Lee Aaron announced a new album called ‘Radio On’ which will hit the shelves On July 23rd. The award-winning Canadian singer from Belleville, Ontario started her career when she was fifteen years old and the band, she joined was called Lee Aaron. The breakthrough album of the Canadian vocalist was the 1984 release ‘Metal Queen’,... Continue Reading →
Review HEAVEN & EARTH ‘V’
It was back in 2017 when Heaven & Earth’s latest longplayer ‘Hard to Kill’ hit the shelves. After four years, Stuart Smith and bandmates return with a new longplayer, simply entitled ‘V’. The new album also marks the return of the band to Frontiers Music who already released the debut in 2000. The fifth Heaven... Continue Reading →
Review STÖNER ‘Stoners Rule’
Right in time for the starting summer season desert rockers Stöner unleash with 'Stoners Rule' an album that fits perfect to the summerly heat. Stöner, one out of six bands that filled the Mojave desert with rock music, release a seven song album that brings some desert heat to your place. Stöner's line-up sounds like... Continue Reading →
Review VELVET INSANE ‘Rock’n’Roll Glitter Suit’
Here comes some glam rock from Sweden. Velvet Insane is the brainchild of Jesper Lindgren who with Velvet Insane everything into a musical direction, glamorous rock that entails big choruses, great hooks a lot of a positive vibe. With Jesper Sandström (b) a first partner in crime was found who brought along his friend Jonas... Continue Reading →
Review HARDLINE ‘Heart, Mind and Soul’
Hardline is a band that is around since 1991 when the Gioeli brothers, Johnny and Joey, started the band. ‘Double Eclipse’ was the debut, and it was a great start. Neal Schon, Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo completed the line-up that created with ‘Double Eclipse’ a timeless classic in the fields of melodic rock and... Continue Reading →
Review L.A. GUNS ‘Cocked & Loaded Live’
The 31st anniversary isn’t a date that you usually celebrate extensively. But in an extraordinary situation, which these days certainly reflect, things are different. In such a situation also a 31st anniversary could become something special. It was a bit more than three decades ago the L.A. Guns unleashed their seconds album ‘Cocked & Loaded’, a record... Continue Reading →
Review WILDSTREET ‘III’
Wildstreet started back in 2006 and premiered in 2009 with a self-titled full-length record. Not putting too much effort into the titles of the longplayers and keeping things easy, the band numbered their next longplayer. ‘II .. Faster ... Louder!’ had a at least a bit of an appendix to the pure numbering while their... Continue Reading →
Review VHF ‘Very High Frequency’
VHF stands for Vinciguerra, Hoekstra, Franklin, names that resonate very well when it comes to hard rock and metal. Guitar virtuoso Joel Hoekstra is known from his contribution for bands like Whitesnake, Night Ranger and the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Tony Franklin provides a rock solid groove for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and The Firm, not to... Continue Reading →
Review BUCKCHERRY ‘Hellbound’
Buckcherry started full speed into their rock’n’roll endeavor. The band is the brainchild of singer Josh Todd and Keith Nelson with both exploring a similar taste when it comes to music. That was in 1995 and it still took a while before Buckcherry, the band they started, debuted. Th self-titled first longplayer has been released... Continue Reading →
Review FARGO ‘Strangers D’Amour’
Timing is often everything. Being at the right moment at the right place is as good as delivering the right album at the right time. ‘Stranger D’Amour’ is such an album that fits perfectly into the European summer season. Fargo, the name says it already, is the brainchild of Fargo Peter Knorn. ‘Fargopedda’, together with... Continue Reading →
CROBOT’s new EP ‘Rat Child’ out now
Crobot new EP ‘Rat Child’ hit the shelves today. The thundering rock album features four songs and three guest appearances. The start into this EP is called ‘Mountain’, a song that features Anthrax bassist Frank Bello. The tune is a rock, hard but also organic and warm. ‘Mountain’ is a great start before things get... Continue Reading →
News from THE NEAL MORSE BAND
'Innocence & Danger' is the title of the upcoming The Neal Morse Band album that will be available on August 27th via Inside Out Music. With 'Do It All Again' a first single has been unleashed, supported by a video, created by Christian Rios. Mike Portnoy says this about the track, “This was the first... Continue Reading →
Review CROWNE ‘Kings in the North’
Crowne and ‘Kings in the North’, that seems to be a very royal release that we get offered by Frontiers Music. If the Swedish melodic rock powerhouse will become the king in the North is something, future will bring to surface, or not. What is a given is the fact that the prerequisites are in... Continue Reading →
Review MIDNITE CITY ‘Itch You Can’t Scratch’
Do you miss hair spray metal from the eighties? Or are band like Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Loverboy and Def Leppard you favorite hard rock outfits? In case you can at least answer one of the questions with ‘yes’, then you shouldn’t miss this quintet from Nottingham, UK. Midnite City is the name of a band... Continue Reading →
Review SOCIAL DISORDER ‘Love 2 Be Hated’
Let's start this review with some name-dropping. Tracii Guns, Rudy Sarzo, Jeff Duncan, Snowy Shaw and some more, all these exquisite musicians are part of Social Disorder. The mainman of Social Disorder though is someone else. The project is the brainchild of Swedish-born Anders Rönnblom (Killer Bee, X-Romance and Wolfpakk). 'Love 2 Be Hatred' is... Continue Reading →









