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Album review: THREE ELEMENTS – Generation Y
Self release [Release date 20.06.15] Three Elements have apparently earned themselves the title of ‘the heaviest pop band of Switzerland’. Not too sure how much competition there is for this title but it does sum the band up nicely. Taking … Continue reading
Album review: THE POYNT – This Is American Royalty
Self release [Release date 02.01.15] The cult of the ‘celebrity’ is a strange phenomenon. It would appear that anyone can now become famous overnight regardless of what talent they possess with the rise of social media and reality TV and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alterbridge, Eduardo Alarcon, metal, review, rock, The Poynt, This Is American Royalty
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Album review: KORITNI – Night Goes On For Days
earMusic [Release date 04.09.15] Koritni is a new name to me which is quite surprising when you read the band’s biography. This is their fourth album and has been produced by Kevin Shirley. Kevin has previously worked with Iron Maiden … Continue reading
Quick plays: ORANGE OUTLAW, NEGACY, ARCHANGEL
ORANGE OUTLAW Desert Wolf Self release [Release date 01.03.15] Album covers can be deceiving at times, going by the lone wolf in the desert I had this pegged as a stoner rock workout, how wrong could I be! Orange Outlaw … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alterbridge, Archangel, Desert Wolf, Dirkjan de Wit, Dutch, Flames Of Black Fire, Iron Maiden, Merciful Fate, metal, Michael Brady, Negacy, Orange Outlaw, prog, review, rock, Slash, Sven Cornelisson, Tampa, Thrash
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Quick plays: TELERGY, TARJA TURUNEN
TARJA TURUNEN – Ave Maria earMusic [Release date 11.09.15] This is a big gamble for both Tarja and her record label, as even they have not released an all classical/crossover album as far as I am aware. On this album … Continue reading
Album review: INNER ODYSSEY – Ascension
Self-released [Release date: 16.06.15] Over the years, Canada has produced relatively few bands that have made any sort of impact on the world of progressive rock. If you put to one side Rush, Saga and, from the very early days, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Ascension, Canada, Inner Odyssey, prog, Progressive Rock, review
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Quick plays: MAD MAX, BLACK TRIP
BLACK TRIP – Shadowline SPV www.spv.de [Release date 28.08.15] Drawing heavily on the influences of very early Maiden and other NWOBHM band of that era and ilk, Sweden’s Black Trip have followed up 2014’s “Goin’ Under” with new release “Shadowline”. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Trip, Mad Max, melodic rock, metal, Michael Voss, review, rock, Shadowline, Storm & Passion, Thunder
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Album review: DELTA DEEP – Delta Deep
[Release date 23.06.15] I usually approach solo projects by artists from established bands with some degree of skepticism but Phil Collen has led me to re-appraise that approach. I think that’s because the songs on this exceptional album came out … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, David Coverdale, Def Leppard, Delta Deep, Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, review, rock, Whitesnake
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Album review: MANY THINGS – Burn Together
Indie [Release date 04.11.15] I first heard Many Things when they supported The Polyphonic Spree last year and they bowled me over with their quirky pop and ear for a good melody. The band consist of Michael Tomlinson (vocals/guitar), Macks … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Burn Together, electronic, Many Things, pop, review
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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: 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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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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