Month: January 2017

Ochenteras disc features, with a great production, very good voice and chorus. A great job of AOR from Denmark!

 
Hailing from Denmark, TOYS OF JOY, basically a duo formed by songwriters Henrik Launbjerg and Hans Egestorp, recorded the single “When The Rain Falls” at the very end of 1989. The band got signed by a local label and subsequently released a full album: ‘One Of These Days’. The CD becomes soon out of print and a hard hunt among AOR collectors.

Music was everything for Thomas Riekerk and his brother Robert Riekerk when they grew up in the Netherlands and AOR was Thomas’ first love. Band posters of Bad English, Giant, Toto and Foreigner were all over the walls of their rooms and in every corner there were guitars and amps. Back then music was not available digitally so the record store became their second home, when they were in search of that one album that was only available through import.

THE INNOCENT (not to be confused with the Connecticut band) were formed by Rodney Pyska (ex-DREAMSTREET), Alan Greenblatt, & Kevin Valentine (ex-DONNIE IRIS AND THE CRUISERS, ex-SHADOW KING, ex-NEVERLAND, ex-THE GODZ, ex-DEWEY, ex-GRAHAM BONNET + others)in the Cleveland, Ohio area with both Albritton McClain (ex-DONNIE IRIS AND THE CRUISERS) & Gary Jones joining shortly thereafter.

Artist: Morver
Album: Staying in the Abyss
Country: Chile
Style: Progressive Rock / Metal

There’s a little bit of country, rockabilly, rock & roll, pretty ballads. Love the guitars, piano, lap steel & slide guitar in the background. They don’t make music like this anymore folks.

My favorite song is “Make It Real.” I just love that song. That is why i bought this cd. I know that is kinda stupid, to buy a cd just because of one song, but it is done all the time. And buying a cd because of that one song that you heard on the radio,

Country: UK
Genre: Stoner / Hard Rock
Year: 2017

HABITUAL SINS is the latest US signing of Pure Steel Records. The newcomer band is committed, on its debut album “Personal Demons”, to true 80s Heavy Metal. These ten songs will take you back. They are uncompromisingly powerful.