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Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: March 12, 2021Production: Danny RexonAlbum length: 46.43 minGenre: AOR/Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Remember First Time, the 1988 hit by singer Robin Beck, which was used in an ad for that…

Label: Carry On MusicRelease date: January 15, 2021Production: John PalumboAlbum length: 63.17 minGenre: Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Crack the Sky are an old American rock band, a progressive rock band to be exact, who kicked up quite a…

Label: Esoteric AntennaDate: February 26, 2021Produced by: Blue WeaverAlbum length: 39.01 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 »Settlement« is the twenty-first studio album from the English prog rock patriarchs Strawbs, who will…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: March 12, 2021Production: Gary HughesAlbum length: 49.48 minGenre: AOR / Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 Gary Hughes – a name well known to fans of the British take on eighties AOR, as well as to…

Label: BMGRelease date: 3/26/2021Produced by: Riche Kotzen & Adrian SmithAlbum length: 47.19 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 An album like this one, "Smith / Kotzen," is always a special kind of treat for fans of good rock…

Label: The Players Club / Mascot Label GroupRelease date: Feb. 26, 2021Produced by: Steve LukatherAlbum length: 50:18Genre: Art Rock First review by: Jernej VeneOver four-plus decades, American guitarist and singer Steve Lukather…

Label: The Players Club/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: 2/26/2021Production: Joseph WilliamsAlbum length: 50.23 minGenre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 8.5/10 Joseph Williams hardly needs an in-depth introduction. The son of famed film…

Label: Cherry Red RecordsRelease date: Feb. 5, 2021 (digital) / March 26, 2021 (vinyl, CD/DVD)Production: Chris BraideAlbum length: 63:30 minGenre: Art Rock / Art PopRating: 8.5/10 Downes Braide Association is a partnership between…

Label: Cherry Red RecordsRelease date: 2/26/2021Production: Lee KerslakeAlbum length: 38.22 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.0/10 Lee Kerslake is a name every fan of good, proper rock music knows, not least for his work with Ozzy…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: February 12, 2021Production: Robert BerryAlbum length: 56.59 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 3.2 is a special story in the rock universe. Just like 3 was, and the album "The Power of…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: March 12, 2021Production: Magnus KarlssonAlbum length: 61.53 minGenre: Symphonic power metalRating: 8.5/10 Heart Healer is a new, ambitiously conceived project from Swedish…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: February 26, 2021Production: Hans ZillerAlbum length (2CD): 104.24 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Bonfire are legends of German hard rock, and in recent years they've been enjoying a full-blown…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: March 12, 2021Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 44.50 minGenre: Hard Rock/Melodic RockRating: 9.0/10 The Lord works in mysterious ways. Instead of a new Pretty Maids album, what's landed…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: March 12, 2021Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 46.59 minGenre: Hard Rock/Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 Lately it feels like almost every second melodic rock or hard rock album you…

Label: BMGRelease date: 12. 3. 2021Production: Luke MorleyAlbum length: 48.27 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.5/10 Thunder are a British hard rock outfit, often liberally spiked with bluesy springs, who have been holding their own on…

Label: earMUSICRelease date: March 12, 2021Production: SagaAlbum length: 52.42 minGenre: Art Rock / Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 “Symmetry” is the first acoustic album in the long history of the veteran Canadian art rockers Saga.…

Label: Symmetry RecordsRelease date: March 5, 2021Production: Bob KatsionisAlbum length: 52.06 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 Warrior Path are a relatively new band playing music carved straight out of the power metal boom and…

Label: Freya RecordsRelease date: 5 March 2021Production: Tom TeeAlbum length: 54:04 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 The name Thorium calls for a quick intro. No, this time we're not talking about the chemical element, but about…

Label: Cherry Red RecordsRelease date: March 5, 2021Production: Ken HensleyAlbum length: 45.30 minGenre: Hard Rock / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 I never thought I'd find myself having to write about former Uriah Heep members this often.…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: Feb. 26, 2021Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 58.34 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 When would a phoenix, that mythological feathered creature from the days of ancient Egypt, actually…

Label: AOR HeavenRelease date: 1/29/2021Production: Anders RydholmAlbum length: 52.01 minGenre: AOR revival / Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 Art of Illusion is yet another project born in a time when the devil (apparently for good)…

Label: The Music UniverseRelease date: 6. 12. 2020Production: Narada Michael Walden & Neal SchonAlbum length: 70.10 minGenre: Art Rock / Instrumental RockRating: 9.0/10 Neal Schon is one of those guitarists everybody has heard…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production: Jason BielerAlbum length: 56.49 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Can you even squeeze in a longer artist name? Jason Bieler, the guy fans of…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production: LabÿrinthAlbum length: 60.22 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 Labÿrinth are long-lived Italian power metallers with a marked streak of progressive leanings, who…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production:Album length: 42.00 minGenre: Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 Creye are yet another relatively fresh, young outfit in the Scandinavian melodic rock and AOR pomp revival…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 12. 2. 2021Production: Romesh GogandodaAlbum length: 44.16 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Inglorious are a British hard rock outfit from the newer school. Formed in 2014, they came out…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: February 12, 2021Production: Joel HoekstraAlbum length: 52.53 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Joel Hoekstra is back with his "thirteen" project and a new album, "Running Games". We're…

Label: Insideout Music Release date: February 12, 2021 (reissue) / September 21, 2004 (release date on The Laser's Edge)Production: RiversideAlbum length: 53.11 min.Genre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 "Out of Myself" is the studio…

Label: Rat Pak RecordsRelease date: February 5, 2021Production: Tod La Torre & Craig BlackwellAlbum length: 44.35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Todd La Torre is an American musician who made his name over the last decade…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: November 27, 2020Production: John PetrucciAlbum length: 149.51 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 When the talk turns to Dream Theater, it's clear there's not much room left for cracking…

Self-releasedRelease date: Feb. 1, 2021Production: Dražen KecmanAlbum length: 35.50 minGenre: Death Metal/Thrash MetalRating: 9.0/10 The year is 2021, and Slovenian extreme metallers Decatholicize from Maribor are back! This is a…

On February 12, 1981, Rush released their eighth studio album, “Moving Pictures” (RockLine review). It's one of the most important albums in the band's history, if not the most important. Fans simply can't agree on that one when they weigh…

In 1981, Iron Maiden were slowly closing in on the massive change that the world would witness at the end of March 1982. But even the stretch right before that career turning point wasn't without some radical upheavals, and they followed…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 1/29/2021Production: Michael Schenker & Michael VossAlbum length: 45.02 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 9.0/10 The great Michael Schenker is back. This time with an album he's…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 22. 1. 2021Production: Wig WamAlbum length: 47.31 minGenre: Melodic Rock / Glam MetalRating: 8.0/10 Wig Wam, the Norwegian rockers who kicked up a whole lot of dust on the scene in the early…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 29. 1. 2021Production: Iñaki MarconiAlbum length: 42.05 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.0/10 So what do you do with the new Soen album? It's good. No debate there. But it's also proof…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: January 29, 2021Production: Andy SneapAlbum length: 52.16 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 The year is 2021, Accept, and? A new album. Accept, founded in 1968 by Udo Dirkschneider and…

Label: Silver Lining MusicRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Brian Tatler & Rasmus Bom AndersenAlbum length: 60.53 minGenre: Heavy Metal / N.W.O.B.H.M.Rating: 9.0/10 “Lightning To the Nations” is considered a cult heavy metal…

Label: Caroline InternationalRelease date: 1/22/2021Production: Steven WilsonAlbum length: 42.02 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 People had been talking about »The Future Bites«, the sixth album from Steven Wilson, the…

Label: SPV / Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: January 22, 2021Production: Ben GrosseAlbum length: 48.15 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 10/10 The Dead Daisies are a proper rock supergroup. Under this name, the musical Hercules figures of…

Label: Massacre RecordsRelease date: 27. 11. 2020Production: Jaded HeartAlbum length; 52.14 minGenre: Hard Rock/Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 These days Jaded Heart are a kind of cult, overlooked hard rock royalty, doomed to rule the…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: January 22, 2021Production: W.E.T.Album length: 41.45 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Unlike plenty of today's acts who, just like W.E.T., dabble in the territory of hard rock, melodic rock…

Label: Warner Music GroupRelease date: 4. 12. 2020Production: BlackfieldAlbum length: 30.18 minGenre: Art Rock / Pop / Alternative RockRating: 7.0/10 Blackfield is a project born from the collaboration between Israeli pop star and…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: Michael PalaceAlbum length: 47.25 minGenre: AOR/melodic rockRating: 9.5/10 Behind the name Palace hides Swedish composer, producer, vocalist and…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: Unruly ChildAlbum length: 52.05 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 Unruly Child are a band that fans of melodic rock, and of rock that likes to experiment and hunt…

In mid-June 1970, Uriah Heep released their studio debut »Very ‘eavy … Very ‘umble« in the UK (RockLine review) and laid the groundwork for a musical artistry all their own. It didn't take more albums than their contemporaries needed to…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: December 4, 2020Production: Piet SielckAlbum length: 56:28 minGenre: Power Metal/Heavy MetalRating: 10/10 There's hardly anything new left to say about Iron Savior – the power metal legends from…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: December 4, 2020Production: PersuaderAlbum length: 44.04 minGenre: Power Metal/Thrash MetalRating: 8.5/10 Persuader are a Swedish heavy metal outfit that formed way back in 1997 in Umeå.…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: December 4, 2020Production: Dushan PetrossiAlbum length: 61.01 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 8.5/10 After four years, Iron Mask are back with their seventh studio album overall, “Master of Masters.”…

Five years have flown by in a flash. Five years since we lost one of the greatest musical visionaries in the history of rock 'n' roll – the brilliant mind of David Bowie. Fifty years ago this November, the man put out his third studio…

King Crimson put out not one but two albums in 1970. The second one, "Lizard" (RockLine review), was recorded by a completely different lineup, one that, just like the patched-together crew behind its predecessor, was doomed to a short…

Label: Blue Élan RecordsRelease date: March 31, 2019 / July 31, 2020 (reissue)Production: Michael T. FranklinAlbum length: 52.15 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 8.5/10 "1000 Hands" is the fifteenth solo album from former Yes…

Label: Samo RecordsRelease date: 26. 10. 2020Production: Samo ŠalamonAlbum length: 64.24 minGenre: Contemporary JazzRating: 9.5/10 Samo Šalamon is a musical phenomenon. And not just when we're talking about the Slovenian music scene…

Label: CelinkaRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Gaber Radojevič, Drago Popovič & Jan BarucaAlbum length: 23.31 minGenre: Singer/SongwritterRating: 8.0/10 At the start of this October, Rudi Bučar put out his sixth studio…

Label: Karisma RecordsDate: October 23, 2020Production: WobblerAlbum length: 45.51 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Norwegian prog rock revivalists Wobbler, who started their climb to the top of the modern progressive rock…

Self-releasedRelease date: September 10, 2020Production: Žiga Fabbro & Samo TurkAlbum length: 36.04 minGenre: Ethno/Folk/JazzRating: 8.0/10 Samo Turk and Žiga Fabbro are two musicians who go way back. They've been playing…

»With »Trespass«, their first prog record, the band took a massive step forward from the previous album and showed that, despite the members' youth, they were one of the most mature groups of the day. Or rather: the music they started…

Soon after forming in the second half of the sixties, Van Der Graaf Generator became a band that pushed musical boundaries with its progressive vision and unbridled pioneering swagger, throwing the doors wide open for the progressive rock…

SamozaložbaDatum izida: 4. 9. 2020 Produkcija: Simon MorazDolžina albuma: 41.25 minZvrst: Jazz-Rock Fusion/BluesOcena: 9.5/10 Emil And The Detectives are a band from Styria, Maribor to be exact, and on their new album they've gone…

Self-releasedRelease date: 11. 12. 2020Production: Andrej Maver & FeedbackAlbum length: 41.19 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Art Rock/BluesRating: 9.5/10 Feedback are one of the few Slovenian bands that play, plainly put, jazz rock…

For Saxon, 1980 was the most important year of the band's career. That February, they dropped the album »Wheels of Steel« and took the torch from a freshly born phalanx of bands serving up, for the time, a combination of insanely fast and…

What is there left to say about an album that's already had everything said about it? Did anyone ever even need to say anything about an album like this? A fast 40 years have gone by since it came out in early November 1980. Even a passing…

Label: AFM RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 61.47 minGenre: Progressive Metal/Power MetalRating: 9.0/10 Pyramaze have always been an interesting band when it comes to reviewing albums.…

Label: Moonlee RecordsRelease date: 11/20/2020Production: Milan BjelicaAlbum length: 22.15 minGenre: Alternative RockRating: 9.0/10 Repetitor are Serbian alternative rockers who, in no time at all, have become something of a cult…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: November 6, 2020Production: Roland GrapowAlbum length: 60.21 minGenre: Power MetalRating: 9.5/10 Lords Of Black are a Spanish quartet founded in 2014 by guitarist Tony Hernandez and Chilean…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: September 4, 2020Production: Robbie BronnimannAlbum length: 59.34 minGenre: Art Pop/Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Simon Collins is the son of the legendary Phil Collins. I'm opening with…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: 8/28/2020Production: Tony Mitchell & Chris ClanseyAlbum length: 63:41 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Tony Mitchell is a guitarist and, first and foremost, a singer, and the core of the…

Self-releasedRelease date: July 6, 2020Production: Denis SmithAlbum length: 46.18 minGenre: neo-progressive rockRating: 8.0/10 Scottish neo-prog outfit Abel Ganz are back with a long-awaited new studio album that sports a…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: October 31, 2020Production: Rob MorattiAlbum length: 50.43 minGenre: AOR/art rockRating: 9.5/10 Rob Moratti is a very well-known name among fans of AOR and good melodic rock, and art rock too,…

Label: Cargo Records UKRelease date: 20. 11. 2020Production: Holger FathAlbum length: 47.14 minGenre: AORRating: 8.0/10 Stan Bush is a true "survivor." The eighties were thirty years ago. Fond memories of them really did stick…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 2 Oct 2020Production: GotthardAlbum length: 54.08 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 This year marks ten years since the tragic death of Steve Lee, one of the finest and most revered voices…

Label: AOR Heaven RecordsRelease date: October 31, 2020Production: Eric ModinAlbum length: 47.00 minGenre: Melodic Rock/AORRating: 8.5/10 If anyone can pull it off, it's the Swedes. Musically, nothing's standing in their way. That…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: November 6, 2020Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 44.45 minGenre: Melodic RockRating: 8.0/10 “Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)” is the sixth studio album from one of the world's…

Label: The Store for MusicRelease date: November 6, 2020Production: Martin BarreAlbum length (2CD): 109.51 minGenre: Art RockRating: 8.5/10 Martin Barre is the guitarist whose playing, and especially his one-of-a-kind style, is the…

Label: Frontiers Music SrlRelease date: November 6, 2020Production: Reb BeachAlbum length: 42.10 minGenre: Instrumental / Jazz Rock Fusion / Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Reb Beach is an American guitar virtuoso, composer and…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: November 13, 2020Production: Mariusz DudaAlbum length: 39.50 min. (regular album) / 36.37 min. (bonus album)Genre: Progressive Rock / Folk RockRating: 9.0/10 The fact that Mariusz Duda, the…

Self-released Release date: September 18, 2020Production: Maciej MellerAlbum length: 45.04 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 If you caught at least one of the three Slovenian tour stops of Polish progressive rock sensation…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 6. 11. 2020Produced by: Jim Matheos Album length: 72.23 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 Let me kick things off with a bit of "romance." The new Fates Warning album is going to break…

Label: InsideOut MusicRelease date: August 28, 2020Production: Daniel Gildenlöw & Daniel BergstrandAlbum length: 53.32 minGenre: Progressive Metal / Crossover-ProgRating: 9.0/10 Pain of Salvation put out their eleventh…

Label: Columbia RecordsRelease date: 11/13/2020Producer: Brendan O'BrienLength: 41:03 minGenre: Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 "The Day That Never Comes", or whatever that Metallica tune is called. And yet, it came. The AC/DC camp teased…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: GazpachoAlbum length: 50.25 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Crossover-ProgRating: 10/10 Gazpacho isn't just a cold Spanish soup full of potential surprises when it comes to…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9. 10. 2020Production: Jim PeterikAlbum length: 57.07 minGenre: AORRating: 9.5/10 Pride Of Lions is the musical project of Jim Peterik, the brilliant multi-instrumentalist, composer and…

Label: Gentle Art Of MusicRelease date: September 18, 2020Production: Victor Bullok & Jan ZehrfeldAlbum length: 51.17 minGenre: Jazz/Avantgarde-Metal/Progressive MetalRating: 10/10 German jazz, funk and prog metal…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9. 10. 2020Production: Adam StewartAlbum length: 50.48 minGenre: Melodic Rock / AORRating: 7.0/10 The AOR and melodic rock revival is still kicking, and it doesn't come exclusively from the…

Label: Metal Blade RecordsRelease date: 10/23/2020Production: Joey VeraAlbum length: 53:35 minGenre: Heavy MetalRating: 9.0/10 Armored Saint are legendary American heavy metallers. Nobody kicks you between the eyes harder than this,…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Ed WynneAlbum length: 47.17 minGenre: Psychadelic Rock / Space RockRating: 9.5/10 This year Ozric Tentacles are back with their fifteenth "post-cassette" studio album,…

Label: Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: 9/25/2020Production: Arjen Anthony LucassenAlbum length: 80:51 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 7.0/10 "Transitus" is the title of the latest prog metal/prog rock…

Label: Wells MusicRelease date: October 9, 2020Production: Dean WellsLength: 69.11 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 8.5/10 Teramaze are Australian modern prog-metallers who put out their first album way back in the mid-nineties.…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: October 9, 2020Production: Simone MularoniAlbum length: 55.50 minGenre: Progressive MetalRating: 9.0/10 DGM are Italian progressive metallers, today a relic of the vibrant prog-metal movement…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: 9/18/2020Production: Derek SherinianAlbum length: 42:36 minGenre: Jazz-Rock Fusion/Progressive RockRating: 10/10 Derek Sherinian needs no special introduction, just the realization that nine years…

Label: Insideout MusicRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: Rikard SjöblomLength: 57.57 minGenre: Progressive RockRating: 9.0/10 Rikard Sjöblom is a Swedish musician best known as the head honcho of prog rockers Beardfish.…

Label: Century Media RecordsRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: Oceans of SlumberAlbum length: 71.38 minGenre: Progressive Metal/ Death Metal/Doom Metal/Gothic MetalRating: 9.0/10 Oceans of Slumber are a new-generation…

Label: Kscope RecordsRelease date: September 4, 2020Production: The Pineapple ThiefAlbum length: 45.10 minGenre: Progressive Rock/Art RockRating: 9.0/10 The Pineapple Thief are a British art rock outfit for modern times. Ever since…

“Atom Heart Mother”, Pink Floyd's fifth studio album overall, is considered one of the most overlooked records of their entire career, even though with it the band put out something completely different from its predecessor »Ummagumma«…

Label: Fishy Music Ltd.Release date: September 25, 2020Producer: Calum MalcolmAlbum length: 84.30 minGenre: Neo-Progressive Rock / Art RockRating: 9/10 “Weltschmerz” is the long-awaited farewell studio album from the cult Scottish…

After »Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son«, the hugely successful tour that followed its release – with the band pushing their stagecraft even further, expanding and enriching all the sets and scenery to serve up even more spectacular shows –…

1969 went down as the year Led Zeppelin's rock'n'roll supernova exploded, and it was impossible to look away. All of a sudden, this new star was blazing at full intensity. That year they built an incredible launch ramp and catapulted…

This September marked 40 years since the release of Ozzy's debut, "Blizzard of Ozz." It's the album that saved the singer's music career. To get a rough picture of how we ended up with the album that marked Ozzy's final step into a solo…

Label: Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease date: 9/25/2020Production: Christopher “Zeuss” Harris & Kragen LumAlbum length: 47:22 minGenre: Thrash MetalRating: 9.0/10 Heathen are Bay Area thrash metal legends. If you pull names like…

Label: Provogue Records/Mascot Label GroupRelease date: August 28, 2020Producer: Eric CorneAlbum length: 57.44 minGenre: Blues RockRating: 9.0/10 Walter Trout is a blues rock legend and one of the most prominent musicians in modern…