Category: ALLISON

Hard Rock / Metal from Switzerland is by no means unusual. Just think of Krokus, Gotthard, Shakra or Crystal Ball. Here comes another band from this alpine country. Fronted by Janet La Rose, ALLISON were already founded in 1986. And actually, the band had a great future ahead of them. Many gigs at home and abroad are on the credit side. Among others, they opened for Van Halen, Bon Jovi and Asia. And they were very lucky to open for Thunder, Van Halen and Bon Jovi at the sold-out St. Jakobstadion in Basel in front of 55,000 enthusiastic fans.
Two very good studio albums date from the first creative period. And then grunge came along and hardly any record label was interested in good female fronted hard rock anymore. So, the band was pigeonholed.
A quarter of a century later, three of the founding members got together and thought it was time to reactivate Allison. The result, “They Never Come Back” was released in November 2020 via an indie label.
Now Allison have been signed by Massacre Records, and while they are working on a new CD, the 2022 re-release of “They Never Come Back” is now set to increase worldwide awareness…

Swiss female-fronted melodic rock band ALLISON is back after many years with a new album featured here few days ago. Some of you asked for their 1993 debut CD titled “One“.
This is the album’s reissue released a year after including an extra track, a successful anthem for the 1994 World Cup Swiss football team ALLISON recorded, and featuring a completely different cover artwork, this time displaying a band photo.
“One” packs some awesome melodic hard rockers in the vein of WITNESS, HARLOW, the harder side of HEART, VIXEN, etc, wrapped by a bright, polished production sound.
With the success of…

It took 25 years to Swiss female-fronted melodic hard rock band ALLISON to get ready this, their 3rd album titled “They Never Come Back“. After two successful albums in the first half of the ’90s and having gigs with the likes of Thunder, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, etc, ALLISON broke up in 1998.
But always fronted by powerful vocalist Janet La Rose the band reunited few years ago, and as the album artwork makes clear, laced up their gloves again to get into the ring.
Musically, ALLISON still offer solid classic melodic hard rock, which is increasingly…