Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
Spring is coming and major Melodic Rock / AOR releases find its way to stores. Let’s check the advanced singles from albums to come.British AOR / Melodic Rock institution FM got ready their new album ‘Atomic Generation’, to be released via Frontiers Music on March 23th. “Black Magic” is the new single, a delicious melodic tune, pure, classic FM. At...
0dayrox exclusive advances are back: there’s many interesting albums to come so let’s check the first singles.British AOR / Melodic Rock institution FM got ready their new album ‘Atomic Generation’, to be released via Frontiers Music on March 30th. The album track “Make The Best Of What You Got” is the first advance, an elegant midtempo tune with all the...
It’s been six years since the last album from UK AOR super group SHADOWMAN, but they’re back 2017 with their fifth studio album, “Secrets And Lies“, released today. The band personnel remains stable with members from FM (Steve Overland, vocals), Heartland (Steve Harris, guitar), and Thunder (Chris Childs and Harry James, bass and drums respectively). Original FM keyboardist Didge Digital...
FM has been somewhat of both an unsung and legendary AOR / Melodic Rock band. Some thirty years ago, they released their first album Indiscreet, a classic for the genre. Flash forward in your Dorlean and we find FM re-recording that acclaimed first album in a modern fashion, titled “Indiscreet 30” released via Frontiers Music.
Additionally, the album comes with bonus material: a new song in ‘Running On Empty’, re-recording of several songs from EPs and singles, and finally, there’s an acoustic version of ‘That Girl’.
Some juicy releases are coming for the end of the year. Among the more awaited from the Frontiers Music camp is without a doubt the ROTH BROCK PROJECT, the group put together by John Roth (Winger, Starship, Giant) and superb vocalist Terry Brock (Strangeways, Giant, Leroux). We have another terrific melodic rock advance track titled ‘If That’s What It Takes’...
Next week will appear “Contagious“, the new album from OVERLAND. Steve Overland is a legend in his own lifetime. Is there anyone out there who is not familiar with his name? From beginnings with his brother Chris in Wildfire to the legendary AOR band FM, Overland has been one of the premier and consistent voices of the genre. Gorging ourselves...
More and more Advanced Releases for this October, 2016.From the Frontiers Music camp arrive these news; British AOR / Melodic Rock institution FM have decided to record a modern-day version of their now classic debut album ‘Indiscreet’ in its entirety. Many long time fans raised their voices against this, but you know, listening the first advance, the classic ‘That Girl’,...
* “Self Defence“, the debut from supergroup OZONE is without a doubt one of the best Melodic Rock albums of the year. This Japanese Edition, as usual, features a bonus track, but also a completely different tracklist – and if you ask me, this running order works even better. This is a really special project as it sees two of...
* After a very, very long wait, tomorrow sees the release of “Self Defence“, the debut from supergroup OZONE.This album is a little bit special as it sees two of the UK’s premier melodic rock vocalists team up, namely FM’s Steve Overland and Chris Ousey, currently fronting Snakecharmer / Heartland, plus he fronted Virgina Wolf back in the ’80s.As if...
* Perhaps the most important British Melodic Rock / AOR act of all time, FM may have spent last autumn on a 30th anniversary tour, but they are neither a nostalgia band nor one to let the grass grow under their feet. Two years after a pair of new albums in Rockville I and II, and ahead of yet another...
* Perhaps the most important British Melodic Rock / AOR act of all time, FM may have spent last autumn on a 30th anniversary tour, but they are neither a nostalgia band nor one to let the grass grow under their feet. Two years after a pair of new albums in Rockville I and II, and ahead of yet another...
* After many years of silence, FM – the finest and classiest British AOR / Melodic Rock act – return has proved amazingly prolific. Two albums, Rockville and Rockville II at the end of 2012 and start of 2013, and now they have already put together a new offering released today , March 31, 2014: “Futurama”.Frontman Steve Overland says: “We’ve...
* “Radio, Radio … Play that song … Take me back to when I was young” is the lovable chorus in the first track of OVERLAND’s new album “Epic” (to be released on March 3) and it captures the spirit of the record perfectly. Steve Overland shines in FM but also with this, his own band, where Steve finds room...
* British AOR institution FM originally planned the release of their new recording ‘Rockville’ as a double CD set, but finally each album are available separately. We have presented here the first, now it’s time for “Rockville II”, just released today. “Rockville II” features ten new tracks including a new recording of the song “High” which was originally made by...
* FM, Great Britain’s finest AOR band – I say this in terms of elegance – are releasing a new album today entitled “Rockville”. Since the return after a long hiatus in 2007, Steve Overland & Co. decided to publish their new recordings by themselves to take complete artistic control of their material. Anyone looking for anything other than prime-time...
