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Album review: ARMORY – Empyrean Realms
Metavania Music (Release date – out now) This album was actually released on the 12th of November 2013 and has only just come to my attention, it has been my loss it would seem! Armory formed back … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Armory, CD, Empyrean Realms, Helloween, Massachusetts, power metal, prog, review
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Album Review: WHITE COAST REBELS – Hangin’ With The Bad Boys
Self Release [Release date – out now] White Coast Rebels may be a name familiar to anyone who has spent time on the sun kissed beaches of the Costa Blanca. The band are based in the holiday region and play … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Benidorm, CD, Costa Blanca, Hangin' With The Bad Boys, metal, review, rock, White Coast Rebels
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Album review: BLACK DIAMOND – Last Man Standing
On Parole Productions [Release date – out now] When listening to this album one thing springs to mind – Iron Maiden. The band have an obvious love of Eddie and pay homage to Britain’s finest throughout the album. Where ‘homage’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Diamond, CD, Iron Maiden, Last Man Standing, metal, review, rock
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Quick plays: DREGEN, BENEDICTUM, AXEL RUDI PELL, BROKEN ARROW, NASHVILLE PUSSY
DREGEN – S/t (Spinefarm) Swedish guitarist Dregen has lent his sleazy punk metal touches to Backyard Babies and The Hellacopters (an original member of both) as well Supershit666 and more recently Michael Monroe, appearing on the acclaimed Horns And … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Axel Rudi Pell, Benedictum, Bobby Rondinelli, Broken Arrow, Dregen, Into The Storm, Johnny Gieoli, Nashville Pussy, Obey, review, rock
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Album review: DON AIREY – Keyed Up
Interview edit: Don Airey 19 January 2014 The full interview will be broadcast on Sunday 2 February at 18:00 Mascot [Release date 17.02.14] Virtuoso and legendary keyboard player (and all round nice guy) Don has played with pretty much everyone … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Carl Sentance, Darrin Mooney, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Gary Moore, jazz fusion, keyboards, Keyed Up, Lawrence Cottle, Rainbow, review, rock, Whitesnake
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Album review: RAINBOW – The Singles Box Set 1975–1986
Universal (19 CD set) [Release date 2.02.14] Those lovely guys at Universal have really gone to town (again) here – and a set that will be beyond most fans’ needs (or price range); but the extravagance here matches the marvel … Continue reading
Album review: FOREIGNER – I Want To Know What Love Is – The Ballads
earMUSIC [Release date 03.02.14] You can’t help thinking this ballads collection is something of a cash-in in advance of the band’s spring tour with Europe and FM. There are no new tracks but newcomers may be interested in the note-perfect … Continue reading
Album review: SILENT FORCE – Rising From Ashes
AFM Records [Released 27.01.14] Alex Beyrodt is a busy man. Early in 2013 we had a Whitesnake orientated release from Voodoo Circle and then there is the imminent release of the new Primal Fear album Delivering The Black. In between … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Alex Beyrodt, Mats Sinner, Michael Bormann, review, Rising From Ashes, rock, SILENT FORCE
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Album Review: FREQUENCY DRIFT – Over
Gentle Art Of Music [Release Date: 14.02.14] Frequency Drift have been at the zenith of Europe’s purveyors of melancholic progressive rock for a few years now – their previous two releases, ‘Ghosts’ (2011) and ‘Laid To Rest’ (2012) were both … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Frequency Drift, German, Germany, Over, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL
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Album review: THE PECKHAM COWBOYS -10 Tales From The Gin Palace
Cargo Records [Release date 14.02.14] “10 Tales From The Gin Palace” is the second album from South London’s The Peckham Cowboys and as the title would suggest, the album contains 10 tracks of sleazy, debauched, catchy rock n roll and … Continue reading
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Album Review: XNA – When We Changed You
Cleopatra Records – Release Date: 22 October 2013 You know all those awkward questions that children ask at various stages of their development – ‘why is the sky blue?’, ‘are we nearly there yet?’, ‘where do babies … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Malin, Billy Sherwood, David Hussey, Progressive Rock, review, When We Changed You, XNA
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Gig review: THERION – O2 Islington Academy, London, 20 December 2013
Support Acts: Arkona Review & Photos by Yiannis (John) Stefanis It was around the end of November that an acquaintance of mine asked me to name my favorite gig of the year to which my response was “It’s too early … Continue reading
Single & EP review: THE GREETING COMMITTEE – Island (EP)
Push Puzzle Records [Release date 15.09.13] One of the joys of enduring music is the way retro influences sometimes coalesce with the present and lodge themselves in cutting edge recordings. ‘Island’ a 3 track EP from Newcastle’s The Greeting Committee … Continue reading
Album review: SOT – Kind of Saltz
Soltanic Sounds [Available now] ‘Kind of Saltz’ appears to have been released some time ago but has just popped again in my pile of CD’s be reviewed. It’s a wide ranging and engaging album, best described as 70’s jazz-rock fusion, … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Frank Zappa, fusion, guitar, Jazz rock, Kind of Saltz, King Crimson, Lars Andreas, metal, moog, Norwegian rock, prog rock, review, Skjalg Reithaug, SOT, tube
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Album review: CASABLANCA – Riding A Black Swan
Gain/Sony Music [out now] American/Swedish band Casablanca have just released their sophomore album “Riding A Black Swan” and just 8 days into 2014 I would be surprised if I am not still listening to this on repeat at the end … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Casablanca, glam, review, Riding A Black Swan, rock, sleaze
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DVD review: WILKO JOHNSON – Live At Koko
Cadiz Music [Release date 18.12.13] The biggest weight of expectation on a night of high emotion probably lay in the lap of the multi-camera crew, rather than the band themselves. For on a night that happily didn’t turn out to … Continue reading
Album review: SAVOY BROWN – Goin’ To The Delta
Ruf Records [Release date 11.02.14] Having spent the best part of 48 years on the road as the personification of the pivotal and enduring Anglo American blues-rock band Savoy Brown, guitarist Kim Simmonds goes back to basics on ‘Goin’ To … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, boogie, Chicago Blues, Garnet Grimm, Goin' To The Delta, guitar, Kim Simmonds, Pat DeSalvo, review, rock, Savoy Brown
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Album review: HAIL OF BULLETS – III: The Rommel Chronicles
Metal Blade – Out Now. Being both a huge Metal fan and a passionate historian with a particular fascination for all things WWII meant that I was hooked immediately back in 2006 on the old-school Death Metal quintet Hail Of … Continue reading
Album review: PHWG – The Observer
Pontus H.W. Gunve [Release date 07.05.13] PHWG is an innovative band led by New York based guitarist, synth programmer, composer and producer Pontus H.W. Gunve, with an original take on prog rock, world, ambient and fusion music. He frames it all … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, cello, electric violin, Frank Zappa, fusion, guitar, Joe Renaud, Lorenzo Wolff, percussion, PHWG, Pontus H.W. Gunve, prog, Raymond Sicam111, review, rock, Sean Hagerty, synth programming, tablas, The Observer, Tripp Dudley, world
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DVD review: THE DOORS – Live At The Bowl 68 / Soundstage Performances / Live In Europe 1968
Eagle Vision [Release date 15.10.13] The Doors ‘Live At The Bowl ‘68’ / ‘Soundstage Performances’ / ‘Live In Europe 1968’ triple DVD box set judiciously mixes recycled and restored concert footage with insightful bonus interviews from band members and their contemporaries. … Continue reading
Album Review: DODSON & FOGG – The Call
Self Released – [Release Date: 2013] I had the pleasure to review three Dodson & Fogg albums back in August 2013, all three of which had been released within an eighteen month period. I said at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Wade, Dodson & Fogg, Psych/Folk Rock, review, The Call
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Album review: JAMES STEVENSON – Everything’s Getting Closer To Being Over
Independent release [Release date 10.12.13] For a guitarist with punk and new wave credentials that span Chelsea the revamped Generation X, Kim Wilde, The Cult, Glen Matlock, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Alarm, and latterly Willie Nile, James Stevenson sure … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea, Elisabeth Westwood, Everything's Getting Closer To Being Over, funk, Gene Loves Jezebel, Generation X, Glen Matlock, guitar, James Stevenson, Kim Wilde, Maggi Ronson, review, rock, Roy Buchanan, The Alarm, The Cult, The Sexpistilettos, Traci Hunter, Willie Nile
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Album review: ROSCO LEVEE AND THE SOUTHERN SLIDE – Get It While You Can
Red Train Records Records [Release date 27.01.14] ‘Get It While You Can’ wrestles with the common problem of a Brit band trying to sound authentic on material that evokes the deep south with some shit kicking roots rock. Rosco leads … Continue reading
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Tagged Allman Brothers, Americana, Andy Hayes, blues, Bo Diddley, country, David Tettmark, funk, Get It While You Can, Gram Parsons, JOE COCKER, Lee Wilson, review, Rival Sons, rock, Rolling Stones, Rosco Levee, Roscoe Levee and the Southern Slide, Simon Gardiner
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Album review: LEAVES’ EYES – Symphonies Of The Night
Napalm Records www.leaveseyes.de There are a lot of female fronted symphonic metal bands out there now and a lot do tend to blend into one another, with a few notable exceptions and Leaves’ Eyes are one such exception. The soaring … Continue reading
Album review: STEPHEN DALE PETIT – Cracking The Code
333 Records [Release date 16.09.13] ‘Cracking The Code’ is an apt title for an album that counter balances some retro sounding material with a contemporary production. There’s something lying underneath the frisson busting energy levels but … Continue reading
