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Ritchie Blackmore’s musical career is branded by an uncompromising faithfulness to his own musical ideals: he already distinguished himself as an ambitioned rock musician in Deep Purple and Rainbow. For the past 15 years, Blackmore‘s Night has shown a marked contrast to his two previously successful bands, making him one of the few musicians who has successfully formed and performed in three different musical genres. With “A Knight In York“, the third Blackmore’s Night DVD release, Ritchie, Candice Night and their band of minstrels take their devoted audience on a musical journey through the ages.

Recorded live on 30th September 2011, “A Knight In York“ will be out on 2nd July on UDR/EMI and features identical track listings in the following formats: Special DVD + CD digipack de...

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Frontiers/BAM

HARDLINE´S history dates back to 1991. The term supergroup was immediate as it was formed by JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon, brothers Joey and Johnny Gioeli on guitars and vocals respectively, bassist Todd Jensen (ex SEQUEL) and drummer Deen Castronovo. The circulation of musicians was fierce of cause, with Neal returning to JOURNEY and Tod and Deen joining OZZY. Geezer Butler has been in the band, which also goes for Rob Rock, and a good few more. Today the band is centered around sole remaining original member Johnny, who has enlisted the aid of keyboardist Alessandro del Vecchio (EDGE OF FOREVER), guitarist Thorsten Koehne (EDEN´S CURSE), bassist Anna Portalupi (MITCH MALLOY) and drummer Francesco Jovino (UDO).

Opener “Fever Dreams” had me going for the medicine box...

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THE TREATMENT – NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR… PASSPORTS!
UK ROCKERS CONFIRM FINAL UK HEADLINE SHOW BEFORE LEAVING TO JOIN KISS & MOTLEY CRUE ON BIGGEST US ROCK TOUR OF THE SUMMER…

Venue: Craufurd Arms
Address: Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5LT
Date: 17th July
Doors: 19:30
Tickets: http://www.seetickets.com/Event/THE-TREATMENT/The-Craufurd-Arms/643998
Price: £5

“This show in Milton Keynes will be the last time we play on UK soil for what could be three months, depending how long the US tour runs for. So it goes without saying that we are going to make it a special night.” – Matt Jones, The Treatment.

THE TREATMENT, the Cambridge five-piece who recently completed a full European tour with Steel Panther, will play a final UK headline show before leaving for the US to join Kiss & Motley C...

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TURBOGEIST TO HEADLINE ROCK CLUB NIGHT ‘JUBILEE’ AT THE LONDON BARFLY ON 15TH JUNE 2012…

TURBOGEIST WILL play a headline show at the Barfly in North London on June 15th.

This is part of club night ‘Jubilee’, an event curated by Carl Barat (Libertines/Dirty Pretty Things), Chris McCormack (ex – 3 Colours Red/Gary Numan guitarist) and Alan ’Cherry Cola’ (of London Rock ’n’ Roll club night ’Cherry Cola’).

London-based Turbogeist will be supported by The Broxton Hundred and Filthy Whisky.

SINCE COMING together, Turbogeist’s multi-hued musical approach has been described in many ways, from ‘weirdo punk’ sounds through to ‘heavy alternative rock’, with phrases such as ‘more macabre fantastic aural imagery’ thrown in for good measure.

The four-piece outfit are currently...

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SPV/Playground

Dutch long-standing rock outfit VENGEANCE makes another go at fame and fortune. This time with Leon Goewie as the sole remaining original since original guitarist Jan Somers passed away. The rest of the band are absolute aces; Keri Kelli, guitars (ex. ALICE COOPER), Chris Glen, bass, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP), and drummer Chris Slade (ex AC/DC). A tour has been scheduled by the many sougt after musicians may be had to keep occupied with one band only. Contributions from Arjen Lucassen, of cause, and even Tony Martin makes for enjoyable listening…or?

The voice, the tight band, the return to their bluesy AC/CD sound makes for an album that is no “Arabia”. Depending on your preferences this is an album to treat in many ways...

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‘Songs About Jane’ 10th Anniversary Edition Deluxe LP released June 25th

It’s been a decade since Maroon 5 burst onto the music scene with ‘Songs About Jane’, their No.1, multi-platinum selling debut album of June 2002 which yielded five hit singles; ‘Harder to Breathe’, ‘This Love’, ‘She Will Be Loved’, ‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘Must Get Out’.

To mark the occasion, the deluxe ‘Songs About Jane’ 10th Anniversary edition is being released by A&M/Octone on June 25th as a two-CD set, which includes demos of the 12 original songs and previously unreleased tracks like ‘Take What You Want,’ ‘Woman’ and ‘Chilly Winter,’ as well as ‘Rag Doll’ (a non-album B-side) and an alternative mix of ‘The Sun.’

The second disc provides access to two videos o...

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ELTON JOHN: CLASSIC ALBUM SELECTION (1970-73) BOX SET RELEASED July 2nd 2012 on UNIVERSAL MUSIC, COMPRISING: ELTON JOHN, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION, MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER, HONKY CHATEAU, DON’T SHOOT ME I’M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER

Universal music will be releasing a limited edition Elton John box set, Classic Album Selection (1970-73), on July 9th comprising five classic Elton John albums recorded between 1970 and 1973. It follows the release of hotly anticipated Elton Vs Pnau single ”Good Morning to the Night” on July 2nd.
Australian duo Pnau are best known for their side-project ”Empire Of The Sun”; Elton John signed the pair after hearing their record, and now with his blessing, a selection of Elton’s old masters will be re-imagined into an album featuring their recreations of his classi...

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Massacre/Sound Pollution

Cyprus metallers WINTER`S VERGE formed in 2004, and now release their third outing. I first came across them when they released “Eternal Damnation”, their label debut, in 2008. I was not the least impressed. Since then the band has changed drummers to Chris Ioannides and, in 2011, they toured with STRATOVARIUS. This time around they opt for heavier, groovier material with influences ranging from SYMPHONY X to PANTERA and RAGE.

Opener “Cunning Lullabies” is nothing really fancy, but it´s quite alright. Instead the band shows relentlessness paired with melody in the excellent “Paper Is Blank”, which is followed by a string of songs nice refrains, suitable parts of growl, good arrangements, grooves, and even more neat refrains. The sound courtesy of R...

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Massacre/Sound Pollution

Stuttgart´s thrashers DAVIDIAN strikes with their third album, thrashy but not cored. The story of the band hails back to 2003, when they released the self-financed “Abuse of Power”. Festivals and gigs followed and in 2007 they got a contract for “Hear Their Cries”. Worldwide distribution was included and more shows and larger festivals followed, supporting the likes of VADER and HATBREED. This time around they got studio time with Tue Madsen, and brought along their new vocalist Tobi Brausch. The rest of the band consists of guitarists Alex Schniepp and Micha Weidler, bassist Tim Hinderer and drummer Alex Scherf.

DAVIDIAN is new to me. The band sure has some ideas that deserves development, but also a –core element that I don´t really agree with...

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     For fans looking forward to the June 15, 2012 edition of OST FEST, they can now make plans for 62 hours of nonstop music, over 30 bands and 2 stages!

Friday, June 15, scene 1:
Armies of Enlil, Psychogod, White Walls, Exodus, Overkill, Dimmu Borgir, Motley Crue

Friday, June 15, scene 2:
Infected Rain Finsterforst, Warchant, Thrnafire, Claymore

Saturday June 16, scene 1:
Landing, Mystery, HolyHell, Trooper, Europe, Manowar

Saturday June 16, scene 2:
Steelborn, Addiction, Six Tri Syn Ze, Gothic, Early

Sunday, June 17, scene 1:
Reborn, Metrock, Lake of Tears, WASP, Megadeth, Motorhead

Sunday, June 17, scene 2:
Tiarra, Khors, Code Red, Shifting Sands, Voodoo
              
  
    More details about the festival can be found by accessing www.OstFest...