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Today German legends HELLOWEEN are releasing “United Alive in Madrid”, a show capturing all the band’s celebrated greatest hits from three decades and a breakneck trip through time to the entire Helloween repertoire – including songs the band hadn’t played live for a very long time, or even never before.
This end of the year promises to deliver some stupendous albums, let’s check the newest advanced singles from CD’s to come. British melodic rockers DANTE FOX will be releasing their six album Six String Revolver via AOR Heaven on November 24, 2017. ‘Firing My Heart’ should be the band’s most guitar driven song in years, full of melody and energy....
MASTERPLAN, which features former Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow, will release a new studio album titled “PumpKings” on June 30 via AFM. The effort consists of 2017 reworked versions of Helloween songs from albums that Grapow played on during his time in the legendary German band.This is one of my favorite periods of Helloween, and here we find included three songs...
German rock/metal legend Kai HANSEN releases the live album “Thank You Wacken!” later this month in Europe but the Japanese Edition just appeared some days ago. This Asian version is of special interest as it features as exclusive bonus track a new version of “Stranger In Time”, the only studio song on the CD. From Helloween to Gamma Ray and...
The great, new KAI HANSEN album “XXX Three Decades In Metal” (posted here) features some impressive guest vocalists doing duets with him, but there’s also a Deluxe 2-CD version featuring only Hansen vocals on all tracks, something that at places work better and we are able to truly appreciate his incredible pipes.This Japanese limited release of “XXX Three Decades In...
* “Heading For Tomorrow” was the debut album by the legendary German metallers band GAMMA RAY. It was intended to be the first solo album of Helloween’s guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Kai Hansen after he left the band, but he re-named the project as Gamma Ray.Now “Heading For Tomorrow” reached its 25 Anniversary, and Hansen is celebrating the event...
* HELLOWEEN‘s new album “My God-Given Right” has been released on various formats. One of these it’s this awesome “3D Deluxe Earbook” featuring a bonus CD. Exclusively available at the Nuclear Blast Records mailorder this special edition with 3D cover (28x28cm) includes an extra CD with 4 bonus tracks. Strictly limited to 1000 units. CD 2 (Bonus):01. I Wish I...
* exclusive One of my youth’s favorite bands, German wonders HELLOWEEN, are back with their 15th album “My God-Given Right“. Helloween are celebrating 30 years together in June… it seems it was just yesterday that we were blasting The Keeper of Seven Keys on cassette. It was the beginning of power/speed metal, some kind of Scorpions on steroids and it...
* One of the most influential and internationally successful acts of the global metal scene, Germans HELLOWEEN celebrates their 30th anniversary with the release of their 15th studio album ‘My God-Given Right’, due out on June 1.On April 17th, HELLOWEEN will release the hymn “Battle’s Won”, which is the first single off of the album. A limited quantity of the...
the REAL one * One of the greatest and legendary European metal bands are kicking off 2013 with studio album fourteen and will certainly set the standards pretty high for the rest of the year. I am talking about Germans HELLOWEEN and their brand new album “Straight Out Of Hell”. I’ve been partial to a little bit of Helloween in...
JD MILLER – World War X (2017)
After their very solid debut, "World War X" is the follow up album from Swedes JD MILLER released today via Mighty Music. "World War X" pretty much sounds like they… Read more…
JD MILLER – Grand Intentions [Bonus Edition] (2016)
After the recent, new JD MILLER album posted on this blog, one of you asked for the band's previous effort from three years ago. And it's a proper request as… Read more…
DANGER ZONE – Closer To Heaven (2016)
Melodic Hard Rockers DANGER ZONE are releasing tomorrow "Closer To Heaven", a really entertaining slice of classic '80s inspired stuff. Hailing from Italy, Danger Zone was founded in the early… Read more…
GUNNER are not strangers to this blog as we already presented their previous album, now two years forward the band delivers their third installment "All Access". Although at first glance… Read more…
After a promising debut released by Retrospect Records USA, Argentinian melodic hard rockers GUNNER have a new record label and a new album out: "Keep Fighting". The group started life… Read more…
SECRET ILLUSION – Awake Before The Dawn (2018)
SECRET ILLUSION are releasing their new album "Awake Before The Dawn" tomorrow Feb. 1st 2018, via Lion Music Records, a label that doesn't stops to add new bands to their… Read more…
BON JOVI – Rockin’ In Cleveland, 1984 [HD Remastered Edition] (2018)
BON JOVI recording "Rockin' In Cleveland, 1984" (The Legendary Ohio Broadcast) has just been re-released in a "HD Remastered Edition". Already considered an 'official bootleg', the album even has been… Read more…
SIGN X (ex Chalice) – Sign X (2018) + CHALICE “In Wonderland” [digitally remastered]
SIGN X is a new German outfit releasing their self-titled "Sign X" EP this 2018 as presentation card. In fact, this is the new name for veteran melodic hard rockers… Read more…
SPIRAL KEY – An Error Of Judgement (2018)
Britain's SPIRAL KEY are releasing their second effort titled “An Error of Judgement”, the first via the very good, varied in musical styles Pride & Joy Music label (and distributed… Read more…
REACH – The Great Divine (2018)
Swedish melodic hard rockers REACH surprised us with a great album years ago, now reduced as a three-piece, the guys are back with ”The Great Divine”, their fresh CD to… Read more…
CATS IN SPACE – Cats Alive! (2018)
UK wonders CATS IN SPACE are ready to release their first live recording tomorrow titled "Cats Alive!", recorded last year at the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena at a particularly raucous night… Read more…
MARC JORDAN – C.O.W. Conserve Our World [AOR CITY Series – remastered] (2017)
Last year we featured some titles from the great Sony Music Japan campaign titled AOR CITY 1000, a low-priced remastered reissue on 100 classic AOR / AC albums from their… Read more…
