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Album review: BLACK LABEL SOCIETY – Unblackened
Armoury Records [Release date 23.09.13] Recorded at the Club Nokia in Los Angeles this highlights Zakk Wylde and the Black Label Society in acoustic mode, well as acoustic as Zakk Wylde can get! Derek Sherinian (Black Country Communion/Dream Theater) is … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Unblackened, album, Black Label Society, Derek Sherinian, DVD, metal, Ozzy Osbourne, review, rock, unplugged, Zakk Wylde
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Album review: LISA CUTHBERT – Paramour
www.lisacuthbert.com This is Lisa Cuthbert’s second album and she is joined by various guests including Sisters Of Mercy’s Dave Creffield (she’s appeared live with them) and she has supported Marillion. The album is a moving concept piece based on the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Clannad, LISA CUTHBERT, Marillion, Paramour, review, singer songwriter, Sisters Of Mercy, Tori Amos
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Album review: BUCKCHERRY – The Best Of…
Eleven Seven Music (Release Date – out now) Before I tackled this review I read another review in the printed media with the strap line ‘Buckcherry – The Best Of.., this will be brief then…’ which was a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Buckcherry, CD, review, rock, The Best Of Buckcherry
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Album review: ALICE COOPER – Brutal Planet/Dragontown
Armoury Records [Release date 07.10.13] The Noughties saw a resurgence in form and popularity for Alice Cooper, culminating in 2009′s Along Came A Spider – an album which many pundits saw as an updating of his 1st ‘solo’ concept album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Armoury Classics, Brutal Planet, Dragontown, reissue, review, rock
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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Live At Montreux 1996 and 2006
Eagle Records [Release date 7.10.13] This packaging of three Deep Purple Montreux appearances is part of a new mid-price series ‘Eagle Classics’. And it’s a great way to catch up on favourite bands, especially if you didn’t shell out earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, 2006, album, concert, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Eagle Classics, Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord, Live At Montreux, review, rock, Roger Glover, Steve Morse
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Quick plays: SHADOW OF ACOLYTE, TERMINAL DEGREE, MALLET
www.facebook.com/shadowofacolyte [Release date 30.09.13] It’s always interesting to receive stuff by a young English hard rock band that you’ve never heard of. Formed in 2008, Shadow Of Acolyte hail from the East Midlands and is essentially Aaron Gidney (guitar and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Balance Of Power, Dignity, Faroe Islands, fusion, Gundacker Project, Hanoi Rocks, Jazz rock, Kevin Simnacher, Mallet, Nicene Creed, Pink Cigar, power metal, Quarter To Freedom, review, rock, Shadow Of Acolyte, sleaze rock, Stanley Chepaitis, Story Music, TEITUR, Terminal Degree, The Middle Of Nowhen, Van Dyke Parks, violin, Window Of Opportunity
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Album review: SAXON – Live In Germany 1991
Edsel Records [Release date 28.10.13] You could argue: why do we want another Saxon live album from a time when arguably they were past their peak? Don’t be so miserable. Recorded in Germany in 1991 the band had just recorded … Continue reading
Album review: STATUS QUO – In Search Of The Fourth Chord/Quid Pro Quo (reissues)
Edsel [Release date 28.10.13] There’s something quite irresistible about Quo, perhaps the more so since they’ve recently reformed with the classic line-up and re-discovered their seventies mojo. Yes, they have had their fair share of naff-ness (recently consolidated by their … Continue reading
Album & DVD review: JIMI HENDRIX – Hear My Train A Comin’/Miami Pop Festival
Sony Music [Release date 04.11.13] It’s several years now since the Hendrix back catalogue was acquired by Sony Music and since then together with the Hendrix Estate (Experience Hendrix) they have been reinventing the legendary performer via a series of … Continue reading
Album review: AYREON – The Theory Of Everything
Inside Out [Release date 28.10.13] Telling a story through music is a tried and tested method and is certainly as old as Rock itself. Examples are too many to mention, but the most celebrated works would undoubtedly have to be … Continue reading
Album review: ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN – Drive
Inside Out – Out Now I have always been a strong supporter of the idea that the boundaries which separate the average musician from the real artist are strict and always clearly defined. Those who belong in the former category … Continue reading
Album review: BADFINGER – Badfinger,Wish You Were Here,BBC In Concert
Edsel Records [Release date: 28.10.13] Badfinger represents one of the great tragi-histories of rock and the story is outlined again in Alan Robinson’s liner notes within this latest package. The band were one of the first signings to the Beatles … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Apple, Badfinger, Beatles, Chris Thomas, Edsel, In Concert At The BBC 1972-3, pop, reissue, review, rock, Wish You Were Here
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Album review: THE FLOWER KINGS – Desolation Rose
Inside Out – Out Now. It was almost a year ago that I was granted a thoroughly delightful and highly entertaining interview with Roine Stolt during which I openly questioned his priorities by stating that having a band like The … Continue reading
Album review: AOR – The Secrets Of LA
AOR Heaven [Release date 02.12.13] Having reviewed – somewhat disparingly I know (A slamming of Slama?) – Frederic Slama’s last offering (LA Temptation) and those of his protégées Chasing Violets – could this latest album redeem the “veteran” LA-based French-born … Continue reading
Album review: STRYPER – No More Hell To Pay
Frontiers [Release date 04.11.13] Stryper were never one of my favourite Christian rock bands back in the days when I would seek out the new releases by Petra, Bloodgood, White Heart, X-Sinner and White Cross. The glammed up “guys” (from … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Christian rock, No More Hell To Pay, review, Stryper, white metal
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Quick Plays: ANTLERED MAN, WINDRUNNERS, PATRIOT REBEL, DEADLY CIRCUS FIRE
ANTLERED MAN – The Devil Is Them New Heavy Sounds (Release date – out now) This is the second album from the London quartet Antlered Man. The four piece released their debut album last year to great reviews and toured … Continue reading
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: 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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News: JOEY TEMPEST of EUROPE talks about the band and the new album Live At Sweden Rock
Photo: Simon Dunkerley The Songwriters – Joey Tempest Sunday 20 October 2013, 22:00 GMT This Sunday, David Randall chats to Europe frontman JOEY TEMPEST about the band’s rise and rise, on the eve of the release of the band’s latest … Continue reading
