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Murray Hockridge & Dave Kilminster Closer to Earth Album Review

Hockridge & Kilminster: Closer to Earth

Acoustic Melodic Rock
4.5/5.0

If you're not from the UK, you may not know of vocalist Murray Hockridge, but you may know Dave Kilminster. He plays guitar for Roger Waters, the Pink ... [ Read More ]

Birds and Buildings Multipurpose Trap Album Review

Birds and Buildings: Multipurpose Trap

Progressive Rock/Fusion
4.0/5.0

Coming out of left field to tickle your ears and mess with your musical mind is the wacky, whimsical, and wonderful Birds and Buildings with their second album ... [ Read More ]

Bluerose Darkness and Light Album Review

Bluerose: Darkness and Light

(Melodic) Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
4.0/5.0

Yet another Italian band to consider at the end of 2013: Bluerose and their second effort, Darkness and Light. They're also another band that straddles ... [ Read More ]

Seventh Veil - White Trash Attitude Album Review

Seventh Veil: White Trash Attitude

Melodic (Sleaze) Hard Rock
3.0/5.0

While some may think of Italy as the home of epic symphonic power metal, they also have more than small cottage industry producing melodic hard rock, especially ... [ Read More ]

Saturday Overdose - Eat My Dust (EP) Album Review

Saturday Overdose: Eat My Dust (EP)

Melodic Hard Rock
3.5/5.0

Saturday Overdose is an upstart Italian hard rock band formed by four high school friends. They started out playing covers at school parties, but that didn't pan out ... [ Read More ]

Veilside - Meanwhile ... Album Review

Veilside: Meanwhile ... (EP)

Melodic Hard Rock
3.5/5.0

Veilside is a promising hard rock band from the Chicago area, offering their second EP Meanwhile .... Here's the skinny, what you need to know ... [ Read More ]

Reckless In Vegas - The Hard Way Album Review

Reckless In Vegas: The Hard Way

Melodic Hard Rock
5.0/5.0

I can't keep Reckless In Vegas' The Hard Way out of my player, blasting from my ancient but awesome Advent analog stereo speakers. I've played it a least six times ... [ Read More ]

Dario Lorina 2013 Self-titled Debut Album Review

Dario Lorina: Dario Lorina

Instrumental Rock/Metal Guitar
4.0/5.0

Dario Lorina may not be a household name (yet) for most hard rock and heavy metal listeners. But in the guitar world, he's gotten some recognition ... [ Read More ]

12.01.2013 : New Music Reviews
Chastain Surrender To No One Album Review

Chastain: Surrender To No One

Heavy/Power Metal
3.0/5.0

Surrender To No One, Chastain's tenth album, is a reunion for the band, of sorts. Guitarist David Chastain is reunited with original vocalist Leather Leone ... [ Read More ]

Deliverance Hear What I Say Album Review

Deliverance: Hear What I Say

Progressive Thrash Metal
4.0/5.0

This is the end. At least that's what founder, guitarist, and vocalist Jimmy Brown has said. Hear What I Say, their tenth album, will be the last album for seminal ... [ Read More ]

Salem Forgotten Dreams Album Review

Salem: Forgotten Dreams

Melodic Hard Rock/Metal (NWoBHM)
4.5/5.0

The story of UK band Salem is a tale that could told of many bands, whether past or present. Born out of the NWoBHM uprising, Salem had talent and a hardcore ... [ Read More ]

Rustfield Kingdom of Rust Album Review

Rustfield: Kingdom of Rust

Melodic/Progressive Rock/Metal
4.5/5.0

Italian band Rustfield has it's origins in multi-instrumentalist and composer Davide Ronfetto with his long time friend, and sometime aerospace ... [ Read More ]

Boston - Life Love & Hope Album Review

Boston: Life, Love & Hope

AOR/Melodic Rock
4.0/5.0

This is not your father's Boston. Or, in my case, this is not the Boston I group up with, particularly their seminal self-titled debut that astonished the rock and roll world ... [ Read More ]

Bloodgood Dangerously Close Album Review

Bloodgood: Dangerously Close

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
4.5/5.0

Back in the day, thirty years ago, when I was a younger man and big into Eighties rock and metal, I attended my fair share of concerts. When I became a Christian in 1982 ... [ Read More ]

Rhapsody Of Fire Dark Wings of Steel Album Review

Rhapsody Of Fire: Dark Wings of Steel

Melodic/Symphonic/Power Metal
4.5/5.0

I'll admit it. I was pretty hard on the last two Rhapsody Of Fire studio albums, giving them both only an average rating, when they probably deserved better ... [ Read More ]

Starsoup Bazaar of Wonders Album Review

Starsoup: Bazaar of Wonders

Melodic Progressive Rock/Metal
4.5/5.0

Starsoup is the creation of Russian vocalist Alexey Markov (ex-Crime of Passion) with the participation of additional musicians from the Moscow area ... [ Read More ]


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Reckless In Vegas - The Hard Way CD album review

I can't keep Reckless In Vegas' The Hard Way out of my player, blasting from my ancient but awesome Advent analog stereo speakers. I've played it at least six times in the last 24 hours Yep. It's that fandamntastic ... [ Read More ]

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Mindcage - Our Own Devices review

Again there is hope for American metal! Welcome Thoughts Betrayed to the great American metal fold, and we are blessed because of their entrance. Thoughts Betrayed is the result of a partnership between to midwestern guitar virtuosos ... [ Read More ]

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