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Album review – THE TOMMY FIAMMENGHI BAND – Into The Storm

Posted on June 12, 2013 by david.wilson

Maxstorm Records (Release date – out now) Tommy Fiammenghi is an Italian singer/ guitarist who formed his band back in 2005. This album is the band’s second and it is a good listen. The four piece play … Continue reading →

Album review: SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – Earth Blues

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Yiannis

Inside Out – Out Now. Michael Amott is better known as the guitarist, main songwriter and founding member of the Swedish Melodic Death Metal quintet Arch Enemy – a band that has been under the media spotlight for quite some … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: RUSS DWARF, THE LOOK, BLEEDING HANDS, SCOTT COOK

Posted on June 11, 2013 by jason

RUSS DWARF – Wireless www.russdwarf.com Singer Russ Dwarf found success in the 80’s fronting the Killer Dwarfs and their 1986 album ‘Stand Tall’ is one of those classic hard rock albums (I still have my vinyl copy!). This new solo … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLACKMORE’S NIGHT – Dancer And The Moon

Posted on June 10, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it This is Blackmore’s Night eighth studio album and the band has been going for longer than Ritchie Blackmore’s time combined in Deep Purple and Rainbow now. Some Blackmore fans will still pine for these rock years, yet that’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: HYPOCRISY – End Of Disclosure

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Yiannis

Nuclear Blast – Out Now. Peter Tagtgren is one of the busiest men in the music business. When not offering his production skills to artists like Destruction, Marduk, Overkill and Amorphis (to name a few) or when he’s not touring … Continue reading →

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Album review: GIUNTINI PROJECT – IV

Posted on June 9, 2013 by jason

Escape Music www.escape-music.com Album number four from the project run by guitarist Aldo Giuntini and the first for Escape Music, the third album having been released by Frontiers back in 2006. Former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin is … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANOUSCHKA – Hollywood Ending

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

My review of Anouschka’s My Kind Of Heartbreak album (2007) pretty much said all you need to know about a US army brat with a Swedish mother who by 16 had seen a lot of the world and started her … Continue reading →

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Album review: TESS OF THE CIRCLE – Thorns

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Cadiz Music [Release date 15.07.13] While British male singer songwriter Tess Jones’ debut Magpie (2010) was an introspective acoustic based set, his follow up sees the addition of ‘the Circle’ – a collective of musicians that bring the ‘sounds of … Continue reading →

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Album review: JULIAN LENNON – Everything Changes

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Music In Another Room [Release date 03.06.13] When it was originally released in October 2011 in the UK and Ireland, Julian Lennon’s sixth studio album failed to tickle the Top 100, and neither of the singles lifted from it – … Continue reading →

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Album review: CASSIE TAYLOR – Out Of My Mind

Posted on June 8, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Hypertension [Release date 13.05.13] Having served a 10 year apprenticeship playing bass and singing in her father, modern-day blues innovator Otis Taylor’s band, Cassie Taylor has paid her dues at the age of only 26. With one album already under … Continue reading →

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Album review: AYNSLEY LISTER – Home

Posted on June 6, 2013 by jason

www.aynsleylister.co.uk [Release date 08.07.13] Despite starting off on his musical journey through the blues in the late 90’s ‘Home’ is amazingly his tenth album to date. Aynsley Lister is one of the current crop of young blues rock musicians breaking … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOSS – Horrible Night

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Yiannis

Rise Above – Out Now. The Bass guitar and Doom Metal are two concepts that seem to go hand-in-hand and are inter-connected to such an extent that one simply can’t imagine the one without the other. Well, the Southampton-based trio … Continue reading →

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Album review: VICIOUS RUMORS – Electric Punishment

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Yiannis

SPV – Out Now. Thirty three years is a long time for any band, especially one that has survived the death of a frontman and the departure of enough members to fill two whole basketball teams, and then some. In … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAPAETI – Abacus

Posted on June 5, 2013 by david.wilson

Self Release (Release date – out now) Technical, progressive metal is a genre inhabited by musicians of undoubted talent and quite possibly a history of insanity within their family. Quite how a group of musos can sit … Continue reading →

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Album review: FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Ugly Noise

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Yiannis

Metal Blade – Out Now. The relationship between the Arisona-based Metallers Flotsam And Jetsan and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade Records has been marked by many highs and lows over the last three decades and the last time that these two … Continue reading →

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Album review: INTRONAUT – Habitual Levitations

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Yiannis

Century Media – Out Now. When it comes to choosing which albums to review for our site, the parameters I have set are actually pretty straightforward and simple: the more diverse, demanding and unique a band is the more inclined … Continue reading →

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Album review: BURNING RAIN – Epic Obsession

Posted on June 2, 2013 by andynathan

Frontiers Records [Release date 20.5.13] It may be his role as David Coverdale’s guitar slinger in Whitesnake that has brought him to wider attention, but Doug Aldrich has not forgotten his old band mates, as one of his former acts … Continue reading →

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Album review: VINDICTIV – Cage Of Infinity

Posted on June 2, 2013 by jason

Escape Music www.escape-music.com Vindictiv return after a few years gap with a new album, line-up and most noticeably sound. Previously I have not been overly keen on the band’s previous two albums, which despite featuring Goran Edman on vocals came … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: DIANA JONES, KRISTOFFER GILDENLOW, PJP BAND, BE LIKE PABLO,LUCKY BONES

Posted on June 1, 2013 by jason

DIANA JONES Museum of Appalachia Recordings Proper Records [Release date 08.07.13] Diana Jones made a break through with her 2006 album ‘My Remembrance Of You’, although she had been singing and recording since the mid-90′s. This album is as basic … Continue reading →

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Album Review: ROME PRO(G)JECT – Rome Pro(g)ject

Posted on May 31, 2013 by alanjones

Self-released [7 December 2012] There’s a line in the classic film ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ where John Candy and Steve Martin are being driven round and round in a taxi in this hick town in the American mid-west where Candy … Continue reading →

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Album review: DOOGIE WHITE & LA PAZ – The Dark and the Light

Posted on May 29, 2013 by jason

Metal Mind Productions www.metalmind.com.pl Doogie White (Rainbow/Malmsteen/Cornerstone) and La Paz are back for their second album, a follow-up to last year’s ‘Granite’. That album wasn’t too bad as it saw the band revisit songs from their original incarnation back in … Continue reading →

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Album review: EVEN NINE – The Lights Are Too Bright To See

Posted on May 27, 2013 by david.wilson

Self Release (Release date – out now) This is the latest album by Cornish three piece Even Nine and it is a bouncy, uplifting affair. The band consists of brothers Jody and Rick Martin who along with … Continue reading →

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Album review: HAMMERFORCE – Access Denied

Posted on May 27, 2013 by david.wilson

Metalism Records ( Release date – Out now ) A bit of synth driven power metal from St Petersburg this time. Hammerforce formed back in 2006 and this is the band’s second album, the first being ‘Dice’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH – Lay My Soul To Waste

Posted on May 27, 2013 by david.wilson

SPV Steamhammer [Release date – 27th May 2013 ] A Pale Horse Named Death were founded by ex Life Of Agony and co-founder of Type O Negative Sal Abruscato. This album is dedicated to the memory of … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: GAVIN ROSSDALE – Wanderlust, INSTITUTE – Distort Yourself

Posted on May 27, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

GAVIN ROSSDALE – Wanderlust earMUSIC [Release date: 01.07.13] English-born Gavin Rossdale is perhaps best known now for fronting Bush, but back in 2008 he released his debut solo album Wanderlust. Highly accessible, it produced some chart success in the States … Continue reading →