Rokbox – Rokbox 1997
A good record of AOR quite classic and elegant with powerful guitarists and rockers. An album that never reaches excellence nor has sweeping themes, but always flying at great heights and with great quality.
RestoreR – Fall Off The World 2015
The melodic hard rock band Restorer release this fall debut album “Fall Off The World” . Great album. I recommend…
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Don Airey – One Of A Kind (2СD) [Japanese Edition] (2018) FLAC
Don Airey’s new album “One Of A Kind” is being released on May 25th, 2018 on earMUSIC! The album features incredible musicians like Carl …
The Degarmo & Key Band – To Extremes (1994)
Style: Melodic Rock / AOR
Years: 1994
Info: USA
Mikko Sipola – Making a Sound 2012
Melodic From Finland…
Finnish singer and musician who became public after winning the first season of The Voice of Finland in 2012. The win takes Sipola got a record deal with Universal Music. Sipola released their first album Making a Sound in July 2012.
Bitter Suite – Crime Of Love 2005
Bitter Suite is a one-off project of Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer David J. Petovar, who wrote all of the songs that appear on Crime of Love back in 1991 and 1992. Several stalwarts of the Canadian AOR scene contribute their talents to the album, including George Christon (Kick Axe), Don Wilk (White Wolf), and Craig Brooks (Touch).
Big Life – Big Life (2011)
This new project, Big Life is a joint venture and brainchild of two much respected players in the melodic rock field, from the south of England, Steve Newman (Newman) and ex-Praying Mantis frontman, Mark Thompson-Smith. Steve Newman’s reputation in the Melodic Rock circuit is impressive – with eight immense Newman albums released in the last decade, the latest being the highly acclaimed ‘The Art Of Balance’.
Gundacker – Jekyll And Hyde 2016
The songs are terrific, plenty of hooky riffs and superb solos, catchy choruses and lovely harmony vocals; true ’80s American Melodic Hard Rock with AOR touches, punchy but polished & clean.
Bad Radiator – Hypnotize (2012)
Bad Radiator was formed as a band in 2011 from the Stockholm region, a reunion of the previous band Grace, which wrote the song/ soundtrack theme “Ingen kan älska som vi” (“No one can love like us”) in 1988, a catchy pop tune with some AOR traces.
Steve Camp – The Steve Camp Collection 1995
Genre: Piano Rock / Midwest / AOR
Country: USA
Year of Publication: 1995
Americade – Heroes Are Back 1980 – 1995
The fourth addition to Americade’s “Americadence” box set is called “Heroes Are Back” and contains previously unreleased recordings from sessions during 1984 and 1986. The 1984 sessions were recorded at the legendary Kaufman Astoria Studio in New York and produced by noted producer Ben Rizzi. Those songs were intended for a full movie production called “Electric Prophet” (loosely based on the life of Jimi Hendrix) which never saw light of day.