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Monthly Archives: August 2015
News: GHOST, THE SWORD, GTR – Monday 31st August 2015
Broken Teeth release a new album, ‘Bulldozer’ in October. Kansas have signed with Inside Out who will release their new studio album, the first in over fifteen years. This will mark the recording debut of new members David Manion (keys) … Continue reading
Album review: EAT THE GUN – Howlinwood
SPV www.spv.de [Release date 28.08.15] Who doesn’t love a good threesome ? German threesomes are even better – allegedly! Right from the almost QOTSA staccato-riff opening to title track “Howlinwood” (cool video too), I thought “’Allo, what have we here?” … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Eat The Gun, Howlinwood, review, rock
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Album review: THREE ELEMENTS – Generation Y
Self release [Release date 20.06.15] Three Elements have apparently earned themselves the title of ‘the heaviest pop band of Switzerland’. Not too sure how much competition there is for this title but it does sum the band up nicely. Taking … Continue reading
Album review: THE POYNT – This Is American Royalty
Self release [Release date 02.01.15] The cult of the ‘celebrity’ is a strange phenomenon. It would appear that anyone can now become famous overnight regardless of what talent they possess with the rise of social media and reality TV and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alterbridge, Eduardo Alarcon, metal, review, rock, The Poynt, This Is American Royalty
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Album review: KORITNI – Night Goes On For Days
earMusic [Release date 04.09.15] Koritni is a new name to me which is quite surprising when you read the band’s biography. This is their fourth album and has been produced by Kevin Shirley. Kevin has previously worked with Iron Maiden … Continue reading
Quick plays: ORANGE OUTLAW, NEGACY, ARCHANGEL
ORANGE OUTLAW Desert Wolf Self release [Release date 01.03.15] Album covers can be deceiving at times, going by the lone wolf in the desert I had this pegged as a stoner rock workout, how wrong could I be! Orange Outlaw … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alterbridge, Archangel, Desert Wolf, Dirkjan de Wit, Dutch, Flames Of Black Fire, Iron Maiden, Merciful Fate, metal, Michael Brady, Negacy, Orange Outlaw, prog, review, rock, Slash, Sven Cornelisson, Tampa, Thrash
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Quick plays: TELERGY, TARJA TURUNEN
TARJA TURUNEN – Ave Maria earMusic [Release date 11.09.15] This is a big gamble for both Tarja and her record label, as even they have not released an all classical/crossover album as far as I am aware. On this album … Continue reading
Album review: INNER ODYSSEY – Ascension
Self-released [Release date: 16.06.15] Over the years, Canada has produced relatively few bands that have made any sort of impact on the world of progressive rock. If you put to one side Rush, Saga and, from the very early days, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ascension, Canada, Inner Odyssey, prog, Progressive Rock, review
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Album review: ANDREAS VOCKRODT – Adventures In Foggyland
7music (Membran) [Release date 13.03.15] From his opening shred on ‘21 is Only Half The Truth’, through several shifting rhythm patterns, an ever present melodic undertow and the gnawing riff conclusion of ‘Transition To Reality’, its obvious that German guitarist … Continue reading
Review: 4th EUROPEAN BLUES EXPO – Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, SW France, 11 July to 31 Aug 2015
The European blues scene is often over shadowed by its American counterpart and the 4th European Blues Expo gives you a clue as to why. For while the venue is refreshingly new and the photographic exhibition showcasing the work of … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th European Blues Expo, Aija Puurtinen, Alain Hiot, Candye Kane, Charlie Hussey, Chef Kivimäki, Drunk Lamb, European Blues Union, Fred Zicazic Delforge, Honey B & T-Bones, John Bull, Lefty Leppänen, Micke Björklöf, Norbert Schneide, Perti Nurmi, photo exhibition, SKAtomaTTO, The Travellin’ Brothers, Veronica Sbergia
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Quick plays: MAD MAX, BLACK TRIP
BLACK TRIP – Shadowline SPV www.spv.de [Release date 28.08.15] Drawing heavily on the influences of very early Maiden and other NWOBHM band of that era and ilk, Sweden’s Black Trip have followed up 2014’s “Goin’ Under” with new release “Shadowline”. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Trip, Mad Max, melodic rock, metal, Michael Voss, review, rock, Shadowline, Storm & Passion, Thunder
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Album review: DELTA DEEP – Delta Deep
[Release date 23.06.15] I usually approach solo projects by artists from established bands with some degree of skepticism but Phil Collen has led me to re-appraise that approach. I think that’s because the songs on this exceptional album came out … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, David Coverdale, Def Leppard, Delta Deep, Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, review, rock, Whitesnake
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Album review: MANY THINGS – Burn Together
Indie [Release date 04.11.15] I first heard Many Things when they supported The Polyphonic Spree last year and they bowled me over with their quirky pop and ear for a good melody. The band consist of Michael Tomlinson (vocals/guitar), Macks … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Burn Together, electronic, Many Things, pop, review
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Album review: STRATOVARIUS – Eternal
earMUSIC [Release date 11.09.15] Amazingly this is the band’s sixteenth studio album and they have been around since the mid-80′s, although the present line-up has no original members. Vocalist Timo Kotipelto has also been busy with Cain’s Offering who released … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cain’s Offering, Eternal, melodic, metal, progressive, review, rock, Stratovarius, Timo Kotipelto
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Album review: THE ALARM – Strength (30th anniversary)
The Twenty First Century Recording Company [Released 02.10.15] For the thirtieth anniversary of this classic Alarm album Mike Peters has gone and re-recorded the whole album. Not only that, the lyrics have been updated in many cases and he has … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th anniversary, album, alternative, classic, Mike Peters, re-recording, review, rock, Strength, The Alarm
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Album review: RAINBURN – Canvas Of Silence
Self released [Release Date: 31.10.14] Progressive rock music has rarely been in ruder health than it is at present, with exceptional music arriving from all corners of the globe – both to rattle the cage of complacency of western Europe’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Canvas Of Silence, India, Progressive Rock, Rainburn, review
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Album review: THORNE – At The Edge
CD Baby [Release date 20.06.15] Thorne is an international combo spanning three continents, whose members have never met. They are a prog and classic rock band with psychedelic edges, who met on line via the music collaboration site http://www.kompoz.com and … Continue reading
Album review: DAN DOIRON – Stand Back I Don’t Know How Loud This Thing Gets
Dan Doiron [Release Date 14.05.15] Every once in a while you stumble across a blues album that makes you wonder why you hadn’t come across the artist before. And with a title like ‘Stand Back I Don’t Know How Loud … Continue reading
Album review: FUSONIC – Fields Of No Man’s Land
DMI Records [Release Date 22.06.15] Fusonic is a Dutch symphonic prog rock band whose second album draws on the prog rock giants of the past and reaches for a new musical vocabulary for the present. The fact they don’t quite … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Camel, ECM, Eno, Fields of No Man's Land, Focus, Frank Zappa, Fusonic, Harry Ickelsheimer, Paul van der Feen, Pink Floyd, review, Ronald Hoogwourt, Teo
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Album review: LYNCH MOB – Rebel
Frontiers Records [Release Date 21.08.15] Former Dokken guitarist George Lynch is in extremely prolific form after an up and down career. Less than a year ago came a mini album under the Lynch Mob banner, ‘Sun Red Sun’, then his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, Dokken, Frontiers Records, George Lynch, hard rock, Jeff Pilson, Lynch Mob, Oni Logan, review
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Album review: W ANGEL’S CONQUEST – Taste Of Life
Ferrum [Release date 08.06.15] This is the 5th album release from W Angel’s Conquest, Ukraine’s oldest power metal outfit apparently, I will take their word for that. Formed back in 1996 by guitarist W Angel this album is being hailed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, power metal, review, symphonic metal, Taste Of Life, Ukraine, W Angel's Conquest
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Album review: GHOST – Meliora
Spinefarm [Release date 21.08.15] Ghost have always been a bit of a Marmite band, people tend to love or hate them. I first encountered the band a few years ago supporting Trivium and having seen the pictures and the image, … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Ha, album, CD, Ghost, Meliora, metal, Papa Emeritus III, prog, review, rock, Trivium
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Album review: MOTORHEAD – Bad Magic
UDR [Release date 28.08.15] When I reviewed the last Motorhead album ‘Aftershock’ a couple of years back I did think that it was going to be the band’s swansong due to Lemmy’s ongoing health issues. Lemmy though has stuck two … Continue reading
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Tagged Aftershock, album, Bad Magic, blues, Brian May, CD, Glastonbury, Lemmy, metal, Mikkey Dee, Motorhead, Phil Campbell, review, rock
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Album review: CONSTANCIA – Final Curtain
MelodicRock Records [Release date 10.07.15] Swedish melodic rock band Constancia are back with their sophomore album ‘Final Curtain’ a full 6 years after their debut ‘Lost and Gone’ was released back in 2009. The band was formed back in 2007 … Continue reading
Album review: PALACE OF THE KING – White Bird/Burn the Sky
http://www.palaceofthekingmusic.com/ Let’s just cut to the chase – this is indeed yet another darn good album from down under – Aussie rockers, Palace of the King’s’ debut full album “White Bird/Burn The Sky” gets a very strong 4 out of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic, Deep Purple, hard rock, Palace of the King, Rainbow, review, rock, White Bird/Burn the Sky
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