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Daily Album Premiere Thursday: BRAINSTORM – Midnight Ghost

20. September 2018

Midnight Ghost is the 12th album from German Power Metal band Brainstorm. Brainstorm was form in 1989 by guitarists Torsten Ihlenfeld and Milan Loncaric, and drummer Dieter Bernert. They were joined by current vocalist Andy B. Franck in 1999 and bassist Antonio Ieva in 2007. This veteran crew ...READ MORE

Daily Album Premiere Wednesday: ACE MAFIA – Ace Mafia (EP)

18. September 2018

Ace Mafia would have been a sure thing in 2001. Unfortunately, the band’s generic Modern Hard Rock sound combined with singer K. Ghibli’s late 90’s entrenched vocal style just makes it sound like another recording project that took so long to get released that it completely missed ...READ MORE

EUROPE (Live)

18. September 2018

Most big bands have a dynamic centred around the lead singer and guitarist. Take Jagger/Richards, Bono/The Edge, Page/Plant and Tyler/Perry to name but a few. Swedish Rockers too share that trait with Joey Tempest providing the focal point as front man and lead singer while John Norum, his old ...READ MORE

WALKING PAPERS (Live)

17. September 2018

The loss of key members Duff McKagan, back to Guns n` Roses and drummer Barrett Martin unable to undertake the tour may have had a devastating impact on many bands but Seattle`s Walking Papers are far more resilient than that. Much of that is down to the wily nous of singer Jeff Angell and his ...READ MORE

Daily Album Premiere Tuesday: FEDERAL CHARM – Passengers

17. September 2018

Rival Sons released a new single on the same day as the new Federal Charm album Passenger, and one could slip the Sons’ track somewhere in the running order of the full-length and the casual listener might not grok that a cuckoo slipped into federal Charm’s nest. Federal Charm’s ...READ MORE

Daily Album Premiere Monday: ETHERNITY – The Human Race Extinction

16. September 2018

Their label says Ethernity is “…a very promising melodic progressive metal band from Belgium…matured and refined in every way…” It further promotes this sophomore effort as “an elaborate concept album with an apocalyptic plot…perfectly ...READ MORE

GARBAGE (Live)

13. September 2018

You know you are getting old when a band that you consider “new” celebrates the 20th anniversary of their second album and you start to realise that the `90`s are not just a couple of years ago. Where did all of those years go? Alternative Rockers, Garbage broke through with their 1995 ...READ MORE

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