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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: STRATOVARIUS – Eternal
earMUSIC [Release date 11.09.15] Amazingly this is the band’s sixteenth studio album and they have been around since the mid-80′s, although the present line-up has no original members. Vocalist Timo Kotipelto has also been busy with Cain’s Offering who released … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cain’s Offering, Eternal, melodic, metal, progressive, review, rock, Stratovarius, Timo Kotipelto
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Album review: THE ALARM – Strength (30th anniversary)
The Twenty First Century Recording Company [Released 02.10.15] For the thirtieth anniversary of this classic Alarm album Mike Peters has gone and re-recorded the whole album. Not only that, the lyrics have been updated in many cases and he has … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th anniversary, album, alternative, classic, Mike Peters, re-recording, review, rock, Strength, The Alarm
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Album review: RAINBURN – Canvas Of Silence
Self released [Release Date: 31.10.14] Progressive rock music has rarely been in ruder health than it is at present, with exceptional music arriving from all corners of the globe – both to rattle the cage of complacency of western Europe’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Canvas Of Silence, India, Progressive Rock, Rainburn, review
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Album review: THORNE – At The Edge
CD Baby [Release date 20.06.15] Thorne is an international combo spanning three continents, whose members have never met. They are a prog and classic rock band with psychedelic edges, who met on line via the music collaboration site http://www.kompoz.com and … Continue reading
Album review: DAN DOIRON – Stand Back I Don’t Know How Loud This Thing Gets
Dan Doiron [Release Date 14.05.15] Every once in a while you stumble across a blues album that makes you wonder why you hadn’t come across the artist before. And with a title like ‘Stand Back I Don’t Know How Loud … Continue reading
Album review: FUSONIC – Fields Of No Man’s Land
DMI Records [Release Date 22.06.15] Fusonic is a Dutch symphonic prog rock band whose second album draws on the prog rock giants of the past and reaches for a new musical vocabulary for the present. The fact they don’t quite … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Camel, ECM, Eno, Fields of No Man's Land, Focus, Frank Zappa, Fusonic, Harry Ickelsheimer, Paul van der Feen, Pink Floyd, review, Ronald Hoogwourt, Teo
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Album review: LYNCH MOB – Rebel
Frontiers Records [Release Date 21.08.15] Former Dokken guitarist George Lynch is in extremely prolific form after an up and down career. Less than a year ago came a mini album under the Lynch Mob banner, ‘Sun Red Sun’, then his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, Dokken, Frontiers Records, George Lynch, hard rock, Jeff Pilson, Lynch Mob, Oni Logan, review
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Album review: W ANGEL’S CONQUEST – Taste Of Life
Ferrum [Release date 08.06.15] This is the 5th album release from W Angel’s Conquest, Ukraine’s oldest power metal outfit apparently, I will take their word for that. Formed back in 1996 by guitarist W Angel this album is being hailed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, power metal, review, symphonic metal, Taste Of Life, Ukraine, W Angel's Conquest
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Album review: GHOST – Meliora
Spinefarm [Release date 21.08.15] Ghost have always been a bit of a Marmite band, people tend to love or hate them. I first encountered the band a few years ago supporting Trivium and having seen the pictures and the image, … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Ha, album, CD, Ghost, Meliora, metal, Papa Emeritus III, prog, review, rock, Trivium
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Album review: MOTORHEAD – Bad Magic
UDR [Release date 28.08.15] When I reviewed the last Motorhead album ‘Aftershock’ a couple of years back I did think that it was going to be the band’s swansong due to Lemmy’s ongoing health issues. Lemmy though has stuck two … Continue reading
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Tagged Aftershock, album, Bad Magic, blues, Brian May, CD, Glastonbury, Lemmy, metal, Mikkey Dee, Motorhead, Phil Campbell, review, rock
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Album review: CONSTANCIA – Final Curtain
MelodicRock Records [Release date 10.07.15] Swedish melodic rock band Constancia are back with their sophomore album ‘Final Curtain’ a full 6 years after their debut ‘Lost and Gone’ was released back in 2009. The band was formed back in 2007 … Continue reading
Album review: PALACE OF THE KING – White Bird/Burn the Sky
http://www.palaceofthekingmusic.com/ Let’s just cut to the chase – this is indeed yet another darn good album from down under – Aussie rockers, Palace of the King’s’ debut full album “White Bird/Burn The Sky” gets a very strong 4 out of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic, Deep Purple, hard rock, Palace of the King, Rainbow, review, rock, White Bird/Burn the Sky
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Album review: THE DELTA SAINTS – Bones
earMUSIC/Loud And Proud Records [Release date 04.09.15] Nashville-based The Delta Saints’ new album Bones, strips the band’s roots/blues sound down to its essence, blending rock ‘n’ roll, country, R&B, soul and gospel, exploring territory not unfamiliar with that trodden by … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bones, review, rock, southern rock, The Delta Saints
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Quick plays: THE GRAHAMS, MAURA KENNEDY, GILLIAN GLOVER
THE GRAHAMS Glory Bound 12 South Records [Release date 02.10.15] Husband and wife Americana duo Alyssa and Doug Graham follow up their 2013 debut Riverman’s Daughter with the dual release of their studio album Glory Bound, and Rattle The Hocks … Continue reading
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Tagged album, country, Crimson Chrysalis, Enraptured, folk, Gillian Glover, Glory Bound, Heart Of Gotham, It's What The Dog Saw, Maura Kennedy, Pete Kennedy, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Still Life With Music, The Grahams, Vienna D'Amato Hall, Villanelle
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Album review: GREG LAKE – London ’81
Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra Records [Release date 21.08.15] Now here’s an interesting find from the back pages of Greg Lake’s illustrious career. Recorded in 1981 with Gary Moore on guitar it is more than just a curios. Two years after ELP split, … Continue reading
Quick plays: MOLTEN TRAIL, FOREST FIELD, MURDER MY SWEET, THIRD LUNG
MOLTEN TRAIL – Striving For The Sky Defox/Heart Of Steel Circles This is the project of Lithuanian keyboard maestro Vytautas Diskevicius, who has been playing and performing in Lithuania and this includes being part of former Uriah Heep vocalist John … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Angelica Rylin, Angels?, Beth Out Of Hell, China White, Daniel Flores, Erik 'EZ' Blomkvist, Forest Field, keyboards, metal, Molten Trail, MURDER OF MY SWEET, Peter Cox, Phil Vincent, prog, review, rock, Seven Thorns, Striving For The Sky, Third Lung, Vytautas Diskevicius
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Album review: IMMENSION – In Vain
Self Release (Release date 15.06.15) Hailing from the steeltown of Sheffield seems somewhat apt as Immension are all about the metal. The trio sound as if they have been raised on a diet of Metallica, Trivium and In Flames to … Continue reading
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Tagged album, IMMENSION, In Vain. CD, Jake Kearsley, metal, Metallica, review, rock, Sheffield, Thrash, Trivium. Tim Dolan
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Album review: ROYAL QUEST – The Tale Of Man
Self Release ( Release date 22.05.15) This concept album is the brain child of guitarist and vocalist Yiannis Androulakakis and bass player Dennis Bekatoros and has been many years in the making. The two got together in 1999 and planned … Continue reading
Album review: ROBERT CRAY – 4 Nights of 40 Years Live
Mascot [Release date 04.09.15] In an age where volume, speed and showmanship dominate, Robert Cray is here to remind us of the value of heartfelt lyrics, a resonant tone and a soulful singer’s ability to explore every nuance of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 Nights of 40 Years Live, Albert Collins, album, B.B. King, blues, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, David Porter, Eric Clapton, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Isaac Hayes, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Louis Walker, Kim Wilson, Otis Rush, review, Richard Cousins, Robert Cray, Sam Cooke, soul, Steve Jordan, Willie Mitchell
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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Oblivion Particle
Inside Out [Release date 21.08.15] The second studio album to feature vocalist Ted Leonard (Enchant) and drummer Kimmy Keegan, the band’s twelfth studio album overall, and one of their more instantly accessible albums of recent years. There is the lead … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Morse, album, Enchant, Inside Out, prog, review, rock, Spock's Beard's, Ted Leonard, The Oblivion Particle
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Album review: STATUS QUO – The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980
Universal [Release date 14.08.15] If classic Status Quo were personified by denim rather than leather, they were also defined by vinyl rather than CD. It may be somewhat bizarre that 40 plus years after the original release of the earliest … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blue For You, boxed set, Hello, If You Can't Stand The Heat, Just Supposin', live, On The Level, Piledriver, Quo, review, Rockin' All Over The World, Status Quo, The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980, Whatever You Want
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Album review: DAMN DICE – The Great Unknown
Self Release ( release date 24.08.15) In a world of screaming tortured vocals and riffs that sound like a rockfall in a quarry it’s good to find a band who are happy to play honest, melodic … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, Damn Dice, LA Guns, metal, review, rock, Skid Row, The Great Unknown
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Album review: NEWMAN – The Elegance Machine
AOR Heaven [Released 31.08.15] Steve Newman is back with his band Newman and joining him are his long term drummer Rob McEwen and on backing vocals Geoff Wootton and Mark Thompson-Smith (who worked with Steve Newman on the criminally underrated … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, AOR Heaven, melodic, NEWMAN, review, rock, Steve Newman, The Elegance Machine
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Album review: CHRIS CORNELL – Euphoria Mourning
[Released 14.08.15] Albums are re-released for various reasons; perhaps a record label take-over results in more marketing budget being dedicated to an album that wasn’t originally pushed that hard. Oftentimes, the latent resurgence of an artist’s popularity facilitates a re-issue … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Cornell, Euphoria Mourning, re-issue, review, solo album, Soundgarden
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Album review: BRET COATS – Music For The People
Bret Coats [Release date 04.07.15] ‘Music For The People’ finds respected sideman Bret Coats in unfamiliar territory as a poacher turned gamekeeper. He cleverly draws on diverse, but related music styles to shape his own … Continue reading
