If you are having a hard time keeping up with your Swedish melodic rock bands, you aren’t alone. But Roulette are one you must make time for. Their new album Now is a master class of slick melodic rock with an old school sound, but a contemporary production.
Despite being around since 1985 and releasing several singles and a ‘best of’ compilation, this is technically their debut album. And what a way to make a splash.
I simply love the lower register vocals of Thomas Lundgren – moody, powerful and perfect for the band’s commercial style. Add in an even balance of guitars and keys and a tight rhythm section and you get a must have record.
The band seem to effortlessly fly through multi-layered harmonies on tracks like Never Enough, Keep On Dreaming, Better Day and Another Night – pure melodic bliss. Elsewhere its simply more high-standard Scandi-AOR/melodic rock, performed just the way we like it, and beautifully produced I might add. Only with track 3, Soldiers Of Love do the band stumble. Its not a big deal, but its my least liked track the band has recorded and at track 3 it halts the momentum of the album a little.
Another highly recommended, thoroughly professional slice of classic melodic rock right here. Let’s hope the guys keep the momentum flowing now and are back soon with more.
I’ve been a registered Crazy Lixx fan from day 1. I think the band shot themselves in the foot with their musical left turn on the third album Riot Avenue and have spent the last two albums re-establishing the sound their first two set up.
Now we have album number six already! Forever Wild is the new definitive Crazy Lixx album. The new lineup established with Ruff Justice has gelled and whatever the guys had in mind for this album, as far as delivering something great for fans, they’ve nailed it.
If there’s a better album in this space this year, I’ll be surprised. This is an album that has one glorious hook filled anthem after another. There’s some variety in amongst the songs and some longer than others which are cool to explore.
The band in my mind is getting close to their Swedish friends H.E.A.T for sheer enjoyment and bringing the old school ‘fun factor’ to melodic hard rock.
Fantastic album from start to finish without a filler in sight. Anthems, choruses and hooks from the opening riff to the closing beat. Brilliant!
Dizzy Reed has dropped another music video from his 2018 solo debut album, Rock ‘n Roll Ain’t Easy album, which was released globally through independent record label, Golden Robot Records, on digital, CD and purple vinyl.
The animated music video for Reed's latest single, Forgotten Cases, features a few familiar faces and is dedicated in loving memory to Todd Youth, who played guitar on the track.
"You never have to ask my permission to tell me the truth.
If someone is finally promising to be honest...lookout!
The time has come to take back Nashville. Everyone here before 2013 and the beginning of the boom has built this city. Everyone who survived and rebuilt Nashville after the flood in 2010 reinvested and pushed this unprecedented growth.
Unfortunately, many of the business owners and professionals, city-wide, who have invested in Nashville are getting taken advantage of. They may not even know it. If you let me be your mayor, we will dismantle the bureaucracy that is managing hundreds of millions of our dollars and keeping it from us.
10 years of hard work is paying off big time! But where’s the trickle down? Where’s the payoff?
Don’t tell me we worked this hard for lagging schools, underpaid teachers, higher crime and less services. Where’s our payoff? Why is there money sitting idly in the Convention Center Authority coffers and why are “they” the ”appointed ones” who get to decide where to spend it? It’s OURS! I’m here to ask you to elect me to take it back!!
I owe no special interest, no corporate donors.
My allegiance is to the citizens of Nashville and I plan to KEEP it that way."
Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of Block Buster's debut album, “Losing Gravity” on September 13, 2019. The band has released their debut single and music video, 'Move', view it NOW!
Block Buster are an up and coming band from the Finnish hard rock scene and one of the newest signings to Frontiers’ New Breed roster. Young, full of energy, and ready to carry the rock ‘n roll torch into the future, Block Buster are yet another gem from the robust Nordic hard rock scene. Mainly influenced by rock music from the 70's and the 80's along with a good dose of current rock bands, the band's debut "Losing Gravity” is a healthy mixture of these various influences.
The band says, "Our style is a combination of many things. We grew up listening to "classic" rock, but we also like many of today's artists from different genres, who tend to influence us just as much. So, we guess it's a mixture of modern and retro. We like to think the result is quite fresh, as we don't really try to recreate the sound of the 70's or the 80's, we rather want to sound like a 21st century band.
All in all, we just play rock music."
If you're going to a Block Buster show, you will witness an energetic, loud, sweaty & skull crushing rock 'n' roll spectacle performed by four young men having the best time of their lives. See below for upcoming tour dates!
Time to start the fantastic journey: ELVENKING release their first single of their upcoming album today! „Under The Sign Of A Black Star“ is a song with heavy riffs, a cheering refrain and a catchy melody that sticks in your head for long!
The album „Reader Of The Runes - Divination“ is the tenth release of the Folk Power Metal band and marks the begin of a new era in the Italians discography. It’s the first concept album of ELVENKING – a monumental story about ancient magic and the power of the runes. The album will be released on 30th August via AFM Records and is available as Digipak, Boxset and Vinyl.
In this episode of ROCK TALK WITH MITCH LAFON, I sit down with ICONIC Canadian singer MIKE RENO from Loverboy. We discuss the band's non-stop touring schedule, putting out new music including the great new song Without A Bullet Being Fired (with Jim Peterik), work on the new LOVERBOY album, experimenting with new music, Farewell tour, opening for KISS in 1979, their Lovin' Every Minute Of It album and working with Judas Priest producer Tom Allom, Canadian content rules (CanCon), his solo album Renovation, Get Lucky, MOXY, and more.Â
Interview website MisplacedStraws.com has two new interviews of note just uploaded. One is an interview with Geoff Tate where, among many other things, he announces that he will play Empire in its entirety next year on the 30th anniversary.
Also just added is a wide ranging interview with Jeff Scott Soto.
Twenty or so boxes from my mate JB’s (RIP) amazing collection have been catalogued so far. The remaining boxes will most likely be added straight to Discogs (will keep everyone informed) one at a time.
The titles on this list will be added there also, but you get first look.
There are titles from several genres, with classic rock and metal the dominant of course.
Please note – the records listed haven’t been graded here, but I have seen all of them and by and large, the vast majority are near mint or close, but the odd one here and there had a notable exception. After wants are emailed in, I will pull the record out and verify conditions etc…
There are a number of the oldest titles have a small band of clear tape along the open spine (obviously added at the time for protection), I will also advise if that applies.
