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Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: February 17, 2023Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 44.18 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Robin McAuley, the revered Irish hard rock vocalist who recently popped back onto the…

Gary Rossington, the last original member of southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 71. The band confirmed the news on their official Facebook page (the original post is below). Gary Rossington was born in…

Label: One RecordsRelease date: 30. 12. 2022Executive producer: Žanil Tataj - ŽakMixing and mastering: Piknik studio Novi SadAlbum length: 51.06 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Melodic MetalRating: 9.0/10 Žanil Tataj - Žak is a…

Label: Silver Lininig MusicRelease date: 27 Jan 2023Production: Jay RustonAlbum length: 59.24 minGenre: Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Uriah Heep are one of the few living rock'n'roll fossils you can honestly say are still kicking at full…

Location: Prague / Forum Karlin / Czech RepublicDate: Saturday, 10 December 2022 Everything was going according to plan. The October one. Right up until Uriah Heep started their 'experimenting' and 'rethinking', cutting short the…

Location: Ljubljana / Arena Stožice / SloveniaDate: Sunday, 4 December 2022 Bryan Adams, the legendary Canadian rock singer-songwriter, finally made it back to Slovenia. After the repeated postponements of the tour on which he was…

Acts: Alter Bridge (plus support: Halestorm & Mammoth WVH)Venue: Zagreb / Dom sportova / CroatiaDate: Saturday, 26 November 2022 Some tours come along where you don't think twice about catching at least one show. A combination…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: June 17, 2022Production: Jorn LandeAlbum length: 58.27 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy RockRating: 7.5/10 Jorn Lande, one of the most esteemed vocalists of his generation, and we can safely say…

Label: Nika RecordsRelease date: October 21, 2022Production: MetropolisAlbum length: 31.49 minGenre: Rock 'N' RollRating: 8.5/10 Metropolis are a rock'n'roll trio from Ljubljana. Anyone in Slovenia who follows the rock scene even a…

Label: Massacre RecordsRelease date: 14. 10. 2022Production: Jaded HeartAlbum length: 49.32 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Jaded Heart are an interesting band with two pretty different eras. In the first, they were riding the…

Dan McCafferty, an original member of Scottish rock legends Nazareth, has died at the age of 77. The sad news was first broken to the rock world by his friend and Nazareth bandmate, bassist Pete Agnew, who wrote the following on…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9/16/2022Production: James Christian & Mark MangoldAlbum length: 51.29 min.Genre: Arena Rock / AOR / Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 House Of Lords! James Christian! A new album! Is there really…

Location: Postojna / Kulturni dom Postojna / SloveniaDate: Friday, September 30, 2022 That day finally came. Ever since the rock and metal world in Slovenia got its hands on the reissue of the cult debut album "Rocks Off" by the…

Label: SPV/Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: September 30, 2022Production: Ben GrooseAlbum length: 36.58 min.Genre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 It's unbelievable the momentum with which The Dead Daisies keep infecting the planet with…

Location: San Dona Di Piave / Revolver klub / ItalyDate: Friday, 16 September 2022 'Turbo glam metal revival riders' — Finland's Reckless Love, hailing from the city of Kuopio, are with over two decades in the game one of the…

Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland — the second-largest island in Europe — is the northernmost capital city in the world. It is also the economic, political, and cultural hub of Iceland, a country of only around 370,000 people, nearly half…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: July 8, 2022Production: Narada Michael Walden, Neal Schon & Jonathan CainAlbum length: 73.13 min.Genre: AORRating: 8.5/10 Journey are back with their fifteenth studio album, and it's…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 12, 2022Production: Erik MartenssonAlbum length: 39.30 minGenre: Heavy Metal/Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Nordic Union is a melodic metal project teaming up Erik Martensson (Eclipse) and…

Performers: Overlaps, The Amazons, The DarknessVenue: Pordenone / Parco San Valentino / ItalyDate: Saturday, 23 July 2022 The final day of this year's Pordenone Blues Festival brought the 'rough-and-ready' British rock rascals and…

Venue: Zagreb / Arena / CroatiaConcert date: Saturday, July 9, 2022 Kiss are a phenomenon unlike anything else in the rock 'n' roll universe. In fact, it's fair to say they occupy a completely unique spot on the vast rock map of the…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 6/17/2022Production: IconicAlbum length: 47.52 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.0/10 Iconic are the new super rock sensation, fronted by guitarists Michael Sweet (Stryper) and Joel Hoekstra…

Label: earMUSIC RecordsRelease date: May 27, 2022Production: Simon McBrideAlbum length: 45.57 minGenre: Hard Rock / Blues RockRating: 9.0/10 He's Irish, but he's neither Rory Gallagher nor Gary Moore. He's a bit younger than Joe…

Label: Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury RecordsRelease date: 5/27/2022Production: Ronan McHughAlbum length: 61.27 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Def Leppard are back with a new album. It's the seventh record from the unchanged lineup…

Label: Atomic Fire RecordsRelease date: May 27, 2022Production: Michael Voss & Michael SchenkerAlbum length: 52:25 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Michael Schenker needs no special introduction. In a single sentence: he's a…

Label: Drakkar EntertainmentRelease date: 19. 11. 2021Production: Carl SentanceAlbum length: 40.25 minGenre: Hard Rock/Heavy MetalRating: 8.5/10 Carl Sentance has put out a really nice solo studio album, »Electric Eye«. His second…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 8, 2022Production: Jeff Pilson Album length: 55.32 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Black Swan is a quartet that brings together four outstanding musicians: vocalist Robin McAuley…

Label: Legend RecordsRelease date: 1. 4. 2022Production: Darren WhartonAlbum length: 41.59 minGenre: AOR/hard rockRating: 8.0/10 Dare are by now Irish AOR legends, and hard rock (and, to a degree, folk rock) legends too. Their 1988…

Label: BMGRelease date: April 29, 2022Production: ThunderAlbum length: 70.37 min.Genre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Thunder are back after two years with a new album. "Dopamine". A title inspired by the current state of society and a…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 15, 2022Production: NazarethAlbum length: 48.10 min.Genre: Hard Rock / Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 No two ways about it. Nazareth. Yes, the very same Nazareth, one of the most important…

Label: SPV / Steamhammer RecordsRelease date: April 15, 2022Production: Axel Rudi PellAlbum length: 54.42 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5 / 10 Axel Rudi Pell, the timeless German guitar hero, is back with yet another studio album,…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 8, 2022Production: Peter Mansson & Anders ”Gary” WikströmAlbum length: 55.23 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.5/10 Treat are Scandinavian hard rock legends today. “The Endgame” is the…

Label: Vertigo/Universal Music GmbHRelease date: Feb. 25, 2022Production: Scorpions & Hans-Martin BuffAlbum length: 44.29 minGenre: Hard Rock / Heavy MetalRating: 8.0/10 It's 2022, exactly 50 years since the debut “Lonesome…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: March 18, 2022Production: Jacob HansenAlbum length: 54.15 minGenre: Hard Rock/Melodic RockRating: 9.0/10 Pretty Maids released their last album “Undress Your Madness” in November 2019 –…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: February 11, 2022 Production: degreed Album length: 40:54 min Genre: Hard Rock Rating: 8.5/10 degreed (the band name is actually written with a lowercase "d", at their own insistence) are back on…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: January 21, 2022 Production: Alessandro Del Vecchio Album length: 47.18 min Genre: Hard Rock / Melodic Metal Rating: 8.5/10 Edge of Forever, the Italian ultra-melodic hard rockers who keep…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl. Release date: January 21, 2022 Production: Alessandro Del Vecchio Album length: 48.06 min Genre: Hard Rock / AOR Rating: 8.0/10 Giant, the hard rock supergroup founded in 1987 by the Huff brothers in Nashville…

Aki Rahimovski, the beloved frontman of Croatian rock giants Parni Valjak, passed away on January 22, 2022, in a hospital in Novo mesto. He was 66 years old. The band announced the news on their official Facebook profile with a short…

Meat Loaf, one of the most beloved and commercially successful hard rock and heavy metal singers, who was also a film actor among other things, has died at the age of 74. The news was announced by his agent, who wrote the following in an…

Label: SPV/Steamhammer Records Release date: January 14, 2022 Production: Tony Clarkin Genre: Art Rock / Hard Rock Album length: Rating: 8/10 »The Monster Roars« is the latest studio effort from British prog/hard rock masters Magnum, who…

Burke Shelley, founder, frontman, singer and bassist of the cult Welsh rockers Budgie, has died at the age of 71. The sad news was confirmed by Shelley's daughter Ela Shelley, who posted the following yesterday on the band's official…

Label: ZKP RTV SlovenijaRelease date: November 26, 2021Production: Toni Jurij (2021 remaster: Jadran Ogrin)Reissue length: 54.04 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Glam MetalRating: 9.5/10Buy:“Rocks Off” – order (CD)“Rocks Off”…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 5. 11. 2021Production: Danny RexxonLength: 44.34 minGenre: Glam Metal Revival/Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Crazy Lixx are one of the most convincing bands of the new era when it comes to reviving…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9/17/2021Production: VegaLength: 48.43 minGenre: Melodic Rock / Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Vega are a British hard rock and melodic rock outfit, a crew of seasoned, battle-hardened musicians…

Label: Cooking VinylRelease date: 11/19/2021Album length: 35.25 minProduction: Dan HawkinsGenre: Hard Rock/Rock'N'RollRating: 8.5/10 You either love them or you hate them. There's no in-between. The Darkness. Two years have flown by…

A few days ago, the Slovenian rock and metal community lost Sašo Banovič, one of the key figures of the Postojna area, who through his commitment, enthusiasm, fire and constant involvement in rock activism left an indelible mark not only…

Label: Escape MusicRelease date: October 15, 2021Production: Steve MannAlbum length: 60.11 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Heartland are a British melodic hard rock band who first showed up on the scene back in 1990, a product of…

Albums upon albums. Bands upon bands. And it was the eighties. The very eighties that swept through Slovenia too and carried it into a lively hard rock and heavy metal movement, which in the second half of the decade also gave birth to the…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: July 9, 2021Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 49.39 minRating: 9.0/10Genre: Hard Rock Hardline, formed in 1991, with two cult albums in the nineties and a revival in 2009, are…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 6, 2021Production: Jeff Scott Soto & Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 40.26 minGenre: Hard Rock Rating: 8.5/10 Spektra are a brand-new hard rock and AOR revival outfit from…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: July 16, 2021Production: Big CityAlbum length: 52.06 minRating: 9.0/10Genre: Melodic Metal Big City are a Norwegian melodic metal outfit drawing inspiration from the ultra-musical side of…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: August 6, 2021Production: Night RangerAlbum length: 49.22 min.Genre: Hard Rock / Arena RockRating: 9.0/10 Night Ranger are one of those bands that landed in the right place at the right time.…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 9/17/2021Production: Dave DaloneAlbum length: 48.11 minGenre: AOR revival / Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 Robin has usually been a bad guy, well, if not Hot, then at least Hood. Legends aside,…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: October 9, 2020Production: Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom & Richie CastellanoAlbum length: 61:15 minGenre: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock / Art RockRating: 8.0/10 "The Symbol Remains" is the fifteenth…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: June 18, 2021Production: Jona TeeAlbum length: 43:17 minGenre: Hard Rock/Melodic MetalRating: 9.0/10 Crowne are the new supermelodic hard rock sensation, fronted by vocalist Alexander…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: 14. 5. 2021Production: Alessandro Del VecchioAlbum length: 44.39 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Robin McAuley, the esteemed Scottish hard rock vocalist who recently turned heads again with…

Label: BMGRelease date: April 9, 2021Production: Cheap Trick & Julian RaymondAlbum length: 45.28 min Genre: Rock 'N' Roll / Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 Cheap Trick, the iconic American rock band that's been blazing away since 1973,…

Label: Frontiers Music Srl.Release date: April 9, 2021Production: George Lynch & Jeff PilsonAlbum length: 55.08 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 8.5/10 The End Machine are yet another hard rock outfit with the folks at Frontiers Music…

Label: JVC VictorRelease date: April 2, 2021Production: Tommy Heart & Kee MarcelloAlbum length: 45.14 minGenre: Hard RockRating: 9.0/10 The ways of rock 'n' roll are strange. Well, depending on how you look at it. Artistically,…

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Label: Escape MusicRelease date: 9/18/2020Production: Brian AnthonyAlbum length: 48.28 minGenre: AOR/Hard RockRating: 8.0/10 Among AOR fans, Steve Overland is pretty much a sacred vocal icon. I don't know how many people in Slovenia…

“One thing's for sure. The old farts know how to handle the goods. And after 34 years, the new Alcatrazz album found its way back to 1986 with ease. With commander and iconic rock singer Graham Bonnet at the helm and a whole constellation…

"Blue Öyster Cult's debut, with a one-of-a-kind essence and substance, still speaks to you and hits home after 45 years, evergreen and practically timeless."

"Put simply, it's another quality Mad Max album, one that will win over fans not just of this band but of old-continent European hard rock, as long as they go easy on Voss's worn-out vocals.”

"A project with potential that surely won't have the last word, though the 2018 debut remains considerably more convincing."

"“The band is totally 'stripped down', honest and straight-up. Frontal. The hooks are simple, the rhythms catchy and charging. A mostly 'adrenaline' album that invites you to a hellish party, soaked in burning high-octane fuel and loaded…

"With »Whoosh!« Deep Purple have made it loud and clear that they're in no rush to retire from the studio and are still having a blast making new music. Once again they've delivered an impressively solid record, on par with everything…

"»Pod pritiskom« strengthens the distinctive voice of Grizl's hard rock, which was established with their predecessor “17 mečev”. The album is darker than its predecessor, more intense in its phrasing, and also serves up a “fatter” guitar…

"This live document is another must-have for the collection of every die-hard fan of the band, and there are certainly plenty of them. It's not exactly a surprise, and some of the band's other live achievements and official releases are far…

"The story behind the 50th anniversary of one of the most important albums in the history of rock music."

“Curse of the Hidden Mirror” did have a few ups and downs in quality, but all in all it was still a thrilling record that delivered a heaping helping of listening pleasure for most longtime Blue Öyster Cult fans. After the solid “Heaven…

"“Heaven Forbid” remains the overlooked album in the band's huge discography, which makes a lot of sense when you set it next to Blue Öyster Cult's seventies legacy. Still, it's a superb effort, one where the band worked some of the essence…

"The new single "Man Alive" announces that the creative muse is far from done with Deep Purple, even after the 'The Long Goodbye' tour, which signaled that retirement wasn't far off, and after their induction into the controversial 'Rock…

"Listening to this document, it's a genuine revelation, especially if you haven't spun the "Future World" album in a long while (ten or fifteen years or more), how this album is still such a compositionally strong and polished manifesto of…

Label: Metal Mind ProductionsRelease date: 21.02.2020Production: Ian ParryAlbum length: 44.45 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Art RockRating: 9.0/10 Ian Parry is no stranger to the rock’n’roll scene. He kicked off his music career in…

"This live document is an essential piece in the collection of any fan of this exceptional vocalist. And if you want more than just the digital version, take comfort in the fact that the very same concert keepsake will come as a bonus CD…

"This live document loudly announces that 2020 will once again be one of the more exciting years for Blue Öyster Cult and all their devoted fans, in an already colorful and long-lived career for these iconic rock heavyweights."

"The third reissue of a string of cult classics, first released as "Cult Classic" in 1994, has gotten a sound remaster, and it signals that after 19 dry years Blue Öyster Cult are getting ready to release a new studio album."

"The memory of 'The Five Man Acoustical Jam' lives on. Carried 30 years forward, it finds a mature reaffirmation in the band's new collection of acoustically arranged goodies, 'Five Man London Jam (Live at Abbey Road)'."

"The album "Sign of the Times" comes with a different production and a distinctly sharpened-up sound, but otherwise hits every high-quality standard of the top-shelf hard rock that stands behind the name Axel Rudi Pell."

"»Fistful Of Fire« is easily one of the best hard rock albums to drop in the first half of this year. Alongside the new Gotthard record »#13«, it's a must for all the »surviving« fans of the genre. It doesn't get more German than this."

"Album "#13“ is a fresh, fascinating dive into classic hard rock, Gotthard-recipe style, which the band can't and won't deny. "

"The release of "40th Anniversary - Agents Of Fortune - Live 2016" is a welcome move, if only because it's a nice wake-up call that the iconic fossils of heavy rock aren't done yet and are coming back (let's hope soon) with a promised new…

" Experience, know-how, routine, seasoning, and a long twelve-year stretch of gathering solid songwriting ideas and solutions. All of it has added up once again in just the right place."

" Fans of Biff Byford's iron voice and Saxon's music in general will be thrilled once again. That's the fundamental takeaway, along with the fact that this is, all in all, a very good new album, backed by a revered vocalist who long ago…