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LITA FORD – LIVING LIKE A RUNAWAY

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 25, 2012

Released 18 June 2012 on SPV/Steamhammer The 80′s metal starlet returns but has the world really missed Ms Ford? Downtuned. That’s not a promising start. Add to that the modernistic riffing that obviously goes hand in hand with the tuning. Hmm… There’s a couple of decent vocal lines and even a couple of cool song [...]

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BOOK OF REFLECTIONS – RELENTLESS FIGHTER

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 24, 2012

Out now on Lion Music Third strike from Book of Reflections, the on/off project of the ever busy guitarist Lars Eric Mattsson. Relentless Fighter sees Mattsson joined by vocalists Carsten Schulz (Evidence One) and Markku Kuikka (Status Minor), both strong voices and a nice foil to Mattsson’s technical guitar style. With a more straightforward sound [...]

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MARCEL COENEN – GUITARTALK

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 24, 2012

Out now on Lion Music Sun Caged guitarist’s 2003 solo album gets a limited edition digipack reissue (500 copies) with a bonus track of a cover of Joey Taffola’s ‘Six String Souffle’. ORIGINAL REVIEW AS FEATURED ON VIRTUOSITYONE IN 2003 Now you might be thinking “who the hell is Marcel Coenen?”, to be honest I [...]

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UDO – CELEBRATOR

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 15, 2012

Out now on AFM Records A new Accept album? That obviously means Udo Dierkschneider can latch on with a release of his own… UDO, the band, have been on quite a strong streak in recent years. Mastercutor, Dominator, Rev-Raptor were all quite strong albums. Seeing as Rev-Raptor was only released last year, it was a [...]

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TYKETTO – DIG IN DEEP

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 15, 2012

Out now on Frontiers Have Tyketto grown up? Judging by the music on this new album, you’d be forgiven for thinking so. It’s a far cry from their seminal debut “Don’t Come Easy”. If you want to label it, “classic rock” is probably as good a description as any. Unfortunately, there’s a lack of good [...]

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HARDLINE – DANGER ZONE

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 2, 2012

Released 18 May 2012 on Frontiers Yet another band returns without a key member. On this album, singer Johnny is the only remaining Gioeli brother, accompanied by a European band (no doubt at the request of Frontiers head honcho Perugino). Not that it makes a big difference… The music remains classy AOR. Johnny is a [...]

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LARS ERIC MATTSSON – OBSESSION

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 2, 2012

Out now on Lion Music Lars Eric Mattsson delves into his back catalogue for this remastered version of his fourth solo album, 1998’s Obsession. Gracing one of the worst album covers we’ve seen in a while might not give off the best first impression of what’s contained within, but fear—ye-not, for this is highly likeable [...]

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STATUS MINOR – OUROBOROS

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 1, 2012

Out now on Lion Music. Second album from the Finn progressive metallers Status Minor.  Their debut Dialog was a very solid opening gambit and Ouroboros steps up the quality further.  On the darker side of the prog metal spectrum, Status Minor kick some sizeable ass with openers The Wind and Hollow.  Both of which contain [...]

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GREAT WHITE – ELATION

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 1, 2012

Released 18 May 2012 on Frontiers Great White without Jack Russell? Doesn’t sound quite right, now does it? Apparently, Jack now has his own version of the band going… Other than Russell, the classic Great White lineup is present and accounted for. The vocal slot is filled by Terry Ilous, formerly of XYZ. Opening track [...]

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CONSORTIUM PROJECT III – TERRA INCOGNITA (THE UNDISCOVERED WORLD)

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 1, 2012

Out now on Lion Music Part III of Lion Music’s Consortium Project ‘quadrilogy reissues’ with remastered sound and 2 bonus tracks.  After the excellent starting two movements Consortium Project III seemed to embrace the progressive metal elements a little more than on its predecessors, in some ways parallels could be drawn with the likes of [...]

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