Category: NO LOVE LOST

North Carolina 4-piece NO LOVE LOST is back with ”Killer Show”, an 11-song blast of melodic hard rock that finds the band sounding bigger, heavier, and more confident than ever.
The band’s fourth release for Kivel Records, ”Killer Show” builds naturally on the foundation established by the strong previous album. The huge melodies, arena-rock hooks, powerful vocals, and guitar-driven sound fans expect from No Love Lost are all here, but this time the band pushes the music a little further.
There’s an added weight and edge to the guitars, a stronger sense of dynamics, and a willingness to explore a heavier side of the band’s sound without sacrificing the melodic character that has defined No Love Lost from the beginning.
The result is an album that feels both immediately familiar and genuinely fresh. ”Killer Show” doesn’t abandon what No Love Lost does best—it expands it. From the driving energy of “Hard Mover” and the melodic punch of “Love Dies Hard” to the title track, “Shadow Play,” “Smokescreen,” and the closing “Coming Home,” the album is packed with memorable hooks and confident hard-rock songwriting.
Vocalist Scott Board delivers the songs with power and personality, while guitarist and producer Marc Brown supplies the riffs, melodies, and polished production that give the album its muscular sound. Bassist Matt Crow and drummer Jason Collins complete a lineup that sounds tight, energetic, and built for the stage.
When listening to ”Killer Show”, one can only scratch his head on why Vinnie Vincent didn’t stick with Scott Board as his lead vocalist (for the comeback that will likely never come). When you hear the versatility in Board‘s voice, I am sure that he would have killed it singing all those older Vinnie Vincent Invasion tracks.
In any case, No Love Lost have delivered a splendid album in ”Killer Show” that is definitely worth picking up for many different reasons including a really cool cover art, some fantastic songs and why wouldn’t you want to have one of the best melodic hard albums crafted in America 2026 in your record collection?

Only released on physical CD by reputed specialized Melodic Rock label Kivel Records, “Bliss” is the sophomore effort from American rockers NO LOVE LOST. Produced by famed Ty Sims & Erik “Desmond Childish” Johnson, NO LOVE LOST creates the perfect love letter for this genre of music. Hard hitting when it needs to be. Heartfelt when it wants to be, and just damn fun because it should be.
NO LOVE LOST proves that in current times a band can make an Arena Rock record with all the trimmings just like how you remembered it, while adding the bonus of today’s technology and production.
Lastly, and certainly far from least, No Love Lost welcomes a legend himself, Paul Shortino, as he duets with the band on the rockin’ classic ‘Good Times’ (made famous by INXS and Jimmy Barnes). If there was a song that was synonymous with Fun, it is this one, and the guys do not disappoint.
The band have released an album that fans of melodic hard rock bands like AdrianGale, Farcry, Seven Hard Years and Tango Down ought to love. There are more moments on ”Bliss” that bring to mind Foreigner, Mr. Big and maybe Danger Danger. It’s a good combo, as it lets them infuse…

What a banner year 2013 has been for fans of melodic rock music, with many legendary acts comeback and new talented artists arise, like NO LOVE LOST and their self-titled debut CD on Kivel Records bringing aspects of Whitesnake, Triumph, early Def Leppard and Tesla thrown into a little bit of a mix of Badlands and Keel on the side.
These are the influences heard when we gave their impressive debut album a first listen.
Hailing from Winston Salem, North Carolina, No Love Lost was formed in 2006 by veteran musicians from the East coast circuit. Vocalist Scott Board began…