Various Artists – Guitar Addiction 1 and 2 – A Tribute To Modern Guitar 2011-2015


This album is a result of a project that made it possible to unit more than 60 great musicians and it includes names as Roland Grapow, Mattias ia Eklundh, Ron Thal, Guthrie Govan, Stuart Hamm, Dave Martone etc etc… What we got here is a really great album that truly makes a worthy tribute to the modern guitar.The producing is excellent, the sound is perfect and overall this is a very solid album from the beginning to the end. We get 11 songs on this album in a lot of different styles, from ballads, as the beautiful “The end of the world” to p

Rik Emmett – Ten Invitations From The Mistress of Mr. E 2024


This was the CD that launched Rik’s independent record label in 1996 – a collection of nylon string classical fingerstyle pieces.

Youtube has all kinds of videos of all kinds of people trying their hands at Rik’s acoustic pieces from his Triumph days: “Invitations” was the solo album he had always wanted to make, and these newer pieces have now also become a large part of what (arguably) might be Emmett’s strongest musical legacy.
Rik had a dozen platinum LPs from ‘75 to ’88 as the lead singer/songwriter/guitarist with Triumph. Twenty more non-plati

D’Ercole – Near Death Experience 2024, MP3+FLAC


Album after album, D’Ercole prove to be able to deliver quality melodic hard rock. Sometimes mixed with a dash of progressive influences. So expect 2 epic 8 plus minutes tracks in Holy Ground and Cryin’ Over You. And on occasion they surprise us with adding a reworked version of a classic song. In this case that would be a fantastic beefed up version of Stealin’ from the mighty Uriah Heep.

Of course there will always be foot stomping, air guitar slinging and headbanging tracks for you to enjoy. Whether it’s the opener

Diamond Head – Borrowed Time (2008 reissue) – 1982, FLAC+MP3


Genre: NWOBHM
Year of publication: 1982
Publisher (label): Universal Music Group
Country of performer (group): UK

Tracklist:
1. In the Heat of the Night
2. To Heaven From Hell
3.Call Me
4. Lightning to the Nations
5. Borrowed Time
6. Don’t You Ever Leave Me
7. Am I Evil
8. Trick or Treat (from the “Four Cuts” EP)
9. Dead Reckoning (from the “Four Cuts” EP)
10. Shoot Out the L

STELRCIDE – OPPOSITE REACTION 2024


All chaos, all destruction, all disaster, everything unexpected, are all part of the complex cycles of the same cause and effect that our charmingly ordered universe is built from.

A collection of Metal tracks inspired by 80’s Thrash and 90’s Hard Rock. Some originally written for a thrash metal band from my teenage years, and some brand new.

1.WHEN I SAY GO 04:45
2.STELLARCIDE 03:34
3.NO ONE’S HERO 05:13
4.OVERVIEW 05:19
5.BED OF NAILS 06:31

Waterworks Junction – Time Will Tell 2024


New release under the band name“Waterworks Junction” – A work from longtime friends and collaborators Matt Janda & Mike Ian and introducing Gab Howarth.

New music with an Americana, Rootsy vibe to it with elements of Bluegrass. Some of these tunes date back to the late 90’s where Mike & Matt recorded demos at Mike’s home studio, Eyeball Studios in NJ. At that time the tunes had a more progressive, Peter Gabriel type vibe with Mike performing instrumentatio

V.A. – Heard It On The Radio Volume 5 [Renaissance Records / Rdeg rarities] 2011 , MP3+FLAC


“Heard It On The Radio” CD series were released by the now disappeared Renaissance label comprising long lost 45 rpm singles from the late Seventies / Early Eighties never obtainable on digital format before. Ironically, few or these were radio hits – in fact, many of them are rather obscure – but should have been.

Renaissance’s prime intention was the rescue from oblivion of these good ’80s songs and made them available in good audio quality not only for musicologists and archivists, but for true lovers of the AOR / rock&pop that once ruled FM radio airwaves.

There were 3 volumes (already featured here), while in 2001 two more (Vol. 4 & 5) were presented only as ‘promo’ just to promote original album reissues from some of the