Day: May 29, 2022

Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disc (release) country: UK
Year of publication: 2016
Publisher (label): Escape Music
Part Number: ESM289
Country of the performer (group): Canada

Tracklist:
1. All I Need (3:31)
2. Love Will Find A Way (4:15)
3. I Can Take You (4:39)
4. Sleepless Angel (4:11)
5. Angels (4:47)
6. Save A Little Love (4:05)
7. My Everything (3:59)
8. I Need You (02:55)
9. Nah Nah Nah (3:27)
10. Like A Phoenix (04:44)

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Genre: Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of artist (group): US

Tracklist:
1. Escape Machine (3:27)
2. Blame It On The Night (3:06)
3. Different Worlds (4:13)
4 Losing The Track (3:58)
5. Writings On The Wall (3:29)
6. Show Me The Way (04:28)
7. Just When I Needed You (3:56)
8. Need To Fall (3:17)
9. Stop The World (4:10)
10. Hearts Of Stone (3:52)
11. Don’t Break My Heart (4:34)
12. Just When I Needed You (4:10)

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James Byrd is one of a prominent guitarist that’s well-known from his former band, FIFTH ANGEL. After Fifth Angel re-released its debut in 1988 under new major label Epic there was a disagreement about royalty payment, with Byrd finally flew off and replaced by Kendall Bechtell.

Byrd formed his own band James Byrd’s ATLANTIC RISING and released this self-titled debut in 1990, and album musically with a lot of FIFTH ANGEL on it but also DOKKEN and a bit of CRIMSON GLORY. Although not credited, House Of Lord’s et all Ken Mary play drums all over the LP.
I found several interesting songs in this album such as “Into The Light”, “After The Fire”, and “Eye of The Storm”. “Let It Out” stands out with roaring overture that blasted into a

Universal Music Japan did it again, a new campaign of their ‘HR/HM 1000‘ series – the Limited Release reissue of long time out of print albums from their Hard Rock / Heavy Metal catalog at the price of 1000 Yen = about 8 USD.
Now it’s time for the second 2022 batch, ”HR-HM 1000 Vol.5”, and as part of these there’s the very good, criminally underrated “Go All The Way“, the third studio album from Swiss melodic hard rockers CHINA.

For this 1991 album CHINA changed the lead vocalist – enter Eric St. Michaels – but what a great improvement. While the previous two albums from this group are awesome, “Go All The Way” is the most ‘American melodic rock’ ever from the band, and St. Michaels’ voice shine all over the r