Melodic Rock, AOR, Hard Rock, Prog, Classic Rock news
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...
AERODYNE – Breaking Free (2017)
"Breaking Free" is the first full-length of Swedish hard rockers AERODYNE, set for release tomorrow December 15, 2017 via Street Symphonies Records. Formed back in January 2016 the Scandinavian combo… Read more…
WESTPOINT – Face To The Sea [digitally remastered] (2016)
New reissue label Preservation Records is doing a great job remastering lost gems from the '80s Norwegian AOR scene. They started with a superb Lava album (featured here on the… Read more…
Mr. RIOT – My Life, My Road (2017)
"My Life, My Road" is the new album from Italian melodic hard rockers MR. RIOT, and the craziest thing about it is that the band already call its day before… Read more…
What do you get when you combine a skilled session vocalist and member of the current Alan Parsons Project with the ex drummer of Staind, and a bass player extraordinaire?… Read more…
WORLDS APART – Clean Slate (comeback album)
WORLDS APART has been around recording and performing since the early 90s and have delivered some strong material in the past. The San Francisco Bay are melodic hard rockers are… Read more…
SAINTS OF SIN – Welcome To The Circus (2017)
Since forming in 2013 in Southampton, British rockers SAINTS OF SIN have been bringing their own brand of unadulterated hair metal to venues up and down the country. This is… Read more…
JOHN WAITE – In Real Time [retail]
After the recent Bad English post one of you asked for this quite unknown JOHN WAITE album "In Real Time" released via Frontiers Music some time ago. The album was… Read more…
HOUSTON – Truth Slips EP + Singles + Cover Versions
After the recent, awesome new album by Swedish AOR wonders HOUSTON some of you asked for the band's rare "Truth Slips [EP]", presented here on the blog at the time… Read more…
FREEROCK SAINTS – Electric Passion (2017)
"Electric Passion" is the second, vibrant new album by FREEROCK SAINTS, the brainchild of Super Vintage founder Stavros Papadopoulos. In fact, FREEROCK SAINTS are Super Vintage members plus terrific female… Read more…
"Showdown" is the new album by KING'S CALL after a four year absence. The German based melodic hard rock band founded by guitarist Alex Garoufalidis (Greek origins but born in… Read more…
BLINDSTONE – Blues-O-Delic Celebration (2017)
Speaking about heavy-blues, Danish outfit BLINDSTONE are one of this blog favorites. The boys are back with a new album 2017 titled "Blues-O-Delic Celebration", this time a collection of covers… Read more…
Praised by Classic Rock Magazine as one of the greatest promises from the genre, SAMARKIND are presenting themselves to the world with their pretty awesome self-titled debut "Samarkind". "Samarkind" is… Read more…
