Mecca – Everlasting 2023, MP3+FLAC, CD-Rip


Genre: AOR
Year: 2023
Country: USA

1. And Now The Magic Is Gone
2. The Rules Of The Heart
3. I Won’t Walk Away
4. The Mistakes We Make
5. These Times Are For Heroes
6. Your Walls Are Crumbling Down
7. Everlasting
8. Falling
9. Endless Days
10. Living In Fear
11. Your Way

Joe Vana (v)
Joey Vana (v)
Sven Larsson (g)
Alessandro Del Vecchio (k)
Mitia Maccaferri (b)
Mirko De Maio (d)
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Tommy Denander
Christopher Börjars
Stefano Lionetti
Vivien Lalu

FORGED IN BLACK – Lightning in the Ashes 2023


Release Date: June 20th, 2023, The UK’s heavy metal heroes Forged In Black have returned! And they bring with them their second full length album for Spain’s Fighter Records – Lightning In The Ashes – featuring ten songs of supreme metal mastery; classic British heavy metal infused with the foreboding aura of doom, the melodious energy of power metal, the devastating riffs of thrash and the glorious sense of adventure and challenge that epitomises the best works of progressive metal.

Adorned in the stunning and unutterably metal artwork of Dan Goldsworthy (Accept, Haken, Sylosis etc

Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall – Hunt The Flame 2023, MP3+FLAC, CD-Rip


Country: USA & Europe
Released: 2023
Style: Power Metal, Symphonic Metal

1 Hunt The Flame
Featuring – Alexander Strandell
Written-By – Magnus Karlsson
2 You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore
Featuring – Jakob Samuel
Written-By – Magnus Karlsson
3 Thunder Calls
Featuring – James Durbin
Written-By – Jane Gould, Magnus Karlsson
4 Break Of Dawn
Featuring – Kristian Fyhr
Written-By – Kristian Fyhr, Magnus Karlsson
5 Far From Home
Featuring – James Robledo (2)
Written-By – Magnus Karlsson
6 Night Bird
Featuring – Michael Eriksen
Written-By – Jane Gould, Magnus Karlsson
7 Holy Ground
Featuring – Girish Pr

Front Row Warriors – Wheel of Fortune 2023


9 June 2023 Release, Founded in 2019 in Stuttgart by Jay-G, drums (Shining, Sharon), Elkie Gee, vocals, (Ampyre, Antares), and Sorin Badin, a well-known Romanian guitarist (Cardinal, Samsara, Crystal Maze) under the name Front Row Warriors and reached its current formation 2020 with the addition of Richie Seibel, keyboards, (Lanfear, Ivanhoe, Them) and Timo Michels, bass, (5th Season, Pump).

In summer 2022 guitarist Stef Binnig-Gollub (Septagon) joined the band. The band’s goal is to take the audience on a musical journey through the era of Hardrock and Metal of the past 30 years and to create

Emotional Fire – Will You Be There 2023 EP


The new Swedish project band Emotional Fire has just released the EP “Will You Be There”, which you can download to below. Emotional Fire have released the EP “Will You Be There” via RN Records. Emotional Fire makes its live debut at Rocknytt Cruise (Russ Ballard, Dare, Demon, Grand Slam, Gathering Of Kings, among others) on April 21-22.

The EP contains four songs. The title track “Will You Be There”, written by Ulrick Lönnqvist, Pete Alpenborg and Rick Altzi plus three covers. The cover songs are “Breaking Me Up” by Buck

Bill Wray – Seize The Moment 2023 Remastered Bad Reputation


Country: France
Released: 2023
Style: Melodic Rock

1 (You’re A) Heartbreaker
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Jeff*
Written-By – Russ Ballard
2 She Loves The Radio
Written-By – Bill Wray, Kirk Butler, Mark Cawley
3 Goin’ Down
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Josh*
Written-By – Bill Wray, Jim Wray
4 After All These Years
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Jeff*
Written-By – Bill Wray, Wendy Waldman
5 Someone To Love
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Jeff*
Written-By – Ken Hirsch, Mark Mueller
6 Tonight
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Craig*
Written-By – Bill Wray, Jim Wray
7 Somethin’ I’ve Gotta Do
Guitar [Guitar Solo] – Josh*
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RAT ALLEY – Down & Out 2023 First time on CD


In the late 1980s, countless hard rock bands littered the smokey local bars and nightclubs across America. Support your local rock was advised and Bostonians did just that while embracing a homegrown three-piece called RAT ALLEY that delivered gritty whiskey-fueled swinging rhythms and a good time with swagger.

RAT ALLEY was a late 80s hard rock band that played various clubs throughout the Boston, Massacauttes area. The band included guitarist Johnny Williams, drummer Mike Fitzgerald and bassist Chris Dahlstedt.

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