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29.06.14
- Erik Scott: And The Earth Bleeds
- Various Artists: Legends - Get It On (SACD)
- Various Artists: Legends - Crank It Up (SACD)
- Sontaag: Sontaag
- Landmarq: Origins (An Anthology)
- Scream Maker: Livin' In The Past
- Front Bottoms, The: Rose (EP)
- Evil Masquerade: The Digital Crucifix
- Pinnick Gales Pridgen: PGP2
- Kalidia: Lies' Device
22.06.14
- Say Anything: Hebrews
- Various Artists: Light My Fire - A Classic Rock Tribute to The Doors
- Karbala: War (EP)
- Kilmara: Love Songs and Other Nightmares
- Thompson, Chris: Toys & Dishes
- Stevens, Matt: Lucid
- Rickity: Greatest Hits Volume 1
- Testing Tomorrow: Tribes
- Amberian Dawn: Magic Forest
15.06.14
- Way, Charles: Children of the Cosmos
- Braide, Chris: Fifty Dollar Planets and Twenty Cent Stars
- Curved Air: North Star
- Seven: 7
- UDO: SteelHammer Live From Moscow DVD/CD
- Focus: Golden Oldies
- Retconstruct: Denizens of the Depths
- Night Mistress: Into The Madness
- Anathema: Distant Satellites
08.06.14
- Crylord, Boguslaw Balcerak's: Gates of Valhalla
- Saylor, David A: Strength of One
- Age of Artemis: The Waking Hour
- Iron Butterfly: Live at the Galaxy 1967
- Sunshine Riot: A Fresh Bottle & A Brand New Day
- Save The Radio: Calculating the Sum of Your Life (EP)
- Thor: Only The Strong (1985/2014)
- Pray For Brain: None of the Above
- Nightmare: The Aftermath
01.06.14
- Stealth: Shores of Hope
- Voyager: V
- Valence: Laser Baron (EP)
- Lady Flint: Lady Flint (EP)
- False Coda: Closer to the Edge
- Brother Firetribe: Diamond in the Firepit
- Enfarce: Superhero Diaries Part 1
- Hard Riot: The Blackened Heart
- Unisonic: For The Kingdom (EP)
25.05.14
- Eyes N Lips: Pornstar For President
- Party Animals: Light A Fan Cool
- Twilight Force: Tales of Ancient Prophecies
- Saints of Rebellion: New American Dream
- Pylon: Homo Homini Lupus
- On Top: Top To Bottom (EP)
- Sleazy Roxxx: Dangerous Obsession
- Elvenking: The Pagan Manifesto
- King Bong: Pinng
- Xthirt13n: A Taste of the Light
18.05.14
- Sweet, Michael: I'm Not Your Suicide
- Tijuana Bullfight: Southern California
- Mechanical Organic: This Global Hive, Part Two
- Never Awake: Underground
- Sonic Station: Next Stop
- 21Octayne: Into The Open
- Rik Priem's Prime: Rik Priem's Prime
- Perfect View: Red Moon Rising
- Hollywood Monsters: Big Trouble
11.05.14
- Insanium: Solitary Confinement
- Ended: About To Fall
- Ninth Circle: Legions of the Brave
- Chainreaction: A Game Between Good and Evil
- Montage: Montage
- Spiral: Our Final Days on Bellicus Prime
- Veni Domine: Light
- Timo Tolkki's Avalon: Angels of the Apocalypse
- Dirty Diamonds: Let's Get Loud
- Tonic Breed: Outsold
June 2014
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AOR: L.A. Connection
AOR/Melodic Rock
4.5/5.0
Sticking to his 'LA' theme, classic AOR melodic rock music, and his formula of creating it with the best musicians of the genre, Frederic Sal ma returns with ... [ Read More ]
Yes: Heaven & Earth
Melodic Progressive Rock
4.5/5.0
Coming to review a new Yes album is like coming to the holy grail of melodic progressive rock. What do you say about about one of the seminal and most prolific classic ... [ Read More ]
The Van Burens: Presidential Lovefest (EP)
Alt/Indie/Melodic Rock
4.0/5.0
The band takes their name from Martin Van Buren, one of the most unpopular and inept Presidents, not unlike Barack Obama, in American history. Like our ... [ Read More ]
Ichabod Krane: Day of Reckoning
Heavy/Power Metal
3.5/5.0
Ichabod Krane is a new band that features veterans of the American underground metal scene. There's Rick Craig on guitar and George Neal on bass, both ... [ Read More ]
Reaper: An Atheist Monument
Heavy Metal
3.0/5.0
To celebrate 30 years of heavy metal, Germany's Reaper brings a new album, An Atheist Monument. It's an interesting fact and somewhat odd, however ... [ Read More ]
Night By Night: NxN
Melodic Hard Rock/Metal
5.0/5.0
Let's start with the finish: if you haven't pre-ordered (or, if reading after the release date, bought) Night By Night's debut album NxN, stop reading (did I just say that) ... [ Read More ]
Steel Prophet: Omniscient
Progressive Power Metal
4.0/5.0
While largely active and prolific over ten years in the late 90's and early 2000's, Steel Prophet has been silent for nearly ten years. But in the last several years, guitarist ... [ Read More ]
Distorted Harmony: Chain Reaction
Progressive Metal
4.5/5.0
Showing the promise that everyone expected after their fine debut album Utopia, Israel's Distorted Harmony delivers Chain Reaction. It's definitely a step up and ... [ Read More ]
Intelligent Music Project II: My Kind O' Lovin'
AOR/Melodic Rock
3.5/5.0
What began as John Lawton & Diana Express with 2012's The Power of the Mind, quickly morphed into Intelligent Music Project I. Now, with a little more ... [ Read More ]
The Relapse Symphony: Shadows
(Modern) Melodic Hard Rock
4.0/5.0
Perhaps there's a cloning factory hidden somewhere in an abandoned Cleveland industrial park. Maybe Standby Records merely needed to fill the vacuum left when ... [ Read More ]
Tim Bowness: Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
Melodic Art/Progressive Rock
3.0/5.0
Fans of the eclectic world of art and progressive rock are already going looney tunes over Tim Bowness' second solo album Abandoned Dancehall Dreams ... [ Read More ]
Erik Scott: And The Earth Bleeds
Melodic/Progressive Rock
4.5/5.0
If you would have asked me what bass player Erik Scott had been doing for the last 30 years since his stint with Alice Cooper, I would have said, 'Probably a lot.' ... [ Read More ]
Various Artists: Legends - Get It On
Classic Rock
4.5/5.0
It seems our friends over at Audio Fidelity, thanks to TimeLife, got the masters from their Legends classic rock series to translate into the Super Audio CD format ... [ Read More ]
Various Artists: Legends - Crank It Up
Classic Rock
4.0/5.0
Remember informercials? Yeah, I know, they're still around, mostly these days hawking pills to enhance that certain male appendage. But I remember over the years ... [ Read More ]
Sontaag: Sontaag
Melodic/Progressive/Space Rock
4.0/5.0
Sontaag is a bit of a mystery. The information that I've found comes entirely from their page on their label's website (link above). There we discover that Sontaag ... [ Read More ]
Landmarq: Origins
Melodic Progressive Rock
4.5/5.0
With their anthology, Origins, England's Landmarq wants to put you into a false dilemma, forcing you to make choice you may not need or want to. The substance ... [ Read More ]
Scream Maker: Livin' In The Past
Heavy Metal
3.0/5.0
Livin' In The Past is not only the title to Scream Maker's latest album, but also a clue to their type of music. Hailing from Poland via the Eighties, Scream Maker ... [ Read More ]
The Front Bottoms: Rose (EP)
Indie Folk/Punk Rock
3.0/5.0
Man I hate having to figure out if I like something or not. I hate it even more when it's an artist I really like. Wow I pretty much just played my hand on this ... [ Read More ]
Evil Masquerade: The Digital Crucifix
Melodic Heavy Metal
5.0/5.0
It appears Evil Masquerade has made a change, turned a corner of sorts. The last time I checked in with the Danish band it was for 2009's Fade To Black, a decent ... [ Read More ]
Pinnick Gales Pridgen: PGP2
Heavy/Psychedelic/Blues Rock
4.0/5.0
I guess the bromance was so good the first time around, they had to do it again. Dug Pinnick (King's X), Eric Gales (Lauryn Hill, solo), and Thomas Pridgen ... [ Read More ]
Kalidia: Lies' Device
Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal
3.0/5.0
On the strength of an EP and sharing the stage with some European heavyweights, like Vision Divine, DGM, Timo Tolkki, and Fabio Lione, Kalidia brings ... [ Read More ]
Storming stages from their native UK to Europe, NxN has been making their presence felt. They've caught the ear of fans, press, and peers. Rik Savage of Def Leppard ... [ Read More ]
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