Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
This end of the year promises to deliver some stupendous albums, let’s check the newest advanced singles from CD’s to come. British melodic rockers DANTE FOX will be releasing their six album Six String Revolver via AOR Heaven on November 24, 2017. ‘Firing My Heart’ should be the band’s most guitar driven song in years, full of melody and energy....
After 16 years of absence legends KANSAS are back with a reinvigorated line-up and a great new studio album titled “The Prelude Implicit” with this Special Edition Digipack featuring 2 extra tracks.The name Kansas strikes all the exciting notes among young and older fans alike. A band that really proved itself to be timeless and ever youthful in every way...
New awesome albums are coming up this August 2016 (and next month), go and enjoy the advanced singles.Biggest Melodic Hard Rock AOR label Frontiers Music obviously gets all the attention, with the excellent PALACE project and KING COMPANY as main attraction, both bands first singles presented here on the previous 0dayrox Advanced Releases. But now we have 2 more songs...
* Released in Japan only a couple years ago in a Limited Edition SHM-CD but already out-of-print, KANSAS‘ “In The Spirit Of Things” deserves a hunt-down. This one was the last KANSAS album recorded in the ’80s, and for my melodious ears, one of the best of their entire career. A year and a half after the original Kansas disbanded...
Twenty years have passed… since legend KANSAS presented their 12th studio album “Freaks Of Nature“. It’s great to see this very good record getting another airing celebrating its 20th Anniversary, re-released by specialist reissue label The Store For Music. The years preceding the original release of this album were tough for the ’80s generation of rock bands. Stadiums had emptied...
* KANSAS needs no introduction, one of the bands – perhaps the most important – that helped to forge the progressive rock music in America. The just released DVD/CD “Miracles Out Of Nowhere” gets a long-overdue look behind the scenes of the veteran band’s long journey. The video disc features a documentary film telling the story of the band supplemented...
* If you are a Kansas fan, then “Seeds Of Change”, the solo release from keyboardist/guitarist KERRY LIVGREN is the stuff of legends. Quite hard to find for many years, now it’s being reissued by Rock Candy Records with a pristine remastering. Of all the greats to emerge from the vibrant American scene in the seventies, few could match the...
* Besides of being part of Kansas’ eighties works and later in Melodic Rock wonders Mastedon, JOHN ELEFANTE had a consistent solo career releasing extremely well crafted albums.He is the epitome of a complete musician: songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, taking the proper time between his works to elaborate lush melodies, original arrangements and fluid sounds.After four years since the last...
Japan Blu-Spec CD – EICP 20081 * If ’82s ‘Vinyl Confessions’ was the album that approached Kansas to commercial mainstream, “Drastic Measures” definitely remains as their more radio-friendly album ever. First of all, there was no sign of vocalist/violinist Robbie Steinhardt, whose role on the previous album had been much diluted in a search for a more commercial sound. Secondly,...
Japan Blu-Spec CD – EICP 20080 * Kansas were one of America’s most successful rock bands during the mid to late ‘70s. Their brand of progressive pomp rock had spawned several multi platinum albums and hit singles, including the ubiquitous radio staples ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ and ‘Dust In The Wind’. By 1981, singer Steve Walsh had elected to leave...
