Monday morning, time for an update to say...no updates this week!
Yes, I’m at the other end of the state, right smack in the middle of wombat country with the family, taking a week’s vacation in the middle of this really hot summer.
Back to business from next Monday, both here and at MR.
I had to do a supplies run yesterday which gave me the first chance to play the final master of an upcoming MelodicRock Records release.
Now I was expecting this to be a cool album based on earlier demos and who is involved, but I’ve been completely shocked by the end result. Not just the fantastic songs, but the mega production and the glorious harmonies and overall classic feel of this record.
To be honest, I don’t think I’ve released anything quite like this to date. It’s a classic slice of late 80s American feel good melodic rock. In fact, ever since playing it I haven’t been able to get the debut Danger Danger album out of my head!
Can’t wait to bring this one to your attention and can’t wait to get back in the car to crank this again. But first...the beach!
BULLETBOYS' new album, "From Out Of The Skies" will be released on CD/LP/MP3 on March 23, 2018 via Frontiers Music Srl. Watch the video for the new single “D-Evil” featuring guest vocals from Jesse Hughes of Eagles Of Death Metal at the link below. Of the song, vocalist, guitarist, and founding member Marq Torien says, “Jesse and I had an instant bond when we met and he did an outstanding job collaborating on the song with his vocals a welcome contribution."
“From Out Of The Skies” was recorded at the Foo Fighters’ Studio 606. "Writing and recording ‘From Out Of The Skies’ was a humbling experience and recording this unpredictable album at the Foo Fighters' Studio 606 was unbelievable and magical. Dave Grohl's music got me through a very difficult time, so from day one I knew that we were in the right home to record. I was privileged enough to use one of Dave's acoustic guitars to record with along with a hand picked drum set by Taylor Hawkins. I appreciate the opportunity to record there," says Torien.
Michael Voss well known Producer (Michael Schenker, Wolfpack, Phantom 5) and artist (Mad Max, Casanova) working since decades ´In the Name of Rock´ is about to reveal his favorite Tunes from his Childhood.
The Tracksthat made him the Musician that he is now.On this so called ´Record´ you can hear the Influences and Vibes that still can be found in his Work nowadays.This Album is a pure labor of love and all Instruments been played by Voss.This strictly limited Edition will contain 300 hand signed Copies with a bonus Gift.
The Output is dedicated to the loving Memory of his Dad who passed away in November 2017. All in All it is very personal and an intimite Collection of Songs.The only Guest-Starring Performances on Piano and Memotron played by his longtime Friends ´Axel Urban´ and ´Holggy Begg´.
It´s Time to lean back and listen to the Music...
Songlist:
01.Rock Me Baby-David Cassidy
02.Days Gone Down-Gerry Rafferty
03.God Only Knows-The Beach Boys
04.What Now My Love-Agnetha Faeltskog
05.Remember Yesterday-John Miles
06.I'm Not In Love-10cc
07.Stagger Lee-P.J.Proby
08.When You Walk In The Room-Paul Nicholas
09.I'm A Believer-The Monkees
10.Wild Wild Angels-Smokie
11.While You See A Chance-Stevie Winwood
12.If You Go Away-Terry Jacks
You can order directly the new Michael Voss album 'Remember Yesterday'. Strictly limited to 300 copies only.
MelodicRock Records is very pleased to be giving one of the best melodic hard rock albums of the 2000s another run, releasing a brand-new version of the classic DOGFACE debut Unleashed on January 22. This time it’s called ReLeashed, because this is a turbo-charged record – remastered and remixed!
Band founder, guitarist, writer and producer MARTIN KRONLUND has gone back over the album and given it a fresh new mix from original master files, as well as adding some fresh parts and even a new twist or two!
Featuring the masterful Mats Leven on vocals, who delivers one of his most powerful and menacing performances alongside Stefan Egeman on bass; Anders Skoog on Hammond Organ and Patrik Engelbrektsson on drums. Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson guests with additional lead guitar on 3 tracks.
And we’re not done there. ReLeashed also adds two exclusive bonus tracks:
- A Little Ain’t Enough (originally recorded for a 3rd Dogface MTM Music release)
- Pray For Me (from the debut recording sessions, reserved to be a Japanese bonus track)
Over to Martin for comment: “The main reason why we do this is the enthusiasm and encouragement from Andrew and Melodic Rock Records. Without them, we would not have done this. When we started and opened up the project, we realized that we haven’t heard the record for more than 10 years.
It was a passing stage, but it raised many nostalgic feelings. Dogface Unleashed was our first album and is like a baby to us. Fortunately, we found the main tracks on a backup hard disk and took it into my studio where everything came alive again.
It was there and then we decided not only to remaster, but to remix the whole album. It has been a fantastic project that brought the original band back together, and we realized we still have a lot in common, musically and when it comes to friendship that we really have missed. This can be something to build on for the future - who knows!
Many thanks to Andrew and the team at MelodicRock Records that you believe in the music of Dogface!”
We do believe indeed!
Dogface ‘ReLeashed’ features the following track listing:
01. Right Between Your Lies
02. Don't
03. I Don't Care
04. I Will Be There
05. A Single Reason
06. Rule the Night
07. You're Taken Me Down
08. Let It Out
09. Spit It Out
10. Set Me Free
11. Suicide
12. A Little Ain’t Enough (bonus Track)
13. Pray For Me (bonus track)
Pre-orders available next week. Please sample the new mix/master with this full-length preview track:
Also will be available on Vinyl limited edition double LP gatefold 180g!!!
The Musicians are:
Lee Small: Lead vocals and All Backing vocals (Phenomena / Shy)
Steve Grocott: All guitars, Keyboards, Strings (Ten)
Brian J Anthony: Bass (Steve Walsh)
Dave Anthony: Drums (Dennis DeYoung)
Mixed by: Brian J Anthony
Executive Producer: Khalil Turk
Signal Red is a brand new band from the UK and features two very respected musicians namely Guitarist Steve Grocott (ten) and Vocalist Lee Small (Phenomena / Shy / Lionheart). The collaboration first came together in February, 2013 when Steve was at a loose end. He had been in a band previously called “Sevendayz” which had recently folded and he contacted Lee as he had heard so much about him, mainly from the self-titled SHY album that appeared in 2011. The two hit it off straight away and it seemed inevitable that an album would follow.
Steve got caught up working with the UK band (Ten) as Gary Hughes asked him to be in the bands line-up for some shows and to feature on the new album, so the Signal Red production was halted for a while. Eventually Steve’s time freed up so he could once again concentrate on new material for the album and the whole thing has just progressed into a fantastic recording.
The collaboration with Lee was clearly a good match as Lee has already proved his worth with “Shy” as well as solo albums, the Phenomena project with Tom Galley and the rock band “Snowfall”. Lee is a very soulful, melodic vocalist and has featured on 17 albums as lead vocalist and on many more that have featured him as a guest, “Dante Fox” and “Magnum” to name but two.
This exciting new venture is bound to cause a stir, and with Brian Anthony twiddling the knobs (Steve Walsh) then this is going to be one album people will be talking about.
Lee came up with the title one day thinking that trying to get recognition for what you live and breathe for is like “living under the radar”. Well, they should not be living under it for much longer when this one hits the streets. This is a rock album that just begs to be heard, and we are sure that you will like what you hear.
Track List:
1. Defiant 4:36
2. Houdini 4:05
3. Stronger 4:57
4. Tell It To The Bees 3:57
5. Monster Truck 5:15
6. Pyramids Of Mars 4:44
7. Emotions In Motion 4:25
8. Highwire 4:40
9. Making Contact 4:15
10. Goth The Girl 4:04
11. The Time Machine 7:59
Words from Steve Grocott:
"The Signal Red collaboration came together around Feb 2013. I was at an loose end after the band I was in “Sevendayz” folded sometime after we got back from the United States after recording our debut album, so a little despondency had set in. I had heard of Lee from the SHY album, he has an outstanding voice so I just acted on impulse and contacted him asking if he needed any guitar parts doing for any future projects. Thankfully Lee sent a few tunes over so I got straight to work and sent them back to him. It was clear from the offset there was a musical connection, and it was inevitable that sooner or later we would start an album.
Between writing I went out on a limb and auditioned with “TEN”. To be honest I didn’t think I would get the gig but I was fortunate enough to be chosen by Mr Gary Hughes for a three-guitar revamped line up of the band. Obviously, I had to shelve writing with Lee for a while as I had to get my act together learning TENs material and writing solos for the new album. Lee was also in demand and was very busy with his other projects so it was a case of whenever time was available. Over about a 12- month period I would forward Lee a tune or two every now and then and just wait for him to work his magic, these tunes kept coming back sounding amazing. When we were at around song 6 or so I needed to know if we were on the right track so I contacted Escape Music and asked if I could forward some demos. I sent six songs to Khalil at Escape who thankfully liked what he heard and signed us up so I just needed another other six songs to complete the album. Around another 6 months later the songs were finished, originally, I played all the Instruments bar the drums which were programmed, I also drafted in Darrell Treece Birch to help on keys from TEN but the label wanted a more of a band feel and suggested we replace the drums and bass. They said they could have released it as it was but they wanted to push it further which was pleasing to hear. Khalil told me to forward my sessions to a chap in the states called Brian J Anthony a Bass player / Studio Mixing Mastering Engineer who had just finished recording the new Steve Walsh Album. Brian incidentally had also played the bass on that album so he was a natural choice for our project. Khalil also suggested David Anthony (Dennis DeYoung) for drumming duties which I’m glad he did. It was a bit of a learning curve sending sessions over to the other side of the world and to be honest I was a little apprehensive as I was precious about how the demos sounded already. There was no need to worry though Brian did a fantastic job and all’s that was needed was an album and project title, to be honest I hate the word project as this has been a collaboration but we eventually the label came up with SIGNAL RED Under the Radar. Lee came up with the title he just said one day that trying to get recognition for something that you live and breathe for is like living under the radar ... the rest is history I just hope people will like what they hear."
