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Album review : ROCK-OUT Let’s Call It Rock’n’Roll

Posted on April 6, 2025 by brianmc
Gatefold Vinyl Rock-Out Lets Call It 2025.indd

Frontiers Music [Release date : 11.04.25] Third album from Swiss band, Rock-Out. I know, let’s sign a band who sound a bit like AC/DC, a bit like Accept, and a lot like Krokus. It’s a pretty limited soundscape, especially as … Continue reading →

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Album review : STORACE – Live And Let Live (plus bonus live CD)

Posted on December 7, 2024 by brianmc
STORACE – Live And Let Live

Frontiers [Release date : 13.12.24] Marc Storace’s Live and Let Live is an album born in the depths of the Covid pandemic. Skipping through the “singer meets musician, they swap ideas” part of the plot, the album was eventually recorded … Continue reading →

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Album review: BURNING WITCHES – s/t

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Davoski
BURNING WITCHES – s/t

BW Records/Non-Stop Music [Release date: 29.05.17] It’s a shame about the hackneyed packaging of this all-girl Swiss metal band as leather-clad goddesses and the ridiculously-penned demonic and dark subject material. Because beneath all that vaguely comedic chaff, there are some … Continue reading →

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Album review: BRIAN MAILLARD – Reincarnation

Posted on July 19, 2014 by GRTR! HQ
Brian Maillard - Reincarnation

www.brianmaillard.com [Release date: 01.02.14] Brian Mailliard is an accomplished guitarist who came to wider attention with the band Solid Vision and perhaps more widely with the ill-fated if rather good Dominici albums (2005-7) fronted by original Dream Theater vocalist Charlie … Continue reading →

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Album Review: KROKUS – Long Stick Goes Boom (Live from Da House of Rust)

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Davoski
KROKUS - Long Stick Goes Boom (Live from Da House of Rust)

Sony Music [Out now] For sheer endurance, belligerence and tenacity, these Swiss rockers deserve a rather large gong. The best thing to come out of Berne since holey cheese, Krokus are now into their 40th year, still serving up fat slabs … Continue reading →

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Album review: GOTTHARD – Bang!

Posted on March 13, 2014 by jason

Pias www.gotthard.com [Released 01.04.14] Solid hard rock is not something you associate with Switzerland, but Gotthard are one of Switzerland’s most successful bands. This is their 11th studio album, and second with vocalist Nic Maeder (after the death of original … Continue reading →

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Album review: TICKET TO THE MOON – Dilemma On Earth

Posted on June 25, 2013 by alanjones

      Brennus Music – Released November 2012 The tidal wave of superlative progressive rock emanating from continental Europe shows no sign of dissipating anytime soon and, for all aficionados of the genre, surfboards should be waxed-up and this … Continue reading →

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