Cumbrian rockers Falling Red play respectable retro cock-rock with straight faces, and they make a decent job of it on debut album Shake The Faith.
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Tags: cock-rock, Falling Red, hair metal, retro, rock'n'roll
Published on March 9th, 2010 by The Editor
Published on March 2nd, 2010 by The Editor
Promising young Scots proggers A Torn Mind have the skills to pay the virtuoso bills, but the Barriers EP suffers under its wilfully retro pallet of tones.
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Tags: A Torn Mind, Barriers, hair metal, prog, progressive, stadium metal
Published on November 24th, 2009 by The Editor
Bristol rockers Riot:Noise competently revive the classic British hair-metal sounds of the early nineties on the Fight The People EP.
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Tags: Fight The People, hair metal, hard rock, Riot:Noise, rock'n'roll
Published on January 26th, 2009 by Duncan Harris
Heaven’s Basement blend the audio clichés of eighties rock with the visual clichés of the nineties; their self-titled EP is competent, but far from magical.
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Tags: blues-rock, classic rock, hair metal, Heaven's Basement
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