Tag Archives: Frontiers Music

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 →

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Album review : ETERNAL IDOL – Behind A Vision

Posted on July 4, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 11.07.25] Eternal Idol have had a brand refresh. Behind A Vision is a more considered album, incomparably better written and better acted out than Renaissance (2020), the band’s second and most recent album. And again, … Continue reading →

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Album review : INSANIA – The Great Apocalypse

Posted on June 16, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 13.06.25] Naming your album The Great Apocalypse leaves Insania with a lot to live up to. Still, there’s nothing wrong with ambition, naked or otherwise. It’s an interesting album, advertised as power metal. In fact the … Continue reading →

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Album review : INGLORIOUS – V

Posted on June 13, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 06.06.25] Inglorious’s unimaginatively titled fifth album sees bassman Colin Parkinson and singer Nathan James back together. (They resolved their differences over a pint, where else?) Joining them in this new iteration of the band are guitarist, … Continue reading →

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Album review : THE SPEAKER WARS – s/t

Posted on May 25, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 23.05.25] Writer/producer, Stan Lynch and singer/musician, Jon Christopher Davis crossed paths several years ago in Nashville. Songwriters both, they discovered an emotional connection, subsequently writing a bunch of songs together. This would eventually manifest itself as … Continue reading →

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Album review : CARE OF NIGHT – Live At The Sweden Rock Festival

Posted on March 23, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date: 28.03.25] With three highly rated Melodic Rock albums under their belt, Sweden’s Care Of Night were a welcome act at their home country’s annual Rock Festival last year. Along with others on Frontiers melodic rock roster, … Continue reading →

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Album review : W.E.T. – Apex

Posted on March 22, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] Fourth album from WET, whose ranks have swollen from three members to six. What was once Robert Sall (Work Of Art), Erik Martensson (Eclipse) and Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman), is now those three plus … Continue reading →

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Album review : GINEVRA – Beyond Tomorrow

Posted on March 21, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] The name of Swedish “supergroup”, Ginevra has its origins in the Celtic, Norman and Italian languages. Sources seem to settle on “White Phantom” as its meaning. This is the band’s second album. The band: … Continue reading →

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Album review : CRAZY LIXX – Thrill Of The Bite

Posted on February 8, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 14.02.25] Ninth album from Swedish Hard Rock band, Crazy Lixx, founded by singer / producer/ writer, Danny Rexon. Hard to believe they’ve been around since 2002. The opening three tracks ignite a full album’s worth … Continue reading →

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Album review: BRAZEN ABBOT : Eye Of The Storm and Bad Religion

Posted on December 1, 2024 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 13.12.24] Prior to his Rock Opera project, Nostradamus (2001), classically trained Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist, Nikolo Kotzev had founded Brazen Abbot. The band’s second and third releases, Eye Of The Storm (1996) and Bad Religion (1997), have now … Continue reading →

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Album review: BETWEEN WORLDS (feat Ronny Munroe) – Between Worlds

Posted on September 3, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers [release date: 10.09.21] Ronny Munroe, Alessandro Del Vecchio (Frontiers’ inhouse producer / writer / arranger) and Pete Alpenberg, now aka Between Worlds, have brought in the heavy artillery for this, their self titled debut. After ten years fronting Metal … Continue reading →

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Album review: FALSE MEMORIES – The Last Night Of Fall

Posted on April 30, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date 07.05.21] Guitarist, Francesco Savino founded False Memories in 2015, but it was only when he recruited vocalist, Rossella Moscatelli in 2018 that the band’s career gained some momentum. Subsequently, they were one of a mere handful of … Continue reading →

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Album review: SWEET OBLIVION (feat Geoff Tate) – Relentless

Posted on April 13, 2021 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 09.03.21] Another Italian job. The Sweet Oblivion (feat Geoff Tate) debut was co-written by Tate and DGM guitarist/producer, Simone Mularoni. Relentless is the follow up, and it’s been been co-written and produced by another multi-talented Italian … Continue reading →