Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
The just released new LIONHEART album ”The Reality Of Miracles” is without a doubt one of the best melodic rock records of the year. However, the digital download version resulted a bit weak in dynamic range, quiet. Seems the band wanted to avoid the brickwalled mastering – which sounds louder but at the risk of distorted as well.
This Digipak CD version is properly balanced in sound output and dynamics.
AC/DC‘s classic LP ”For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)” has been recently remastered 2020 and reissued by HDtracks in America and Hi-Res Audio in Europe. Yeah, we love to hear new music and interesting fresh bands, but at the end of the day, you always go back to a timeless classic rock LP – and AC/DC are rock n’roll in its purest form.
The sound quality of this Hi-Res ”For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)” remaster is AMAZING, specially shaped for iPod and Car Audio. You gotta listen to this one to believe it.
A MUST
AC/DC‘s electrifying LP ”Powerage” has been recently remastered 2020 and reissued by HDtracks in America and Hi-Res Audio in Europe. Yeah, we love to hear new music and interesting fresh bands, but at the end of the day, you always go back to a timeless classic rock LP – and AC/DC are rock n’roll in its purest form.
The sound quality of this Hi-Res ”Powerage” remaster is AMAZING. You gotta listen to this one to believe it: ‘Sin City’ and ‘Down Payment Blues’ never sounded better.
A MUST
Japanese specialized label “Alive The Live” is doing a very nice job making available on CD for the first time recordings from major acts. This just released BLUE MURDER “Live in Japan 1989” is truly remarkable because there isn’t Blue Murder live recordings available, and we have two unreleased songs.
Documenting the band’s first Japan Tour presenting Blue Murder’s debut album, this show was recorded for radio broadcast promotion in Japan and the United States. Recently the audio master was found and now we have “Live in Japan 1989”, not only with two unreleased songs, but also a Hendrix and a Whitesnake cover, Carmine Appice / Tony Franklin awesome solos, and a John Sykes on fire that night.
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“Hot Tonight” is the only official LIONHEART album released in the ’80s, until the band returned some time ago after more than 30 years with a new CD. Their superb 1984’s debut has been Remastered & Reloaded by Rock Candy Records, and it’s a must in your collection. A super-group of sorts founded by ex Iron Maiden Dennis Stratton, the...
After many requests, here’s a re-post of LIONHEART’s terrific comeback album ”Second Nature” in its Japanese Edition.
After decades of wait, ’80s UK melodic hard rockers LIONHEART finally released their sophomore album, “Second Nature“. This Japanese edition includes an exclusive bonus track.
LionHeart was formed by Dennis Stratton (ex-Iron Maiden), initially as part of the NWOBHM but soon developed a more catchy, accessible sound. Their sole official studio album to date is the awesome 1984′s Hot Tonight, rightly revered among many Melodic Hard Rock fans.
It’s been decades in the making and finally is being released: YES classic era vocalist JON ANDERSON will release soon a new solo album titled “1,000 Hands (Chapter One)“. Anderson began the album nearly 30 years ago working with a group of musicians that included Yes drummer Alan White and bassist Chris Squire (RIP). However, due to his heavy touring...
AC/DC‘s classic ”Highway To Hell” has been recently remastered 2020 and reissued by HDtracks in America and Hi-Res Audio in Europe. Yeah, we love to hear new music and interesting fresh bands, but at the end of the day, you always go back to a timeless classic.
The result of these remastered tapes is terrific, with ”Highway To Hell” sounding clearer than ever. You gotta listen to this, seriously.
A MUST HAVE
Some chiming, synths and a brooding build up introduce us via ‘Salvation’ to the new album by Dennis Stratton’s LIONHEART titled ”The Reality Of Miracles” – what follows is a very melodic build to ‘Thine is the Kingdom’ a sultry piece of classy AOR that takes you right back.
Strangeways, The Storm, Signal, Alias, FM, Journey it’s up right there in that territory. ‘The Reality Of Miracles’ is classy melodic hard rock of the highest order.
This is one of my albums of the year already. Oh yeah.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The now legendary rock combo ALCATRAZZ will once again throw down a studio gauntlet on July 31 with “Born Innocent“, its first studio venture since 1986’s “Dangerous Games”. Alongside the unique vocal prowess and range of star frontman and founding member Graham Bonnet, “Born Innocent” features fellow founding members Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea.
And from the classic album art, featuring the mighty rock itself, “Born Innocent” is a journey into the sort of heavy, melodic and supremely articulated hard rock that is a cornerstone of the likes of RAINBOW and the MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, territory ALCATRAZZ successfully strode in the ’80s before going on hiatus.
Traditional metal / classic hard band STORMZONE has seen a number of successes over its seventeen years in existence. From playing support for some of the biggest acts in rock such as White Lion, Tesla and Saxon to playing major festivals across Europe like Firefest, Sweden Rock and the legendary Wacken Open Air festival, STORMZONE have proved over the years that not only can they hang with the big guns in rock, when it comes to traditional metal & melodic hard rock in Ireland, North and South, they are the big guns.
The guys are back again for the next chapter in the STORMZONE legacy with ”Ignite The Machine”, and let me put it simple; if you’re a traditional metal or melodic hard rock fan then you need to add this to your collection. It would be incomplete if you didn’t.
Legendary YES guitarist STEVE HOWE is back with his first solo album in nine years. ”Love Is” contains ten-tracks, five of them instrumental and five vocal. Howe himself takes lead vocal and plays electric, acoustic and steel guitars, keyboards, percussion and bass, while current Yes vocalist Jon Davison provides vocal harmonies and plays bass guitar on the vocal tracks, and son Dylan Howe did all drums.
It is abundantly clear that right now, music lovers around the world are craving the return of live concert experiences. This summer, legendary rock / metal frontman, actor and radio personality DEE SNIDER has just the thing to keep live music where it belongs – with the fans.
”For The Love Of Metal Live” features tracks from Snider’s solo catalog like “I Am The Hurricane” and “For The Love Of Metal”, Twisted Sister favorites such as “I Wanna Rock” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, and even a cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”, the audio portion also features a brand new original track, “Prove Me Wrong” – a confident metal hit that cements the legacy of the bonafide metal icon himself.
What if Krokus or Bullet had a strong and mighty and cozy female vocals? And what if AC/DC and Kiss were an all female band? You may not be aware of it but I do have the answer to thy question; it would be a band as kickass as THUNDERMOTHER, a powerful and hot band made up only by girls.
Thundermother are here to sign and seal in blood that 2020 is a true bomb in terms of releasing new music; all 13 songs that make up “Heat Wave” have a similar structure, not that complicated, but stick in to the ear, just like any anthem of the 70s / 80s that is still memorized today.
Now signed by Pure Steel Records for their new album, the label is also reissuing KENZINER‘s ”The Last Horizon”, perhaps their best album, with new artwork and better mastering. Kenziner is a band with a recognizable European sound fluctuating between melodic metal with a neo-classical touch and a strong progressive metal influences. Think Axel Rudi Pell, Yngwie, Timo Tolkki’s Avalon...
