Back in the 80’s CHINA were one of the most popular Hard Rock-Bands coming from Switzerland. Their album “Sign In The Sky” even entered the German album charts. Due to countless line-up changes the band couldn’t keep that high level and called it a day a few years later. After the comeback last year, the guys now deliver a new best of-CD. The compilation contains 13 classic tracks plus the 3 brand new songs “Girl On My Screen”, “Stay” and “Trapped In The City”.

hird album Ultimate Rebel, from Swedish rockers Bonafide is something of an underground triumph. Wearing their hearts truly on their sleeves this is a Hard Rocking, no nonsense, bullshit free all out ROCK album! Singer/guitarist Pontus Snibb belts out his gravel, whiskey soaked vocals like his life was in danger. Album opener, ‘Make My Own Rules’ is a pure driving rocker that will even have your girlfriend dancing seductively to its bar room riffs. Things follow the same theme throughout with the stomping ‘Doing The Pretty’ driving proceedings forward at an all out pace. Standout track ‘Blue Skies Red’ is a rhythmic belter with Pontus performing some throat shredding velvet chorus’ that deify reality. This guy must live on a diet of whisky, broken glass and Marlboros which sounds painful but it produces a voice that would shred underwear at fifty feet. ‘Rag And Bone Man’ could be off AC/DC’s Back In Black yet sounds timeless and fresh with the dual Gibson’s ripping solo’s from the smoke filled sky.

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