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Cherub – There Was One Note…Then The Audience Exploded
I showed up early to the House of Blues, San Diego…not to see the opening bands (I ‘m very glad that I did though), but mainly because free parking starts at 6pm on Sundays. I really wanted to see the type of people that were showing up, the free parking was just a bonus. Just […]
Queensrÿche – Metal Rock Monsters
The Reunion and Tour T-Shirts were just about all you’d see at the House of Blues for the Queensrÿche concert. On their current tour they brought with them some other heavy metal rock monsters. Recently formed metal rockers Midnight Eternal out of New York tested their brand of female-lead power rock on the Southern California […]
Tyketto “Reach”
After five years of relentless touring that included playing on some of the most prestigious stages on the planet, Tyketto took their revitalized energy in to the studio in the spring of 2016. The sessions took place at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales. Lead vocalist Danny Vaughn comments, “Although we only had planned on recording […]
Journey – Celebrating 35 years
Rock and Roll legends Journey continue their massive series of shows in the U.S. as part of their “San Francisco Fest Tour”, ending appropriately enough in San Francisco early next month. Founded in San Francisco in 1973, Journey has sold over 80 million albums worldwide, recording countless top hits in their career. Neal Schon (founding […]
Lynch Mob – Mr. Scary
George Lynch has always been a great songwriter & guitarist. Even though the first couple of Lynch Mob albums were picked apart by rock critics they all had to admit that the Lynch Mob was the real deal. Mr. Scary is at it again. Just caught up with one of my guitar idols, Mr. Scary […]
Eden’s Curse – Cardinal
If you’re looking for something technically stimulating as much as it just sounds cool as hell, you need not look any further than Eden’s Curse. Did you see what I did there? Well, This band has been on the scene in Europe for a decade, stemming from a small Internet based multi-national project to a […]
Daring Greatly Goes WHISKEY A GO-GO
Daring Greatly, in case you haven’t heard yet, is the new band to go see and listen to. The band was recently invited to play at the Whiskey a Go-Go in West Hollywood on the Sunset Strip. Lucky for me and more than 40 other fans, Dail had the brilliant idea of chartering a bus […]
Goran Edman – Cry of Dawn
Multi awarding winning vocalist, Goran Edman, released his self-titled debut album on September 23rd and melodic rock and AOR (album oriented rock) fans should rejoice! Goran Edman, may not be a familiar artist for mainstream music fans, but if he keeps releasing albums such as this, it won’t take long before he is in every […]
Iron Mask – “Diabolica”
The Belgian melodic power metal band IRON MASK is currently more active than ever before: after re-releasing their 2010 album ‘Shadow Of The Red Baron’ and afterwards touring Europe with Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody in January 2016, the group around band leader Dushan Petrossi didn’t waste any time and directly started the preproduction phase for their new album. The following months were used to record all instruments as well as vocals. Speaking of vocals: Diego Valdez (Helker) was introduced as new voice of IRON MASK. The result of this new collaboration is here now: ‘Diabolica’ marks the band’s sixth album release and once again guitarist/mastermind Dushan Petrossi was responsible for the entire songwriting. This 77minute behemoth of an album combines neoclassicalinspired metal with an epic touch, reminiscent of Dio longtracks from the 80’s. Valdez shines throughout the whole record and proves to be the perfect choice for the vocal spot, bringing the 12 great new songs to life. IRON MASK have never been more epic and powerful than on ‘Diabolica’. A look at the track listing provides an interesting fact.”I choose some historical figures, like Oliver Twist, Galileo and Doctor Faust, to create a story background for the music I had composed. But there’s no overall concept really“, speaks Petrossi. Mixing and mastering of ‚ ‘Diabolica’ was handled by Angelo E. Buccolieri (Wireworld Studios, Italien) together with Petrossi, while French cover artist Stan W. Decker provided the fitting optics. After IRON MASK was founded as a project, things changed after the release of their debut ‘Revenge Is My Name’. It was a different kind of approach already for the band’s second release ‚ ‘Hordes Of The Brave’, which was followed by quite some live gigs. The third album ‘Shadow Of The Red Baron’ was issued (after a more than four years long break) in early 2010, but the band was returning with the clear intention of not letting their fans wait for another release that long again. So after signing with AFM Records, already in November 2011 ‘Black As Death’ was released. Exactly two years after, the band followed up with ‘Fifth Son Of Winterdoom’. Subseqently, Petrossi became busy again with his other (also AFMsigned) band MAGIC KINGDOM, who released their ‘Savage Requiem’ album in 2015. Now the grandiose ‘Diabolica’, an album which Petrossi was working on since two years, is IRON MASK’s newest and impressive proof of work. LISTEN TO A SAMPLE OF “DIABOLICA” This is probably one of the best records that IRON MASK has ever recorded. Because Petrossi was responsible for all the songwriting, we […]