Review: First Light – Elemental Pride & Joy Music (July 25th 2025) Reviewer – Chris O’Connor If you love polished AOR, then ‘Elemental’ should be right at the top of your shopping list. At first listen, I was convinced the band had to be Scandinavian – but to my surprise, First Light is built around […]
Life Of A Hero – Life Of A Hero Battlegod Productions (November 12th 2022) Reviewer: Jason Hopper Life Of A Hero is the debut album from singer Russ Grimmett (son of Grim Reaper/Lionsheart singer Steve Grimmett) and he is backed by most of the musicians from one of my favorite newer bands, Midnite City. When […]
Nitrate is back bigger & better with their second album ‘Open Wide’ following on from their successful and highly rated debut ‘Realworld’ from 2018. The album will bre released on June 21st, 2019 on AOR Heaven. Inspired by the late 80’s rock scene with bands such as Def Leppard, Europe, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi, […]
Midnite City were formed in January 2017 by current Tigertailz front-man Steevi Jaimz and Teenage Casket Company member and songwriter) Rob Wylde. Armed with an album’s worth of material written under the working title of Midnite City, Wylde approached friend Pete Newdeck (Newman/ Eden’s Curse, Blood Red Saints, Neon Strip) to produce three songs for […]
Multinational Melodic Metal band Eden’s Curse will release their fifth studio album ‘Cardinal‘ via German Metal label AFM Records on October 14th, 2016. Produced by Paul Logue and Thorsten Koehne, ‘Cardinal’ contains 12 songs with all of the usual Eden’s Curse trademark melodies, hooks and riffs. Written mainly by the band’s long established writing team […]
German label Pride & Joy Music have announced the release date for ‘On The Outside‘, Tainted Nation‘s second release,will hit the stores on February 26th, 2016. The abum was recorded in Tewkesbury, UK and Stockholm, Sweden, and produced & mixed by Pete Newdeck. Pontus Norgren (Hammerfall) co-wrote the tracks ‘Live And Die’, ‘Karma’ and ‘Back […]
Blood Red Saints – Speedway Frontiers Music Srl (Dec 2015) Reviewer: Peter Scallan Speedway is the debut album from Blood Red Saints and at first sight I thought this was going to be another Frontiers ‘project’ band. However, while these guys have a huge amount of experience, Pete Godfrey (In Faith) states his motivation was […]
The new album from Naked entitled ‘End Game‘ is due to be released November 20th on Escape Music. Naked was founded in early 2000 by Mats Stattin, and along with Peter he has been influenced by Rock bands of the 1980’s, in particular, Kiss, Along with Mats and Peter the line-up is completed by Tony […]
Eden’s Curse are disappointed to announce the departure of Pete Newdeck from the band. Pete has been the drummer of the group since it’s formation in 2006 and has been a key member of the writing team during those eight years together. However he announced to the band just before Christmas that it was his intention to leave the group […]
Review: Jesse Damon – Temptation In The Garden Of Eve AOR Heaven (September 27th, 2013) Reviewer: Dan Mann I was waiting for this album with much anticipation so it had a lot to live up too. With Paul Sabu on production and also bass duties for that matter, it had all the boxes ticked theoretically. […]
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