Category: 21 GUNS

21 GUNS / DAYS OF WINE / STONEFLOWER

DAYS OF WINE (21 Guns, Stoneflower, Westpoint members) – st (2022)

The self-titled “Days Of Wine” is the upcoming debut album from DAYS OF WINE, consisting of close friends from the Oslo / Norway rock music scene. After years of playing in their respective bands, it was time to join forces to make a high class melodic classic rock album.
All are reputed musicians from the major Melodic Hard Rock scene; superb songwriter / keyboardist Leif Johansen (21 Guns, Phenomena), singer Leif Digernes (Westpoint), guitarist Tom Sennerud (Stoneflower), drummer Geir Digernes (Sons Of Angels) and guitarist Jon Johannessen (Stoneflower, Ronni Le Tekro’s Kingdom).
Some friends also came by and contributed to some of the songs, i.e. brothers Gregg Bissonette (drums, David Lee Roth) and Matt Bissonette, (bass, David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani), Jon Pettersen (Ammunition), Lars Andrè Kvistum (Conception) keyboards, and Ronni Le Tekro (TNT) dropping some guitar.
You can’t go wrong with “Days Of Wine”; this is classic, traditional melodic hard rock / classic rock from the Scandi factory…

21 GUNS / REMASTER / REMASTER ROCK CANDY

21 GUNS – Salute [Rock Candy Remastered & Reloaded] HQ

Stellar guitarist Scott Gorham (ex-Thin Lizzy) started in the mid-Eighties his own band project with the aim to the current melodic hard rock sound from that time. During his recording contribution to the Phenomena Project, Gorham met bass/keyboard player Leif Johansen and drummer Mike Sturgis (ex Far Corporation, Asia) and they joined: 21 GUNS born.
Signed by major label RCA, 21 Guns’ debut CD “Salute” arrived in 1992, delivering a fantastic slice of polished Melodic Rock / AOR with a fantastic sound production, a true Gem for the genre.
Long time out of print, Rock Candy Records reissued the album with their usual, excellent remastering job.
This is an absolute classic, a melodic hard rock / AOR masterpiece which…

21 GUNS / BLACK STAR RIDERS / THIN LIZZY

Best Classic Rock album 2017 #1 : BLACK STAR RIDERS – Heavy Fire [LTD. Embossed Digibook CD +1] (2017)

End of the year / beginning of 2018, it’s time to recap about the best 2017 releases, by category. “Heavy Fire” is BLACK STAR RIDERS album number three, and Black Star Riders are finally emerging from the long shadow of Thin Lizzy. With the band now pulling away from the Phil Lynott legacy, this third album is their best to...

L.R.S. – Down To The Core [Japanese Edition]

21 GUNS / L.R.S.

L.R.S. – Down To The Core [Japanese Edition]

Released by Frontiers Music and Avalon / Marquee in Japan with a bonus track, “Down To The Core” is the awesome debut by L.R.S., the project featuring the talents of celebrated names from the Melodic Hard Rock world.Started initially as a way to bring back to the public the amazing vocal talent of Tommy La Verdi, a singer which came...

21 GUNS / DARE / THIN LIZZY

THIN LIZZY – Thunder And Lightning [Deluxe Edition 2CD] (2013)

* There’s some big news out there; one of my favorite albums from legends THIN LIZZY, “Thunder And Lightning”, has been reissued in a Deluxe Edition remastered and including an awesome bonus CD featuring 13 bonus tracks made up of rare live material and original studio demos. Twelfth and final studio recording by the Irish wonders, “Thunder And Lightning” was...