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		<title>Feature: GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/feature-grtr20-anniversary-metal-primer/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/grtr20_primer_mt-150x150.png" class="alignleft tfe wp-post-image" alt="GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer" title="GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer" /></a>During the period 2003-2023 metal had morphed into various guises.  Brian McGowan tries to keep up with it and surveys the period&#8230; Heavy Metal is a musical phenomenon that continues to gain in strength and popularity, worldwide. It has the &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/feature-grtr20-anniversary-metal-primer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2022/11/feature-grtr20-anniversary-metal-primer/">Feature: GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Album review: AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live</title>
		<link>https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ayreon-universe-the-best-of-ayreon-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ayreon-universe-the-best-of-ayreon-live/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ayeron-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live" title="AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live" /></a>Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group [30.03.18] Ayreon are masterminded by Arjen Anthony Lucassen, who prefers to create music in the studio rather than appear live and the announcement that Ayreon would play two shows in September 2017  (their first official &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ayreon-universe-the-best-of-ayreon-live/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/03/album-review-ayreon-universe-the-best-of-ayreon-live/">Album review: AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Album review: BLIND GUARDIAN &#8211; Re-issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=49603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-blind-guardian-re-issues/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/bg-150x150.png" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="bg" /></a>Battalions Of Fear/Follow Me Blind/Tales From The Twilight World/Somewhere Far Beyond/Tokyo Tales&#8217;/Imaginations From The Other Side/The Forgotten Tales (compilation)/Nightfall In Middle Earth/A Night At The Opera/Live Nuclear Blast [Release date 27.10.17] German power metal band Blind Guardian have produced some &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-blind-guardian-re-issues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/album-review-blind-guardian-re-issues/">Album review: BLIND GUARDIAN &#8211; Re-issues</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Album review:  ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan</title>
		<link>https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/04/album-review-orden-ogan-the-book-of-ogan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Berisford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=37340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/04/album-review-orden-ogan-the-book-of-ogan/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BOO-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan" title="ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan" /></a>AFM Records [Release date 25.03.16] “The Book of Ogan” would appear to be German power metal band Orden Ogan’s way of closing the first chapter of their career as it is a very impressive double CD double DVD package. What &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/04/album-review-orden-ogan-the-book-of-ogan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2016/04/album-review-orden-ogan-the-book-of-ogan/">Album review:  ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Album review: ORDEN OGAN – Ravenhead</title>
		<link>https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-orden-ogan-ravenhead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-orden-ogan-ravenhead/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Orden-Ogan-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="Orden Ogan - Ravenhead" title="Orden Ogan - Ravenhead" /></a>AFM Records [Released 12.01.15] This is the band’s fifth album and hopefully after an impressive back catalogue, along with this enjoyable new release, they will start to get a bigger following. They will appeal to fans of power and progressive &#8230; <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-orden-ogan-ravenhead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2014/12/album-review-orden-ogan-ravenhead/">Album review: ORDEN OGAN – Ravenhead</a> appeared first on <a href="https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog">Get Ready to ROCK!</a>.</p>]]></description>
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