Review: Nitrate – Renegade AOR Heaven (July 30th 2021) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Dynamic! That is the word that came to mind while listening to Nitrate’s ‘Renegade‘. The third album from this band finds them recruiting vocalist Alexander Strandell (Art Nation, Crowne) and Tom and James Martin (Vega) for rhythm guitar and keyboards, respectively, as well […]
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Review: Tuple – Welcome To Hell
Review: Tuple – Welcome To Hell AOR Heaven (May 28th 2021) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Tommi “Tuple” Salmela returns with his second album, ‘Welcome To Hell‘, and I admittedly could not wait to check it out. Tuple’s last album, ‘Wooden Box‘, was the biggest musical surprise of 2020. Songs like the title track, ‘Miracle’, and ‘Get […]
TUPLE Releases New Video For ‘Welcome To Hell’
‘Welcome To Hell‘ (out today) is the follow-up to the highly-acclaimed ‘Wooden Box‘ album by TUPLE which was released in 2020 via AOR Heaven and resulted in a charty entry in the native country of this Finnish artist. Finland is well-nown for its Heavy Metal roots. Far and wide comes the list of Metal bands […]
Stephen Crane & Duance Sciacqua Team Up For ‘Big Guns’
Big Guns was formed in 1985 as a direct follow up to the record ‘KICKS‘ by Stephen Crane (MCA 1984). Due to Irving Azoff’s departure and the ensuing shake up at MCA that year, ‘KICKS‘ was left without any marketing or promotional funds and was basically ‘Dead on Arrival’ and did not chart. Although, interestingly enough, the […]
NITRATE Returns With ‘Renegade’ On July 30th, 2021
NITRATE is back with their third album; ‘Renegade’, a follow on to their previous highly rated albums ‘Realworld’ in 2018 and ‘Openwide’ in 2019, which achieved great success. Inspired by the late 80’s rock scene with bands such as Def Leppard, Europe, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi, NITRATE is the brainchild of song writer Nick […]
Review: Devils In Heaven – Rise
Review: Devils In Heaven – Rise AOR Heaven (June 25th 2021) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Devils In Heaven is one of those long forgotten late 80s AOR/Hard Rock bands that tried to make a stir but due to bad luck and timing, they were never able to do much outside of winning The Australian Star Search […]
Review: Stephen Crane – Kicks
Review: Stephen Crane – Kicks AOR Heaven (March 26th 2021) Reviewer: Grant Foster I’d not heard of this gentleman before I decided to review this release. After a little digging it turns out he is one of those hard luck stories that are rife in the rock and music world generally. Signed to MCA back […]
King Company Returns With ‘Trapped’ On June 25th, 2021
King Company was formed in 2014 by drummer Mirka ”Leka” Rantanen (Raskasta joulua, Warmen, ex-Thunderstone, ex-Kotipelto, etc.) to fulfill his longtime dream of melodic hard rock/metal band with good friends and musicians. His former Thunderstone colleague Pasi Rantanen took the vocal duty, Antti Wirman (Warmen, Children Of Bodom) joined in for the guitars and after Jari Pailamo (Kiuas) with Time Schleifer (Enfarce) answered the […]
