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30 years ago today, New Jersey rockers SKID ROW released their self-titled album, kicking off a major-label career that would take them twice into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and to the very top of the Billboard 200. In celebration, Rhino / Atlantic has released “Skid Row [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]”, a remastered / expanded edition of...
Warner Music Group has put together a very interesting compilation titled “Hard Rock Beyond the Hits“, comprising some really good ‘inside tracks’ taken from albums of artists from their back catalog.These are songs that never were hits but many certainly deserved that status. Indeed, most of the bands featured here were multi-platinum sellers, but the idea was to feature songs...
We have many requests on the blog, but without a doubt this was at the top: self-titled debut from SKID ROW in its Japanese Edition on high quality SHM-CD, remastered, featuring 4 bonus tracks and in a Cardboard Sleeve / mini LP replica of the original album art.Sadly, this was a strictly Limited Release, now out of print and reaching...
Many readers praised the high quality of several Japanese SHM-CD remasters presented here, and asked for this excellent, out of print, hard to find Limited Release of SKID ROW‘s killer classic “Slave To The Grind“. “Slave To The Grind” marked the band’s move towards the heavier sound of their origins.Indeed Skid Row get harder and heavier on most the songs,...
* “Give ‘Em Hell” is the upcoming fifth solo studio album by ex- Skid Row frontman SEBASTIAN BACH to be released in Europe by Frontiers Records this Friday.I don’t know if Bach will ever rejoin Skid Row for a full on reunion but, I’ll tell you one thing, if he continues to release solo albums of this quality then I...
* Undoubtedly one the the most iconic Hard Rock bands from the ’80s, SKID ROW returns with their first new, original material in seven years with “United World Rebellion”, the first of three plus three EPs that will be made available over the next 12-18 months. After Sebastian Bach left, it was as though the band’s sound went with him....
