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“Hard Rock in the verses, AOR in the choruses, progressive rock in the instrumental sections, a somewhat simplistic way in trying to describe Wonderland. The best example of this is perhaps the epic “ballad turns into hard rock turns into progressive rock”-song, In Too Deep with it´s wonderful guitar- and synthsolos. 8 out of 10!”

1. Hold My Soul
2. Can´t Get Too Much
3. Playing Your Game
4. Into The Deep
5. In Too Deep
6. Afraid
7. Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
8. 667 Youth (Part I)
9. 667 Falling (Part II)
10. 667 Gammal Fäbodspsalm (Part III)
11. Abandoned Ship
12. The Rush Of Possibilities
13. Anticipation

Mammoth have produced a spectacular hard rock album, using raw production, aggressive instrumentation, and great songwriting. Opening track “Mount The Mountain” has a fantastic guitar line and a solid chorus.
“Spellbound” blew me away with its grinding beat and well developed lines. The rhythm is similar to Monster Truck‘s brilliant 2016 offering “Don’t Tell Me How to Live” but with way more flourish. Check out the video below. “Hole In The Head” and “Procrastination” to a large extent, are American Dog. “Wild And Dead” is also pure sleaze, in the style of

Finally available again: The riff monster that is MYSTIC PROPHECY‘s second album “Regressus”! Remastered, and available as a limited edition digipak re-release with two exclusive bonus tracks!
Mixed by Eroc at the Mastering Ranch in Hagen, Germany. Produced and mastered by R.D. Liapakis at Prophecy Studios in Waltenhofen/Hegge, Germany (Devil’s Train, Suicidal Angels, Firewind, Steel Prophet etc.).

1. Calling From Hell
2. Eternal Flame
3. Lords Of Pain
4. Sign Of The Cross
5. Night Of The Storm
6. The Traveller (Instrumental)

Lyon, France dark dreamweavers Les Discrets return with “Prédateurs”, their first full-length album in five years. Ever-evolving, the sound of Les Discrets in 2017 takes a stylistic shift which sees the band’s dreamy shoegaze and metallic tinged post-rock turn into dark indie rock with electronic chill while incorporating inspiration from trip-hop and 70’s film soundtracks.

1. Prédateurs
2. Virée Nocturne
3. Les Amis De Minuit
4. Vanishing Beauties
5. Fleur Des Murailles
6. Le Reproche
7. Les Jours D’Or
8. Rue Octavio Mey
9. The Scent Of Spring (Moonraker)
10. Lyon – Paris 7h34

The title and cover photo come from my Rutgers University senior yearbook photo. My young nieces and nephews found it at my mom’s house and starting texting me how funny it was and when I saw it again after so many years, I agreed! I majored in communication, so it was just a matter of adding the “Breakdown” to it which is obviously, something you never want to happen in comedy.

1. Dave Mustaine Riffs, Intervention, Baby in the Drain
2. Sober, Finger-Banging, Drunk Logic
3. Weed, Cigs, Election 2016
4. Kiefer
5. Myrtle Beach

2017 release from the hard rockers. Twenty years after seizing power in Austin, Texas, rock-roll battering squad Broken Teeth throw it’s hardest punch ever after signing with Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and former Corporate Punishment President Thom Hazaert at their powerhouse EMP Label Group.

“I’ve had my eyes and ears on Broken Teeth for a few years now and have a history with singer Jason McMaster,” Ellefson said. “It was only a matter of time until I found a way to partner with them. Given their reputation as a crushing live act, along with their previous string of classic

Friday the 21 th of April released the melodic rock band Shape Of The New Sun single “Majestic” from their upcoming debut album “Dying Embers” by the company Lions Pride Music.

The Spanish AOR band Phase II Phase will shortly release his new album “Face It” and below you can listen to samples of all the songs.

Is it still useful to present the Swedish Punk Rocker / Indus of THE LEATHER NUN? Surely not, but it is useful to remind the “young people” that this group began its career in 1979. After a few years of absences in the 90’s-2000, the group returned to the front of the stage with WHATEVER (2016). They are back again with this VIVE LA FETE! VIVE LA REVOLUTION which will be released on May 5th.

01. I’m Alive

The April 28 release singer Terry Ilous (XYZ, Great White), his first solo album “Gypsy Dreams’ where he makes covers of the following classic songs:

1. Whole Lotta Love – (Led Zeppelin)
2. Boys Of Summer – (Don Henley)
3. In Your Eyes – (Peter Gabriel)
4. Long Train Running – (The Doobie Brothers)
5. Wicked Game – (Chris Isaak)
6. Heaven And Hell – (Black Sabbath)
7. Ride Like The Wind – (Christopher Cross)
8. Love Bites – (Def Leppard)
9. Kill The King – (Rainbow)

The two bands Guardian and Whitecross release later this year a joint EP which will feature remakes of their most famous songs.

I never thought the day would come when I would be reviewing vinyl records. I know their popularity has grown in recent years, especially amongst the Hipster crowd, but I never imagined I would be receiving full-length LPS in the mail for review. Crazy!

Making things even better is the fact that Strange Karma is a really good, melodic hard rock group from Australia. This is hard rock like I grew up with circa the 80’s and early 90’s when bands wrote full-length albums that were cohesive from beginning to end, and not just one-off singles to sell for .99 cents.

The songs on Cold Blooded are catchy, with big choruses an

The May 26 release guitarist Julian Angel (Beautiful Beast) his new album “The Death of Cool” and through amazon.com, you can listen to samples of all the songs.

1 Shoot Me Down
2 The Death of Cool
3 Clock Strikes
4 She’s on Fire
5 Reach
6 Phonograph Needle
7 Rock Like a Woman
8 Hideaway
9 Monsterous
10 Summerbreak
11 Friday Nite Wild

Audio CD (May 5, 2017)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Mighty Music

Electric Poets is a Belarusian Modern Hard Rock band formed in Minsk in 2017. It consists of former Stardust Circus members Stevie Black (guitar), J.J. (guitar), Holz von Teller (bass) alongside belarussian vocalist D.C. Shampanoff (Inomarki/Vox Mira) and drummer Den Trump (Stanmarsh).

01. My Anger (4:37),
02. Never (2:58),
03. Electric Poets (3:52),
04. No Respect (4:01),
05. Honesty (3:46)

Es BACKTRACK LANE are back with a new Ep, IN FINE, which will be released on May 22nd. But to wait a little, the Parisians offer us a 1st single titled UNDERGROUND. Details and clip in the article …