Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

TAPPER & BRIDGE was formed by experienced British vocalist / drummer Darran Bridge (ex Java) who has an extensive background in the UK rock scene since the 80s, together with young guitarist named Lee Tapper.

TAPPER & BRIDGE music is pure 80’s inspired melodic rock, the type of post-NWOBHM melodic groove (second half of the Eighties) that instantly takes you right back to the AOR era of bands like Shy and Tobruk. While working on a full album, group have been releasing some singles and now just created the hymn ”We Are The Sharks”, for professional rugby union club Sale Sha

Country: USA
Genre: Prog/Power Metal
Duration: 02:34:10
Release year: 2010
Label: Lucid Lounge Studios

The ProgPower USA X Festival took place September 10-12, 2009 in Atlanta.

Tracklist: ProgPower USA X DVD (2009)

Fates Warning:
One
Life in Still Water

Crimson Glory:
dragon lady
Masque of the Red Death

Primal Fear:
Fighting the Darkness Medley (A. The Darkness, B. Reprise)

Royal Hunt:
Back to Square One
Martial Arts

brainstorm:
Forsake What I Believe
End in Sorrow

Country: Japan
Released: 2000
Style: Hard Rock, AOR

1 Bad Water
2 Is That All There Is?
3 Healing Hands
4 A Handful Of Rain
5 Stone Monkey
6 Shadowland
7 Soldiers And Sailors On Riverside
8 Paradise Aint Home
9 Gandy Dancer
10 The Voice
11 House Of Cards (Japanese Bonus Track)

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Dragon’s Domain Records, to be distributed through buysoundtrax.com, presents the premiere soundtrack release of FAST COMPANY, featuring music and songs produced by Fred Mollin (FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE SERIES, TEKWAR, FOREVER KNIGHT) for the 1979 racing drama directed by David Cronenberg (SCANNERS, THE FLY, DEAD RINGERS, CRASH, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE), starring William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon, Nicholas Campbell, Don Francks, Cedric Smith and George Buza.

01 Fast Company (Opening Titles) 2:49
(Fred Mollin and Larry Mollin)
02 Let Us Run Wild 2:58
(Fred Mollin and Larry

Country: Brazil
Genre: Melodic Rock | AOR
Year of release of a disk: 2010-2013…

1982 – Shuttered Room
1983 – Reach The Beach
1984 – Phantoms
1986 – Walkabout
1986 – Walkabout USA
1987 – React
1988 – Calm Animals
1989 – One Thing Leads To Another (Greatest Hits)
1991 – Ink
1994 – Missing Links
1995 – In Concert King Biscuit Flower Hour, New York 1982(192)
1996 – Real Time Stood Still (live)
1998 – Elemental
1999 – 1011 Woodland
1999 – Ultimate Collection
2000 – Extended Versions – The Encore Collection
2001 – Happy

Genre: Hard Rock
Duration: 02:42:00
Release year: 2022

Intro
It’s So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Chinese Democracy
Slither (Velvet Revolver cover)
Welcome to the Jungle (Link Wray’s “Rumble” intro)
Better
Double Talkin’ Jive
Live and Let Die (Wings cover)
Estranged
Rocket Queen
You Could Be Mine
Attitude (Misfits cover) (Duff on lead vocals)
absurd
hard school
Civil War (Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun”… more )
Slash Guitar Solo
Sweet Child O Mine
November Rain
Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb cover)
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan cover) (Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed&

Country: Finland
Genre: Melodic Heavy Metal
Year: 2022

01. Apparatus
02. Remnants Astray
03. Clouds
04. Composure
05. Northern Lights
06. Grasp Of Hel
07. Plains of Oblivion
08. Desolation Fields
09. Maw of the Dread
10. The Ruins

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Country: United States
Genre: Power, Speed Metal
Year: 2022

01. Walk Away (04:29)
02. Ted Talks (00:23)
03. Death of the Angel (04:30)
04. Meat (04:18)
05. The River Red (03:40)
06. Burn (03:49)
07. Falling Down (05:38)
08. Voodoo (04:01)
09. End of Everything (05:16)
10. Blind (03:29)
11. Death Machine (04:32)

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As requested, here’s the self-titled album from Canadian band FOOTLOOSE, the first band from singer-songwriter Tim Feehan before he went solo. Released in 1980, the album was out of print for decades.

Few years ago “Footloose” was finally reissued on CD, remastered from the original master tapes and including 4 bonus tracks, 2 unreleased and 2 only appeared in a 45 RPM single.
Footloose formed in 1979 in Edmonton, recorded a couple of singles under the Mustard Records label which worked very well on the rad