Sunday, October 30, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Judas Priest
Victim of changes from Unleashed in the east is a killer! One of my fave songs with Judas Priest! Now talk about Heavy metal track of the day, phew!
This week I will take a well deserved break, see you again later this week.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Under the radar : Jaggedy Ann
Jaggedy Ann is an all girl rock band with an explosive stage presence and a powerful hard rock sound! The band was formed in 2002 by Leona Sharpe/Kenyon, who was inspired by one of her previous bands and who had the vision to start Jaggedy Ann.
But Jaggedy Ann was making more than just a local buzz. They had caught the attention of Andrew Featherstone, owner and president of Intergalactic Records, and organizer of the World Battle of the Bands.
Also present at the world final was Phil Rudd, drummer of the legendary AC/DC. He too was blown away by this high-energy female rock act – so much, in fact, that he told Andrew he wanted to produce the album. Featherstone flew to Las Vegas to sign Jaggedy Ann. This led the band to New Zealand to record their first album, produced by Phil Rudd.
Jaggedy Ann is like a kiss of dynamite! These ladies are jaw dropping, electrifying, sexy, and will leave you wanting more!
www.jaggedyannrocks.com/fr_home.cfm
Stillwell - You cant stop me
Metalband Stillwell will release their new EP "Surrounded by liars" on Nov 21st.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Kiss
I forgot to post the heavy metal track of the day yesterday, I got stuck in the sofa and slept like a baby. Eh.......But here it is today. My childhood fave band KISS and the excellent Creatures of the night.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Under the radar : Fuser
Fuser is a New Zealand based, four piece origional rock and roll band, who belts out melodic rock tunes featuring Ian Black (guitar/vocals), Jason Clarke (bass), Rob Fleming (guitar) and Dave Morello (drums). They first rocked the NZ music scene in 2006 with the release of their self-titled debut album, ‘Fuser’.
Right now Fuser’s primary focus is supporting the release of their 2nd album - World of make believe. Check out the new modern rock single "Sell me out" here:
www.facebook.com/fuserband?sk=app_2405167945
Plumb - Drifting
Her latest single "Drifting", very nice. Plumb is currently working on her new album "Faster than a bullet", and on the more tragic side, her 4 weeks old son is struggling for his life so say your prayers.
Arrows to Athens - Ghosts in the water
New band with David Hodges (Evanescence, Trading Yesterday, The Age of Information, We are the fallen). Their debut album "Kings and thieves" is out now.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Diamond Head
"Ishmael" is an excellent NWOBHM track, from their awesome "Canterbury" album.
Blessed by a burden - Testament
Skip this if you dont like screamo or growls, otherwise, crank it up and bang your heads! Talk about powerful riffs!
Winds of plague - Refined in the fire
Brutal metal, but also very pompous. Taken from their new album "Against the world"
The Dead Lay Waiting - The days I´m gone
Very heavy but also quite melodic, taken from their new album "Almost heaven".
Euphoria Audio - Gravity
Modern rock from UK! Taken from their debut EP (2010), a brand new 4 track EP will be released soon.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Gorky Park
Awesome heavy metal from Russia, taken from their debut album in 1989. Moscow Calling baby!
Under the radar : Aroarah
Aroarah is a female rock band from Sacramento, USA. Featuring Mackenzie Knoester-Drummer, Morgan Knoester-Guitar & Screamer, Chelsea Baker-Bass & Backup Singer, Lydia Gavin-Original Lead Singer & Guitar, Liani Moore-Guitar, Keys, Violin and 2nd Lead Singer. Aroarah released their debut "The big package" in 2009 and recorded a brand new album with producer Waymon Boone (Splender). Download the new track "Bipolar lullaby" here:
www.mediafire.com/?vec632fe7l5cysu
Samestate - Hurricane
Great christian rock song, their new album "The alignment" will be out on Feb 28th.
What are your Top 5 albums of 2011?
Here are some of my friends lists of their Top 5 albums right now.
What are yours? Comment below.....
Fred Marques (Brazil)
1.Staind – Staind
2.Ekotren – The dead of night
3.Five Finger Death Punch – American Capitalist
4.Saliva – Under your skin
5.Thousand Needles In Red – Empires
Mikael Heldesjo (Sweden)
1.Hierosonic – Consciousness Fame God Money Power
2.Ekotren – The dead of night
3.Staind – Staind
4.Eumeria – Rebel mind
5.Exit Ten – Give me infinity
Jierou Ho (China)
1. Blue October - Any Man In America
2. OAR - King
3. Graham Colton - Pacific Coast Eyes
4. Matt Nathanson - Modern Love
5. Gavin DeGraw – Sweeter
Peter Holmstedt (Sweden)
1.Árstíðir : Svefns Og Vöku Skil
2.Kiki Ebsen : The Beauty Inside
3.Kina Grannis : Stairwells
4.Janni Littlepage : Strange Angels
5.Various - That Thing That's A Whole Lot Bigger Than This : Hymns From Home
Monday, October 24, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Malice
A very underrated metal band from the 80´s, Malice delivered classic Judas Priest-like metal. Check out "Rockin with you"!
Top 10 artists from France
I must confess I don´t know that much about French music but here´s my Top 10.1.Jean Michel Jarre
2.Trust
3.Empyr
4.David Hallyday
5.Lyzanxia
6.Phoenix
7.Demians
8.Indochine
9.Pierre Moerlens Gong
10.Jean Luc Ponty
Ps.No Celine Dion here since she´s born in Canada.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Heavy Metal Track of The Day - Warrior
The heavy metal track of the day, this one´s from 1985 and one of my all time faves. Long live Warrior! FIGHTING FOR THE EARTH!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Sugar Red Drive - No apologies
Modern rock band Sugar Red Drive will release their new album "A story of signs" on Nov 8th, here´s the new single "No apologies". Catchy!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Rock and roll heroes - Goo Goo Dolls
Ohyeah, I love this band. Goo Goo Dolls are truly one of the best modern rock bands on this planet with masterpieces like "Dizzy up the girl" (1998) and "Something for the rest of us" (2010). Anyone who hasn´t heard the hit "Iris" probably live in Amazonas.John Rzeznik is a brilliant songsmith!
The albums before Dizzy are the ones where Goo Goo Dolls started to take form, there are several great songs on these albums that deserve more attention than they get. Some songs did end up in remixed versions on collections like Greatest Hits Vol 2 and Ego, Art, Opinion and Commerce.Check out "Superstar car wash" (1993) and "A boy named goo" (1995), if you haven´t already.
The albums "Gutterflower" (2002) and "Let me in" (2006) are big sellers and the band also had their songs on Soundtrack albums like Transformers, good stuff worth having in your Goo Goo collection for sure. But don´t forget to listen to Rzeznik´s solo song "I´m still here" from the Treasure Island Soundtrack (2002). Great song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLqNqYNBP0
The albums "Gutterflower" (2002) and "Let me in" (2006) are big sellers and the band also had their songs on Soundtrack albums like Transformers, good stuff worth having in your Goo Goo collection for sure. But don´t forget to listen to Rzeznik´s solo song "I´m still here" from the Treasure Island Soundtrack (2002). Great song.www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFLqNqYNBP0
Their 3 first albums aren´t exactly something you should hear if you started listening to this band around 1998, these ones are more punkrock sounding and not that good actually.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Under the radar : The Animation
The Animation is a Swedish Arenarockband from Gothenburg that was formed in late 2006.
Their sound comes from some of their influences such as Coldplay, Keane, The Killers, U2, Radiohead.
During 2008-09 The Animation recorded another 8 songs in Svenska Grammofon Studion and added the songs from "The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side".
The 11 songs represented the self-financed album "Everest". But the album was never officially released because Cosmos Music Group and Supernova Records opened their eyes for the band.
In 2010 the band went back in the studios again, this time in the Cosmos Studios in Stockholm and recorded 14 songs with Henrik Edenhed (Robyn, Teddybears) as the producer.
They released their first official single "It´s Late" in June 2011, the official full length debut will be out early 2012.
www.theanimation.se
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Top albums 2011 (so far)
And here are my favorite albums of 2011 (Jan-Oct), there is still time for new releases to enter this list.
1.Chickenfoot - III
2.Infinita Symphonia – A minds chronicle
3.Mr North - Everything
4.The Pusher – The art of hit music
5.Journey – Eclipse
6.Dark New Day – Hail Mary
7.Our Waking Hour – Seconds to save her
8.Automatic Static – Friends and lovers
9.Take Cover – The dreamer and the realist
10.Ziv – Symphony heart
11.Hurtsmile - Hurtsmile
12.The Anix - Sleepwalker
13.Jeudah – While we sleep
14.Night Ranger – Somewhere in California
15.Toby Hitchcock – Mercury´s down
16.Madina Lake – World War III
17.Cervello - Cervello
18.Grande Luxe – Time measured in bitter chapters
19.Tom Fuller Band – Ask
20.Evan Frankfort – Crimestopper
Monday, October 10, 2011
Betraying the martyrs - Man made disaster
A riff is a good riff on a day of the week, this is metal with a big M!
Outline in color - Every boy should collect knives
Melodic hardcore is never wrong, these guys rock!
Drive Like Red - On my knees
If you havent heard this band already, you have missed something. They´re great!
Carpark North - Everything starts again
One of the greatest bands around today and their latest video.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Stereo Skyline - Kiss me in the morning
The summer is over, but the summer feeling is back with this song.
Under the radar : Diamante
Hollywood's newest gem, DIAMANTE, is making her mark and dominating the music scene with her latest single "Impossible". This ultramodern rock 'n' roll marvel flawlessly delivers with her new single "Impossible", and has critics saying her compelling sound is reminiscent of Pat Benatar and Alanis Morissette. The story of the innocent girl falling for the modern day heartthrob and bad boy, only to realize she is better off without him takes superior form in DIAMANTE's new single. "Impossible" is presently playing on numerous Top 40 and Hot AC radio stations across the country. DIAMANTE was on the road all summer performing across the country on her very own "Age Of Rebellion Tour" and as one of the featured artists on the nationwide No Bully Tour America 2011.DIAMANTE is performing at the Key Club in Hollywood on November 12 Her new hit single."Impossible" is now availavle for downlaod on iTunes. ”
www.facebook.com/pages/Diamante-Bovelli/221578390195
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Rock and roll heroes - Tears For Fears
Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal combined prog and pop in the most brilliant way, at times they were Beatles influenced and in others, more of a new romantic band.Along with Simple Minds, Tears For Fears are 2 of my favorite pop/rock bands from the 80´s era in the U.K. The albums "Songs from the big chair" (1985) and "Elemental" (1993) are without doubt their best and featured hits like Everybody wants to rule the world, Shout and Break it down again.
The 1995 album "Raoul and the kings of Spain" and Orzabal´s solo album "Tomcats screaming outside" from 2001 weren´t any big sellers which is a shame since they are just as great as their classic stuff, you will find plenty of intelligent songwriting here.
The first album "The hurting" from 1983 featured the big hit "Mad world" and it´s a good album but also a bit too soft I think, their last album "Everyone loves a happy ending" from 2004 was a nice comeback with Smith and Orzabal back together again. Too bad the DVD from Paris wasn´t equally good.
Ok, the 1989 album "Sowing the seeds of love" might feature the huge "Seeds of love" but I thought this album was quite boring to say the least. Not the Tears For Fears sound I wanted. The people who loved this album, never got into their other stuff.Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Foreign Resort - Colleen
New wave from Denmark, their new album The Foreign Resort will be out on Nov 8th.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Under the radar : Rob Farnham
Rob Farnham was born and bred in the music industry, the son of Australian music icon John Farnham. From a young age, Rob has been exposed to the hard work, persistence and drive required to establish and sustain a successful career.
Rob´s debut EP "So long" will be available on iTunes soon.
www.facebook.com/RobFarnhamArtist
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Rock and roll heroes - The Tubes
San Fransisco is the home for my favorite band Journey and it´s also the home for The Tubes who had their peak between 1977-1983. Starting with the live album "What do you want from live" that was the first album I heard with the band and the following studio albums "Remote control", "The completion backward principle" and "Outside inside" are all artsy AOR classics.
Their last studio album "Genius America" from 96 is a lost and forgotten piece of work that deserve more attention, it is infact a really good album but the 90´s was a tough decade for most 70´s melodic rock bands so the album vanished.
Their 3 first albums are nothing but a solid cornerstone in The Tubes career, some fans consider these albums to be their best. There are some major great songs on them but I prefer the ones above. It´s cool that Nina Hagen did a cover of "White punks on dope" from the first album.
It wasn´t easy to follow up the successful 1983 album "Outside inside", the album "Love bomb" (1985) was a fiasco where the band tried to do something different. I really did try to like it but it just didn´t work.
Casino Madrid - Life sentencer
Future metal from Casino Madrid, a song taken from their new album "Robots", out on Oct 4th. Play it loud!
The Getaway Plan - Phantoms
Some songs just get stuck right away, especially the new single from The Getaway Plan which will be featured on their upcoming album "Requiem" out in November.
Dream on dreamer - Downfall
This is heavy shit! The song is taken from their new album "Heartbound".
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