We were pleasantly surprised by ANCIENT MACHINE’s new album ‘Distance Between Us’ featured here yesterday, a very interesting band inspired by classic ’80s / ’90s melodic hard rock / AOR. After further investigation, we find the group released past year their self-titled debut album “Ancient Machine“, and early 2022 they did extra, bonus tracks.
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Genre: Hard Rock/AOR
Year: 2022
Country: Various
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Country: Canada
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Year of publication: 2021-2022
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If you are told that ANCIENT MACHINE is Canadian band, don’t be fooled. This is merely because Emerson Tanaka (bass) and Kiko Dittert (guitar) live in Vancouver. But they and vocalist Thales Maciel are Brazilian. Geographical details aside, what really matters is the trio makes a very competent mix of hard rock, AOR and melodic rock.

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Country:USA
Genre: AOR | west coast
Publication year: 1980-2022
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Wow this is a pleasant surprise too!!!...another jewel posted here at HH ...first this act released a 4 track demo that actually ended up here in this long lenght album...Lynas Kastys sounds like Jon Bon Jovi at times... More»

Liesegang featuring Glenn Hughes & John Wetton. Montreal based power trio No Strings Attached released their mega-rare self titled debut album back in 1996 through PMD Records. The liner notes on the back say it all: “Music with an emphasis on melodic and harmonic content has been overlooked… No Strings Attached is not about following trends or jumping on bandwagons.”

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Comprehensive collection of early 70s Classic Rock outfit Montrose. Featuring their four Warner Brothers’ albums plus bonus tracks, demos and two live radio sessions.
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MelodicRock Classics is excited to announce the limited-edition reissue of four acclaimed cult classic AOR albums over the next two months. Each album has won fan and critical praise over the years and all four titles have remained on the impossible to find list for many collectors.
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JIMMY DAVIS & JUNCTION first album is considered a cult classic among ’80s AOR fans, but the group recorded a second titled “Going The Distance” in 1989/90, which never made it to an official release… until few years ago when finally sow the light of day. As the limited edition sold out, now 2022 it’s being reissued.

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Country: USA
Genre: Melodic Rock / AOR
Year: 2022
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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: UK
Publication year: 2022
Publisher (label): Conquest Records
Country of the performer (group): UK
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Scottish ALI THOMSON started at very young age performing into bands and recording sessions before landing a publishing contract as a songwriter. His recording career started with A&M Records and his 1980’s debut album featured the hit song ‘Take a Little Rhythm’ which achieved Top 10 success in the USA, Canada, Japan and various other countries.

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