Tag Archives: demos

Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI – The Way We Were Volume 1

Posted on April 30, 2025 by brianmc
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EAR Music [Release date: 02.05.25] Francis Rossi – artist as purist making new music from abandoned recordings, not seen as commercial enough to pursue further at the time, or side tracked onto Quo’s then latest album. Rossi : “Collected on … Continue reading →

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Album review: VANDENBERG – The Complete Atco Recordings 1982-2004 (4 CD Boxset w/bonus tracks)

Posted on August 24, 2021 by brianmc
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Cherry Red [release date 27.08.21] Vandenberg (1982) Heading For A Storm (1983) Alibi (1985) Demos and Live (2004) Emerging unbloodied and unbowed from the golden age of AOR, Vandenberg’s 3 albums (now remastered) embody all that was good and all … Continue reading →

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Album review: ORANGE GOBLIN – Healing Through Fire (2CDs w/bonus tracks)

Posted on August 19, 2021 by brianmc
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Cherry Red Records [Release date 20.08.21] This expanded Orange Goblin compilation centres on their 2007 Disaster Album, Healing Through Fire. Only a Heavy Metal band could take The Great Fire Of London and the Great Plague as the theme for its … Continue reading →

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Album review: JOCASTA – Ideas Are Bulletproof

Posted on March 19, 2020 by jason
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TA Music [Release date 20.03.20] Tim Arnold now has multiple roles as singer, songwriter, showman, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. But Arnold’s first musical incarnation was as lead singer and songwriter of the 90’s indie rock band Jocasta. ‘Ideas Are Bulletproof’ … Continue reading →

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Album review: CRADLE OF FILTH – Total Fucking Darkness

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Yiannis
CRADLE OF FILTH – Total Fucking Darkness

Mordgrimm – Out Now. Long before enjoying the support of major labels like Sony and Roadrunner and headlining festival stages around the globe, Suffolk-based extreme Metallers Cradle Of Filth were just another UK band struggling to make ends meet. Their … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE JEFF HEALEY BAND – House On Fire/As The Years Go Passing By

Posted on April 1, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
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As The Years Go Passing By – Live In Germany 1989-1995-2000 (Inakustik) Since his death in 2008 there have been a steady steam of releases featuring one of the modern blues greats.  This boxed set, recorded by German TV, brings … Continue reading →

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