Stream and listen to new and full Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Melodoc AOR music albums before their official release.
First 2 albums never before on CD
8-13 Panel Jewel Case with Photos, Lyrics, Insights and more.
AOR Hard Rock / Arena Rocker
All 3 early albums remastered and reloaded WHERE ARE THE OTHER NINE, OVER THE EDGE and THE DISTANCE
Includes Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music Larry Norman Cover Song on OVER THE EDGE album
On February 12, 2021, guitarist Joel Hoekstra (Night Ranger, Whitesnake) and his project will release their new album “Running Games” via the company Frontiers Records. On the upcoming album you can hear names like Russell Allen (vocals), Jeff Scott Soto (vocals), Tony Franklin (bass), Vinny Appice (drums) and Derek Sherinian (keyboards).
On December 4 2020, singer Steve Perry will release the album “Traces (Alternate Versions & Sketches)”, which will contain the following material:
After Rock Candy re-released three of the US band’s most sought-after albums as valuable reissues in 2018, album four, five and six are now being released in chronological order. All three CDs contain brand new liner notes with new archive photos. They have been remastered and contain up to five bonus tracks.
Genre: Melodic Metal
Year: 2020
Label: Rock Candy
Their melodic metal with clear borrowings from the seventies was part of the NWOBHM’s haze at the beginning of the 1980s and the band played gigs with Iron Maiden or Motörhead. Three meanwhile sought-after albums are now released as valuable CD reissues with bonus tracks, new liner notes and previously unreleased photos by classic rock specialist Rock Candy.
The 1980 founded combo around front man David ‘Rock’ Feinstein always stood a little in the shadow of Feinstein’s cousin Ronnie James Dio despite good releases. The New York singer and guitarist could not match his vocal brilliance, which was not necessary.
The German figurehead of Heavy Metal releases his new, much anticipated studio album “Too Mean To Die” via Nuclear Blast! Special circumstances often lead to very special albums. This is certainly true for “Too Mean To Die”, which of course alludes to the Corona era, even if in a different way than we might have expected. No doubt: With “Too Mean To Die” ACCEPT are once again playing at the top of the Champions League of the genre. Wolf Hoffmann & Co. present the (music) world eleven masterpieces at the beginning of 2021 – eleven songs for eternity.
FICTION SYXX released their debut, “TALL DARK SECRETS”, which was released via MELODIC ROCK RECORDS and was well received worldwide in 2017. MARK ALLEN LANOUE (Chasing karma/Biloxi/Persian Risk), Tony “The Fretless Monster” Franklin (Kenny Wayne Shepard/The Firm/Blue Murder), JK Northrup (King Kobra/XYZ), Eric Ragno (Joel Lynn Turner/Graham Bonnet),
Karl says: “The diversity is still definitely there just like on the first album. But this time around to quote my dad’s boss from the 80s ‘MORE IS MORE’!”