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Album review: SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – Good Evening Boys And Girls
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Quick plays: UGLY GUYS, JOEL SARAKULA, NOEGA, MAD CHICKENS
UGLY GUYS – Lost in the Badlands Angel Air www.angelair.co.uk The Ugly Guys feature Paul Shuttleworth and Vic Collins from the legendary 70’s pub rock band the Kursaal Flyers and the band take their name from a Kursaal Flyers song. … Continue reading
Album review: X CONTRACT – Territory:Hours
Phillipa Records [Release date 19.08.13] Given the Brits love affair with all things Danish after the great success of ‘The Killing’ TV crime series, X Contract should clean up. We really liked their debut in 2012 – ‘Dearest Dream’ – … Continue reading
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Album review: TARJA – Colours In The Dark
Ear Music [Release date 02.09.13] Tarja Turunen is back with her eagerly anticipated new solo album, her first album of new material since 2010’s ‘What Lies Beneath’. The musicians featured on the album include some notable names – Doug Wimbish … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Colours in the Dark, Nightwish, review, rock, symphonic metal, Tarja Turunen
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Album review: AIRBOURNE – Black Dog Barking
Roadrunner Album number three from Aussie rockers and AC/DC worshipers Airbourne. Their previous two albums were not too bad but lacked that certain something to keep me coming back to the albums. However on this album they may have just … Continue reading
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Album review: BONNIE TYLER – Rocks And Honey
Celtic Swan Recordings [Release date 6.05.13] Bonnie Tyler was asked back in the 1980s to represent the UK at Eurovision but politely declined. With success since those heady days coming primarily in Europe and relying heavily on past glories, she … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bonnie Tyler, David Huff, Desmond Child, Eurovision, Nashville, pop, review, rock, Rocks And Honey, Vince Gill
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Album review: THE WYNNTOWN MARSHALS – The Long Haul
Wynntown Recordings [Release date 15.07.13] Whether their album title is a play on The Eagles’ last long player of the 1970′s or not, there are distinct similarities in style between The Eagles West Coast country rock sound and that of … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, country, Eagles, review, rock, The Long Haul, The Wynntown Marsahals
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Album review: STONECRAFT – Behind The Door
www.stonecraftmusic.co.uk Behind The Door is the third album of acoustic, alternative, Celtic music from multi-instrumentalist singer / songwriter Andy Morgan, and singer / songwriter Viil Hov Fjose. And while Andy started out as a rock guitarist who developed an affinity … Continue reading
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Album review: FAY & LATTA – Beauty In Chaos
Avid GRTR! browsers may have spotted our 2009 review of Brit female fronted heavy rockers Exoterik’s ‘Butterfly In Your Hand’ – an album we saw as throwing down a gauntlet to the Evanescence pop / rock dynasty. We noted then, … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Anneka Latta, Beauty In Chaos, electro, Exoterik, Fay & Latta, review, rock, singer, songwriter
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Album review: QUEENSRYCHE – Queensryche
Century Media – [Release Date 24.06.13] There are undoubtedly many lessons one can learn in life, but the one I believe in most is not taking anything for granted, including in music. Take Seattle Prog Metallers Queensryche, for instance: if … Continue reading
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Album review – THE TOMMY FIAMMENGHI BAND – Into The Storm
Maxstorm Records (Release date – out now) Tommy Fiammenghi is an Italian singer/ guitarist who formed his band back in 2005. This album is the band’s second and it is a good listen. The four piece play … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Into The Storm. CD, Italian, prog, review, rock, The Tommy Fiammenghi Band
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Album review: SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – Earth Blues
Inside Out – Out Now. Michael Amott is better known as the guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of the Swedish Melodic Death Metal quintet Arch Enemy – a band that has been under the media spotlight for quite some … Continue reading
Quick plays: RUSS DWARF, THE LOOK, BLEEDING HANDS, SCOTT COOK
RUSS DWARF – Wireless www.russdwarf.com Singer Russ Dwarf found success in the 80’s fronting the Killer Dwarfs and their 1986 album ‘Stand Tall’ is one of those classic hard rock albums (I still have my vinyl copy!). This new solo … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Dancer And The Moon
Frontiers www.frontiers.it This is Blackmore’s Night eighth studio album and the band has been going for longer than Ritchie Blackmore’s time combined in Deep Purple and Rainbow now. Some Blackmore fans will still pine for these rock years, yet that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blackmore's Night, Candice Night, Deep Purple, folk, guitar, guitarist, medieval, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, rock
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Album review: HYPOCRISY – End Of Disclosure
Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Peter Tagtgren is one of the busiest men in the music business. When not offering his production skills to artists like Destruction, Marduk, Overkill and Amorphis (to name a few) or when he’s not touring … Continue reading
Album review: GIUNTINI PROJECT – IV
Escape Music www.escape-music.com Album number four from the project run by guitarist Aldo Giuntini and the first for Escape Music, the third album having been released by Frontiers back in 2006. Former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin is … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Sabbath, GIUNTINI PROJECT, IV, review, rock, Tony Martin, Whitesnake
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Album review: ANOUSCHKA – Hollywood Ending
My review of Anouschka’s My Kind Of Heartbreak album (2007) pretty much said all you need to know about a US army brat with a Swedish mother who by 16 had seen a lot of the world and started her … Continue reading
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Album review: TESS OF THE CIRCLE – Thorns
Cadiz Music [Release date 15.07.13] While British male singer songwriter Tess Jones’ debut Magpie (2010) was an introspective acoustic based set, his follow up sees the addition of ‘the Circle’ – a collective of musicians that bring the ‘sounds of … Continue reading
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Album review: JULIAN LENNON – Everything Changes
Music In Another Room [Release date 03.06.13] When it was originally released in October 2011 in the UK and Ireland, Julian Lennon’s sixth studio album failed to tickle the Top 100, and neither of the singles lifted from it – … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Beatles, Everything Changes, Julian Lennon, Mark Spiro, Paul Buchanan, Peter Vettese, pop, review, rock, Steven Tyler
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Album review: CASSIE TAYLOR – Out Of My Mind
Hypertension [Release date 13.05.13] Having served a 10 year apprenticeship playing bass and singing in her father, modern-day blues innovator Otis Taylor’s band, Cassie Taylor has paid her dues at the age of only 26. With one album already under … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Cassie Taylor, Otis Taylor, Out Of My Mind, review, rock
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Album review: AYNSLEY LISTER – Home
www.aynsleylister.co.uk [Release date 08.07.13] Despite starting off on his musical journey through the blues in the late 90’s ‘Home’ is amazingly his tenth album to date. Aynsley Lister is one of the current crop of young blues rock musicians breaking … Continue reading
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Album review: MOSS – Horrible Night
Rise Above – Out Now. The Bass guitar and Doom Metal are two concepts that seem to go hand-in-hand and are inter-connected to such an extent that one simply can’t imagine the one without the other. Well, the Southampton-based trio … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Doom Metal, Horrible Night, Moss, Olly Pearson, review, Stoner
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Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Electric Punishment
SPV – Out Now. Thirty three years is a long time for any band, especially one that has survived the death of a frontman and the departure of enough members to fill two whole basketball teams, and then some. In … Continue reading
Album review: JAPAETI – Abacus
Self Release (Release date – out now) Technical, progressive metal is a genre inhabited by musicians of undoubted talent and quite possibly a history of insanity within their family. Quite how a group of musos can sit … Continue reading
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Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Ugly Noise
Metal Blade – Out Now. The relationship between the Arisona-based Metallers Flotsam And Jetsan and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade Records has been marked by many highs and lows over the last three decades and the last time that these two … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Erik A.K, Flotsam And Jetsam, issue, metal, review, Ugly Noise
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Album review: INTRONAUT – Habitual Levitations
Century Media – Out Now. When it comes to choosing which albums to review for our site, the parameters I have set are actually pretty straightforward and simple: the more diverse, demanding and unique a band is the more inclined … Continue reading
