Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
After the release of their long desired double-album Pearls and the super successful 30th Anniversary 2016 Tour, BONFIRE have been busy recording the material for their brand new studio album “Byte The Bullet”, which will be released through UDR Music on March 24th, 2017. A turning point for the band happened almost two years ago when Bonfire released ‘Glorious’ an...
Here’s more advances from some great baands / albums to be released later this month / April. On Frontiers Music, melodic hard rock greats NIGHT RANGER are ready to release their new album “Don’t Let Up”. We have already featured two tracks, now taste the rocking ‘Comfort Me’.Also on the label, CRAZY LIXX will release a new album in April....
Between February / March there will be really great new releases, here’s a little look at advances to taste ’em all.Frontiers Music has announced some great new albums for next March, James Christian’s HOUSE OF LORDS, here with another single, as well as Melodic Hard Rockers ECLIPSE. More from the label, we have the 2nd single from the awesome project...
With their self-titled debut out this week on Frontiers Music, super-group PHANTOM 5 will shake your melodic hard rock foundation with a bang of an album.Formed by some German Melodic Hard Rock luminaries including former Bonfire singer Claus Lessmann, ex Frontline guitarist Robby Boebel, former Scorpions bassist Francis Bucholz and ex Jaded Heart drummer Axel Kruse – along with Michael...
After the successful, chart-making release of past year album Glörious, Bavarian melodic hard rock legends BONFIRE are proving they still have a great future to come – in 2016, the band celebrates 30 years on stage. To celebrate, Bonfire is releasing tomorrow March 18th a double album entitled “Pearls“. Always with founding member guitarist Hans Ziller carrying the band, Bonfire...
* Finally, legendary German Melodic Hard Rockers BONFIRE are back with this brand new record “Glorious“. If you asked a couple years ago, there are two things I wouldn’t have thought they would ever happen, even though the band always stayed alive. The first thing is a new Bonfire studio album, and second, that it will be a extraordinary good...
* Founded in 1991 by Bonfire guitarist Hans Ziller as a side project, EZ LIVIN’ released one album at the time before disappearing in the night. Last year however, Ziller called some musicians to get the band on its feet again and one of them was American singer David Reece, ex-Accept but currently mainly known as frontman of Bangalore Choir....
* re-posted by popular demand One of the most unknown (and underrated) Melodic Rock releases from the European scene of the second half of the ’80s should be MYDRA’s self-titled debut, originally only released in Germany and few countries more. Hard to find on CD for years, luckily it was rescued from oblivion last year by Yesterrock Records in a...
* Germans BONFIRE, one of my favorite Melodic Hard Rock bands (and one of the most influential in the genre) are recording a new studio album planned for the end of the year. In the meantime they surprise us with the thought-to-be-lost-forever recording of their performance at Wacken Open Air Festival in 1998.This almost historical piece of music has been...
* Pioneers of the Melodic Hard Rock scene BONFIRE are releasing a new EP; “Cry 4 Help”. At the beginning of 2012 the band went to Ukraine to play a headlining show and a festival. They also got to see for themselves the recent unbelievable mistreatment of street dogs in the country and to talk to the authorities and the...
* After the release of their anniversary album ‘Branded’ early in 2011, Bavaria’s finest rockers BONFIRE are surprising their fans with a second birthday party and a special present; “FireWorks…Still Alive! “ A quarter-century after its release, Bonfire’s sophomore album ‘Fireworks’, is still hailed as a bona fide classic in the Melodic Hard Rock genre and the only ones who...
* Jimi Jamison (ex SURVIVOR singer) and Bobby Kimball (ex TOTO lead singer) are joining forces together in a duet album which promises to be one of the highlights of 2011 in the Melodic Rock scene.The advanced single “Can’t Wait For Love” has a beautiful recurring keyboard refrain, a lovely hummable chorus and short but very sweet solo. After a...
Legendary German hard rockers BONFIRE celebrate this year its 25th anniversary as band.After their contribution to the World Cup -the single “German National Anthem”- ranking seven weeks in the German charts, the five guys from Ingolstadt are back on everyone’s lips with their brand new album “Branded”, BONFIRE’s first complete studio CD in five years. After a few seconds you...
