Stream and listen to new and full Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Melodoc AOR music albums before their official release.
The title track, in particular, with its Iron Maiden-ish midsection, delivered instant metallic gratification, and the eight-minute epic ,,Dreamscape” introduced numerous new tricks (tribal rhythms, surprisingly restrained guitar textures) that merely hinted at the band’s potential prog prospects.
The album starts with the poetic ,,Beginning”, a speaking part that preludes ,,Lucifer’s Hammer”, one of the band’s strongest songs. The guitar attacks with a melodic fury, leaving the drums, bass, and soaring vocals to finish you off.
Fronted by Michael Des Barres, Detective featured Michael Monarch on guitars, Tony Kaye on keyboards, Bobby Pickett on bass and Jon Hyde on drums. No slouches, after signing to Swan Song, they released both of their only two LPs in 1977.
Portuguese rockers AFFÄIRE have announced that they have begun recording Neon Gods, which is their follow-up album to their debut album At First Sight.
If you like straight ahead 70’s style blues based hard rock with heavy drums, solid bass and screaming guitars then this is the band for you!
Guitarist Julian Angel (Beautiful Beast) released in February its new album, “The Death of Cool” where the single “Reach” will be released on 28th November.
Compiled by Roger Bong, the aptly-titled Aloha Got Soul comprises 16 tracks of inspired funk, disco, jazz and AOR recorded in Hawai‘i. The release is the first definitive compilation representing a vibrant and varied era of recordings, and we’re hoping it shines a whole new light on the Hawaiian Islands’ not-so-distant music culture of the 1970s and 1980s.
Country:France
Released:07 May 2016
Style:Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
“The Jokes On You” is the second album from Venice, CA. thrashers Excel. Originally released in 1989, this genre smashing classic has been remastered by Brad Boatright for maximum head shredding.
Sweden’s Dismember have been on the go for a long time now, first emerging at the back end of the nineteen eighties, and have are up to their eight album of vicious death metal. And age hath not withered them.