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Anything with the “DARE” name attached to it is generally something from the top draw and guess what? “Arc Of The Dawn” is no exception. In 2009 Darren Wharton & Co. More»


DARE - Calm Before The Storm 2

Among fans of AOR / Melodic Rock, Britain’s DARE, formed by vocalist and keyboard player Darren Wharton (Thin Lizzy) has a legendary status, one that blurs line between cult and mystical. Every album they’ve released has been at least good, receiving critical acclaim.

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Genre: Sleaze Hard Rock
Year: 2023
Country: UK
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‘Out Of the Silence’ is one of numerous classics from UK’s leading Melodic Rock act DARE. For the 30th anniversary of this stupendous record, the group around singer Darren Wharton and guitarist Vinny Burns re-recorded all tracks with a rockier, 2018 updated approach.

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Country: Europe
Released: 2018
Style: Heavy Metal
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ATOMIC KINGS are an original traditional hard rock band from Phoenix which are releasing their self-titled debut album “Atomic Kings“. This is the new project of BADLANDS’ founding member bassist Greg Chaisson, where the aim was to make a classic sounding band akin the ’70s & ’80s.

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Waste Down Rebels Waste Down Rebels (WDR) is a Coldcock Sponsored band with numerous endorsements ranging from: Spawn Guitars, Clayton USA, SIT Strings, Mental Road Cases, Dirtbag Clothing to name a few. Waste Down Rebels is a modern hard rock band based out of Frederick, Maryland. More»



British hard rockers THUNDER are releasing expanded remastered reissues of their first 3 albums on both deluxe colored vinyl and digipak CD. Each contains rare, bonus, and unreleased live versions of tracks from these albums.
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Genre: AOR Prog
Year: 2019
Country: USA
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VENGEANCE - POWER OF THE ROCK - ANTHOLOGY 1983-98 - 6CD BOX 2019
Dutch high energy machine has recorded. HQ remastered from the original masters and featuring band members John Snels, Oscar Holleman (producer of Within Temptation, After Forever, Krezip, Kovacs and co-producer of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest winner Duncan Lawrence), Jan Bijlsma (The Last Element), Jan Somers, Ian Parry (Hammerhead, Elegy), Peer Verschuren (Lana Lane), Arjen Lucassen (Bodine, Ayreon) and power vocalist extraordinaire Leon Goewie!
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Not all that long ago in a galaxy not all that far away... A band the likes of which the universe had never seen was formed for one purpose - to create an unstoppable musical "force" known as Galactic Empire. More»



Legendary Pretty Things Bassist Wally Waller Presents His One-Man-Band Album “Kitchen Rock” - A Journey Through Intimate Home Sessions
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Swedish AOR/MR purists GRAND DESIGN are back with the long- awaited new album “Rawk“, produced by Pelle Saether and recorded at Studio Underground Sweden. This album is the perfect follow-up to the band’s last album ‘V’, even more ’80s sounding than never before.

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