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Album of the Week
This experience deserves mention for one very good reason: Finland's One Desire is one of the best classic AOR melodic hard rock bands in the genre and, perhaps, the world, right now So, I also apologize, in ... [ Read More ]
Recent Reviews
June 2023
- The Defiants: Drive
- Ray Alder: II
- Art Nation: Inception
- False Memories: Hybrid Ego System
May 2023
- Renaisance Rock Orchestra: Ice Age Cometh
- Imperium: Never Surrender
- House Of Shakira: Xit
- Cry Of Dawn (Goran Edman): Anthropocene
- Sweet & Lynch: Heart & Sacrifice
- Screamachine: Church Of The Scream
- The Michael Thompson Band: The Love Goes On
- Heaven's Edge: Get It Right
- Circus Of Rock: Lost Behind The Mask
- Enforcer: Nostalgia
April 2023
- Smackbound: Hostage
- Revolution Saints: Eagle Flight
- One Desire: Live with The Shadow Orchestra
- Mecca: Everlasting
- Bite The Bullet: Rocky Road
- Kardinal Sin: S.A.L.I.G.I.A
- Jason Bieler: Postcards From The Asylum
- Angel: Once Upon A Time
- Mike Tramp: Songs Of White Lion
- L.A. Guns (Guns & Lewis): Black Diamonds
- Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall: Hunt The Flame
- Archon Angel: II
- Blazon Rite: Wild Rites And Ancient Songs
March 2023
- Excalion: Once Upon A Time
- RPWL: Crime Scene
- Transworld Identity: Seven Worlds
- Stormwarning: Stormwarning
- Phantom Elite: Blue Blood
- Narnia: Ghost Town
- Redemption: I Am The Storm
- Cross Country Driver: The New Truth
- The Banishment: Machine And Bone
- Seventh Crystal: Wonderland
- Demons Down: I Stand
New Music Reviews
The Defiants: Drive
Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
5.0/5.0
Where does the time go? The Defiants' last album Zokusho dropped four years. That was pre-pandemic, and the last four years have been a blur for many of us ... [ Read More ]
Ray Alder: II
Melodic Progressive Metal Rock
5.0/5.0
Four years ago, Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder ventured into unknown territory, creating a solo project. What The Water Wants found Alder exploring more ... [ Read More ]
Art Nation: Inception
Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
5.0/5.0
After a four year hiatus, Sweden's Art Nation returns with their fourth long-player, Inception. The album comes after some highs and lows for the band. The latter mostly ... [ Read More ]
False Memories: Hybrid Ego System
Dark Heavy Gothic Metal
3.5/5.0
Hailing from Italy, female-fronted quintet False Memories returns with their third long-player, Hybrid Ego System. This album arrived after a musically busy two years ... [ Read More ]
Renaissance Rock Orchestra: Ice Age Cometh
Symphonic Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
5.0/5.0
Keyboardist Gregg Fox has a very long musical history, beginning with playing piano at the age of five. Over the course of four decades he has been a well ... [ Read More ]
Imperium: Never Surrender
Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
5.0/5.0
No. Imperium is not the European professional wrestling trio currently signed to the WWE. Imperium is the solo project of Finnish drummer and songwriter ... [ Read More ]
House Of Shakira: Xit
Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
4.5/5.0
Now into their fourth decade, Swedish band House Of Shakira has a consistent and constant career in the melodic genre. In view of this, the band marked the ... [ Read More ]
Cry Of Dawn: Anthropocene
AOR Melodic Rock
4.5/5.0
Prolific Swedish singer Goran Edman (John Norum, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brazen Abbot, et al) introduced fans to his Cry of Dawn project with the self-titled debut in 2016 ... [ Read More ]
Sweet & Lynch: Heart & Sacrifice
Heavy Metal Rock
4.0/5.0
I was surprised. The last we heard from vocalist Michael Sweet and guitarist George Lynch was six years ago. I thought they had done something more current. Nope ... [ Read More ]
Screamachine: Church Of The Scream
Heavy/Power Metal
4.0/5.0
Rising from Italy's vast metal underground, Screamachine dropped their eponymous debut album only two years ago. Clearly influenced by veteran and iconic ... [ Read More ]
Micheal Thompson Band: The Love Goes On
AOR Melodic Rock
5.0/5.0
With little doubt, in his fifty-some year career, guitarist and composer Michael Thompson has become a legend for his fret work and the go-to studio musician for the ... [ Read More ]
Heaven's Edge: Get It Right
Melodic Metal Rock
4.5/5.0
Here's the condensed (sort of) history of Philadelphia's Heaven's Edge. The band was formed in 1987 from the fertile rock soil of Philadelphia and New ... [ Read More ]
Circus Of Rock: Lost Behind The Mask
Melodic Metal Rock/AOR
4.5/5.0
Almost two years ago, Finnish drummer and songwriter Mirka Rantanen's solo project Circus Of Rock appeared with Come One, Come All. Focusing on strong ... [ Read More ]
Enforcer: Nostalgia
Traditional Heavy Speed Metal
4.5/5.0
Created in 2004 as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Olof Wikstrand, Sweden's Enforcer began as a one man band. Twenty years on ... [ Read More ]
Smackbound: Hostage
Modern Metal Rock
4.0/5.0
Formed some eight years ago by Finnish singer and actress Netta Laurenne as covers band, Run For Cover, the band quickly changed their name to Smackbound ... [ Read More ]
From The Archives
The last we heard from Sweden's Crashdiet was 2019's Rust, dropped a season before the COVID pandemic put the music world on standby. But that release in itself was rather momentous. Crashdiet, one of the ... [ Read More ]
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Created in the fall of 2006 by Craig Hartranft, Dangerdog Music Reviews is an international music review blog, offering reviews of melodic heavy metal and hard rock, progressive metal, progressive rock, AOR and their various sub-genres. The key word is melodic. If you're interested in hardcore or extreme metal, you've come to the wrong place. Pictured above with Craig, Lily the Little Black Dangerdog. RIP 17.07.2020
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