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Album review : PRIDE OF LIONS – Unbridled
Frontiers Music [Release Date : 10.07.26] Pride Of Lions remain Jim (Survivor) Peterik’s band, with Toby Hitchcock on vocals and Mike Aquino on guitar. Aquino’s explosive intro to ‘Unbridled’, this new album’s opening track, might remind you of Giant and … Continue reading
Album review : STATUS QUO – The Early Years Vol 2 (1970-72) 5 CD Boxset
Cherry Red [Release date : 03.07.26] Status Quo’s past, present and future promise seemed to be crammed in to 3 short years, 1970-72. In their early years, for what turned out to be one of the UK’s most durable bands, … Continue reading
Album review : NINA ANTONIA AND THE LUNAR MOTHS – Dropping Like Butterflies
Creation Youth [Release date 26.06.26] Released via Alan McGee’s Creation Youth imprint, this is the first album from Antonia, an acclaimed English author, and it arrives with strong countercultural credentials and a clear commitment to literary ambition. The problem is … Continue reading
Album review – PALLAS – The Midas Touch Boxset (8CDs+DVD)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.06.26] Once upon a time there were two bands called Rainbow. Ritchie Blackmore won the toss, and the other changed their name to Pallas. This was 1974. Two years ago Cherry Red released a 6CDs … Continue reading
Album review : MASTERPLAN – Metalmorphosis
Frontiers Music [Release date : 26.05.26] There’s power metal bands and there’s Masterplan. Never getting the credit they deserve. It began life as a splinter group. Founders, Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow were originally a key part of Helloween, leaving … Continue reading
Album review : NAZARETH – Born Under The Wrong Sign (5 CD Boxset, 1976-79)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.06.26] The seventies were Classic Rock’s golden years. And this boxset is rock ‘n’ roll gold. Five remastered Nazareth albums from 1976-1979. With an abundance of bonus tracks. CD1 : Close Enough For Rock ‘n’ … Continue reading
Album review : MATTADOR – III
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
Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)
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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Tagged Frontiers Music, Gabriel Colon, George Lynch, hard rock, Jimmy Danda, live, Lynch Mob, review
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Album review : VANDEN PLAS – AcCult II
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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Tagged AcCult II, acoustic, Andreas Lill, Andy kuntz, Frontiers Music, metal, review, Stephan Lill, VANDEN PLAS
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Album review : SPREAD EAGLE – The Brutal Divine
Frontiers Music [Release date : 12.06.26] This is US rock band, Spread Eagle’s fourth album in 25 years, and second album on the Frontiers’ label, not very hard on the heels of 2019’s rather good Subway To The Stars. Ray … Continue reading
EP Review : THE 69 EYES – I Survive
BLKIIBLK Records [Release Date : 05.06.26] The world’s longest lasting glam/rock/goth band, the 69 Eyes, have been going for more than than 30 years, with the same personnel. Must be doing something right. The aptly titled I Survive is a … Continue reading
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Tagged BLKIIBLK, EP, Finnish, Glam/ Goth/ Rock, Jyrki69, review, The 69 Eyes
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Album review : QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE – Who Do You Love? The Recordings 1967-1972 (7CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date 29.05.26] Quicksilver Messenger Service – yet another of the “summer of love”s musical heroes – bubbles back to the classic rock surface. These are the real heroes, an authentic rock band who, for better or worse, … Continue reading
Album review : MARTIN PAGE – The First And Last Freedom
IroningBoard Records [Release date 01.04.26] On his 11th album now, successful songwriter (‘These Dreams’, ‘We Built This City’, ‘King Of Wishful Thinking’ and many more) Martin Page’s softly softly approach to his own material remains untouched. He tells us : … Continue reading
Album review : BRIAN ROBERTSON – Diamonds And Dirt (2 CD Reissue)
Cherry Red [Release date 29.05.26] Scottish guitarist/ songwriter Brian Robertson played on what were arguably Thin Lizzy’s top 5 studio albums. Over a four year period, 1974-78, he contributed as guitarist and co-writer with Phil Lynott on Nightlife, Fighting, Jailbreak, … Continue reading
Album review : FAITH NYC – Love Is A Wish Away
Bandcamp [Release date : 15.05.26] Faith NYC is immensely talented singer/ writer/ bass player, Felice Rosser. “Felice Rosser brought her Detroit ears to punk, having been teethed on Motown. Reggae became a powerful influence too” (Rolling Stone/ New York Times … Continue reading
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Tagged Bandcamp, blues, Detroit, Faith NYC, Felice Rosser, Justin Adams, Love Is A Wish Away, New York, punk, rock'n'roll
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Album review : THE 5th DIMENSION – Let The Sunshine In – The Soul City and Bell Albums (6CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date 29.05.26] The 5th Dimension, five vocalists, three male, two female, burst onto the US music scene in 1966. Nobody comes from nowhere of course, no matter what the media headlines might say. Each one, Jimmy Davis, … Continue reading
Album review : ROBIN BECK – Living Proof
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
Album review : FRONTLINE – Rebirth
Frontiers [Release date : 15.05.26] Calling your new album Rebirth, 20 years after your last release, seems quite an understatement. But still, Frontline wade back out confidently into melodic rock’s fast flowing waters. Many have attempted the same kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Muhlroth, Frontiers, Frontline, melodic rock, Rebirth, review, Robert Bobel, Stephan Kammerer
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Album review : VON GROOVE – Born To Rock
Frontiers Music [Release date : 15.05.26] There can be few more explosive opening tracks than Von Groove’s ‘Once Is Not Enough’ from their self titled debut, 1992. 30 years later : they’ve got the band back together – Michael Shotton, … Continue reading
Album review : JOHN CORABI – New Day
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
Album review : DEGREED – Curtain Calls
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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Tagged AOR, Curtain Calls, Degreed, Frontiers Music, hard rock, Mats Eriksson, review, Robin Eriksson, Swedish
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Album review : GENERATION RADIO – Take 2
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
Album review: SOMETHING FOR THE LONGING – Scottish Independent Pop 1985-1999 (3 CDs)
Cherry Red [Release Date : 24.04.26] Compiled by Scottish film director, cinematographer and writer, Grant McPhee, Something For The Longing is a deep dive into “Scottish Independent Pop”. A 15 year, widescreen snapshot taken as the 20th Century was coming … Continue reading
Album review : CREYE – IV Aftermath
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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Tagged Aftermath, Andreas Gulstrand, AOR, Boybands, Creye, Frontiers Music, melodic rock, review
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Album review : JACK BRUCE – Halfway To The Stars – The Recordings 2001-2003 (5 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 24.04.26] Shadows In The Air (2001) More Jack Than God (2003) Live At The Milky Way part 1 (2001, with the Cuicoland Express) Live At The Milky Way part 2 (2001, with the Cuicoland Express) … Continue reading
