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Category: WHITECROSS

BLOODGOOD / DAVID ZAFFIRO / REMASTER / WHITECROSS

BLOODGOOD – Rock In A Hard Place [Legends Remastered Series]

As part of their ‘Legends Remastered‘ series, highly respected reissue label Retroactive Records has released the 2 more celebrated albums by BLOODGOOD. As requested, here we have both.
The band’s third effort “Rock In A Hard Place” is one of my favorite albums from the second half of the ’80s American Hard Rock indie scene, and now sounds better than ever.
BLOODGOOD was one of the most underrated American Hard Rock from the glorious ’80s, perhaps due their Christian origins. But they were the real deal, a high quality band in the genre.
After two pretty heavy albums, they changed the musical approach to the dominating glossy-sounding Hard Rock around 1988, and the result was this “Rock In A Hard Place”. It’s commercial record yet defiant, melodic, with catchy songs…

FIERCE HEART / REMASTER / WHITECROSS

FIERCE HEART – Fierce Heart [remastered +3] [Limited Edition / out of print]

It’s hard to believe but three decades on from its original release in 1985, FIERCE HEART’s self-titled debut album never was reissued until recent time thanks to AOR Blvd Records, fully remastered and with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. “Fierce Heart” is often hailed as an ’80s underground classic of the melodic hard rock genre that unfortunately never found its...

KING JAMES / WHITECROSS

KING JAMES – Maximus (2014)

* KING JAMES is a hard rock band assembled in 1993 by guitarist Rex Carroll (WhiteCross) and vocalist Jimi Bennett (Sacred Fire, Viktor), releasing a very good self-titled album the following year characterized by Carroll’s terrific six-sring work and Bennett’s smooth and pristine vocal presence.After a long hiatus King James is back with a new CD entitled “Maximus”, a new...

BLOODGOOD / WHITECROSS

BLOODGOOD – Dangerously Close (2013)

* American White Metal pioneers BLOODGOOD returns with “Dangerously Close”, their first studio album in 22 years!Commanded by founder Michael Bloodgood and original singer Les Carlsen, the band includes Paul Jackson on guitar, Kevin Whistler on drums and Stryper’s guitarist Oz Fox as guest, who in fact recorded most the solos. The music of “Dangerously Close” is focused on mid...

STRYPER / WHITECROSS

WHITECROSS – Nineteen Eighty Seven (2013)

* “Nineteen Eighty Seven” is a completely new recording of the original self-titled album by WHITECROSS, originally released… yes, in 1987. How dare such a phenomenal band with some of the most talented, but unfortunately, underrated musicians around re-release their brilliant and quintessential US hard / hair metal debut? Well, they make the darn thing better than the original, that’s...