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What do you get when you mix about a dozen musicians (including members of The Animals & The Police) with a lot of drugs? An acid psych opus! What do you get when you package it in a prefab jacket with stock christmas art and a festive title? Total confusion! We hypothesize that if you take enough drugs you may think this More»


Following Ghosts was the fourth studio album from Galahad and the first featuring Dean Baker on Keyboards. The reissue includes a completely new remix by Karl Groom (Threshold) of the original Following Ghosts album.
The bonus material includes Alternative Ghosts, which contains new alternative versions of every track from the original album, More»


Orpheum Black from Orléans, France was created in 2019 by former "Wild Dawn" members Greg Daudin (vocal, guitar) and Romain Clément (guitar). They were joined by Mélodie Archambault (vocals, keyboards) Maelzel, ex "No Sign, Nothing". The line-up was completed by the addition of ex "The Lunatiks" Gauthier Daniels (bass) and Paskal Desuert (drums). More»


On Friday February 26th, 2010, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands Orleans performed at the Reichold Center for the Performing Arts. The show was captured simply on one HD camera and a hard disc recorder by intrepid Production Manager and Front of House mixer, Michael Malfesi --- no fixes, no overdubs, no remixes! More»


German born Henning Pauly seems to be somewhat of a workaholic, being involved in at least a couple of releases yearly since his band "Chain" signed for Progrock Records in 2003. This release is a mostly improvised affair being recorded in the middle of other projects, where Pauly plays around with the metal genre. More»


Henning Pauly (Chain, Storyteller, Frameshift) was born in Weilburg, Hessen, Germany and grew up in Hirschhausen, Germany. At the age of 15 he started playing guitar at the suggestion of his friends and he started to take guitar lessons from guitar teacher Kuno Wagner, a world renown Warr Guitar player. In May 1997 he moved to Boston More»


Los Angeles based The Hangmen is lead by only constant member Bryan Small (vocal, guitar). The band was formed in 1985 and released their debut album on Capitol in 1989. The music can be described as alternative rock infused with hard rock, garage, punk and a bit of country. More»


Shalom were a hard rock band from Algeciras, Andalucía. The band was active from 1987 - 1996 and released 2 albums during their existence. Members included Juan J. Tamayo (guitar), Toni Jurado (drums), Sebas M. Guerrero (vocals), Rubén J. Tamayo (bass), Chico Valdivia (keyboards, 1989-96), Juan Carlos Jiménez (guitar), Simón de la Palma (bass). More»


After releasing the debut album "Half Way Home" in 2008 Andy Ditchfield and Tony Wright formed a band for the live shows. As the outfit now was a real band the "Project" was dropped  from the name. On the first tour the band included Steve Wright (guitars, vocals), Ian Raine (bass, vocals), Kev Jager (drums, vocals) and Marc Jolliffe (keyboards). More»


Second studio album from Durham, UK based DeeExpus. After the release of their first album (as DeeExpus Project) with only members being Andy Ditchfield and  Tony Wright, they decided to put a band together. In 2010 the band was joined by Mark Kelly (Marillion) on keyboards and the line-up was completed by John Dawson on bass and Henry Rogers on drums. More»


Eddie and the Hot Rods were a pub rock band from Essex founded in 1975. This box set includes almost everything they recorded in the 70's. This includes their 3 official albums on Island Records adding 25 bonus tracks as well as the very rare Rods album, released as a limited edition (50-100 copies?) at the Marquee Club (Wardour Street) and at the Reading Festival. More»


Loser got their name from memories of guitarist John 5's childhood spent in Grosse Point, MI, where, according to him, kids who played rock music were dubbed "losers." John 5 (born as John Lowery), who had also played for Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and David Lee Roth, started the band when he and producer Bob Marlette saw Joe Grah, More»


Instrumental solo album from former Kiss member Mark St. John. He replaced Gene Vincent in Kiss in 1984 and Animalize was recorded with Mark St. John. However he came down with reactive arthritis during tour rehearsals, and only performed at a handful of shows before being dismissed from the band in December 1984. He was replaced by Bruce Kulick. More»


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