Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. AOR evolved from progressive rock radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

KATE Gulbrandsen – The Beauty And The Beat ’87 [Norske Albumklassikere 80-tallet] (2022), MP3+FLAC


As requested, as part of the ‘Norske Albumklassikere 80-tallet’ series from the excellent Norwegian reissue label Norske Albumklassikere – which seems to have access to almost every Norwegian release from the 70s and 80s – comes this remastered reissue of the long time out of print album ”The Beauty And The Beat”, by Norwegian female singer KATE.

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Q5 – When The Mirror Cracks [Japanese Edition] (1986), MP3+FLAC


After the recent very good album by the Rick Pierce Group produced by Floyd Rose many of you asked for both musicians’ former band Q5 and their Eighties debut album, the cult classic “Steel The Light” from 1984. But Q5 also recorded a second LP, 1986’s “When The Mirror Cracks“, not so well known as their debut but perhaps musically even better, more mature in songwriting & lyrics.

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Blue Ambition – Seduction Of The Innocent 2025 MP3+FLAC


On March 28, 2025, via Perris Records, the album Seduction Of The Innocent will be released from the new Melodic Rock project entitled “Blue Ambition” with the incredible Robbie LaBlanc on vocals (Blanc Faces, Fury, Find Me, Vitalines), Tommy Denander (Alice Cooper, Steve Walsh, Paul Stanley) and Frédéric Slama (AOR, Chasing Violets, Dakota).

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Posted on March 1, 2025 by admin