Strike was a Heavy / Power Metal band from Bellevue, Washington, US. They released one EP. Members were Joe Milner (vocals), Gregg Stock (guitar), Scott Piteo (bass), Julian Bandy (drums), Ken Mary (drums).

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Louise Goffin was the youngest artist on the soundtrack to Fast Times at Ridgemont High. She lived in England in 1984-1994 and made two records while signed to WEA. This Is the Place, released in 1988, included the VH1 video hit "Bridge of Sighs". The following UK album was recorded 1990-1 at Astoria Studios More»

Deep Purple has announced that their new album "Whoosh!” is scheduled for release on June 12. 2020. This will be their third album produced by Bob Ezrin.
Judging from this single the listener most likely will be very impatient to hear the complete album. More»

Sign In The Sky saw a couple of line-up changes as former Crown vocalist/guitarist Patrick Mason, also briefly with Krokus and Fast Forward, was brought in as the new lead vocalist and Brian Kofmehl (ex-Killer) took over bass duties for Lynn who would re-surface with Gotthard a couple of years later. More»

China is a hard rock band from Winterthur, Switzerland, founded in 1985. In 1988 they got a contract with Phonogram, releasing their debut album the same year. Formed in 1985, the original line-up consisted of vocalist Math Shiverow, guitarists Claudio Matteo (ex-Bloody Six, Danger) and Freddy Laurence, bassist Marc Lynn (ex-Stormbringer), and drummer John Dommen. More»

Virgin Steele originally was founded by Jack Starr. After releasing their second album Jack Starr started recording his first solo album, Out of the Darkness. Meanwhile, David DeFeis continued the band with Edward Pursino. More»

The 1991 tour will be memorable for several reasons. It would turn out to be the last tour for several years as Judas Priest wouldn't tour again until 1998 and Rob Halford not performing with the band again until 2004. Most memorable moment perhaps was the accident at the show in Toronto More»

Audience recording from the San Diego concert on the 1988 tour following the release of Ram It Down.

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The only album release from this short lived 3 piece outfit. Chester Kamen (lead vocals, guitar), Geoff Dugmore (drums) and Steve Barnacle (bass) in contradiction to most of their contemporaries stayed with the basic guitar, drums, bass sound. The result was this very good hard rocking album. More»

On August 21, 1990, Stryper released the controversial album Against the Law, which drastically changed the band's image and lyrical message. While their earlier albums all had yellow and black colors in the covers and the lyrics spoke of God and salvation, Against the Law featured the band with black leather clothes and with no mention of the word "God" in the lyrics at all. More»

Young Gods was the second album released on Polydor by Little Angels. The original title for this album was Spitfire, but was changed to Young Gods shortly before release.
Two tracks involved Russ Ballard as co-writer (Juvenile Offender and Love Is A Gun).
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Second and last release from San Francisco based Winterhawk.
Nik Alexander and his band Winterhawk were known for hard riffs and powerful lyrics, More»

Winterhawk was formed in Chicago in 1977. Don't confuse them with the San Francisco based band of the same name.
This their second studio album was recorded in 1992 but it didn't get a release until 2003. More»