Tag Archives: Frontiers Music

Album review : MATTADOR – III

Posted on June 14, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 19.06.26] Mattador are a Puerto Rican melodic rock band who were on the up and up, 1988 to 1995. They released two albums and toured with top bands like Aerosmith and Iron Maiden. Then they … Continue reading →

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Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)

Posted on June 10, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 29.05.26] George Lynch was always known for his incendiary axework in a live setting. Never straying too much from the album the song came from, but adding enough to make it seem fresh and new. … Continue reading →

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Album review : VANDEN PLAS – AcCult II

Posted on June 8, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.06.26] Some 30 years after the band’s Accult album, Vanden Plas follow through with their long promised second all acoustic effort. Stating the obvious perhaps, but the real test of a band is its ability to … Continue reading →

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Album review : ROBIN BECK – Living Proof

Posted on May 12, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 15.05.26] Despite releasing 11 albums, many of them just bristling with songs written by proven hit makers, Robin Beck has survived an absence of best selling music, beyond her debut single ‘The First Time’, in … Continue reading →

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Album review : JOHN CORABI – New Day

Posted on May 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 24.04.26] John Corabi is the ex man…ex Motley Crue, ex Ratt, ex Brides Of Destruction but not yet ex-frontman of The Dead Daisies, a band with a greater membership turnover than Deep Purple. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Album review : DEGREED – Curtain Calls

Posted on April 28, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date 24.04.26] Eighth full length album from respected Swedish Hard Rock band, Degreed…Robin Eriksson, Mats Eriksson, Mikael Blanc and Daniel Johansson. Their sound is impossible to categorise. Is it toughened up AOR, melodic hard rock, metallised hard rock … Continue reading →

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Album review : GENERATION RADIO – Take 2

Posted on April 22, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date: 24.04.26] “In the beginning of 2020, Generation Radio came together with the intent to form a band with a purpose — to bring classic 1980s rock back to life.” So says the band’s website. Formed by … Continue reading →

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Album review : CREYE – IV Aftermath

Posted on April 19, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 24.04.26] Scandi band Creye hit their stride with their fourth album, Aftermath, delivering melodic rock of depth and width, polished, full of neat gearshifts, and verses as strong as the choruses, just about. The fact … Continue reading →

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Album review : FIGHTER V – Deja Vu

Posted on April 6, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 10.04.26] We couldn’t help thinking that we’d heard this album somewhere before. Maybe it’ll come back to us. Deja Vu is the third album from Swiss melodic rock band, Fighter V. Emmo Acar (v), Lobe … Continue reading →

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Album review : MICHAEL SWEET – The Master Plan

Posted on April 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 03.04.26] The Master Plan is Michael Sweet’s tenth solo album. He’s yet to surpass his largely ignored Truth album from year 2000 (4 stars from Allmusic, Cross Rhythms, and Hard Roxx), but this one might … Continue reading →

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Album review : IGNESCENT – Eternal

Posted on March 15, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 20.03.26] Judge a hot band by the company they keep. Ignescent have opened for Flyleaf, Skillet, Stryper and many other headline metal/hard rock acts in recent years. You could hear the influences of these bands … Continue reading →

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Album review : VENUS 5 – The March Of The Venus 5

Posted on March 11, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date: 20.03.26] What’s so attractive about Venus 5’s second album is its refusal to choose one discrete genre, sub-genre, whatever. It dances around the fringes of pop metal, heavy metal and symphonic metal, all laced with tight … Continue reading →

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Album review : ASIA – Live In England

Posted on March 7, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.03.26] Set in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, at night the Trading Boundaries Café transforms into an award winning live music venue, hosting concerts from world class artists in an intimate setting. Not … Continue reading →

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Album review : BLACK SWAN – Paralyzed

Posted on February 24, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 27.02.26] Four years after Black Swan’s second album, Generation Mind, comes Paralyzed, with the four horsemen, Robin McAuley, Reb Beach, Jeff Pilson and Matt Starr riding quickly into view. So called “supergroups”, of which this … Continue reading →

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Album review : TEMPLE BALLS – s/t

Posted on February 8, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.02.26] Some of us have lived a sheltered life. Apparently “temple balls” are “one of the oldest varieties of medical marijuana”. Not a lot of people know that. And so a self titled release at … Continue reading →

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Album review : AUSTEN STARR – I Am The Enemy

Posted on February 5, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.02.26] The label have teamed new kid on the block, vocalist Austen Starr, with Joel (Revolution Saints/ Whitesnake) Hoekstra, and together they’ve written a bunch of edgy rock songs that allow both talents to shine. … Continue reading →

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Album review : GRAHAM BONNET – Lost In Hollywood Again (Live)

Posted on December 11, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.12.25] Old Rock Stars never die, and judging by Lost In Hollywood Again, they never fade away either. A 77 year old Graham Bonnet is testament to that. Recorded in the legendary Whisky A Go Go, … Continue reading →

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Album review : STRYPER – The Greatest Gift Of All

Posted on November 25, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 21.11.25] The Greatest Gift Of All is Stryper’s 16th studio album. The line up remains Michael Sweet, Robert Sweet, Oz Fox and Perry Richardson, solid for 8 years now. When we reviewed their last two … Continue reading →

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Album review : TREAT – The Wild Card

Posted on November 23, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 21.11.25] Wild Card is Swedish melodic rock band, Treat’s 10th studio album since the debut in 1985. They’ve enjoyed the same line up since reforming 20 years ago. There’s not a moment here that isn’t … Continue reading →

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Album review : CASSIDY PARIS – Bittersweet

Posted on November 19, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 21.11.25] Bittersweet is Australian songbird, Cassidy Paris’s second long player on the Frontiers Music label, a follow up to the debut, New Sensation. Paris was “discovered” in her youth, and subsequently mentored, by Paul (Danger … Continue reading →

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Album review : RONNIE ROMERO – Backbone

Posted on October 30, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 24.10.25] Over the last ten years, stints with pre-eminent rock artists like Schenker and Vandenberg, plus spells with Rainbow and Sunstorm have tended to overshadow Ronnie Romero’s solo stuff. When he released Raised on Radio (2022) … Continue reading →

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Album review : DEFECTO – Echoes Of Isolation

Posted on October 28, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 31.10.25] Strongly encouraged by famed producer, Flemming (Rainbow/ Metallica/ Pretty Maids/ Blind Guardian) Rasmussen, Danish singer/ guitarist/ songwriter, Nicklas Sonne put Defecto together in 2011. Echoes of Isolation is their fourth studio album, and the band … Continue reading →

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Album review : UNEN – Forever Winter

Posted on August 25, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 29.08.25] Broadly speaking, in English, the Finnish word “Unen” means “We stand united”. No surprise really. Arriving at a definitive line-up has taken time, and you could almost hear a joint sigh of relief from … Continue reading →

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Album review – DOUBLE VISION – S/T

Posted on July 8, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 11.07.25] For many years, Double Vision were a Foreigner covers band, as the band name might suggest. They’ve now been given the opportunity by the Frontiers’ label to make their own way. It’s fronted by … Continue reading →

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Album review : LAGUNA – The Ghost Of Katrina

Posted on July 6, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 11.07.25] A choir and a spoken word intro, in Spanish, introduces us to Mexico’s rock festival junkies, Laguna. And that’s the thing about putting the miles in. You learn what works and what doesn’t. Then … Continue reading →