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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: RHAPSODY OF FIRE – The Eighth Mountain
AFM Records [Release date 22.02.19] Italian power metal band return with their latest album, cementing the new/current line-up. Formed in the mid 90 as Rhapsody, RoF made the genre of symphonic power metal their own. Founder members keyboard player Alex … Continue reading
Quick plays: MIKAEL ERLANDSSON, SLUG COMPARISON
MIKAEL ERLANDSSON Capricorn Six AOR Heaven [Release date 22.02.19] This is the sixth solo album from vocalist/keyboards player Mikael Erlandsson, who may be more familiar to fans of melodic rock as the frontman of Last Autumn’s Dream, who have released … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE – Mama Said Rock Is Dead
SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 08.02.19] Bouncy anthemic keyboards, smooth melodic riffs and catchy sing-along choruses John Diva & The Rockets of Love celebrate and take their cues from that mid-80s era of rock when the likes of Van Halen, Whitesnake (the … Continue reading
Album review: CULTURAL WARFARE – Warmageddon
M-Theory Audio [Release date 14.9.18] Stop the press. There is a new player in Metal City that deserves your immediate and utmost attention. Hailing from Oakland US, this four-piece outfit takes a shot at making a Thrash Metal record and … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HACKETT – At The Edge Of Light
Inside Out [Release Date: 25.01.19] I mentioned in my 2015 GRTR! review of Steve Hackett’s ‘Wolflight’ album how his star has been in the ascendency as a result of his wonderful live shows showcasing the Genesis back catalogue. Such has … Continue reading
Album review: CRANSTON – II
Rock Company [Release date 20.11.18] Cranston is vocalist Phil Vincent (the man who never seems to be out of a recording studio!), melodic rock legend Paul Sabu and B.F. D’Ercole (whose own self-titled band Phil Vincent sings for – told … Continue reading
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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – Yesterday And Today (A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Yes)
RecPlay [Release date: 02.11.18] I once read of a Genesis tribute band that released an album in tribute to another Genesis tribute band. The only step up is to tribute yourself and in essence that’s what this is all about. … Continue reading
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Album review: TRISTAN MACKAY – Invisible Light
Website [Release date 14.02.19] Following the incredibly good ‘Out Along the Wire’, with its breezy Eric Clapton unplugged vibe which was a showcase for Tristan Mackay’s electric guitar playing and the second album ‘Wire and Wood’, which was a darker … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Ed Sheeran, Eric Clapton, guitarist, Invisible Light, melodic, review, rock, singer songwriter, Tristan Mackay
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Album review: JESS KLEIN – Back To My Green
Blue Rose Records [Release date 22.02.19] With 11 albums over two decades to her name, native New York singer songwriter Jess Klein will have no better opportunity to broaden her appeal than with the seemingly insatiable current demand for Americana. … Continue reading
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Album review: ERIC GALES – The Bookends
Provogue [Release date 08.02.19] Back in his psychedelic rock days, I always used to think that it was Eric Gales’s second solo that defined both the song itself and the guitarist’s signature style. Just like a boxer he bobbed, weaved … Continue reading
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Tagged album, B.Slade, beth Hart, blues, Bobby McFerrin, Doyle Bramhall 11, Eric Gales, Frank Zappa, funk, fusion, guitar, Jeff Beck, Matt Wallace, metal, Nina Simone, review, rock, soul, SPARKS, Stevie Wonder, The Bookends, vocal, Wired
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Album review: JOHN SLOMAN – El Dorado
Facebook Slogger Records [Release date 04.02.19] John Sloman is known to rock fans of a certain age for his singing in Lone Star and the ‘Conquest’ album by Uriah Heep. He has released a series of solo albums starting with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, blues, country, El Dorado, former Uriah Heep, gospel, Lone Star, melodic, review, rock, vocalist
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Quick plays: VIANA, FERNANDO PERDOMO, JET RED
VIANA Forever Free Escape Music [Release date 25.01.19] Stefano Viana is an Italian guitarist, songwriter and producer who released his self-titled debut album in 2017. For album number two he has signed with Escape Music and enlisted vocalist Bryan Cole … Continue reading
Album review: MIKE SPONZA – Made In The Sixties
Epops Music [Release date 22.06.18] Made in the sixties is a retrospective with a difference. Aside from shoehorning in a wide range of music and themes into the blues genre, Italian guitarist and songwriter Mike Sponza has cleverly approached the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey Road, album, blues, Dana Gillespie, Eddi Reader, funk, fusion, gospel, Latino, Made In The Sixties, Michele Bonivento, Mike Sponza, Moreno Buttinar, Nathan James, Pete Brown, review, Rob Cass, Roby Maffioli, sixties, soul
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Album review: LOS PACAMINOS – Viva!
Recado Records [Release date 02.11.18] To describe Los Pacaminos as Paul Young’s band is slightly misleading, although he assembled the seven piece Tex Mex outfit back in 1992, the bands members are each of a high calibre and indeed highly … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Difford, country, Jamie Moses, live, Los Pacaminos, Paul Young, Queen, review, rock 'n' roll, Squeeze, Tex Mex, Viva!
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Album review: KATIE DOHERTY & THE NAVIGATORS – And Then
Steeplejack Music [Release date 25.01.19] Katie Doherty released her debut album ‘Bridges’ in 2007, which picked up glowing reviews and airplay on BBC Radio 2. Since then Katie Doherty has been involved as a composer for Northern Stage productions, along … Continue reading
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Tagged album, And Then, folk, Katie Doherty & the Navigators, review, singer songwriter, traditional
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Album review: EXCALIBUR (Alan Simon) – Ladies Of The Lake
Babaika [Release date: 02.11.18] Girl Power: albeit nary a Spice in sight, but the whiff of joss hangs pendulously over this female vocalist-fronted compilation trawl through the four Excalibur sword-and-sorcery releases by French composer Alan Simon. Alan explains in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Simon, album, Celtic, Excalibur, Karan Casey, Ladies Of The Lake, Maddy Prior, Moya Brennan, new age, prog, progressive, review, Sonja Kristina
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Album review: BLOOD RED SAINTS – Pulse
AOR Heaven [Release date 22.02.19] Album number three from the Blood Red Saints, following hot on the heels of last year’s enjoyable ‘Love Hate Conspiracies’, an album which made a fair few year end best of lists. After searching the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blood Red Saints, Def Leppard, hard rock, melodic, Pulse, review, rock
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Album review: ELECTRIC MARY – Mother
Listenable Records [Release date 15.02.19] Aussie rockers Electric Mary formed back in 2003, however due to various reasons ‘Mother’ is their first full album since 2011′s ‘III’. Since that album Spyder has joined on drums, linking up with existing members … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bad Company, classic rock, Electric Mary, Free, hard rock, Mother, New Wave of Classic Rock, review, rock
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Album review: HEAVY DRAPES – Crashing Like Stars
Cadiz Music Heavy Drapes were one of the UK’s most promising new punk bands who, in a two year period, went from playing to an audience of twenty to gracing the main stage at the Rebellion festival. Unfortunately, following the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, Crashing Like Stars, Garry Borland, Heavy Drapes, New York Dolls, punk, review, rock, Stooges
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Album review: THE WINDMILL – Tribus
Apollon Records [Release date 15.11.18] ‘Tribus’ may be somewhat derivative as a lot of prog is these days. But you can’t deny the musicianship. This is the Norwegian band’s third studio album and it gets mixing and mastering treatment from … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Norway, Norwegian, prog, Progressive Rock, review, The Windmill, Tribus
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