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“Phoenix” is the upcoming new album from Finland-based 5 piece KENZINER, which define themselves as classic metal, neo-classical and progressive power metal. And whilst I agree with the latter, their sound is much more melodic than a lot of Euro Power purveyors. The heavy use of Keyboards give them a distinctly different tone. This new album has a perfectly balanced...
AC/DC‘s classic ”Black In Black” 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 sound quality of this ”Black In Black” remaster is AMAZING. You gotta have this one.
A MUST HAVE CLASSIC
Here’s the fresh Bad Reputation Records remastered version of LION‘s second and final album “Trouble In Angel City” (1989). Formed in 1983 in Los Angeles after ex-Tytan vocalist Kal Swan relocated from Great Britain and teamed up with drummer Mark Edwards and guitarist Doug Aldrich (who later joined Hurricane and Whitesnake), in 1986 Lion released their now rare 6-track EP “Power Love” in Japan only (which is enclosed here as bonus tracks), followed by their full length debut “Dangerous Attraction” (1987). “Trouble In Angel City” (1989) was their final release – a superb slice of classic US hard rock from start to finish and one of the strongest releases of 1989.
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Some of you ’80s children / teens may recognize LION as the band who performed the theme song for the big screen animated Transformers movie. The band, which featured guitarist Doug Aldrich (who would later join Dio and Whitesnake) and Kal Swan (of Tytan), straddled the line between hard rock and US metal, and had a sound similar to Dokken,...
LEGACY PILOTS is a multinational band lead by German musician Frank Us which are presenting their new album titled “Aviation”. Among the musicians involved – also in songwriting and arrangements – we find Steve Morse (Deep Purple, Kansas, Flying Colors, Dixie Dregs) on guitars, Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) on keyboards, Todd Sucherman (Styx) on drums, Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic) on bass, and many more.
And yes, this is progressive rock with brilliant musicianship on display, but also catchy pop-Rock with easy melodies and sophisticated ballads. All over the record the musicians offer a wide range of their art, in which the composition and not the undoubtedly existing technique is still in the foreground…
Another pleasurable request to fulfill is this pretty hard to find ELECTRIC BOYS “Groovus Maximus remastered expanded reissue“. This rocking album remained out of print for many years and thanks to an association between Universal Music, Sweden Rock Magazine and the band it was remastered and expanded with 5 bonus tracks. Sweden’s Electric Boys were one of the first and...
Here we have a very interesting choice of album for Audio Fidelity specialists to tackle: “Magazine“, by HEART, remastered by Steve Hoffman and pressed on a wonderful sounding SACD. “Magazine” was certainly commercially successful on its first release in Canada and the U.S., albeit in an unauthorized version that the record company released rather spitefully following fractious attempts by the...
As part of the Universal Japan reissue campaign of various ’80s Rock artists / albums from their back catalog on SHM-CD, all remastered and with reduced price, among the artists included there’s HEART. Here’s the requested “Dreamboat Annie“, the debut album by Heart regarded by first time fans as their best. Three of the songs turned hit singles which became...
Here’s in exclusive the just released Bad Reputation Records 2xCD remastered version of CHINA‘s “Sign In The Sky“, a wonderful slice of late 80s European Melodic Rock / AOR.
To put it short, this is a cracker in the same style of Treat’s “Organized Crime”, Hurricane’s “Slave To The Thrill”, or Black ‘N Blue’s “Nasty Nasty”: a glossy, polished, hugely produced gem for the genre.
All songs are very good, melodic, groovy at places, catchy, but the star here is midtempo “In The Middle Of The Night”, one of these bass-pumped AOR tunes essential in your collection…
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The self-titled debut album by Swiss Melodic Hard Rock / AOR combo CHINA was remastered for the first time by YesterRock specialists (although not printed on the artwork due to license reasons), now a not easy to find disc.
Depending the country of release, the original edition of “China” featured a different track list. This reissue include all tracks, plus the rare ‘When Passion Burns’ (not listed as bonus track though).
If you love late ’80s catchy melodic hard rock with AOR waves here and there, you need to check out this album now.
Veteran Melodic Rock aficionados surely remember CHINA, the Swiss combo who released their first two superbly AOR infused albums from the end of the ’80s. The band remained active since then with other recordings under their belt and touring Europe. “We Are The Stars” is China’s comeback album during the past decade, still rocking hard with melody. China always have...
Here’s in exclusive another installment from the awesome ”Lost US Jewels” series, the Vol.6, American melodic rocker TIMOTHY LEWIS self-titled album “Timothy Lewis”.
Here’s a songwriter / vocalist that is Steve Perry, Kevin Chalfant and Hugo all rolled into one; a bold statement for sure, but when you get to hear this guy I’m sure you’ll agree that he is something special. As a proof, while most the material here is penned by Lewis, he also does his own version of Perry’s terrific AOR song ‘Lost Angels’ (only recorded by Perry in demo form, featured into 0dayrox’s compilation The Vault).
Lewis’ songwriting and vocal-style is very close to the one of those big Melodic Rock acts of the ’80s such as Journey, Styx and Boston, and most the recordings on this CD only were distributed as promo material to record labels.
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For decades out of print, last year it was reissued only in Australia DE MONT‘s 1989 album “Body Language“, one of the finest Melodic Rock / AOR records coming out from Down Under during the ’80s.
On occasion of its 30th Anniversary, the release was printed exactly replicating the original artwork, but what isn’t the same for sure is the sound output. While not remastered, this new 2019 transfer to CD is fuller, bigger. We have compared this with the original disc and the difference is impressive.
Be aware of some internet sites featuring this album claiming of being this 30th Anniversary Reissue – this is the real one.
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Appeared in 2013 and out of print now, this Japanese limited edition box set titled “High Vibration” packed 16 YES discs pressed on hybrid SACD of Yes material from 1969 to 1987, featuring all of the band’s studio albums from that time period all in replica paper-sleeve packaging, plus this awesome Bonus Disc of rarities, bonus tracks and remixes. The…
As requested, here’s the rare Digitally Remastered version of British rockers DARK STAR album “Real To Reel” (1987), released for the first time on CD by No Remorse Records under license of Revolver Music Ltd. Despite of being reissued only four years ago, it’s already out of print as it was a 500 copies Limited Edition.
For this album Dark Star changed their initial hard rock / NWOBHM style in favor to keyboard laced melodic rock with catchy choruses. It was 1987, and bands like FM, Peroux, Shy, etc where embracing this sound as part of the British AOR / MR wave of the second half of the ’80s.
Now regarded as a collectors cult classic, and considering the original tapes were lost, it’s great to have “Real To Reel”…
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