Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
A requested album from the classic AOR era and a must have in your collection is SHY‘s second effort “Brave The Storm”. This out of print Japanese Cardboard Sleeve LTD mini-LP replica includes 6 bonus tracks and delivers a fan-damn-tastic sonic output. Originally released in 1985, “Brave The Storm” was the second album from this British AOR / Melodic Rock...
ANGELS OR KINGS “Kings Of Nowhere”, one of the best albums appeared in 2014, was requested to be revisited here and certainly needs a place in your collection if you missed it back then. If there ever was an ’80s British AOR act criminally ignored by record labels, then A.O.K. fitted that bill perfectly. Founded in Manchester, England, in 1988,...
Ready for the summer, JACKYL are celebrating their 25 Anniversary with the release of a greatest hits album entitled “25“, which contains two unreleased tracks. The group will also be touring throughout the United States of America following the release of the CD.Known for the dude who plays the chainsaw, Jackyl celebrate 25 years of ball crushing music with a...
“Babel” is the new album from Italian progressive metal act SOUL SECRET. The band’s strong debut from 2008 led to them playing with the likes of Pendragon, Vanden Plas and Subsignal all over Europe. They have been through a few line-up changes since then, and are now back 2017 with this fourth album, a concept telling the story of two...
How does a Hollywood band end up on a Swedish record label & distribution and then have promotion from a German public relations joint? Modern times. That’s what happens with LA’s WARNER DRIVE and their new record “Till The Wheels Fall Off” released today July 28.New to them? Me too. But Warner Drive has been around the block in the...
“Smoke On This” is the debut solo album of REX BROWN appearing today July 28. Perhaps for many the name doesn’t ring a bell, but Brown has been the longstanding bass player of Pantera, an integral part of an iconic band that made metal history and continues to shape metal music to this day. Yet, “Smoke On This” finds Rex...
Formerly the front woman of excellent progressive rock band Touchstone, KIM SEVIOUR has now launched her solo career with the release of “Recovery Is Learning“, today, July 28. The album has been done in partnership with one of prog music’s finest and prevalent musicians: John Mitchell (Lonely Robot, Frost*, It Bites). Together Kim and John co-wrote and produced ‘Recovery Is...
Shock rock master ALICE COOPER new album “Paranormal” will be released tomorrow July 28. Apart from a T-shirt, this Limited Box Set includes a bonus disc with 2 new songs written & performed by The Original Alice Cooper Band plus carefully selected live recordings of Alice’s classics. Cooper worked with longtime producer Bob Ezrin on “Paranormal”, and as previously reported,...
Prog Rock prodigy STEVEN WILSON will release his new album “To The Bone” on August 18, for sure one of the most anticipated albums this year. However, this time not only expect Prog here, but more commercial sounds and this new opus is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records from the ’80s (think Peter Gabriel’s...
MASTERPLAN, which features former Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow, will release a new studio album titled “PumpKings” on June 30 via AFM. The effort consists of 2017 reworked versions of Helloween songs from albums that Grapow played on during his time in the legendary German band.This is one of my favorite periods of Helloween, and here we find included three songs...
After the recent post of LIONHEART‘s great album remastered and waiting for the band’s official second effort in more than 30 years to be released soon, it’s fitting to be featured on this blog “Unearthed; Raiders Of The Lost Archives“, a terrific double CD only appeared in Japan compiling all Lionheart ’80s recordings than never made it into disc. Since...
MARILLION‘s classic masterwork 1985 studio album “Misplaced Childhood“, which features the hits Kayleigh and Lavender, has been reissued in a luxury Deluxe Edition including a five-disc set freshly remastered 2017. The 4CD+Blu-ray package features a newly remastered edition of the album, a concert from Holland across two CDs (including “Misplaced Childhood” performed in its entirety) and a fourth disc of...
TOJA is a German melodic hard rock band with AOR touches who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary with their fifth album, fittingly named ‘V’ and released by Pure Rock Records. Taking its name from the band founders (from vocalist Tommy Rinn “TO” and guitarist Jan Thielking “JA”) ‘V’ appears to be a hard rock album straight from the ’80s, presenting...
A true guitar hero and one of the best electric six-string emerged from the ’80s, JAKE E. LEE took a sabbatical decade away from the stages during the 2000’s. Anyway, Jake recorded this very good record of classic rock songs with the help of famous singers entitled “Runnin’ With The Devil“.Never published in the Asian market, recently has been remastered...
Very close to a new month here we are with some fresh Advanced Singles, many from releases scheduled for the next Autumn. Most news come from the ever fruitful Frontiers Music camp.One of the more awaited releases is the debut of KEE OF HEARTS, a new band built around two true melodic rock superstars: Tommy Heart (singer of Fair Warning)...
