When music become the air we breath…
David Forbes, lead singer for Canadian aorsters Boulevard, announced his first solo album called “Tales of the Past”.
The album is set for release on June 22nd from AORBLVD Records.
First singleclip called “Girl tell my why” is available on YouToube and you can check it here below.
Another year is slowly fading and as every year these days AmadeuS Meodic Rock Show along with the best holiday wishes here goes with no particular order the Top 20 releases of 2022:
AVANTASIA – A PARANORMAL EVENING WITH THE MOONFLOWER SOCIETY
CATS IN SPACE – KICKSTART THE SUN
CAUGHT IN ACTION – DEVIL’S TANGO
EVERGREY – A HEARTLESS PORTRAIT (THE ORPHEAN TESTAMENT)
GATHERING OF KINGS – ENIGMATIC
KINGS OF MERCIA – KINGS OF MERCIA
KISSIN’ DYNAMITE – NOT THE END OF THE ROAD
PAGE 99 – FOR IMAGINATION’S SAKE
REMEDY – SOMETHING THAT YOUR EYES WON’T SEE
ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN’S STAR ONE – REVEL IN TIME
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KEEP ON ROCKIN’.
CHEERS
-LINO “AMADEUS” R.
Peter Friestedt, CWF’s mastermind stated on his social media pages that new music is coming up from the project (Joseph Williams Bill Champlin Peter Friestedt).
As we look forward to hear their next step, let’s enjoy the following tracks out of CWF II.
The mighty FM released the first single called “Waiting on love” out of their upcoming album “Thirteen” set for release on March 18th.
Press release:
UK hard rock stalwarts TEN used the downtime during the worldwide pandemic to work on not one, but two new albums. The first album to be released, “Here Be Monsters”, will land on February 18, 2022. Their new single and lyric video for the track “Hurricane” is out today. You can watch the lyric video for “Hurricane” HERE:
Listen to our both singles so far – “Fearless” and “Hurricane” and pre-order/save “Here Be Monsters” on CD/LP/Digital HERE: https://orcd.co/herebemonsters
Following the success of the recent string of albums, from “Albion” to “Illuminati”, Hughes is joined once again by guitarists Dann Rosingana, Steve Grocott and John Halliwell along with bass player Steve McKenna, and keyboard maestro Darrel Treece-Birch. Drums on the album have been handled by Markus Kullman (Sinner, Glenn Hughes, Voodoo Circle). TEN continue to raise the musical bar higher for themselves, a goal they push on every release. Stunning guitar work, rich keyboards, excellent bass and drum interplay along with Hughes’ rich vocals are the order of the day here. “Here Be Monsters” was produced by Gary Hughes and mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward. TEN’s longstanding professional association with Dennis has been ongoing since he mixed their 2011 album, “Stormwarning” and has always guaranteed albums with stunning sound and production.
Fans should note that there are no ties between this and the next album, ie. “Here Be Monsters” is not a “Part One” or anything of this nature. The band has simply crafted two high quality releases and decided to put them out separately, in a fashion not too dissimilar to what happened to the amazing first two records which were recorded one after the other in a very short period of time.
British hard rockers TEN have an outstanding history of releases in their storied and revered catalog. Starting out as a sort of solo project built around singer and songwriter Gary Hughes, TEN found their audience playing a hard rock sound influenced by such giants as UFO, Thin Lizzy, Magnum, Giant, and Whitesnake in a time when playing this particular sound was considered ommericial suicide. The band’s early records such as “The Name Of The Rose”, “The Robe”, “Spellbound“, and “Babylon” established the band as mainstays in the melodic hard rock genre, which has continued throughout their now 26 year career over the course of 14 studio albums.
Tracklist:
1. Fearless
2. Chapter And Psalm
3. Hurricane
4. Strangers On A Distant Shore
5. The Dream That Fell To Earth
6. The Miracle Of Life
7. Immaculate Friends
8. Anything You Want
9. Follow Me Into The Fire
10. The Longest Time
LINE-UP:
Gary Hughes – Vocals
Dann Rosingana – Guitars
Steve Grocott – Guitars
Darrel Treece-Birch – Keyboards
Steve McKenna – Bass
Special Guest: Markus Kullman – Drums
Links:
http://www.tenofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TenOfficial
https://twitter.com/TENOfficial_UK
The new album from Autumn’s Child called “Zenith” is set for release on January 14th.
Tracklist:
1. Emergency,
2. Evangeline,
3. Love Is A Fighter,
4. Nightingale,
5. Never Say Die,
6. Heaven Can Wait,
7. Angel Of Danger,
8. High On Love,
9. Crowdpleaser,
10. Don’t Wanna,
11. Damaged Goods
Press release:
Mikael Erlandsson needs no further introduction when it comes to melodic rock.
He has released six successful solo albums and a lot of titles with groups like Phenomena, Salute among others. Between 2006-2018 Erlandsson fronted the Swedish super group Secret Service which he toured with live all over the world.
Together with the fantastic guitar player Andy Malecek from the successful German hard rock band Fair Warning he founded the band LAST AUTUMNS DREAM in 2003 which also featured Ian Haugland, Mic Michaeli and John Leven of Europe fame at the time. The self-titled debut album was produced by Claes Andreasson and became a great success.
Last Autumn’s Dream went on releasing another 14 albums with different line ups including great musicians like Jamie Borger (Treat) and Marcel Jacob (Talisman). They toured Japan, England and Germany but decided to take a break in 2018.
Shortly after, Erlandsson founded the group AUTUMN’S CHILD. Their self-titled debut album was released in January 2019 through AOR Heaven feat. Jona Tee on keyboards (H.E.A.T), Robban Bäck, former drummer of Eclipse and currently in the line-up with Swedish rock band Mustasch, Claes Andreasson of Swedish Westcoast/AOR band Heartbreak Radio who also produced the first Autumns Child album together with Mikael Erlandsson. Guitars come courtesy of Pontus Åkesson (Moon Safari). In 2020, the group released the sophomore album “Angel’s Gate”.
January 2022 sees Autumn’s Child returning with album 3, “Zenith”, this time via Pride & Joy Music, which once again features Michael Erlandsson on vocals, keyboards & guitars, Pontus Åkesson on lead guitar, Robban Bäck on drums, Claes Andreasson on piano and Magnus Rosen on bass. Guests include Jona T. (Heat) with a keyboard solo on “Emergency”, Sayit Dölen on rhythm guitar on “High On Love”, Martin Olsson on bass on “Angel Of Danger”, “Evangeline”, “Love Is A Fighter” & “Nightingale”, Anna-Mia Bonde on background vocals on “Emergency”, Rasmus Ehrnborn ( Soilwork, Night Flight Orchestra ) on guest guitar on the track ” Don’t Wanna ” and Roberth Nygren on acoustic guitar on “Heaven Can Wait”.
“Zenith” was produced by Erlandsson & Claes Andreasson, mixed and mastered by Mikael Andersson at Soundport Studios, Sweden; drums recorded by Mikael Andersson at Soundport Studios.
All star super project Gathering of Kings released their first single “Vagabond Rise” out of the unnamed yet, upcoming album set for release on May 2022 via RN Records.
Line-Up on Vagabond Rise:
Jonny Lindkvist – Lead Vocals
Victor Olsson – Lead Guitar and Backing Vocals
Magnus Mild – Rhythm Guitar
Mikael Planefeldt – Bass
Joel Selsfors – Keyboards
Jonas Källsbäck – Drums
Rick Altzi – Backing Vocals
Alexander Frisborg – Backing Vocals
Special Appearance: Theresia Svensson – Backing Vocals
As 2021 is counting down here goes the list of 20 best releases (without a specific order or genre) presented on this site during this struggling year for everyone.
NESTOR – KIDS IN GHOST TOWN
ROXVILLE – FALLEN FROM GRACE
ART OF ILLUSION – X Marks the Spot
NIGHTFOX – WHITE COBRA
ALCATRAZZ – V
HITTEN – TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY
CONSTANCIA – BRAVE NEW WORLD
DREAM THEATER – A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD
EVERGREY – ESCAPE OF THE PHOENIX
MAX PIE – PASSENGERS
PLATENS – OF POETRY AND SILENT MASTERY
FERAL GHOST – SPEED OF LIGHT
PAGE 99 – PAGE 99
MIDNIGHT DANGER – NIGHTS AT LAKE MILSEN
LEBROCK – FUSE
AT 1980 – LATE NIGHT CALLS
JOHN MAYER – SOB ROCK
STRYKENINE – STRYKENINE I
TUPLE – WELCOME TO HELL
WINDING ROAD – WINDING ROAD
*P.S: Feel free to leave your personal top releases on the comments and spread the word. Every click helps the artists and their work to be reached from new listeners.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Cheers
Lino “AmadeuS” R.
AOR/Melodic Rockers East Temple Avenue premiered their new single called “Wonderful”.
Check it out and feel free to share it with friends 🙂
New York City cult AOR heroes VALENTINE have released their new single, “Heart of the City” as a precursor to their upcoming Demos From the Attic collection, which is scheduled for the end of July through 20th Century Music / Vanity Music Group.
Recorded in the early 90’s and intended to be included on the follow up to their Giant Records debut, the single, along with a plethora of other demos were stored away, seemingly forever until 20th Century kept approaching them about “any released material they may have.” Persistence pays off. Both guitarist, Adam Holland and bassist, Gerard Zappa suddenly remembered that they actually did have unreleased demos stored away in attics.
Adam Holland states “We all feel very good about it. It turns out we found gems instead of skeletons! We are proud of all of the many chapters of this band’s life as both Valentine and Open Skyz. This is Valentine’s second album if it would have come out in the 80s. It would have been an awesome sophomore album and it’s pretty cool to listen to these now. The whole process has been a lot of fun.”
Guests on Band Forever thus far include:
Gerard Zappa and Craig Pullman of Valentine
Joey Cassata of Zo2 and Zrock
Keith Douglass of Tora Tora
Reggie Wu of Heaven’s Edge
Michael Staertow of Lou Gramm / Slaughter
Rob Hoffman of In The Pink and manager of Extreme and Ratt
On a day when melodic rock fans heyheys to the rip-off riffs and sounds alike/wannabies, Real Artists keeps up the real music and release this gem in your FACE!
Do a favor to your ears and listen to this beauty!
91 Suite are:
Lead Vocal: Jesús Espín
Guitars and Backing Vocals: Paco Cerezo
Bass: Antonio Muñoz
Guitars and Backing Vocals: Iván Gonzalez
Keyboard and Backing Vocals: Daniel Morata
Drum: David Koto
PRESS RELEASE:
Coming March 12, 2021, a double dose of TEN/Gary Hughes releases in the form of a new solo album, “Waterside” AND a best of collection, “Decades” from Hughes. More details and first single from the new solo album coming on January 20th. Stay tuned….
“Waterside”
Tracklisting:
1. All At Once It Feels Like I Believe
2. Electra- Glide
3. Lay Down
4. The Runaway Damned
5. Screaming In The Half Light
6. Waterside
7. Video Show
8. Save My Soul
9. Seduce Me
10. When Love Is Done
“Decades” Tracklisting:
CD1
1. First Light
2. Wrecking Machine
3. Perfect Ten
4. In Your Eyes
5. Veritas
6. Dragon Island Cathedral
7. The Night The Love Died
8. This Thing Of Beauty
9. Seducer
10. Look At The Rain
11. It Must Be Love
12. We Walk With Angels
13. Heart Of A Woman
14. The Everlasting Light
15. Precious Ones
CD2
1. Blonde Angel 93’
2. I Won’t Break Your Heart
3. Give My Love A Try
4. The Colors Of My Life
5. Divided We Fall
6. All I Want Is You
7. Wide Awake In Dreamland
8. There By The Grace Of The Gods (Go I)
9. Lies
10. The Miracle Is You
11. Be My Fantasy Tonight
12. This Time
13. Synchronicity
14. All Fall Down
It’s that time of the year when you look back and try to choose the most interesting releases of 2020. This year was a horrible one for all the humanity and as we realize that there are harder times on sight for everyone of us but mostly for the artists who try to make a living through their music, here are some of the best releases of 2020.
Many thanks to everyone who support in every way the music we love.
Let’s hope for a better year ahead.
See you all in 2021!
Rock ON!
Lino “AmadeuS”
| 2020’s TOP TEN RELEASES | |
| 1- | H.E.A.T. – H.E.A.T. II |
| 2- | BROTHER FIRETRIBE – FEEL THE BURN |
| 3- | ROB MORATTI – PARAGON |
| 4- | STAN BUSH – DARE TO DREAM |
| 5- | COLLATERAL – ST |
| 6- | EAST TEMPLE AVENUE – BOTH SIDES OF MIDNIGHT |
| 7- | GATHERING OF KINGS – DISCOVERY |
| 8- | BONFIRE – FISTFUL OF FIRE |
| 9- | ATLAS – PARALLEL LOVE |
| 10- | WILDNESS – ULTIMATE DEMISE |
| 2020’s – TOP 5 SINGLES | |
| 1- | IMPERIUM – VISION IN A DREAM |
| 2- | CATS IN SPACE – LISTEN TO THE RADIO |
| 3- | LASTWORLD – DYING TO LIVE |
| 4- | BAND OF HEARTS – I STAND ALONE |
| 5- | AUTUMN’S CHILD – RUBICON SIGN |
PRESS RELEASE:
Legendary Emmy Award winning recording artist and AOR/Melodic Rock icon STAN BUSH to release his brand new studio album, entitled ‘DARE TO DREAM‘, on November 20th, 2020 via Cargo Records UK.
Track Listing:
1. BORN TO FIGHT
2. DARE TO DREAM
3. THE TIMES OF YOUR LIFE
4. A DREAM OF LOVE
5. THE 80’S
6. LIVE AND BREATHE
7. HEAT OF ATTACK
8. DREAM BIG
9. TRUE BELIEVER
10. NEVER GIVE UP
11. HOME
The album was produced by Holger Fath.
TOMI MALM’s new project will be released next October 15 (pre-orders now open).
The album features Toto’s STEVE LUKATHER, VINNIE COLAIUTA, SIMON PHILLIPS,
LUIS CONTE, ERIC MARIENTHAL, BRANDON FIELDS and TIM PIERCE, among others.
Vocals provided by RANDY GOODRUM, OLE BORUD, BILL CANTOS, FRANK ADAHL, MARILYN SCOTT and more.
Here’s a bite….
Fresh from their debut single release, ‘Broken Wings‘, UK/Swiss duo, Band of Hearts, return with the release of their new single, ‘I Stand Alone‘. Taking influence from the likes of Richard Marx, Toto and Journey, ‘I Stand Alone’ is a cinematic pop-rock anthem, championing the awesome nature of human potential. The song is accompanied by a music video starring Swiss Olympic athlete, Jonas Boesiger.
All star project EAST TEMPLE AVENUE has set November 27th for the release their debut album called “Both Sides of Midnight”.
East Temple Avenue are:
Robbie LaBlanc – Lead Vocals
Darren Phillips – Rhythm Guitar
Dennis Butabi Borg – Bass
Philip Lindstrand – Lead Guitar
Dan Skeed – Synth/Lead Rhythm
Herman Furin – Drums
Here’s a bite…
Swedish AOR/Melodic Rockers WILDNESS released their first single called “Cold Words” out of their new album “Ultimate Demise” set for release on October 30th.
Here’s the first bite….
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