Archive for July, 2006

Melodicrock.com is one of the best sites out there for everything from AOR to Melodic Hard Rock to Metal. Every year, in this case 2 years, the website offers an exclusive CD of unreleased/alternate versions/exclusive tracks from the artists it supports. This year’s CD tracklisting has been revealed: 01. Brother Firetribe – Midnight Queen 02. [...]

Is it a cassette or a tape? Technically, it’s a cassette tape. With the invention of that thing called a CD, some people call them trash. One person’s trash is another’s treasure. I’m sitting here at my desk and I just noticed that my stereo has no cassette deck. We live in a small apartment [...]

Alcatrazz – Dangerous Games (1986, Capitol) It’s My Life Undercover That Ain’t Nothin’ No Imagination Ohayo Tokyo Dangerous Games Blue Boar Only One Woman The Witchwood Double Man Night Of The Shooting Star Total Time – 38:08 Band Lineup: Graham Bonnet – Vocals Danny Johnson – Guitar Gary Shea – Bass Jimmy Waldo – Keyboards [...]

CDs have been coming from everywhere: Ebay, the local shop, La-La, traders, CD Universe…..the list keeps growing! Here’s what’s crossed my desk and made it to the pile….. Motorhead – Iron Fist (2 CD Deluxe Edition) (2005) – Slowly I am adding these great sets to my collection, I just don’t want to pay $20+ [...]

Blog Love – Metal-Mixtape

Posted: July 26, 2006 in Blog Love

Just a little blog love for the Metal-Mixtape. It’s definitely worth a look, especially for the contest. From Theo at Metal-Mixtape: I’m running a contest where I’ve posted a mystery picture of an ‘8os rocker and the first person to write in identifying that person gets an autographed copy of Judas Priest’s latest DVD. The [...]

It’s New Release Tuesday and Sammy Hagar’s new album, Livin’ It Up, came out today. The local shop has it for 11 bucks so I’m grabbing it later tonight. Anyone else picking this one up?

From Blabbermouth.net:  IRON MAIDEN has announced that they will be beginning their 2006 World Tour with eight dates across the USA and three dates in Canada starting October 4 in Hartford, CT. Tickets for the shows will start going on to the general public from the weekend of August 12, with details of local box [...]

I was hoping to get in another post to end my Graham Bonnet week that summarized some other notable releases. Unfortunately, work was busy, I had a meeting, and I got lost in Boston Sunday afternoon. So here goes….. I had a major resurgence in collecting in 1996, I had taken a couple years off [...]

From Blabbermouth.net: According to MaidenNorway.com, Maidenfans.com relayed a bulletin posted by the Italian MAIDEN fan site www.eddies.it claiming the Italian release date of IRON MAIDEN‘s 14th studio album, A Matter of Life and Death, is August 25. As previously reported, EMI was planning to release the album August 26-28, depending on the coutry. New information, [...]

Impellitteri – Stand In Line (1988, Relativity) Stand In Line Since You’ve Been Gone Secret Lover Somewhere Over The Rainbow (instrumental) Tonight I Fly White And Perfect Leviathan Goodnight And Goodbye Playing With Fire (instrumental) Total Time – 35:27 Band Lineup: Graham Bonnet – Vocals Chris Impellitteri – Guitar Chuck Wright – Bass Pat Torpey [...]

UFO – The Monkey Puzzle Release dates on SPV: Europe – 9/25/06 USA – 9/26/06 Germany – 9/29/06 Japan – TBA

From Bravewords.com: Blind Guardian’s new album, A Twist In The Myth, will receive an earlier release in Japan, through Victor Records on August 30th. As previously reported, the album will be released elsewhere in September through Nuclear Blast with the following tracklisting: ‘This Will Never End’, ‘Otherland’, ‘Turn The Page’, ‘Fly’, ‘Carry The Blessed Home’, [...]