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MAD SYMPHONY is the collaboration of accomplished and professional Vancouver-based musicians who collectively have many years of experience writing, recording, and touring internationally with various acts. Most recently, half of the line up were part of modern rockers Soulbender, but the guys where in the need to play more classic stuff and MAD SYMPHONY born.

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Walter Egan has a new studio offering of 14 great songs called Pluck! It's his fifteenth solo record, it follows his 2021 critically acclaimed album “Fascination“. The song "Dreams" is his take on the Stevie Nicks’ and Fleetwood Mac classic, in which he pays tribute to the inspiration behind his most famous song "Magnet and Steel". More»



Genre: AOR
Release date: 1981 - 1995
Country: USA
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Fellow readers of this website should remember VALERIE from Norway, presented on these pages some years ago with their debut CD. If you are new to them, you have the chance now to listen to this ambitious Melodic Hard Rock band as their album “Young Hunger” has been reissued, in the same version of the Demon Doll Records release including a bonus track.

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Genre: Hard Rock / Melodic Rock
Year: 2022
Country: Philippines
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Genre: Melodic Rock
Year: 2022
Country: USA
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On November 18th, the project band The Roads with, among others, Mick Devine (Seven) and Gary Pihl (Boston, Sammy Hagar) will release the debut album "Simple Man" via the company Escape Music. Here's what you can read in a press release:
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Illusions” is the debut album from VIOLET, the young band from Stuttgart, Germany living & playing keyboard-heavy ’80s inspired female -fronted AOR. More»



One of the greatest – and short lived – Melodic Rock / AOR acts from ’80s was without a doubt CHINA SKY. The band, hailed as ‘megastars in the making’ by Derek Oliver in Kerrang magazine, broke up just two months after the release of their self-titled debut album in September of 1988, More»



Fronted by lead vocalist Chris Ousey, between 1991 and 2021 British AOR / Melodic Rockers HEARTLAND released a total of twelve albums, but for the fans as well as for the critics, the best of the bunch is still their self-titled debut, originally released by A&M Records in 1991.
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Country: UK
Genre: Melodic Rock | AOR
Publication year: 1984-1988
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Cast your mind back to the mid-1980s, where if you happened to be in San Antonio, Texas it was one of North America’s hottest metal cities, chances are you might have caught sight of Heather Leather, Wyzard, the infamous hard rockers S.A. Slayer or hometown heroes WINTERKAT.

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Premiere! ADD LINK! San Antonio, Texas WINTERKAT emerged from the Lone Star state with a sublime blend of pomp rock, progressive leanings, AOR sensibilities and hard rock muscle as documented on a pair of independently issued EPs that have since become vinyl collector’s items. Members of the band later formed celebrated AOR act Nightwork .
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