This “Invasion of Your Privacy” Japanese remaster on SHM-CD is excellent, with a terrific sound and a proper dynamic range avoiding a sonic brickwall.

Year: 2020
Style: Hard Rock
Country: France

Year: 2004
Style: Glam Rock
Country: USA

In 2015 it’s becoming increasingly rare to find straight-up rock bands hailing from Canada or the USA, instead most of the talent pool is gravitating towards modern folk or electronic dance music. That’s why I was delighted to find this gem of a band rooted in Montreal, Canada.

Year: 1987
Style: Heavy Metal, Glam Metal
Country: USA

The Sleaze Rock is one of those styles that are fashionable revival a few years ago. Throughout the globe we have seen a large number of bands recovering the sound off in the eighties and nineties in Los Angeles with bands like Motley Crue, Skid Row, NASHVILLE PUSSY, LA GUNS or GUNS ‘N’ ROSES. Possibly the most outstanding groups of this revival are CRASHDIET and CRAZY LIXX, but are not limited to: RECKLESS LOVE, STEEL PANTHER or HOLLYWOOD burnouts are also good examples of the return of one of the thugs and carefree rock sounds…

Nasty Ratz are a glam metal band out of the Czech Republic, the very first in the genre to hail from the country if I understand the translations correctly that is! They have been around only a short time, forming in 2012 and after a few roster adjustments the current

Party/Sleaze HardRock with some Acoustic Melodic Rock songs. “More than Goodbye” is an excellent ballad, “If It Rains All Day” and “Breathing Doll” are good ones. on “Love on Me” is like you were listening to Ted Poley or Danger Danger(TP era). production doesn´t sound good but it´s okay, 18 cool songs…

It may seem as if Los Angeles’ infamous Sunset Strip was the be-all and end-all when it came to hair metal. But the reality is that when hard rock ruled the charts there were bands from every nook and cranny the world over vying for a piece of the lucrative pie, and one of those bands was Florida’s Kidd Havok. Only now, with the help of the internet and Suncity Records, could Kidd Havok’s long forgotten/never remembered demos finally get the treatment they deserved.

STOLEX
is a traditional rock band in the classic line. Were synonyms for our sound accordingly: Dirty, raw, dusty, bone-dry, “authentic”, if anyone would like to use this term inflationary. We are a bunch sworn “Rockisten” that rock together straightforward and without any airs, and on all the boards and platforms that can offer us.
Nothing more, nothing less.

hunders, KISS, New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, T.Rex, Hanoi Rocks, Ramones, Sex Pistols, and many, many more…