Day: March 26, 2025

Yesterday we featured in exclusive The Bad reputation remastered reissue on SHOK PARIS album ”Steel and Starlight”. The album was released in 1987 but.. not as the band’s whish.

”Steel And Starlight” was originally released by I.R.S. Records, a label was more suited to working with pop acts than heavy metal bands. Thus, they may have felt the urge to make changes to SHOK PARIS’ songs. Imagine working hard on your major label debut, only to find out after the album was released that numerous changes had been made to your songs; intros were removed, guitars pushed back, etc. As it turns out, in 1987, I.R.S. took creative control of the album after SHOK PARIS delivered it to them. Unfortunately, this happened to a lot of

Dissonance Productions, the ‘metal label’ of Cherry Red Records is about to release CRIMSON GLORY – The Roadrunner Years, a 31-track, three disc box set from legendary Florida based progressive metal act Crimson Glory featuring their first three full length studio albums, originally released via Roadrunner Records.

CD 1 features their self-titled debut full length recording originally released in 1986 including a bonus track, while CD 2 features the classic follow up ‘Transendence’ (a bonus track as well), originally released in 1988. The final disc, CD 3, features the band’s 1991 full length ‘Strange and Beautiful’.

Crimson Glory were formed in Sarosota, Florida as Pierced Arrow. From 1979 to 1983, the band went through