What do you get when you take former members of UFO and MSG and throw them in a blender? Well, they call themselves X-UFO. The group comprises Laurence Archer, Danny Peyronel, Clive Edwards and Rocky Newton. Self-described as an “… alternate version of UFO … a spin-off of the classic rock band,” the quartet aims to breathe new life into classic UFO music. While it’s unclear if this is a necessary endeavor, as UFO and MSG are still alive and well, X-UFO are taking a crack at it anyway.

Vocalist Doogie White, the former singer of Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen, is firmly convinced that “The Stranger Within is a fantastic sounding album with brilliant songs!”  Above all Deep Purple fans and Rainbow fans of the Dio-era will be really delighted with this hard rock album consisting of 12 songs lasting 66 minutes – and this album contains everything which enthrals fans of classic hard rock bands: powerful vocals rich in variety as well as brilliant and sometimes spaced-out solos of the guitar and the organ. Classic hardrock at its best!

There are worse pun band name as JENNY Hooker, but better concepts than to make a white trash redneck if you do not come from the American South, but from Munich. So be it, as Bayer so you can at least implement a consistent approach and that is to “Hooker rock” of the case.