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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: TODD RUNDGREN – An Evening With Todd Rundgren (Live At The Ridgefield)
Purple Pyramid Records [Release date 26.08.16] CD/DVD With a Todd Rundgren live album, as with any tour, it’s all about the set list. Will it include the “hits”, more recent stuff, or something more obscure? Will Todd play electric guitar? … Continue reading
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Tagged album, An Evening With, Kasim Sulton, Live At The Ridgefield, Nazz, pop, Prairie Prince, review, rock, soul, Todd Rundgren, Utopia
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Album review: GENERAL GREED – Rectifying For Justice
Mountain Side Records [Release date 08.04.16] Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that are the best. Far too often people overcomplicate matters and turn straight forward situations into major dramas. General Greed approach their music with a similar outlook, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, General Greed, Looks Like Lucy, metal, Rectifying For Justice, review, Richard Loow, rock, VOLBEAT
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Album review: TOXICROSE – Total Tranquility
City Of Light Records [Release date 16.05.16 ] Toxicrose hail from Stockholm in Sweden and were formed back in 2010. Melodic metal is the order of the day here, sound wise the band remind me of Black Veil Brides but … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Veil Brides, metal, Motley Crue, review, rock, Total Tranquility, Toxicrose
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Album review: THE DEVILS MUSIC – The Devils Music
Coffee Jingle Records [Release date 02.09.16] There is an old saying that you should never judge a book by its cover. The same can be said for review CD’s, take this release for example, a copied CD with hand written … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cradle Of Filth, D Rock, Dani Filth, Daniel Finch, Death Metal, Devilment, metal, review, rock, The Devils Music
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Album review: STORMTROOPER – Pride Before A Fall (The Lost Album)
Bristol Archive Records [Release date 19.08.16] This album dates back to the glory days of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal when so many great rock bands emerged on the UK scene. Some went on to worldwide fame and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bob Starling, Colin Bond, Nick Hancox, Pride Before A Fall, prog, review, rock, Rush, Stormtrooper
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Album review: SARI SCHORR – A Force Of Nature
This interview was first broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sunday 28 August 2016. Pete Feenstra chatted to Sari Schorr about her music and played tracks from her debut album. More information Manhaton [Release date 02.09.16] ‘A Force Of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Force Of Nature, album, blues, Eric Clapton, guitar, Holland/Dozier/Holland, Innes Sibun, interview, Janis Joplin, Lead Belly, Led Zeppelin, Mike Vernon, Oli Brown, review, rock, Sari Schorr, The Engine Room, The Supremes, Tina Turner, vocals, Walter Trout
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Album review: SESSION AMERICANA with Jefferson Hamer – Great Shakes
[Release date 14.10.16] Session Americana are a Boston area collective formed in 2003 with six previous releases and a significant number of local area nominations and awards. And while guitarist/ singer Jefferson Hamer has been an integral part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, folk, Great Shakes, Jefferson Hamer, review, rock, roots, Session Americana
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Album review: FAVNI – Windswept
[Release date 20.05.16] With a name change from Fauns (primarily because of the clash with the British band The Fauns) marking the introduction of new electric guitarist Thomas Glase and vocalist, flautist and fiddler Kirsten Middeke, this five-piece from Berlin … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Favni, folk, Germany, prog, Progressive Rock, review, Windswept
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Album review: BURNT BELIEF – Emergent
Alchemy Records [Release date 09.09.16] I must be getting old; from the opening chords of ‘The Bubble Bursts’ the lead track on an album featuring Porcupine Tree bassist and founder member Colin Edwin I was sucked in. Recalling the fusion … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Burnt Belief, Colin Edwin, Emergent, fusion, jazz funk, Jazz rock, Porcupine Tree, review
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Album review: JULIAN SAS – Coming Home
Cavalier [Release date 18.03.16] ‘Coming Home’ is an aptly titled, solid rock-blues album with southern rock edges and spiritual references. It incorporates Holland’s leading rock-blues guitarist Julian Sas’s penchant for gritty vocals, evocative guitar playing and anthemic blues balladry. It … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, blues, Coming Home, Corazong, guitar, Holland, interview, Julian Sas, review, Robin Trower, rock, Roland Bakker, Walter Trout
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Album review: SABATON – The Last Stand
Nuclear Blast [Release date 19.08.16] Sabaton are a new band to these ears, although I have read about them previously and their stage show which is slightly OTT at times. Their new album focuses as the title suggests on famous … Continue reading
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Tagged album, metal, Nuclear Blast, power metal, review, Sabaton, the Last Stand
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Album review: KARMAKANIC – Dot
Inside Out – Out Now. Fans of Progressive Rock music really need not be told who Jonas Reingold is. Most of the bands that this tall and highly talented Swede has been involved in (see Kaipa, The Flower Kings, The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dot, Jonas Reingold, Kaipa, Karmakanic, progressive metal, review, The Flower Kings
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Album review: HOUSE OF SHAKIRA – Sour Grapes
MelodicRock Records [Release date 26.08.16] Time doesn’t half fly as House Of Shakira have been around since 1991 and their classic ‘Lint’ album was released back in 1994 – every rock fan’s home should have a copy of that album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, House Of Shakira, melodic, review, rock, Sour Grapes
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Quick plays: CHANGE OF HEART, THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE
CHANGE OF HEART – Last Tiger Escape Music [Release date 22.07.16] Change Of Heart first appeared back in 1998 and released their last album way back in 2005 ‘Truth Or Dare’. They are back with their polished Brit AOR/melodic rock … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, Change Of Heart, gothic, Imagica, Last Tiger, melodic, review, rock, Thadeus Gonzalez, the Birthday Massacre
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Album review: BRIJITTE WEST & THE DESPERATE HOPEFULS – From NY With Love
www.pledgemusic.com Pledge Music is becoming the best way for bands to connect with fans and new album ‘From NY With Love’ from Brijitte West & The Desperate Hopefuls is a great example of an album funded by the people who … Continue reading
Album review: RUNNING WILD – Rapid Foray
SPV Records [Release date 26.08.16] On paper, 2012 looked like a great year for Herr Rolf Kasparek. Thirty six months after having disbanded Running Wild, a band whose influence in Heavy Metal is both well recorded and fairly undeniable, the singer/guitarist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Rapid Foray, review, rock, Running Wild
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Album review: ASSASSIN – License To Kill
Thanks to this little invention called the Internet I have managed to discover an amazing amount of music and bands – some of it stuff just hitting the shelves while others are items I’ve often heard or read about and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Assassin, classic, heavy metal, License To Kill, metal, NWOBHM, review
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Quick plays: ROGER ROGER
ROGER ROGER Fairweather Roger Roger? Two for the price of one? Well, almost as this Canadian folk/roots release features the Rogers twins Lucas and Madeline Roger. And in many ways it is an album of two parts with the songs … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Fairweather, folk, review, Roger Roger
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Album review: BILL WYMAN/RHYTHM KINGS – The Best Of
Edsel Records [Release date 29.07.16] Ask almost anyone to name three things about Bill Wyman, and the chances are you’ll get three of 1) Rolling Stone, 2) Mandy Smith, 3) (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star, and 4) Rhythm … Continue reading
Album review: MEDEVIL – Conductor Of Storms
[Release date 26.08.16] I am a metalhead. There are no two ways to put it. I’ve been a rabid worshipper of all things metal for pretty much my whole life. I love damn near every sub genre of metal and … Continue reading
Album review: 7HY – Stories We Tell
Lion’s Pride Music [Release date 19.08.16] When a band with history ends it is very tragic. Especially if the demise of that band involves an actual tragedy like illness or death. Under those circumstances a band is justified in moving … Continue reading
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Tagged 7HY, Alan Kelly, album, melodic, review, rock, Shawn Pelata, Shy, Steve Harris, Stories We Tell
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Album review: PARADOX – Pangea
AFM Records [Release date 03.06.16] German thrash band Paradox celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of their seventh studio “Pangea”. Surviving founding member Charly Steinhauer has been joined by an endless array of musicians since debut “Product of Imagination” … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM, album, Charly Steinhauer, Gus Drax, Kostas Milonas, Pangea, Paradox, review, Thrash, Tilen Hudrap
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Album review: URIAH HEEP – …Very ‘eavy … Very ‘umble/Anthology
BMG [Release date 16.09.16] Uriah Heep were to a large extent defined by their early 1970s albums – the 1970 debut, ‘Salisbury’ (1971) and – moreover – ‘Demons And Wizards’. Over the next twelve months or so a new reissue … Continue reading
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Album review: EVERGREY – The Storm Within
AFM Records [Release date 09.09.16] Evergrey very nearly called it a day a few years back but they regrouped with drummer Jonas Ekdahl and guitarist Henrik Danhage rejoining the band. 2014′s ‘Hymns For The Broken’ was a real return to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Evergrey, Floor Jansen, progressive, progressive metal, review, the Storm Within, Tom S Englund
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Album review: DENIAL – No Comment
Heaven and Hell Records [Release date 29.06.16] Old school Thrash Metal fans, especially those who are into finding those rare, obscure, and hard to find bands, need look no further for the coolest release of the year in this genre. … Continue reading →