes along.
“Get Up” is energetic, well produced and full of hooks. It’s startling that…

Legacy Recordings is releasing a new, deluxe edition of a milestone in Rock’s history; “Bold As Love – The Axis: Bold As Love Sessions [Box Set]“, by the unique THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE. Hendrix’s giant-steps second album ‘Axis: Bold As Love’, now is being upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art, including outtakes, alternative versions, TV and radio appearances.
At the same time in the same studio where the Rolling Stones were making their psychedelic folly, The Jimi Hendrix Experience were sculpting an era classic. His spiralling creative muse on overdrive after Are You Experienced’s May 1967 release at sessions squeezed between onenighters, The Wind Cries Mary and Burning Of The Midnight Lamp had signalled an expansion beyond pyrotechnic blues rock, ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ marked Jimi coming of age in the studio, embracing technology with the micro-perfectionism that drove away producer Chas Chandler.
With engineer Eddie Kramer and Roger Mayer supplying innovative gizmos, Jimi kept one foot grounded in earthly matters on tracks such as startling freak flag flying counterculture anthem If Six Was Nine, getting funky on Little Miss Lover.
Opening with EXP’s alien radio interview flying saucer lift-off before Up From The Skies’ cool Mose Allison shuffle, only magnificently volcanic Spanish Castle Magic, Ain’t No Telling and You’ve Got Me Floating are quintessential Experience. Notwithstanding Noel Redding’s token She’s So Fine and lightweight Wait Until Tomorrow, slowies showed Hendrix’s desire to evolve with liquid guitar starbursts elevating One Rainy Wish, the soaring majesty of Little Wing or evoking Curtis Mayfield’s quiet sensitivity on Castles Made Of Sand. The stratospheric title ballad’s climactic phased finale put the final sugar lump on Hendrix’s first studio masterpiece.
This bells-’n’-whistles upgrade includes mono and stereo versions plus 40 bonus outtakes, alternative versions, TV and radio appearances…

Let us begin this review in a different way. Sometimes you don’t like a band after having listened to them for the first time, then you don’t try their other albums. Or simply you are not interested in a particular band for any reason.
Well, let’s take METAL CHURCH as example. Perhaps you knew the band from their early ’80s, most famous albums, and you don’t liked their musical style at all. Or perhaps you had read somewhere that METAL CHURCH is one of the pioneers from the American thrash metal genre, and then you’re not interested in the band and never tried one of their LP’s.
If you fit into any of the above, but you like classic, traditional melodic metal, NWOBHM style heavy metal with atmospheres, then you should listen to METAL CHURCH’s 2004 ‘comeback’ album “The Weight Of The World”.
Especially this ”The Weight Of The World (Remastered 2025)” reissue, sonically much better and featuring a fresh cover art.
With a new lead singer in Ronny Munroe, METAL CHURCH returned in 2004 and surprised the entire metal community: “The Weight Of The World” is pure New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, early 80s-style songwriting wise album, think Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath / Dio, mixed with Balance Of Power, Jorn / Millennium. And folks, there’s some awesome songs on offer here…

No matter how much you scour the internet, it’s always hard to find information on bands like BILLY THE KID. Back in the mid-80s, we used to take risks and buy music we’d never heard before. We were keen to find out more. We couldn’t get enough.
BILLY THE KID 1985’s album “Sworn To Fun” was one of those opportunities. It ended up having a big impact, which lasted for years. What stands out most about this album is Billy L’Kidd’s guitar work. Mention should also be made of Jeffrey Velvet, who did a great job on bass to complement L’Kidd’s fast rhythms. ‘Rock You Up’ is a perfect example of this superb collaboration, with its lovely fat bass and guitar passages.
Now Bad Reputation Records dust-off this U.S. Melodic Rock album reissuing / remastering “Sworn To Fun” and releasing it for the first time on CD. At places, the music brings to mind early Fastway.
Another interesting fact about this album is the guest appearance of Pat Regan (Fake I.D., KISS) on keyboards. The album was produced by Duane Baron (Cheap Trick, Dany Spanos, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue) who also contributed backing vocals.
Randy Delay, the band’s drummer, later resurfaced with the Kentucky Headhunters and Drivin’ n’ Cryin’. Lead vocalist Stephen Fredrick later resurfaced in the band KenZiner, then Firewind. And Jude Cole provide backing vocals. All talented dudes…

Norwegians KARDANG are back with a new album titled ”Bad Mistake”, again delivering feel-good, easy to the ears melodic rock to have a good time. Just songs about girls, freedom and touring the States. That’s KARDANG philosophy, and that’s right. They just want to give you forty-five minutes of fun rock n’ roll.
While with a modern sound from the production side, KARDANG’s music is purely inspired by the Seventies and Eighties. Hey, the second track on the album is titled “We Don’t Live In The ’80s Anymore”… somebody tell the guys they are musically in that decade!
From the first chords of the opener, the title track, the feel-good atmosphere sets in, with a certain Harem Scarem / Rubber guitar drivin’. Chris Williams’ “Mike Tramp” voice is just great for this type of rock; melodic and slightly raspy, his voice brings a lot of swagger.
It’s not just for the title, ‘Kids Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll’ brings to mind 1984 Bryan Adams due its addictive chorus. The guys do a campfire / acoustic number in ‘Firefly’, but next crank the amps to 11 again for the boogie rock n’ roller ‘I Wanna Get Around’.
Today you see millions of new bands emerging every week. All drowning in the same river of hopelessness trying to come up with something new and fresh in the business.
Then you have the band Kardang. These lads write the music they love. Melodic rock ‘n’ roll, simple but catchy riffs, and stadium-sized choruses / guitar solos. They just don’t give a damn about fashion, trends or complicated arrangements. This is just rock n’ roll…