Tag Archives: Paul Sabu

Album review: AOR – Bewitched In L.A.

Posted on August 21, 2023 by GRTR! HQ

Bewitched In L.A. Perris Records [Release date 08.09.23] The advent of AI in music is the subject of much discussion. Listening to this latest offering from melodic rock plagiarist Frederic Slama you could be forgiven for thinking that everything – … Continue reading →

Album review: SILENT RAGE – Shattered Hearts and Don’t Touch Me There (Remasters)

Posted on June 4, 2021 by brianmc

Rock Candy Records [release date 07.05.21] US rock band, Silent Rage’s worldwide hit song, ‘Don’t Touch Me There’ (1989) gained them considerable notoriety. Perhaps a surprise then that once you peel away the risque lyrics, you reveal a band of … Continue reading →

Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS | Tagged albums, Aretha Franklin, Don't Touch Me There, Gene Simmons, Giuffria, Isley Brothers, KING KOBRA, Kiss, Paul Sabu, remasters, review, Rock Candy Records, Shattered Hearts, SILENT RAGE | Leave a comment

Album review: PAUL SABU – Heartbreak & Only Child

Posted on September 7, 2020 by jason

Rock Candy Records Remasters [Release date 07.08.20] From the moment he burst onto the disco music scene in the late seventies, the legend that is Paul Sabu has been inundated with accolades… “best this…”, “best that…”, but he never truly … Continue reading →

Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, Reissues | Tagged album, AOR, Classic Albums, classic rock, Heartbreak, melodic rock, Only Child, Paul Sabu, review, Rock Candy | Leave a comment

Album review: PAUL SABU – Sabu/Kidd Glove

Posted on May 14, 2020 by jason

PAUL SABU – Sabu Rock Candy Records [Release date 24.04.20] 1980: After building a name for himself as a producer of slicked back, funk-lite disco music, Paul Sabu took an out-of-the-blue offer from MCA Records to record a melodic rock … Continue reading →

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Album review: JESSE DAMON – Damon’s Rage

Posted on February 16, 2020 by jason

AOR Heaven [Release date 28.02.20] Jesse Damon will be best remembered by many 80s rock fans as he was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Silent Rage. Silent Rage rose to fame in 1989 when signed by Gene … Continue reading →

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Album review: CRANSTON – II

Posted on January 19, 2019 by jason

Rock Company [Release date 20.11.18] Cranston is vocalist Phil Vincent (the man who never seems to be out of a recording studio!), melodic rock legend Paul Sabu and B.F. D’Ercole (whose own self-titled band Phil Vincent sings for – told … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: THEM, SODOM, BROTHERS OF METAL

Posted on October 20, 2018 by jason

THEM Manor of the Se7en Gables SPV/Steamhammer [Release date 26.10.18] US/German thrash/power metal band return with their second album, a horror story featuring witchcraft, murder and they use a series of spoken word parts to keep the story moving along. … Continue reading →

Posted in ALBUM REVIEWS, ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile), ALL POSTS, PURE METAL (All posts), Pure Metal/Album reviews, Quick Plays | Tagged albums, Brothers Of Metal, metal, Mike Lepond, Paul Sabu, power metal, review, Sodom, Symphony X, Them, Thrash | Leave a comment

Album review: PHIL VINCENT – XX

Posted on September 12, 2017 by jason

Phil Vincent Music Phil Vincent is very prolific, this being his twentieth solo album, plus he has been in various bands/projects through the years including D’Ercole, Legion and Tragik. Although Phil plays and produces all of the music on here, he … Continue reading →

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Album review: DENNIS CHURCHILL DRIES – I

Posted on April 26, 2015 by jason

AOR Heaven [Released 01.06.15] Vocalist/bassist Dennis Churchill Dries (DCD) is known to lovers of melodic rock as the vocalist in White Sister and their successor band Tattoo Rodeo. White Sister issued two immense melodic rock/AOR albums in the 80′s and … Continue reading →

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Album review: AOR – LA Connection

Posted on July 22, 2014 by jason

Escape Music www.escape-music.com [Released 21.07.14] Frederic Slama is back with album number thirteen under the AOR handle and a new label after the last couple of releases were on the aptly named AOR Heaven label. On this album he is … Continue reading →

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Quick Plays: THE SPECTACLE, LIMB, SCREAM ARENA, STALA & SO, JS TOLAR, DISTANT PAST

Posted on March 26, 2014 by david.wilson

Album review: THE SPECTACLE – Traitors Doforit records ( Release date – out now) I don’t know a great deal about this lot other than they are from Texas and that their blend of stoner rock and grindcore is as … Continue reading →

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Album review: JESSE DAMON – Temptation In The Garden Of Eve

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jason

AOR Heaven Jesse Damon is the guitarist/frontman with Silent Rage and this is his fifth solo album. He has renowned producer and melodic rocker Paul Sabu in the producer’s chair (Sabu also handles bass on the album) and Eden’s Curse … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHASING VIOLETS – Jade Hearts

Posted on May 3, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

AOR Records [Release date 14.06.13] I think producer Frederic Slama compromised Chasing Violets’ debut album ‘Outside Heaven’ (2012) by re-using the songs (and the backing tracks) for his own project album ‘LA Temptation’. Slama is a respected LA-based AOR mover … Continue reading →

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AOR (Frederic Slama) – L.A.Temptation

Posted on November 12, 2012 by GRTR! HQ

(AOR Heaven) There’s no doubt that AOR has been enjoying a revival in recent years, epitomised perhaps by the revival of the band FM, a dedicated UK-based print magazine, and a forthcoming UK festival. And of course Firefest goes from … Continue reading →

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PAUL SABU – In Dreams

Posted on October 23, 2012 by jason

www.z-records.com Z Records continue their fine re-issue series of Paul Sabu’s back catalogue and this album first saw the light of day as a Japanese import back in 1994, before Now & Then picked it up. … Continue reading →

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Paul Sabu re-releases on Z Records

Posted on March 15, 2012 by jason

PAUL SABU SIGNS ANOTHER MULTI ABLUM DEAL WITH Z RECORDS! Its with great pleasure that we can announce that Paul Sabu has extended his dealings with Z Records for 3 classic reissues! Over the past two decades so … Continue reading →