Category: VON HINER

Today we bring something special to all of you eager for some rare and exclusive material. And we’re talking about good, ’80s influenced Melodic Rock / AOR. “VON HINER – The AOR Demos ; Pre-Production & More” is a collection of songs recorded by the – at the time – young American musician Brian Hiner (later artistic name Bryan Dallas) under the moniker VON HINER, a bunch of bombastic, anthemic stadium melodic rock rockers.
Hiner composes all of the music, perform the vocals, play all instruments and record / produce the whole thing at his own studio. Von Hiner influences are wide and varied, from classic rock to pop to AOR.
But the songs in “The AOR Demos / Pre-Production & More” – which doesn’t sound like cheap demos at all – are mostly AOR / Melodic Rock both in style and sonics. If the mega-overdubbed choruses of Def Leppard’s Hysteria still do it for ya, you’re gonna dig this dude’s music.
Some of the tracks here were later re-recorded by Hine for his “Dallas” album, some of them remain unreleased…
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Castro Valley, California native Bryan DALLAS (born Brian Hiner), also known in his origins as ‘Von Hiner‘ or simply ‘Dallas‘ released four years ago an amazing retro AOR / melodic rock album plenty of ’80s magic, like if it was 1988 when bands like Def Leppard, Firehouse, Winger, and Bon Jovi ruled the playlist around the world.
Dallas works as session songwriter / musician for others but also find time to record his own songs, and as many are doing these days, putting out standalone singles every three months or so..
Now under the moniker BRYAN DALLAS he just released “Complete Works 2020 to 2022 remastered”, an album compiling his songs from the last two years, most of them revised / remastered.
The material on “Complete Works 2020 to 2022 remastered” is less ‘bombastic’ in sound production approach than the previous album, more rock&pop in essence, yet pure ’80s to the bone. It’s a varied platter from rockers to ballads; there’s a couple a huge sounding tunes akin the first album, other songs heavy on keyboards, others acoustically filled.
Dallas has a really pleasant voice and…
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”DALLAS” is the self-titled debut CD of Bryan Dallas (real name Bryan Hiner) also known as Von Hiner, a talented young American musician who composes all of the music, perform the vocals, play all instruments and record / produce the whole thing at his own studio.
He has released by himself an EP some time ago, and some unreleased demos under the Von Hiner moniker, but finally we have this terrific DALLAS full length album. The Japanese edition includes 4 exclusive tracks, the UK 3 exclusives, while both share another bonus. ALL are here included here.
DALLAS resurrects here the super-slick, catchy anthems of the late ’80s when a zillion Def Leppard clones emerged trying to cop Mutt Lange’s songwriting and production technique. And indeed the first thing that impress you is the excellent production / sound.
“Rock N Roll Never Dies” is the opening tune and both lyrically and musically it gives the finger to anyone who considers classy Melodic Rock / AOR his favorite musical genre…