Hårdrock & AOR

1CD, battery-powered lightbox case, soft pack, 20 page booklet.

Black Swan är ett band bestående av idel kända namn, eller vad sägs om följande laguppställning: på sång Robin McAuley (MSG), på gitarr Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), på bas Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Foreigner) och på trummor Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big).<br/><br/>Fast alla vet ju att det inte räcker med bara kända namn, man måste ha låtarna också, och där levererar Black Swan med råge. De har tagit sina respektive influenser och smält samman det hela till melodiös, klassisk hårdrock, som inte bara har stora refänger och mängder av gitarr, utan som också levererar ofelbara melodier till McAuleys klassiska rockstämma.<br/><br/>Nu kommer så bandets tredje platta "Paralyzed", producerad av Jeff Pilson och sprängfylld med riktig kvalitetshårdrock!

Swedish high energy rockers THE HELLACOPTERS have been celebrating their 30th anniversary recently and after releasing something new - the much-lauded "Overdriver" album on January 31, 2025, which reached No. 1 in the Swedish charts for the second time in the group's career - it is time to offer their dedicated fanbase something truly nostalgic. "Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works o Volume 3" is the long-overdue follow-up in a series of rarities collections started in 2002 combining material from a myriad of singles, EPs, and compilations. The 24 tracks featured in this set have originally been released between 1995 and 2004, and include originals like 'Disappointment Blues', 'Freeway To Hell', 'Doggone Your Bad-Luck Soul' and 'Long Gone Losers' as well as many cover versions of songs by Motörhead, Wilson Pickett, MC5, Smokey Robsinson, Alice Cooper, the Ramones, the Nomads, and Adam West - whose singer Jake Starr penned liner notes for this release - and many, many more. Meticulously compiled by Robert Eriksson, transferred from master tapes and vinyl by Henke Jonsson, and remastered for maximum audio fidelity by Magnus Lindberg, THE HELLACOPTERS proudly present a stunning collection of incredible, high-octane rock'n'roll on this over 75 minutes long CD edition.

Sångaren Graham har frontat bl.a. Rainbow, Alcatrazz och MSG. Här tre av hans soloplattor; The day I went mad ('99), Underground ('97) och Here comes the night ('91) plus 17 extraspår!

Thrash metal-giganterna Megadeth förbereder sig för det definitiva slutet. Nu släpps bandets självbetitlade album, som enligt grundaren Dave Mustaine blir deras allra sista studioplatta.<br/><br/>Mustaine som startade sin karriär i Metallica, och som sedan bildade världsbandet Megadeth, sätter nu punkt efter fem decennier i det absoluta toppskiktet. Med Megadeth har han sålt 50 miljoner album och haft hits som "Symphony Of Destruction".<br/>.

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Four albums from the McAuley Schenker Group from the late 80s and early 90s. All with bonus material.<br/><br/>After making his debut at a mere 17 years on Scorpions' first LP 'Lonesome Crow' in 1972, guitar maestro and mad axe-man Michael Schenker spent five years as lead guitarist with the inimitable UFO, before forming The Michael Schenker Group (MSG for short) with singer, Gary Barden, in 1979. With four studio albums and two live records under his belt between 1980 and 1984, Michael returned in 1987 with the 'Perfect Timing' album, fronted by former Grand Prix and Far Corporation singer, Robin McAuley, and a change of name to the McAuley Schenker Group - but still conveniently shortened to MSG. The new look MSG released a total of four albums between 1987 and 1992, starting with the melodic 'Perfect Timing' (1987), followed by 'Save Yourself' (1989), 'M.S.G.' (1992) and finally with 'Unplugged Live' (1992).<br/><br/>'Perfect Timing' features three singles; 'Love Is Not A Game', 'Follow The Night' and the US Hot 100 Hit 'Gimme Your Love', and is certainly the most melodic and AOR-friendly of this batch of albums. 'Save Yourself' followed in 1989. 1991's 'M.S.G.' was certainly a harder, grittier affair than the previous McAuley Schenker releases, and includes the single, 'Never Ending Nightmare'. The much harder, guitar-driven sound was possibly a reaction to grunge that was very much in vogue at the time, whereas 'Perfect Timing' was a good reflection of the more commercial, glam sounds and hair-metal that was the height of fashion in the mid-late 1980s.<br/><br/>Thanks in part to MTV's popular Unplugged series of TV broadcasts, albums and videos, going acoustic was certainly very much de rigueur in the early 1990s, which leads us to the fourth and last album in this collection; 1992's 'Unplugged Live'. As well as key McAuley Schenker songs, recorded live in Los Angeles in 1992, the album features three UFO classics; 'Natural Thing', 'Doctor Doctor' and 'Lights Out'. Perfect Timing features the bonus tracks 'Gimme' Your Love' (Edit) and 'Follow The Night' (Edit).<br/><br/>'Save Yourself' is now expanded with 'There Has To Be Another Way' (Instrumental), 'Save Yourself' (Single Edit), 'This Is My Heart' (Edit), 'Anytime' (Single Edit), 'Anytime' (Radio Edit), 'Bad Boys' (Acoustic Version).<br/><br/>'M.S.G.' now features 'When I'm Gone' (Single Edit), 'Nightmare' (Single Edit), 'When I'm Gone' (Acoustic Version), 'When I'm Gone' (Alternative CHR Version) and 'Nightmare' (AOR Version).<br/><br/>Unplugged Live is completed by a take of UFO's 'Only You Can Rock Me', 'Anytime' (Acoustic Version), 'What Happens To Me' (Acoustic Version), 'We Believe In Love' (Acoustic Version) and 'Never Ending Nightmare' (Acoustic CHR Version) taken from the unplugged in the studio Japanese only mini-album 'Nightmare: The Acoustic MSG'.