Review: The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon Napalm Records Handels GmbH (January 31st 2025) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things.” This well-known quote from Lewis Carroll’s ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ perfectly encapsulates my thoughts as I reflect on what The Night Flight […]
Review: Trishula – Becoming The Enemy Pride & Joy Music (Friday 24th January 2025) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor Here, in only January of 2025, we have a sure contender for my shortlist for the albums of the year. Now four albums into their career, and British Melodic Rockers Trishula gift us with this luscious slice of […]
Review: Mason – I Can’t Wait Lions Pride Music (October 28th 2024) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor The Canadian Melodic Rock band Mason injects true enthusiasm with their debut album, ‘I Can’t Wait’, set for release on October 28th under Lions Pride Music. Fronted by the multi-talented Marcus Mason – who has written the entire album, and plays […]
Review: Daytona – Garder La Flamme Escape Music Ltd (October 25th 2024) Reviewer: Chris O’Connor This latter part of 2024 has turned into a very good time for Melodic Rock, and with this splendid release on Escape Music the trend continues in glorious fashion. Featuring members of Osukaru, Air Raid, Miss Behaviour, Eclipse, Timescape, Sarea, […]
Review: Nestor – Teenage Rebel Napalm Records (May 31st 2024) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Two and a half years ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing Nestor’s debut album ‘Kids in A Ghost Town‘ (review here). It completely blew me away and went on to become my album of the year. At the time I stated […]
Review: Remedy – Pleasure Beats The Pain Escape Music (May 24th 2024) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Remedy are back with their fantastic sophomore album ‘Pleasure Beats The Pain‘. Their debut album took me by surprise when I reviewed it back at the tail end of 2022 (review here), Their feel for melody and catchy grooves made […]
Review: Nightblaze – Nightblaze Art Of Melody Music/Burning Minds Music Group (March 22nd 2024) Reviewer: Jason Hopper The Italian based band Nightblaze is the brainchild of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Dario Grillo, who handles guitars and keyboards in the band. Starting in 2021, he pulled together a bunch of musicians who also shared his vision […]
Review: Alicate – Heaven Tonight Pride & Joy Music (April 19th 2024) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Alicate is a band that formed way back in the late 80’s by lead vocalist/guitarist Jonas Erixon and bassist Fredrik Ekberg. They had limited success but eventually the band was put on hold in the mid-90s only to pick it […]
HRH AOR 3 (12-14 Mar 2015) Reviewer: Peter Scallan Photographer: Stephen Brophy Day 0 Hard Rock Hell AOR has grown as an event since its launch in 2013 at the Magna Centre in Rotherham. I thought this venue was excellent but it caused a lot of logistical problems for organisers Chic Talent. Therefore, last year […]
Escape Music have just released the following information. Impera are a melodic rock “supergroup” that consists of a guitar player who, seemingly effortlessly, delivers stunning solos and riffs of that classic, timeless grit you thought were killed off by grunge coupled with a pounding bass that will put you through the wall. Add blistering drumming […]
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