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Tag Archives: Frontiers
Album review: JORN LANDE & TROND HOLTER – Dracula : Swing Of Death
Frontiers Records [Release date 23.01.15] It’s that man Jorn Lande again…hot on the heels of the latest Allen-Lande release comes “Dracula : Swing of Death”. This time it is a collaboration with Wig Wam guitarist (aka Teeny) on what has … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dracula, Frontiers, Jorn Lande, Lena Fløitmoen Børresen, review, rock opera, Swing Of Death, Teeny, Trond Holter, Wig Wam
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Album review: LEVEL 10 – Chapter 1
Frontiers www.frontiers.it [Released 27.01.14] Level 10 is another Frontiers project hooking-up vocalist Russell Allen (Symphony X/Adrenaline Mob) and bassist/producer/writer Mat Sinner (Primal Fear/Sinner). They are joined by Primal Fear band members Randy Black (drums) and Alex Beyrodt (guitar), along with … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Frontiers, Level 10, Matt Sinner, metal, power metal, Primal Fear, review, Russell Allen, Symphony X
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Album Review: BAILEY – Long Way Down
Frontiers Records [release date 8.12.14] Bailey (a lot of thought went into that one) is the debut album by Three Lions vocalist Nigel Bailey. Nigel was plucked from obscurity by Frontiers for the underwhelming Three Lions album alongside Vinny Burns … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bailey, classic rock, Frontiers, Long Way Down, Nigel Bailey, review, Three Lions
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Album Review: RATED X – Rated X
Frontiers Records [release date 10.11.14] Rated X are another one of Frontiers’ all-star bands featuring some big names from the past. Who do we have here then? Well the well-travelled Joe Lynn Turner features on vocals, two-thirds of the original … Continue reading
Album review: ALLEN-LANDE – The Great Divide
Frontiers Records [Release date 20.10.14] Russell Allen and Jorn Lande return under the Allen-Lande moniker after a four year absence with “The Great Divide”. This time around however, song writing and guitars are courtesy of one Timo Tolkki…hmm…this bit worries … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Allen-Lande, Frontiers, Jorn Lande, review, Russell Allen, Symphony X, The Great Divide, Timo Tolkki
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Album review: CRAZY LIXX – s/t
Frontiers [Release date 10.11.14] www.frontiers.it With a name that hints at glam or sleaze rock, Sweden’s Crazy Lixx are much more than that and deliver decent, polished melodic rock on fourth album “Crazy Lixx”. The album builds upon the path … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Crazy Lixx, Danger Danger, Frontiers, glam, glam metal, Guns 'N' Roses, hair metal, Motley Crue, review, Skid Row
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Album review: 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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Tagged album, Christmas, Frontiers, Heart, Home for The Holidays, Pat Monahan, review, Richard Marx, Sammy Hagar, seasonal, Shawn Colvin, Train
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Album review: 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
Album review: STRYPER – Live At The Whisky
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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Tagged album, Christian metal, Frontiers, live, Live at the Whisky, Michael Sweet, Oz Fox, review, Robert Sweet, Stryper, Tim Gaines
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Album review: 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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Tagged album, All The Way, AOR, Frontiers, review, State of Salazar
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Album review: TESLA – Simplicity
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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Tagged classic rock, Frontiers, hard rock, Jeff Keith, rock, Simplicity, Tesla
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Gig Review: FRONTIERS ROCK FESTIVAL, Italy, 1-3 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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Tagged Adrenaline Rush, AOR, Crazy Lixx, Danger Danger, Eclipse, festival, Frontiers, gig, Hardline, Issa, Italy, Jake E Lee, Jeff Scott Soto, John Waite, LRS, May 2014, melodic rock, Moonland, Night Ranger, Pretty Maids, Red Dragon Cartel, review, Snakecharmer, Stryper, Tesla, Three Lions, W.E.T., Winger
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Album review: THREE LIONS – Three Lions
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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Tagged Alessandro Del Vecchio, Asia, Dare, Frontiers, Greg Morgan, hard rock, melodic rock, Nigel Bailey, review, TEN, Three Lions, Vinny Burns
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News: WINGER announce new album and Download appearance
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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Tagged AOR, Beavis and Butthead, Better Days Comin, Download, Frontiers, Kip Winger, melodic rock, new album, new release, Winger
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Album review: RING OF FIRE – Battle of Leningrad
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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Tagged album review, Battle of Leningrad, Frontiers, Mark Boals, neo-classical metal, Ring of Fire, Stratovarious, Timo Tolkki, Tony Macalpine, Vitalij Kuprij, Yngwie Malmsteen
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News: RIP – Dennis ‘Fergie’ Frederiksen
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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Tagged AOR, Dennis ‘Fergie’ Frederiksen, Frontiers, Le Roux, melodic rock, Ricky Phillips, RIP, Tommy Denander, Toto, TRILLION
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Album review: 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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Tagged album, Carl Dixon, Coney Hatch, Four, Frontiers, hard rock, review
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Album review: 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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Tagged album, Any Given Moment, AOR, FERGIE FREDERIKSEN, Frontiers, melodic rock, review, Toto
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News: ASIA announce new studio album and August festival appearance
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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Tagged Asia, Carl Palmer, Frontiers, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Sam Coulson, Valkyrie
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Album review: JORN – Traveller
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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Tagged Dio, Frontiers, Jorn, Traveller, Wig Wam
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Album review: TIMO TOLKKI’S AVALON – The Land of New Hope
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
Album review: ELO – Live
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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Tagged ELO, Frontiers, Jeff Lynne, live
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Album review: ELO – Zoom
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
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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Tagged De La Cruz, Frontiers, glam metal, glam rock, sleaze rock, Street Level
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Album review: SEBASTIAN BACH – ABachalypse Now
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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Tagged ABachalypse Now”, Frontiers, Sebastian Bach
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