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Firewolfe delivers terrific American made melodic heavy metal on debut

1 August 2011 American Culture

Here’s the bottom line at the start: if you dig classic American melodic heavy/power metal, then you should stop reading now and buy Firewolfe’s debut album. Here’ the long review, if you’d like to stick around. Firewolfe is a collaborative effort of love by five dudes making music that they love and would listen to [...]

Guitarist Glenn Bridger delivers a AOR melodic rock gem on self-titled debut

25 July 2011 Entertainment

Bridger is the namesake solo album from guitarist Glen Bridger. Glen steps out of his role as the current lead guitarist for classic rock band Head East to offer ten original songs of AOR and melodic rock, and one tribute song. Vocals are handled by Terry Ilous (XYZ, Great White), bass by fellow Head East [...]

ZombieShakerBox’s debut Encrypted offers both timeless and modern American melodic hard rock

18 July 2011 American Culture

I’m not sure where the name came from, or what it means. Zombies have been a big deal as of late: perhaps due to the coming zombie apocalypse. (You know it’s going to happen.) This I do know: ZombieShakerBox rocks. They rock big time on their debut work Encrypted. Coming out of Las Vegas, founded [...]

Rob Moratti channels pure Eighties melodic AOR through his solo album ‘Victory’

16 June 2011 American Culture

No sooner had he joined Canada’s melodic progressive rock band Saga, Rob Moratti left after one album. He resurfaces with a new solo album, Victory, on England’s Escape Music label. It’s Eighties AOR deja vu all over again. This album could have been the soundtrack for a John Hughes teenage angst film. Victory is less [...]

With Iconoclast, Symphony X returns with a monumental piece of American progressive metal

30 May 2011 Entertainment

Heavier might be a good word to describe Symphony X’s return on Iconoclast. But being Symphony X that would be too simplistic of a description. Founder and guitarist Michael Romeo states, in the press material, “This record will only become accessible to the listener after several runs. That was our purpose … to create a [...]

Seven new music reviews added to Dangerdog Music Reviews

11 April 2011 Entertainment

Seven new music reviews have been added this week to Dangerdog Music Reviews. Reviews include the forthcoming releases from The Poodles, the reformed King Kobra, Enbound, Conflicted, Faithsedge, and Solar Fragment. There’s also a review of the debut album, Adventures in Chaos, from Canadian power trio Tools of Creation, a platter of melodic heavy rock. [...]

Significant and entertaining classic progressive rock from Italy’s Aura and their new album Deliverance

4 April 2011 Entertainment

When I think of rock or metal from Italy, I have some preconceived notions. On the metal side, there’s thrash, power, progressive, symphonic, to name a few, or some combination of several styles. On the rock side, definitely AOR/melodic rock, hard rock, and the current renaissance of sleaze and glam rock. But straight traditional progressive [...]

Images of Eden’s Rebuilding the Ruins: great American progressive metal from central Pennsylvania

28 February 2011 American Culture

When you find an American metal band that doesn’t do the latest trends of death metal, melodic or otherwise, metalcore, deathcore, hardcore metal, or some other such ‘core’ nonsense, you must sit up, take notice, and listen. Images of Eden is such a band, offering strong (American) progressive metal. Oh yeah, they’re local boys based [...]

Astrosoniq’s Quadrant: impressive and entertaining prog rock with a stoner pyschedelic edge

14 February 2011 American Culture

Thanks to an agreement with E1 Entertainment, Germany’s Exile on Mainstream label is getting distribution for their artists in North America, many for the very first time. One of the first to be pushed in the United States is Astrosoniq and their 2009 release Quadrant. My European brethren are likely familiar with Astrosoniq’s catalog and [...]

Jakko Jakszyk’s The Bruised Romantic Glee Club is essential, creative, and classic progressive rock

5 February 2011 American Culture

Getting it’s first release and push in North America, thanks to the obscure label Inner Knot Records (and Lori Hehr PR), is guitarist, composer, and producer Jakko M. Jakszyk’s wonderful fifth solo album from 2007 The Bruised Romantic Glee Club. Traditional progressive rock fans who know their prog history are familiar with Mr. Jakszk’s superb [...]

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