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Southern-flavored hard rock with all the attitude of the 80's and a modern edge.

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1462160666_2Artist: The Virginmarys
Album: Divides
Year: 2016
Genre: Hard Rock / Alt. Rock
Country: UK

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1462095827_front‘Long Shadows’ is John Illsley’s 6th album of a stop-start solo career that received a notable boost from his last studio album, the aptly titled ‘Testing The Water’. If the latter sounded like a marketing tool to find out the public’s appetite for another post Dire Straits album from the...

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In Brazil, sometimes good Hard Rock bands appear, but the greater part of them use bands like MOTLEY CRUE, GUNS 'N' ROSES and SKID ROW models. Just a few of them go in a way lighter, in direction of a more AOR/Party Rock sound. And DESERT DANCE, from São Paulo, is one of them, and their first EP, “Open Secrets”, is a good sample of what I mean.
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FrontThe Chris Mess EP is advertised as having a “sound rooted in and inspired by original era glam, rock ‘n roll, and power pop aesthetics.” Similarities are made to bands such as Cheap Trick, Queen, The Darkness, Ziggy era David Bowie and The Sweet while striving to move the needle forward and not back. I got to say that Chris Mess have really nailed it in terms of describing themselves...

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1462040529_fWe are over the moon to announce that Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon), Blaze Bayley (Ex-Iron Maiden), Dave Oberlé (Gryphon) and Matt Stevens (The Fierce and the Dead) will guest on on our latest album “The Clockwork Fable”. The album, which is scheduled for release on May 1st, also features artwork expertly created by German artist Thomas Huth, also responsible for 2014’s excellent cover on “A Forest of Fey”...

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Artist: Gutterhound
Album: House On Fire
Country: USA
Genre: Hard Rock

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Artwork'Your Hearts Running Wild' has got handclaps galore and some very nice melodies and guitar licks. Kicking back to the '70s and a whole cool gang of bands as influences there was no way these cats were going to fail me. Don't think it's all retro chops, mind; oh okay, maybe mostly it is but there is an innocent cheeky charm about songs like 'Don't Worry About Me' and the use of handclaps is magnificent and makes this greasy tune about a 100% snottier...

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1461866725_clear-sky-nailstorm-the-inner-abyss-2016Artist: Clear Sky Hailstorm
Album: The Inner Abyss
Country: Germany
Genre: Heavy | Thrash Metal

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1461874650_2Artist: Moros Nyx
Album: Revolution Street
Year: 2016
Genre: Speed / Power Metal
Country: USA

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Artist: Gackt
Album: Last Moon
Year: 2016
Genre: J-Rock / Hard Rock
Country: Japan

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Artist: Traxilium
Country: Spain
Title: Contra el Abismo
Genre: Heavy Metal

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1461690165_1461677318_coverStorm Seeker, founded in 2013, plays Pirate/Folk Metal with extraordinary instruments like cello and hurdy gurdy. After over 30 successful concert in different cities in German, the band just released their first EP Pirate Scum via Aeterna Records.

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