The 80’s band “Steeler” that introduced guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen to the world have just released a cd called “American Metal – The Steeler Anthology”. Now I have the original Steeler LP and love it (I still pull it out and fire up the turntable once in a while), but let me warn you about this cd. It is made up demo and live tracks (barring the new recording of Serenade done acous
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I just received a promo copy of the new Warrant cd “Born Again”. Now I wasn’t a big Warrant fan in the 80’s, as they were a bit too poppy for me, but I did dig the band Black N Blue, and now that Warrant have Jamie St. James (ex-Black N Blue) singing for them, I was anxious to check it out. I’m glad I did, as it takes the catchiness (is that a word?) of Warrant with the heavier edge and
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I was always a huge Loudness fan, and I have just about every release they have put out, so when I saw RockShocks I grabbed it. They took songs from the back catalog and re-recorded them. The good news is that songs like “In the Mirror” and “Crazy Night” have never been performed better. All the songs on the cd have a new heaviness and an edge that was missing on the original versions. The
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Dio is a god among men, we all know that. So when I got a copy of his cd “Holy Diver Live”, I was ecstatic. This show captures Ronnie with his killer band of Simon Wright on drums, Rudy Sarzo on bass and Doug Aldrich on guitar tearing up the entire Holy Diver album. Just for good measure, the band throws in gems like “Gates of Babylon” (probably the jewel of the package), “Tarot Woman”
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Former Savatage vocalist Zak Stevens and his band Circle II Circle are back with a vengeance. I have always been a die-hard Savatage fan (and yes, Jon Oliva is really as cool in person as he seems), and when Zak formed his own band I was intrigued. I enjoyed the first two cd’s quite a lot, but always felt like he was trying a bit to hard to ride on the Savatage bandwagon, almost as if he was afr
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This is the title track to my 2nd cd entitled "Wrecking Ball". It was a lot of fun making this cd, as I got to work with one of my favorite guitarists, Stefan Leibing of the German metal powerhouse Primal Fear for the first time. Also of note, on the cd is the song "Eyes of the Gods" which won an award on American Idol Underground for being the most downloaded metal track and got me a nice spot...
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