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Swedish melodic hard rockers Art Nation are pleased to announce the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, “The Ascendance”, set for release on April 25th, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.
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FASTWAY - Fastway [Rock Candy remaster +7] front
Perhaps one of the most overlooked albums in Hard Rock history, FASTWAY‘s self-titled debut digitally remastered & expanded deluxe edition by Rock Candy Records was one of the most requested CD’s on this website ever. Featuring no less than 7 bonus tracks including hard to find B-sides and BBC sessions, these additional songs never appeared on CD before.
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7th heaven frontman Keith Semple released his long awaited solo band project - Semple Not For Radio...

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Genre: Aor, WestCoast, Soft Rock
Year: 2018
Country: All
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First Time in FLAC! Rock Candy Records remastering of DANGER DANGER first album “Danger Danger“. In terms of sound this “Danger Danger [Rock Candy remastered +5]” reissue is bright and punchy with great dynamics for modern CD players, but apart from that includes as bonus the complete ‘Down and Dirty Live‘ EP remastered for the first time.
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Hailing from the gutters of Syracuse, NY, four-piece READY TO STRIKE are presenting their debut album properly titled ”First Bite”. These are young guys with a passion for ’80s styled hard rock, and delivers here a self-managed product reflecting that love for melodic riffs and catchy choruses.

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Genre : Hard Rock
Year : 2025
Country : US
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This review is not just about another new album or another new traditional heavy metal release. Neither does this album require multiple listening sessions to discover its good elements nor it is a ‘’grower’’ album. This album is absolutely surprising and a pleasant ‘’slap in the face’’ from the very first listening minutes to the very end. More»



Genre: Hard Rock
Year: 2021
C0untry: Sweden
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Based in West Fife and started in the early 80's Garrison went on to be one of the best rock bands to come out of Scotland and toured extensively with the likes of Dare, Thunder, and Ian Gillan. Between 1988 and 1991 the band recorded a bunch of great demos which attracted Atlantic Records to offer them a deal. More»


Brazil might well be regarded as the metal capital of South America, but it also seems to be the land of some of the genre’s best-kept secrets. Case in point, Sao Paulo-based progressive metal stalwarts MAESTRICK, who have been at the game since 2004, yet have a fairly sparse output in the studio department and have only recently come to enjoy a sizable presence in the worldwide underground.

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CoS are proud to announce that we will release our new album Diversity and Justice set for delivery in April/May. It has been a long journey since our last ...
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As requested, here’s in exclusive the now rare, hard to find album by STOCKHOLM SHOWDOWN, 2002’s “Last Call To Paradise…“.

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