FICTION SYXX – The Alternate Me 2019


The line-up had one change – Larry Hart (King Kobra/Montrose) on bass guitar takes over for Tony “The Fretless Monster” Franklin. This release is focused more on the core than their debut release ‘Tall Dark Secrets’. There are no guest artists on this one and JK Northrup & Mark Lanoue share the lead guitar duties. Prepare for a mix of melody, harmony, soaring slide, and at times SHRED!

Fiction Syxx is:
Mark Allen Lanoue – Lead Vocals & Guitar
JK Northrup – Guitar, B. Vocals & Production
Rory Faciane – Drums
Larry Hart – Bass
Eric Ragno – Keyboards

GARY HOEY – Neon Highway 2019


NEON HIGHWAY BLUES will, of course, take Hoey back on the highways and byways for plenty of touring and playing, well, the blues — and more. He can’t yet predict where the next road will take him, but Hoey is confident it will be an adventure.

The complete track listing is
“Under The Rug” (featuring Eric Gales),
“Mercy Of Love” (featuring Josh Smith),
“Your Kind Of Love,”
“Don’t Come Crying” (featuring Ian Hoey),
“Still Believe In Love,”
“Almost Heaven,”
“I Felt Alive,”
“Waiting On The Sun,
” “Damned If I Do” (featuring Lance Lopez),
“Living The Highlife,”
“Neon Highway Blues.”

LECTRIC MARY – Mother 2019


ELECTRIC MARY will release their new studio album ‘Mother’ on February 22.While on writing trip to New York, vocalist & songwriter, Rusty Brown, visited the Jimi Hendrix founded Electric Lady Recording Studios. It was there that the infamous studio manager “Electric Mary Campbell” entered his life .. story after story of the rock history that wandered through the studio’s had Rusty’s head spinning, his direction was clear, and it now had a name “ELECTRIC MARY”.

Tracklisting:
1) Gimme Love
2) Hold Onto What You Got
3) How Do You Do It
4) Sorry Baby
5) The Way You Make Me Feel
6) It’s Alright
7) Long Long Day
8) Woman

Electric Mary are:
Rusty [vocals]
Pete Robinson [guitar and voca

HAREM SCAREM – The Ultimate Collection [Box Set] 2019


On March 22, 2019, Harem Scarem band will release “The Ultimate Collection Box Set” a 14CD limited edition deluxe box set and four titles (“Weight of the World,” “Higher”, “Thirteen”, “United”) on limited edition color vinyl.

Tracklistings:

CD 1 Harem Scarem
1. Hard To Love
2. Distant Memory
3. With A Little Love
4. Honestly
5. Love Reaction
6. Slowly Slipping Away
7. All Over Again
8. Don’t Give Your Heart Away
9. How Long
10. Something To Say
Bonus tracks:
11. Hard To Love (Acoustic)
12. How Long (Acoustic)
13. Honestly (Acoustic)
14. Slowly Slipping Away (Acoustic)

CD 2 Mood Swings
1. Saviors Never Cry
2. No Justice
3. Stranger Than Love

LA GUNS – The Devil You Know 2019


L.A. GUNS are truly one of the great American hard rock bands of the last 30 years. Since the self-titled debut in 1988 to the widely praised 2017 comeback album “The Missing Peace”, L.A. GUNS, led by Tracii Guns and Phil Lewis have always delivered solid rock ‘n roll to their fans.

01 – Rage 4:00
02 – Stay Away 4:02
03 – Loaded Bomb 4:50
04 – The Devil You Know 5:20
05 – Needle To The Bone 4:02
06 – Going High 4:27
07 – Gone Honey 5:45
08 – Don’t Need To Win 4:06
09 – Down That Hole 4:31
10 – Another Season In Hell 6:22

TIM KARR – Lost In The Ether 2019

Singer/songwriter/guitarist TIM KARR will release a brand new solo album finally in February. ‘Lost In The Ether’ release details are pending, but the information about the album is as follows:

Track Listing:
Salvation or Bust!: 3:27
Destruction: 3:52
Stand My Ground: 3:19
Slow Change: 3:17
Rattle Trap: 2:57
Good For You: 3:15
Leave Me Blind: 2:53
Sweet Tea & Violence: 3:05
Telegenocide: 2:56

LineUp:
Vocals: Tim Karr
Guitars: Tim Karr, Malac, Curt Myers
Bass: Paul Eckman, Joe Cerrato, Bart Broadnax, Robert Martins, Louis Ruiz
Drums: Hawk Lopez
Keys: Michael Smith
Cello: Maxim Velichkin
Harp: Little John Chrisley
Background Vocals: Tim Karr, Robert Martins, H’Atina, Brittany May

APPEARANCE OF NOTHING – In Times Of Darkness 2019


Escape Music is pleased to announce the return of Swiss Progressive Melodic Metal Band Appearance of Nothing with their forth album “In Times Of Darkness”

Appearance of Nothing – In Times Of Darknesss

Release Date: 22 March 2019
Catalogue No: ESM328

Track Listing:
01 Inside these Walls 06:32
02 The Black Sea 09:26
03 Storm 04:25
04 Erase 07:00
05 Deception 07:01
06 Disaster (Sweetest Enemy) 05:28
07 Lost 05:17
08 The Huntress 09:22

Appearance of Nothing is:
Omar Cuna – Vocals and Bass
Marc Petralito – Piano, Hammond, Synth
Ronnie Wolf – Drums
Manuel Meinen – Guitars
Albert Ibrahimaj – Guitars

Guest appearances:

Glen Vargas – Raices 2019


Genre: Hard Guitar Rock
Year: 2019
Country:Bolivia

1. A Mi Padre
2. Volcán
3. Rosita Pochi
4. Nostalgia (A Mi Madre)
5. Jumechi
6. El Poder del Silencio
7. Sol Acústico (A Mis Amigos)
8. Niña Camba
9. Purpura
10. Tania
11. Symphony Blues (feat. Dean Vargas)
12. l Tren de la Vida (feat. Gonzalo Paz)
13. Alma de Acero (feat. Glen Vargas Jr.)
14. Himno Cruceño
15. Himno Nacional

N.Ex.U.S – N.Ex.U.S 2019


On March 29, the melodious hardcover band N.Ex.U.S releases a self-titled debut album via the company Logic Il Logic Records / Burning Minds Music Group. The album will contain the following songs:

01. Loading…
02. …The System
03. Empathy
04. A Man Without A Soul
05. Land Of Misery
06. Reflections
07. The Mercenary
08. Another Shore
09. John Doe
10. Final Act: A New Humanity

The Treatment – Power Crazy 2019


“Power Crazy” is the fourth full-length album from British hard rockers The Treatment. Coupling sonic power with an insane taste for infectious riffs, The Treatment are firing on all cylinders with their slice of no frills hard rock.

A quick listen will instantly reveal the essential ingredients of a classic hard rock album: riffs, huge choruses, catchy licks, and straight to the point songs.

1. Let’s Get Dirty
2. Rising Power
3. On The Money
4. Bite Back
5. Luck Of The Draw
6. Hang Them High
7. Scar With Her Name
8. King Of The City
9. Waiting For The Call
10. Laying It Down
11. The Fighting Song
12. Falling Down
13. Bite Back (Acoustic) (Bonus Track Physical)

THE TREATMENT
Tom Rampton (vocals)

Lethal Injection – The Most Metal Years 1982-1989 (2019)


1980s Hair Metal at its finest! Pounding riffs, wild screams, hot guitar licks and lascivious innuendo courtesy of Rikki Riot, Vinnie Venom, Tommy Bomb and Sinn on this “Best Of” from the pinnacle of their 80s arena rocking fame!

1. Tail of Two Cities
2. X X X Marks the Spot
3. Hump Day Hump Night
4. Teacher’s Pettin’
5. Cumm Onn Inn
6. Ball Baring
7. Press the Flesh
8. Rock Hard Rock Harder
9. Slip of the Tongue
10. Spray It Don’t Say It
11. Ride the Rocket
12. Abuse It or Lose It

Whitesnake – Slide It In: The Ultimate Special Edition 2019


SLIDE IT IN: THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL EDITION includes newly remastered versions of both the U.K. and U.S. mixes of the album as well as the 35th Anniversary Remixes from 2019, plus unreleased live and studio recordings, music videos, concert footage, and a new interview with Whitesnake founder and lead singer, David Coverdale.

Disc 1:
01. Gambler (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
02. Slide It In (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
03. Slow An’ Easy (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
04. Love Ain’t No Stranger (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
05. Give Me More Time (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
06. Standing In The Shadow (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
07. Hungry for Love (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
08. All or Nothing (US Mix) [2019 Remaster]
09. Spit It Out (US Mix) [2019

Three Thirteen – Three Thirteen 2019


By year’s end 1985, 313 had tracked a whopping 10 songs at Gamut Productions, achieving a striking balance between catchy, melodic hard rock and a heavier lean toward traditional metal.

Gamut Sessions – 1985
1. Arrogance & Aggression
2. Suite 313
3. The Warrior
4. Shot In The Dark
5. Robbin’ The Cradle
6. Go Down Fighting
7. Survivor
8. Bone Soldiers
9. Black And White
10. Top Of The Night

Aircraft Sessions – 1987
11. Tonight We Fly
12. Vengeance Is Mine
13. Silence And Tears
14. Black And White
15. Robbin’ The Cradle
16. Gratitude
17. Tramontane
18. Pray For Me
19. The Warrior

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Skitzo – Skitzo 2019


New Jersey progressive thrashers SKITZO formed from the ashes of a band called Prophecy in the mid-’80s. The initial lineup—Bill Buchan (guitar), Shaun College (bass), Chris Corley (guitar), and Brendan Farragher (drums)—wrote and rehearsed seven nights a week, constructing a catalog of complex instrumentals while searching for the right vocalist. That vocalist, George Gabriel, was finally secured in 1988/1989, and SKITZO officially set out to craft their own brand of dynamic, technically demanding music influenced by traditional and thrash metal, classical, jazz/fusion, etc.

Steve Evetts Session – 1992
1. Staged
2. Born Again
3. Mother’s Revenge
4. Symmetrical
5. In Vain

Progressive Psychosis Demo – 1990
6. Progressive Psychosis
7. Too Late For

STEVE JONES – FIRE AND GASOLINE [Rock Candy Remastered +1 bonus] 2019


THERE ARE FEW guitarists who have created as big an impact on rock music as Steve Jones. As one of the founding members of the Sex Pistols it was Jones who outlined the band’s sound, with his mountainous guitar riffs and unbridled energy pushing the material way beyond the red zone.

1. FREEDOM FIGHTER
2. WE’RE NOT SAINTS
3. GOD IN LOUISIANA
4. FIRE AND GASOLINE
5. TROUBLE MAKER
6. I DID U NO WRONG
7. GET READY
8. GIMME LOVE
9. WILD WHEELS
10. HOLD ON
11. LEAVE YOUR SHOES ON.
BONUS TRACK: 12. SUFFRAGETTE CITY

SAMMY HAGAR – DANGER ZONE [Rock Candy Remastered] 2019


SAMMY HAGAR’S FIVE album tenure with the Capitol records label concluded with Danger Zone, a particularly gutsy album that moved the guitarist away from his more considered song writing style to a fuller hard rock sound boasting lashings of attack and excitement. It was a formidable album that set the red rocker up for major career advancement and a lucrative deal with his next label Geffen Records.

1. LOVE OR MONEY
2. 20TH CENTURY MAN
3. MILES FROM BOREDOM
4. MOMMY SAYS, DADDY SAYS
5. IN THE NIGHT (ENTERING THE DANGER ZONE)
6. THE ICEMAN
7. BAD REPUTATION
8. HEARTBEAT
9. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
10. THE DANGER ZONE

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