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HOUSTON FlONA GRAND IUUSION Don'\ Ever Wanna Lose Va 2 loved Along The Way Priuce 01 Paupers The peachiest track from After a nineteen year These graceful Swedes their new album of covers break from the limelight have been in operation and acoustic vers ions, following her last LP, under various guises Don'! Ever Wanna Lose Ya • 1992's Squeeze, the one­ for a quarter century or finds 's finest time Bob Dylan co-star so now, which seems taking on the sole Top 40 flltN.'\'~ , from New Jersey returns a fine time to drop v!ha single cut by Bostonian her an excellent new aficionados will agree is AORsters New England, 1J"" album, aided and abe ed their masterpiece, and from their self-titled 1979 debut album. It's a fine by husband-and-wife team Robin Bec (and \,':hat newcomers will surely gree'. as ihejr fns~ act of earnest hero worship on the part of these Hause Of Lords' . as she still s.ep along he j)oth 10 manie d;: . a ed G-<>" Swedes and should go some way to convince the got i ? Yes she has. Don't believe I..s? 5:- ~ 's "s;c ;a Gm. guest appea-a-:e ;k-r; - c~: few remaining doubters that their love for AOR is oice sli'!er of AOR brilliance, an ;r",- :::"3:; ~s no ironic affectation - Houston mean it, maaan i ara· 1 geticemail oreverh

Formed by brothers-in­ arms (and in reallife) Dave and Mike Zublena, Soul Seiler hail from Santhia, Northern Italy, and took a decade to perfect the follow-up to their 2000 debut album. Aficionadoes of glam-lined anthemic rock will savour the band's sassy cocktail of Europe pomp and epic Bon Jovi ambition, while true AORsters will relish guest appearances from luminaries Dave Rox and Oliver Hartmann. Taken from: Bock Ta Life on Avenue Of AIIies Def Leppard knew what they were Up to when they fashioned the sleeve to epochal 1983 album Pyromania. Their second collaboration with canny German producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, who'd introduced exacting new studio processes to a band used to raggedly rockin' through their tunes, it found the Leps endlessly rerecording their until they were absolutely perfect, honing the group's skills until they were as sharp as the assassins caught in the act on Pyromania's action-packed cover. And so it is with AORmania: the bands contained herein are no lazy slackers turning in their tapes with a lackadaisical'will this do?' attitude... No, they have all polished their choruses, buffed every vocal track and delivered their guitar licks with the mastery of professionals. The result is 15 blasts of thrill-Iaden majesty that will rock you without mercy: in fact, until you drop. Every track's a killer.

MECcA - Per feet Worfcl . ~ ..-- '- Reckless Love started Iife Joe Vana's clearly not RocK -­ as a covers band in their a man to be rushed. ,",' ,i\, I\... J IU~' ',,---­ native called When his group Mecca Reckless Life (after finished their debut LP ~_~ the Guns'n'Roses tune, in 2002, his son Joey I~ ;#;;;r=i natch), before going on was barely out of short ~ ..._, hiatus while Oll i Herman trousers; on their second sang with Crashd'fet back album, the just-released ~ 'Fr(lhtrrdVidrn in 2007. Now back on track, they're about to Joey's playing lead guitar! And very ~L Undeniable, _ ••_ •• I _""':1 __ drop their glamtastic second fulHength, Animo! fine it is, too, as he jams alongside none other ... " ,~-_._~._- Attroction, a sleek streetwalking cheetah of than Tommy Denander on this here opening a beast that harbours plenty of AaR gems like track, lending lean guitar lines to one of his ...... _..__.""._._ .. .­ this bold and bolshy anthem. dad's expertly-crafted masterpieces. - .. _-~ .. ­ Taken tram: Animo! Attroction on Spinefarm. Taken tram: Undenioble on Frontiers.

GRAND DESIGN '{OIlr I.ove·~ ARunaway Austria's not previously Swedish quintet Grand ORE? been known for its rock Design - c1early big fans exports, but the third of TV's favourite Keep up bang to date with AOR album from Moedling's architecture buff Kevin news at the virtual home of Classic Cornerstone might McCloud - unabashedly change all that. Regular describe their sound as Rock, c1assicrockmagazine.com. visitors to the UK, their 'c1assic 80s rock'. While You'll find a host of activity there heroic AaR anthems we bet that's already - including free MP3s in our speak the sort of language that should win them gotten you salivating, cast an ear towards a place in your hearts: massive choruses built for the majestic epic that is Your Love's A Runowoy, popular Track Of The Day feature. radio airplay, delivered by a vocalist, Patricia a highlight from their recent second album In recent weeks we've offered Hillinger, who holds her own with the greats. Idolizer. Yeah. We thought you'd like that. And gratis down loads from the likes of They won't be strangers for very long ... there's nine more gems where that ca me from. Taken tram: Somewhere In Americo on Atom. Taken tram: Idolizer on AOR Heaven. Ten, Shakra, Eden's (urse, Oliver Weers, M.ILL.ION and more. So log on now and get web-wise with the full melodic-rock monty,

Following the harder rock The NWOBHM era was edge of his third solo a fecund time for British album, Better Run, rockers, and inevitably Brazilian-born Marco some gems got lost in Ferreira (who also played the gold rush. Count in Goodbye Thrill and Young Blood in that Venturia) takes things group; even though they in a softer direction for featured on the cover of Throwing awayold or surplus discs? solo joint #4. Playing every single instrument Sounds and were adored by Kerrang! back in the If you ,,"ould like your COs and OVOs to be recycled and singing every vocal on what feels like his day, their only album never quite got released. ratherlhan pul inlo landlilt. ptease post them to: Polymer-Reprocessors, magnum opus, Ferreira foregrounds his able Thanks to Angel Air, it has been now - along Reeds Lane, Moreton, 'Mrral. CH461 DW with all the tracks off their EP - i3lld songcraft and lush execution. A must for fans First B!ood Please respect the environment and dispose of of Harem Scarem and suchlike. it's a reet stonker, and no mistake. waste plastic responsibly. Taken fram: Are You In? on Playrec. Taken tram: Transfusion on Angel Air.

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T'$ COMEBACK TIME for melodie OfThe Night, which draws comparisons to rock's long-Jost leading lady Fiona early Springsteen. Her voice grazes slightly IFlanagan, 19 years on from her last LP. lower here, showcasing her range- this is With hits like Everything You 00 (You're Sexing undoubtedly Unbroken's standout track. Me Up) and Talk To Me, not to mention a key I couldn't help but get a little excited role alongside Bob Oylan in Hearts OfFii'e, it when I saw that Fiona had tearned up with looked Iike this New Jersey rock princess Robin Beck. The pairing of these two was on her way to megastardom in the 80s, singers is really just a pure genius stroke, until she slipped offradar. as their voices complernent each other Unbroken is the title ofher fourth release, beautifully. The track in question is This and at the age of50 you can hear that her Heart and, yeah, okay, it does sound very creativity has gone from strength to sirnilar to Beck's hit First Time,but Iloved strength, and her voice still kicks arse. that , and this one is just as good. Produced by House OfLords frontman Wild One, however, sounds !ike it should James Christian, it opens with This Heart, be sung on the stage in the West End in which imrnediately hits you straight a show about rock stars. Musically it's great, between the ears, areal modern-day but lyrically it'll rnake you want to vornit. melodie rock diamond. Fiona may be living in a boy's world, I've Released You is a !ittlegern whieh but she's still intent on showing them how hooks you and then reels you in, and from it's done. here on it's a case of'just hit repeat'. You can ••••••• definitely hear herJersey roots in Shadows Kylie Olsson

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