Five Records That Changed My Life, Part 5: Marco Mendoza
Bassist and vocalist Marco Mendoza is best known as a former member of Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy.
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Five Records That Changed My Life, Part 4: Marko Tervonen
In 1990, guitarist, songwriter and producer Marko Tervonen co-founded The Crown, one of the early Swedish death metal bands.
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Five Records That Changed My Life, Part 3: Marc Storace
Marc Storace has fronted Swiss hard rock band Krokus for more than forty years.
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Album review: Lacuna Coil “Live from the Apocalypse”
A live performance recorded in front of nobody? Lacuna Coil pulls it off. This is a terrific live album.
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Five Records That Changed My Life, Part 2: Steve Mann
Best known for his work with Michael Schenker, The Sweet and Lionheart, Steve Mann is a British guitarist and keyboardist as well as a composer, producer and engineer who is based in Germany.
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Five Records That Changed My Life, Part 1: John Corabi
American singer and guitarist John Corabi is best known as the former frontman of Mötley Crüe. He has also been a member of Ratt, The Dead Daisies, The Scream, Union, Eric Singer Project and Brides of Destruction.
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Album review: Mad Invasion “Edge of the World”
Sweden’s Mad Invasion combines classic 70s hard rock with 80s melodic hard rock and modern influences on its debut album.
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Album review: Motörhead “No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith” deluxe box set
The best-ever live album gets released in an expanded 71-song deluxe box set format! It doesn’t get any better than this! This is gold for both casual Motörhead fans and devoted Motörhead archaeologists.
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EP review: Death Reich “Death Camp”
Sweden’s Death Reich gives us old-school meat-and-potatoes death metal with plenty of aggression and energy.
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Video premiere: Screaming Shadows “Free Me”
Francesco Marras (Tygers of Pan Tang’s new guitarist) is back with his Italian power metal band Screaming Shadows and a new album.
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Video premiere: Killing “Legion of Hate”
Danish thrash metal band Killing has today released a new single and video, “Legion of Hate”.
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Interview: Jimmy Waldo of Alcatrazz | “We did want it to be harder and more focused”
Jimmy Waldo co-founded Alcatrazz in 1983. At that point, he had already made a name for himself with the band New England and later went on to play with bands such as Quiet Riot, Blackthorne, Graham Bonnet Band, Rock Island Orchestra and many more.
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Album review: Social Disorder “Love 2 Be Hated”
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Anders “LA” Rönnblom teams up with Tracii Guns, Rudy Sarzo, Snowy Shaw and other stars in new classic hard rock project Social Disorder.
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