Tag Archives: Frontiers

Album review: HEART & FRIENDS – Home For The Holidays

Posted on November 6, 2014 by jason
HEART & FRIENDS - Home for The Holidays

Frontiers [Release date 10.11.14]  www.frontiers.it I am not normally a fan of these seasonal type efforts, particularly if they have been recorded in June, and even worse if it is somewhere warm and sunny like the Bahamas (a la most … Continue reading →

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Album review: DENNIS DEYOUNG – The Music of Styx : Live in Los Angeles

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Phil Berisford
DENNIS DEYOUNG – The Music of Styx : Live in Los Angeles

Frontiers Records [Release date 20.10.14] Styx are one of my all time favourite bands and Dennis DeYoung was the vocalist, keyboard maestro and genius behind some of their biggest hits…but their biggest hit Babe, which is obviously featured on here, … Continue reading →

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Album review: STRYPER – Live At The Whisky

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Phil Berisford

Frontiers Records [Release date 22.09.14] First we had a cover’s album, then re-recordings of old numbers and then finally a decent new album and now Stryper’s comeback continues with the obligatory live album (with me being cynical, this is a … Continue reading →

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Album review: STATE OF SALAZAR – All The Way

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Phil Berisford
STATE OF SALAZAR – All The Way

Frontiers Records [Release date 25.08.14] “All The Way” is the debut album from Swedish band State Of Salazar and the review could be condensed to state “yet another Scandinavian rock band releases yet another superbly produced slice of genuine 1980’s … Continue reading →

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Album review: TESLA – Simplicity

Posted on May 30, 2014 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Released 9.6.14] It’s hard to think that Tesla’s first album, “Mechanical Resonance”, came out in 1986- and now here we are nearly 30 years later and their seventhstudio album “Simplicity” is about to be released (although, if you … Continue reading →

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Gig Review: FRONTIERS ROCK FESTIVAL, Italy, 1-3 May 2014

Posted on May 14, 2014 by andynathan
Frontiers Rock Festival, Italy, May 2014

Famous Italian bands can be counted on the fingers of one hand, yet it is an Italian label, Frontiers Records, who have emerged as the world force in melodic rock. Starting with the underground acts, they have accumulated a huge … Continue reading →

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Album review: THREE LIONS – Three Lions

Posted on April 20, 2014 by jason

Frontiers [Released 25.04.14] Three Lions is a dream come true for Bradford vocalist and bass player Nigel Bailey. Twenty years of slogging around local pubs and clubs in his spare time suddenly turned into an opportunity to record an album … Continue reading →

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News: WINGER announce new album and Download appearance

Posted on February 26, 2014 by jason

FIRST NEW ALBUM FOR 5 YEARS RELEASED ON FRONTIERS RECORDS 21.04.14 AND BAND ALSO CONFIRMED TO APPEAR AT DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 15.06.14 One of the most misunderstood Hard Rock bands to emerge from the 1980’s is returning with their highly anticipated … Continue reading →

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Album review: RING OF FIRE – Battle of Leningrad

Posted on January 24, 2014 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Released 24th JKanuary 2014] Mark Boals, most famous for being one of Yngwie Malmsteen’s ever changing vocalists, regroups his Ring of Fire moniker for the first time since Lapse of Reality was released back in 2004. Battle of … Continue reading →

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News: RIP – Dennis ‘Fergie’ Frederiksen

Posted on January 20, 2014 by jason

Frontiers Records are sad to announce the death of Dennis ‘Fergie’ Frederiksen, who recorded and released his final two studio albums with the label (’Happiness Is The Road’ and ‘Any Given Moment’) while suffering from inoperable cancer that he had … Continue reading →

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Album review: CONEY HATCH – Four

Posted on September 26, 2013 by jason
Coney Hatch - Four

Frontiers www.frontiers.it Now here’s a band from the dark and distant past. Coney Hatch are a Canadian rock band who release 3 albums back in the eighties – debut Coney Hatch in 1982, Outta Hand in 1983 and Friction in … Continue reading →

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Album review: FERGIE FREDERIKSEN – Any Given Moment

Posted on August 30, 2013 by jason
FERGIE FREDERIKSEN – Any Given Moment

Frontiers www.frontiers.it Fergie sang on Le Roux’s wonderful So Fired Up and then joined Toto for one of my absolute favourite Toto albums, namely Isolation…it was just a shame that his time in the band was so short. Back in … Continue reading →

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News: ASIA announce new studio album and August festival appearance

Posted on June 24, 2013 by jason

ASIA Begins recording album tomorrow, new line-up live shows ‘amazing’ John Wetton, Geoff Downes and Carl Palmer and new recruit guitarist Sam Coulson have certainly hit the ground running.  Following Sam’s debut at a fully sold-out warm up show at … Continue reading →

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Album review: JORN – Traveller

Posted on June 13, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it Jorn “Dio” Lande is a busy man with his new album “Traveller” dropping 13 months after his last studio album the awfully titled “Bring Heavy Rock to the Land” and that does not include his “Symphonic” issue back … Continue reading →

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Album review: TIMO TOLKKI’S AVALON – The Land of New Hope

Posted on May 15, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it Ex-Stratovarius mainman Timo Tolkki returns again with a new project after relative failures with both Revolution Renaissance and Symfonia. Stratovarius was Tolkki’s band from 1986 through to 2008 when after 4 years of turmoil Tolkki called it a … Continue reading →

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Album review: ELO – Live

Posted on April 21, 2013 by jason

        Frontiers www.frontiers.it This album is taken from a 2001 performance for a PBS television special in Los Angeles at CBS Television City which was released as a DVD that same year. This CD adds four tracks … Continue reading →

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Album review: ELO – Zoom

Posted on April 20, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it         Frontiers are making the most of their tie up with Jeff Lynne with re-mastered versions of ELO’s “Zoom” and Lynne’s solo “Armchair Theatre” following hot on the heals of the re-recorded “Best Of..” and … Continue reading →

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Album review: DE LA CRUZ – Street Level

Posted on March 23, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it De La Cruz are yet another one of Frontier’s more recent signings that has seen them releasing albums by similar minded bands such as Crash Dïet and Crazy Lixx. Image yourself in Los Angeles, the Sunset Strip back … Continue reading →

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Album review: SEBASTIAN BACH – ABachalypse Now

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jason

        Frontiers www.frontiers.it Sebastian Bach is about to release the double live CD and DVD extravaganza that is “ABachalypse Now”. To get it out of the way first, there are not many bands who can replace such … Continue reading →

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Album review: GREAT WHITE – 30 Years…Live From The Sunset Strip

Posted on March 12, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it It’s hard to believe that Great White are in the middle of celebrating their 30th Anniversary, 30 years that have seen both triumph and tragedy for the band, but still finds them sounding in top form. Recorded at … Continue reading →

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Album review: PLAYER – Too Many Reasons

Posted on February 24, 2013 by jason

Frontiers www.frontiers.it         Player return with their first album in over ten years and this full album follows an EP released last year on Frontiers. The new lineup features original members Peter Beckett and Ronn Moss along … Continue reading →

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Album review: DIAMOND DAWN – Overdrive

Posted on February 22, 2013 by jason

      Frontiers are certainly pushing Swedes Diamond Dawn as the new saviours of the melodic rock scene. Their “Take Me Higher” video on YouTube has, at time of writing, just passed 100,000 views so they must be doing … Continue reading →

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News: Three ELO/JEFF LYNNE releases in April 2013

Posted on February 19, 2013 by jason

Just as the third quarter of 2012 brought three exciting works from JEFF LYNNE – his second solo album Long Wave, the freshly recorded Mr. Blue Sky – The Very Best Of ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA and the illuminating documentary Mr. … Continue reading →

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STRYPER sign to Frontiers Records

Posted on January 14, 2013 by jason

ICONIC CHRISTIAN ROCKERS STRYPER SIGN TO FRONTIERS RECORDS FOR MULTI-ALBUM DEAL   RE-RECORDED COLLECTION “SECOND COMING” DUE OUT IN MARCH Frontiers Records is proud to announce the signing of iconic Christian rockers Stryper to a multi-album deal.  The first release due … Continue reading →

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CRASHDIET – The Savage Playground

Posted on January 9, 2013 by jason

        Frontiers (Released 25th January) www.frontiers.it Just days into the new year and the first album I review is already a strong contender for my Top 10 of 2013- too soon to make such an assumption? Maybe, … Continue reading →

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