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Dreams on Toast is the eights studio album by British hardrock band The Darkness. I bought the first two albums when they were released, then I kinda lost interest in the band. It’s mysterious, because I don’t know why. As far as I remember I lied those two first albums very much. But as I do basic research for this review I noticed that The Darkness actually broke up after their second and that it...
Sonic Boom is the Nineteenth Kiss album. With that said, I had a decent grasp of Kiss up until around Lick It Up in 1983. While I did acquire Animalize and Asylum, along with the Crazy Crazy Nights single at the time, I never really got into these albums. In recent years. I’ve started working my way through the albums chronologically and have written a bit about the first five at least. The musical quality...
Backtraxx is the forth album by American band Every Mother’s Nightmare. On Wikipedia they’re listed as a Glam Metal Band but I don’t think that is correct. At least not in the most conventional sense. I would place them, at lest on Back Traxx closer to hardrock than to Glam. Although I would ultimately place them under Heavy Metal. There are some unusual instrumentation on Backtraxx though. I can’t say for sure because there are...
What’s in Your Head is the sixth studio album from British band Diamond Head. A legendary band really and I’m really embarrassed that I don’t know more about them. And, that I lack so much of their music in my frame of reference. If you’re a Metallica fan I guess it’s dictated by law that you should know a few though. First and foremost Am I Evil?. That cem much earlier though and I think...
666 is the debut album by Dutch all-female rockers Cobra Spell. These ladies has attitude! The music is bluesy hardrock that kind of reminds me on some of Whitesnakes material, especially the vocals. Of course I’m not saying that vocalist Kristina Vegas voice is similar to that of David Coverdale. It’s just the way that it’s performed and sung that seems highly recognizable. 666 as an album seems very 70’s classic hardrock overall even though...
Dirty & Divine is the sixth studio album from the Swedish all-female hardrock band Thundermother. I’m really not too familiar with the band but from what I’ve heard through the grapevine they’re supposed to have a great musical drive. I’ve also heard that this album differs a bit from the previous ones. I’ts nothing that I really have first hand information on though, even though I will expore further after listenning to Dirty & Divine....
Into the Future was the only full length album of the band Rhoads. For me, Rhoads make me think of the late guitarist Randy Rhoads and since I never heard about this band before I made some assumptions. I shouldn’t have. Rhoads has nothing to do with Randy. I think the band name instead should be pointed towards the vocalist Kelle Rhoads, who apparently is the brother of Randy. It’s a small world isn’t it?...
Monster is Kiss’ last studio album. Unless if they don’t decide to make a comeback. But I doubt it. Three years before Kiss releases the excellent album Sonic Boom. It was an album that I found to be unexpectedly good and had catchy melodies. The expectations for this album were thus high. Surely the guys (who may not be guys anymore, at least not Gene and Paul) could deliver an album of the same caliber...
High Voltage was AC/DC’s first album released in Australia in 1975. It’s a bit confusing since an album with the same name was released internationally the following year. The tracks are not the same though. On the latter, parts of the original Australian T.N.T. album were also included. Or if we should be frank, most of it is from the T.N.T. album. This means that High Voltage in its original Australian Release features songs not...
Blackout is the German Hardrock group’s eighth studio album. It’s been with me for a long time. I first bought it when I was in my early teens on vinyl. I still have it but I haven’t listened to it for quite a while. My memory is not good, but the title track was just as good as I remembered it. Come to think of it. almost all of the songs on Blackout is really...
Powerzone is, if I understand it correctly, Chez Jane’s second album. It looks pretty hard if you dare to judge by the cover but It’s softer than it looks. There is certainly power both in the vocals and the guitar playing though. To me, the songs are good but not great, and I think that’s my curse and really not Chez’s fault. But power can mean different things. You know the Power Ballad formula. You...
Don’t Kill the Dark is Cobra Cult’s second album. They’re fronted by a female singer/guitarist, but I have a hard time hearing the gender of the singer. Now, that I know it, I can hear it, but before I thought it was just a typical Power Metal Vocalist. They usually sing in high pitches. Not that it matters a bit though. I think she does a great job. She fits the music well. It’s pretty...
