With their 1991 debut Don’t Come Easy, American hard rockers Tyketto delivered one of the genre’s true melodic masterpieces, a record that should have dominated the era, yet somehow slipped through the cracks and remains a criminally underrated gem. In the years since, the band has weathered numerous lineup shifts and long stretches of silence, but still managed to release four additional studio albums between 1994 and 2016. ...

"Dracula - Swing Of Death" is a project that guitarist Trond Holter (Ex-WigWam, Ex-Dream Police) have been working on for years and the material has matured and developed along the way. Initially Trond did the male vocals himself while Lena Fløitmoen Børresen sang the female parts, but later on Jørn Lande was introduced to the project and ended up singing all male vocal parts. The album is composed as...

The multinational melodic metal act Eden’s Curse is back with their fourth studio album, introducing the new line-up featuring newcomers Nikola Mijic on vocals and former Dragonforce and Powerquest keyboarder Steve Williams alongside the three founding members Paul Logue, Thorsten Koehne and Pete Newdeck. Musically Eden’s Curse is still operating in the landscape between melodic hard rock and metal, focusing on strong and catchy melodies wrapped into a powerful...

Michael Kiske is without doubt one of my all-time favorite singers with his charismatic and wide range voice. He’s got an amazing voice control and I’m not sure he would be able to sing out of pitch even if he tried. Place Vendome is where Michael get the chance to show the melodic hard rock side of himself in collaboration with Dennis Ward, Kosta Safiriou and Uwe Reitenauer of...

British based band CHROME MOLLY was formed way back in 1982 as a part of the NWOBHM movement, but they never really managed to break out of the underground with any of their four full length albums released troughout the eighties. The band split up in 1991 and was put to rest until 2010. Now they are back with their first studio album in 22 years, a release that...