Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. AOR evolved from progressive rock radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

BLACK SHEEP (Lou Gramm) – Encouraging Words [Remastered] (2016), MP3+FLAC CD

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As requested, here’s the not easy to find remastered CD’s of both BLACK SHEEP albums. Black Sheep was a Seventies, Rochester, New York based band that featured the great vocals of future Foreigner singer Lou Grammatico – later Lou Gramm. Black Sheep’s music was on the bluesier side not to mention a little less commercial but still fantastic. Both albums the band recorded are worth owning for any fan of obscure 70s hard rock – and especially if you are a Lou Gramm fan these are both must haves.

This quintet recorded two LP’s for Capitol Records, both terrific slices of classic American bluesy hard rock with mojo and muscle that made the genre so popular. The band was scheduled for a nation tour with KISS, but Black Shee

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Satin – Appetition – 2022, Japan Edition+1, FLAC+MP3, CD w/Scans

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Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): Spiritual Beast
Country of performer (band): Norway

Tracklist:
1. Going Your Way (4:23)
2. Angels Come, Angels Go (4:05)
3. Waiting For Another Man (3:33)
4. Everybody Needs To Be Loved (3:23)
5. A Dream Coming True (4:58)
6. Looking At You (3:49)
7. Pearly Gates (4:12)
8. Jenny (I’m Bringing You Down) (4:43)
9. Still Waiting (4:09)
10. Fight Again (4:44)
11. Blame The Flame (Japan Bonus Track) (4:05)

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Young Gun Silver Fox – Ticket to Shangri-La – 2022, Japan Edition, FLAC+MP3, CD w/ Scans

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Genre: Westcoast / AOR
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): P-Vine Records
Country of the performer (group): UK

Tracklist:
1. Still Got It Goin’ On (4:25)
2. West Side Jet (4:07)
3. Tip Of The Flame (4:34)
4. Rolling Back (3:44)
5. Simple Imagination (3:59)
6. Sierra Nights (3:39)
7. Lodestar (3:20)
8. Winners (3:47)
9. Starting Wars (4:44)
10 Freak Flag (05:16)

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Wildness – Resurrection – 2022, Japan Edition +1, FLAC+MP3, CD w/ Scans

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of the performer (group): Sweden

Tracklist:
1 Nightmare (4:31)
2. Release The Beast (3:41)
3. Tragedy (3:18)
4. Love Resurrection (4:34)
5. Best Of Me (3:57)
6. The Final Fantasy (4:17)
7. Lonely Girl (04:40)
8. The One And Only (3:49)
9 Fading Sun (4:53)
10. Dawn Of Forever (4:18)
11. Eternity Will Never Fall (05:52)
12. Best Of Me (80’s Remix) (4:10)

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Grand – Grand 2022 CD-Rip, MP3+FLAC

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Grand continues a long tradition of spectacular AOR bands emerging from Sweden. Lovers of all things melodic rock will surely need to add ”Grand” to their must-listen list for 2022!

Tracklisting:
1. Caroline
2. Stone Cold
3. Make It Grand
4. The Price We Pay
5. Johnny On The Spot
6. Those Were The Days
7. Once In A Blue Moon
8. Too Late
9. After We’ve Said Goodbye
10. Ready When You Are
11. Anything For You

Line-Up:
Mattias Olofsson – Lead and

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Dragonfly – Bullets And Bones 1995

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Great band, pity they remained in obscurity In this cd they deliver powerful, pure, traditional metal that brings to mind KROKUS, AXXIS, THUNDERHEAD, SINNER, to name a few.My rip, included in the file also the front and back scan, all other pics and cd scan & infos are taken from discogs and M.A. (mega thanks)!

1. Slaughter to the Borderline
2. Cold Winter
3. Bullets and Bones
4. Chocolate
5. What We Left Behind
6. Nobody’s on Your Line
7. Someone Is Missing You
8. The Prayer (Intro)
9. Nobody Knows
10. We All Stand Together
11. Babe’s Gone Blues
12. Last Change
13. S.A.T.V.

Label: Ebeston

Bernd Schlemmer Guitars
Martin Brendler ex-Neoshine Vocals

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Fair Warning – Talking Ain’t Enough (Live in Tokyo 2010) 2022

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Year: 2022
Country: Germany

01 – Intro (Live in Tokyo 2010)
02 – Out on the Run (Live in Tokyo 2010)
03 – Here Comes the Heartache (Live in Tokyo 2010)
04 – Sav Me (Live in Tokyo 2010)
05 – Angels of Heaven (Live in Tokyo 2010)
06 – Don’t Give up (Live in Tokyo 2010)
07 – SakuraKashmir (Live in Tokyo 2010)
08 – Generation Jedi (Live in Tokyo 2010)
09 – Don’t Keep Me Waiting (Live in Tokyo 2010)
10 – The Last Goodbye

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SAGA – Pleasure and the Pain (Remastered 2021 w/ bonus trax)

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Over 40 years have passed since Canadian melodic prog-rock band SAGA released their self-titled debut album. Since then, they have been an exceptional musical phenomenon and toured the globe various times — all the while selling over 10 million albums worldwide.

Their sonic trademarks – synthesizer harmonies, keyboard-guitar riffs, melodic arrangements, and the charismatic vocals of frontman Michael Sadler – have made Saga an influential rock act of the modern era.
In 2021, earMUSIC celebrated the band’s four-decade legacy launching a reissue series exquisitely remastered and these “

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TORA TORA – Go Where The Love Is (2022)

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Tennessee, USA rockers TORA TORA consisting of frontman Anthony Corder, guitarist Keith Douglas, bassist Patrick Francis and drummer John Patterson are working on a new album touring the States, meanwhile releasing some new music.

Not happy with with Italian record label Frontiers Music who released their last studio album, TORA TORA now manages themselves via Club Tora Records and have complete control of songwriting / production. The new material harkens back to the band’s original s

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Dan Johansen – Realm in the Sky (2022)

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Country: Norway
Genre: Progressive Metal
Year: 2022

01. Goddess Historia (03:13)
02. Alpha-Bionic Anima (04:00)
03. Valkyrie (03:57)
04. Soul of a Silver Dragon (04:06)
05. Full Force!! (03:54)
06. Ethereal Pasture (04:40)
07. Realm in the Sky (04:39)
08. Neo-Pegasus (03:38)
09. Black Dragon (04:06)
10. Overlord of Chaos Pt.I (04:34)
11. Overlord of Chaos Pt.II (04:19)
12. Overlord of Chaos Pt.III (04:56)
13. Paradisum (04:14)
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