Tag Archives: Frontiers Music

Album review: GARY JOHN BARDEN – Empowered Emotions

Posted on September 5, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 18.09.27] There’s an abundance of richly melodic twists, ear-catching hooks and smoky Coverdale vocalisms running through the veins of Empowered Emotions, a new album from Gary John Barden. Barden’s CV is well documented online. He’s fronted many … Continue reading →

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Album review : SEVEN SPIRES – A Fortress Called Home (Master Key Edition / 3CDs)

Posted on August 31, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 04.09.26] “Seven Spires”, says Sascha Paeth, “are one of the few new real personalities in metal”. And you would need an abundance of personality and indeed, confidence to assemble such a suite of music as … Continue reading →

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Album review : SHAKRA – Just Live Loud

Posted on August 30, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 04.09.26] Since 1995, Swiss band, Shakra have shared stages worldwide with everybody worth knowing, from Guns’N’Roses to Great White, from Stratovarius to Iron Maiden. And in between times they’ve released 14 albums. Their secret, apart from … Continue reading →

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Album review: LALU : A Mythmaker’s Demise

Posted on August 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 31.07.26] Looks like Progrock supremo, Vivien Lalu’s got the band back together for his fifth album.In fact today’s Lalu is a lot like yesterday’s Lalu, both in compliment and style, with Mekong Delta’s Martin LeMar … Continue reading →

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Album review : ZAN / CODY – Beautiful’n Damned

Posted on July 20, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 24.07.26] As most will know, Zinny Zan and Harry Cody are both ex Shotgun Messiah, a band from the past whose two remaining members, rebranded, are making a future for themselves. There are some exciting tracks … Continue reading →

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Album review : TESLA – Homage

Posted on July 14, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 17.07.26] Tesla released their debut album, Mechanical Resonance in 1986 and now release their eighth, Homage, forty years later. Six studio albums and five live albums in between, and a relatively stable line up over … Continue reading →

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Album review : ELECTRIC MOB – 2 Make U Cry And Dance (Digital Deluxe Edition)

Posted on July 5, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date :10.07.26] Having tasted Electric Mob’s 2 Make U Cry And Dance, originally released in January 2023, the self employed music media’s effusive praise led to this:- A digital reissue with an additional six (live) tracks from … Continue reading →

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Album review : PRIDE OF LIONS – Unbridled

Posted on July 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release Date : 10.07.26] Pride Of Lions remain Jim (Survivor) Peterik’s band, with Toby Hitchcock on vocals and Mike Aquino on guitar. Aquino’s explosive intro to ‘Unbridled’, this new album’s opening track, might remind you of Giant and … Continue reading →

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Album review : MATTADOR – III

Posted on June 14, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 19.06.26] Mattador are a Puerto Rican melodic rock band who were on the up and up, 1988 to 1995. They released two albums and toured with top bands like Aerosmith and Iron Maiden. Then they … Continue reading →

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Album review : LYNCH MOB – The Final Ride (Live)

Posted on June 10, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 29.05.26] George Lynch was always known for his incendiary axework in a live setting. Never straying too much from the album the song came from, but adding enough to make it seem fresh and new. … Continue reading →

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Album review : VANDEN PLAS – AcCult II

Posted on June 8, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.06.26] Some 30 years after the band’s Accult album, Vanden Plas follow through with their long promised second all acoustic effort. Stating the obvious perhaps, but the real test of a band is its ability to … Continue reading →

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Album review : ROBIN BECK – Living Proof

Posted on May 12, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 15.05.26] Despite releasing 11 albums, many of them just bristling with songs written by proven hit makers, Robin Beck has survived an absence of best selling music, beyond her debut single ‘The First Time’, in … Continue reading →

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Album review : JOHN CORABI – New Day

Posted on May 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 24.04.26] John Corabi is the ex man…ex Motley Crue, ex Ratt, ex Brides Of Destruction but not yet ex-frontman of The Dead Daisies, a band with a greater membership turnover than Deep Purple. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Album review : DEGREED – Curtain Calls

Posted on April 28, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date 24.04.26] Eighth full length album from respected Swedish Hard Rock band, Degreed…Robin Eriksson, Mats Eriksson, Mikael Blanc and Daniel Johansson. Their sound is impossible to categorise. Is it toughened up AOR, melodic hard rock, metallised hard rock … Continue reading →

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Album review : GENERATION RADIO – Take 2

Posted on April 22, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date: 24.04.26] “In the beginning of 2020, Generation Radio came together with the intent to form a band with a purpose — to bring classic 1980s rock back to life.” So says the band’s website. Formed by … Continue reading →

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Album review : CREYE – IV Aftermath

Posted on April 19, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 24.04.26] Scandi band Creye hit their stride with their fourth album, Aftermath, delivering melodic rock of depth and width, polished, full of neat gearshifts, and verses as strong as the choruses, just about. The fact … Continue reading →

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Album review : FIGHTER V – Deja Vu

Posted on April 6, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 10.04.26] We couldn’t help thinking that we’d heard this album somewhere before. Maybe it’ll come back to us. Deja Vu is the third album from Swiss melodic rock band, Fighter V. Emmo Acar (v), Lobe … Continue reading →

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Album review : MICHAEL SWEET – The Master Plan

Posted on April 2, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 03.04.26] The Master Plan is Michael Sweet’s tenth solo album. He’s yet to surpass his largely ignored Truth album from year 2000 (4 stars from Allmusic, Cross Rhythms, and Hard Roxx), but this one might … Continue reading →

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Album review : IGNESCENT – Eternal

Posted on March 15, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 20.03.26] Judge a hot band by the company they keep. Ignescent have opened for Flyleaf, Skillet, Stryper and many other headline metal/hard rock acts in recent years. You could hear the influences of these bands … Continue reading →

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Album review : VENUS 5 – The March Of The Venus 5

Posted on March 11, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date: 20.03.26] What’s so attractive about Venus 5’s second album is its refusal to choose one discrete genre, sub-genre, whatever. It dances around the fringes of pop metal, heavy metal and symphonic metal, all laced with tight … Continue reading →

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Album review : ASIA – Live In England

Posted on March 7, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.03.26] Set in the heart of the East Sussex countryside, at night the Trading Boundaries Café transforms into an award winning live music venue, hosting concerts from world class artists in an intimate setting. Not … Continue reading →

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Album review : BLACK SWAN – Paralyzed

Posted on February 24, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 27.02.26] Four years after Black Swan’s second album, Generation Mind, comes Paralyzed, with the four horsemen, Robin McAuley, Reb Beach, Jeff Pilson and Matt Starr riding quickly into view. So called “supergroups”, of which this … Continue reading →

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Album review : TEMPLE BALLS – s/t

Posted on February 8, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.02.26] Some of us have lived a sheltered life. Apparently “temple balls” are “one of the oldest varieties of medical marijuana”. Not a lot of people know that. And so a self titled release at … Continue reading →

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Album review : AUSTEN STARR – I Am The Enemy

Posted on February 5, 2026 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 13.02.26] The label have teamed new kid on the block, vocalist Austen Starr, with Joel (Revolution Saints/ Whitesnake) Hoekstra, and together they’ve written a bunch of edgy rock songs that allow both talents to shine. … Continue reading →

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Album review : GRAHAM BONNET – Lost In Hollywood Again (Live)

Posted on December 11, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.12.25] Old Rock Stars never die, and judging by Lost In Hollywood Again, they never fade away either. A 77 year old Graham Bonnet is testament to that. Recorded in the legendary Whisky A Go Go, … Continue reading →