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Album review: JONO – Requiem
www.jontheband.se Another great musical discovery from Sweden. Jono are centred around vocalist Johan Norrby who is joined by Within Temptation guitarist Stefan Hellebald and drummer Nicka Hellenberg, who appeared on the last Within Temptation album. Completing the line-up are Johan … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Freddie Mercury, Jono, pomp rock, Queen, Requiem, review, Stefan Hellebald, Swedish, symphonic metal, Within Temptation
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Album Review: JEFF HEALEY BAND – Live From NYC
Eagle Rock [Release Date: 14.10.13] It’s beginning to look like every time Jeff Healey walked onto a stage that someone, somewhere was recording the event for posterity. In the last four years alone there’s been ‘Songs From The Road’, ‘Live … Continue reading
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Tagged 1988, album, blues, guitar, guitarist, Jeff Healey, Jeff Healey Band, Live From NYC, review, rock
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Quick Plays: BLACK SUCCUBI, KILLER BEE, STUNTMAN MIKE, HELHORSE
BLACK SUCCUBI – Eye Of The Beholder Gateway Music (Release Date – out now) These Danish rockers have been together since 2005 and have undergone a number of line-up changes in their time together. This is the band’s second album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, BLACK SUCCUBI, Evolutionary Children, Eye Of The Beholder, HELHORSE, indie, KILLER BEE, metal, Oh Death, review, rock, STUNTMAN MIKE, Triangles
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ELECTRO-NOMICON – Unleashing The Shadows
No Remorse Records (Release date – out now) To many lovers of rock the passing of the great Ronnie James Dio was a sad day. The man had a unique power, strength and depth to his voice … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, Electro-Nomicon, metal, review, rock, Ronnie James Dio, Unleashing The Shadows
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Album Review: TIDES FROM NEBULA – Eternal Movement
Longbranch Records [Release Date: 07.10.13] I was beginning to think that I was getting to know everything there was to know about Polish progressive rock and its (somewhat understated) importance in the contemporary progressive rock landscape. Bands … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anathema, art rock, Eternal Movement, Poland, progressive, review, Tides From Nebula
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Album review: EYEVORY – Euphobia
[Release date 06.05.13] Rob Reed might think that with Magenta’s latest offering that he’s produced a prog album with a capital P. But Bremen based Evevory’s debut long player shows that in prog terms, Teutonic build quality exceeds that of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Euphobia, Eyevory, German, Germany, melodic, pop, prog, progressive, review, rock
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Album review: IRON MASK – Fifth Son Of Winterdom
AFM Records www.afmrecords.de Iron Mask are another new band on me though Fifth Son of Winterdoom is their fifth studio release following on from Revenge Is My Name (2002), Hordes of the Brave (2005), Shadow of the Red Baron (2010) … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM Records, album review, Fifth Son Of Winterdom, Iron Mask, metal, power metal
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Quick plays: BLACK RAINBOWS, NEVER TRUST, TIM GRIMM, JADED HEART
BLACK RAINBOWS – Holy Moon (EP) Heavy Psych Sounds Something in the Italian water as they not only produce a series of fine melodic rock/AOR bands but now have some rather good stoner/psych rock bands including this band Black Rainbows. … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, AOR, BLACK RAINBOWS, EP, Fastball Music, High Bar Gang, Holy Moon, Italian, Italy, Jaded Heart, Lost And Undone, MASTERPLAN, melodic metal, metal, Morning Light, Never Trust, roots, Tim Grimm, Turning Point
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Album review: TEARS FOR FEARS – The Hurting (30th anniversary edition)
Universal (3CD/DVD set) A real treat for Tears For Fears fans as this four disc set contains a DVD of the band’s 1984 show at the Hammersmith Odean; the original album; a disc of BBC sessions and a disc of … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th anniversary, 80s, album, classic album, Curt Smith, electronic, pop, review, rock, Roland Orzabal, Tears For Fears, The Hurting
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Album Review: THE BLOCKHEADS – Same Horse Different Jockey
Self release [Release Date: 23.11.13] It’s 36 years since The Blockheads first hit the road to stardom and 13 years since Ian Dury died. And on the evidence of this album, the band appears to be far better positioned … Continue reading
Album Review: P-A-U-L LAMB & THE DETROIT BREAKDOWN – Ready Fire Aim
E E Records [Release Date: 04.11.13] P-A-U-L Lamb & The Detroit Breakdown certainly live up to their name. Given their prickly urban rock, funk, soul and bluesy tinged style, they fit perfectly into the city’s musical landscape. Their songs are heartfelt, uncompromising … Continue reading
Album Review: STONEY CURTIS BAND – Halo Of Dark Matter
Blues Bureau [Release Date: 08.10.13] Everything in rock-blues guitarist Stoney Curtis’s world appears to be lyrically refracted through a gloomy lens, or as his album title suggests, a ‘Halo Of Dark Matter’. But it’s also a guitar album that positively … Continue reading
Album Review: RPWL – A Show Beyond Man And Time
Metal Mind [Release Date: 07.10.13] My review of German neo-progressive RPWL’s 2012 album ‘Beyond Man And Time’ earned itself a five star review for its stellar musicianship and outstanding instrumental composition and songwriting – although I did cast doubt on … Continue reading
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Tagged A Show Beyond Man And Time, album, Germany, prog, Progressive Rock, Ray Wilson, review, RPWL
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Album Review: GROOVE-A-MATICS – Keep It Clean
Self release [Release Date: 02.09.13] Newcastle’s Groove-A-Matics wear their musical influences on their sleeve. The band’s name is writ large on the opening groove of ‘Way Of The World’, which could easily fit into an early Fab-T Birds album. Impressive … Continue reading
Album Review: STEVEN WILSON – Drive Home
Kscope [Release Date: 21.10.13] What a busy boy Steven Wilson is these days. Fresh from the release earlier this year of his third solo album ‘The Raven That Refused To Sing’, the release of the fourth Blackfield album and his … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Drive Home, Guthrie Govan, Nick Beggs, Porcupine Tree, Progressive Rock, review, Steven Wilson
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Album review: DEL BROMHAM – Nine Yards
Angel Air [Release date: 02.09.13] Del Bromham is best known for his output with Stray. Hook-laden bluesy hard rock, Stray had their heyday in the mid-70’s. Despite some decent selling albums, mainstream success seemed to evade them. Bromham has kept … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, DEL BROMHAM, guitar, guitarist, Nine Yards, review, rock, Stray
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Album review: DIZZYBLOOM – Heroes For Ghosts/Oceans
I don’t know what I was expecting from a band called Dizzybloom formed in Austin, Texas in 1995. But what it wasn’t, was a British sounding female fronted melodic post-prog band vying for the space occupied, in the UK at … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Amy Whitcomb, Dizzybloom, Heroes For Ghosts, Ocenas, review, rock, soft rock
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Album review: RORY GALLAGHER – Kickback City/Live In Cork
Sony Music [Release date 28.10.13] This release is a rather interesting twist on an artist’s legacy. In recent years we’ve been treated to definitive remastered albums under the careful eye of Rory’s younger brother Donal but ‘Kickback City’ is an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1987, Aidan Quinn, album, audio, blues, book, Cork Opera House, crime, DC Comics, DVD, film noir, graphic novel, guitarist, Ian Rankin, Kickback City, Rebus, review, rock, Rory Gallagher, Timothy Truman
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Album review: THE LUCID DREAM – Songs of Lies and Deceit
Holy Are You Recordings [Release date 01.10.13] A joyous little collection of reverb mayhem. ‘Songs of Lies and Deceit’ is rooted securely in the quality pop jangle of The Stone Roses and the Jesus and Mary Chain. The Lucid Dream … Continue reading
Album review: IN THE SILENCE – A Dream Gone Mad
Sensory [Release date 27.01.14] An interesting new band. In The Silence, hailing from Sacremento, California, have released their first full-length album of dark, doom, prog crossover material. ‘A Dream Gone Mad’ is an album of two halves in many ways. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dream Gone Mad, album, Doom Metal, IN THE SILENCE, progressive metal, review, Sensory
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Album review: ALTER BRIDGE – Fortress
Roadrunner [Release date 25.09.13] After their well received ‘III’ album and Myles Kennedy gaining yet more exposure as part of Slash’s band, Alter Bridge are back and the expectations are high for this new album. Fear not as they have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, ALTER BRIDGE, Fortress, Mark Tremonti, Myles Kennedy, review, rock, Slash
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Album review: COLDSPELL – Frozen Paradise
Escape Music www.escape-music.com Album number three from ColdSpell and Tommy Hansen (Helloween/Pretty Maids) is again at the mixing desk. Good to see the keyboards and Hammond playing of Matti Eklund higher in the mix and like the Pretty Maids the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Coldspell, Escape Music, Frozen Paradise, Gotthard, hard rock, melodic metal, melodic rock, Pretty Maids, review, Sweden, Tommy Hansen
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Album review: LAYLA ZOE – The Lily
Cable Car Records [Release date: 30.o8.13] Canadian blues singer Layla Zoe offers a highly personal take on the blues. She’s a confident singer with an expansive range, who finds the perfect foil in the shape of German blues guitarist and … Continue reading
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Tagged acapella, blues, Canadian, Henrik Freischlader, Janis Joplin, Layla Zoe, Neil Young, review, rock, The Lily
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Album review: CHEMIA – The One Inside
DCM Records [Release date: 04.11.13] Poland is something of a hotbed for progressive rock, it is therefore somewhat surprising when you hear an absolutely cracking album from a Polish band which sounds like it could have been conceived in a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, alternative, Chemia, Poland, review, rock, The One Inside
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Album review: HENRIK FREISCHLADER BAND – Live In Concerts
Cable Car [Release date: 28.10.13] It says something for Henrik Freischlader’s ability to captivate and enthral us with his guitar led, groove laden blues-rock that he is confident enough to release a live 4 CD box set. He’s already released … Continue reading
