September 2016

Too good to be brave - MEAT LOAF says goodbye...

21. September 2016

Meat Loaf

 Too good to be brave - MEAT LOAF says goodbye...

The songs were written as hoped by "Bat Out Of Hell" mastermind Jim Steinman. Among them also the opener "Who Needs The Young" which is questionable at least among rock fans. On the interjection that the track is strangely placed in the first place, as it seems more like a musical number, you can feel how the elemental force breaks out of Meat Loaf, which you painfully miss at some points of the album. "This is the first song Jim ever wrote. It was to be recorded first for 'Bat', but did not fit into the songframe.

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Play Busuki! - THEODORE from Athens presents his brilliant album debut

2. September 2016

Theodore

Play Busuki! - THEODORE from Athens presents his brilliant album debut

Theodore never thinks while composing about what his listeners expect when they hear his music. "I play on it when I have an idea in my head," says the 24-year-old Greek, "and in these moments it's all about creating atmosphere. I don't like classical pop music like that. My stuff is more theatrical or cinematic. Three minute radio pieces are not for me." "It Is But It's Not" is the cryptic title of the first "real" album of the Athenian prodigy, after it threw the exclusively digital fragment "7" into the world in 2012.

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The Eighth Symphony - DGM perform brilliant passages on "The Passage

2. September 2016

DGM

The Eighth Symphony - DGM perform brilliant passages on "The Passage

It only takes a few moments until the band DGM is named and the bow to Symphony X is made. "Of course we were proud that their guitarist Michael Romeo played the lead guitar for our new song 'Dogma'", DGM bassist Andrea Arcangeli makes clear. But especially with their meanwhile eighth album "The Passage" the Italian band certainly doesn't bake small rolls anymore. Symphony X are certainly still a great influence, but the songs of guitarist and band boss Simone Mularoni are often very genre-typical, but they can certainly compete with the best tracks of Romero's New Jersey group.

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