This is an album recommendation that I take great pleasure in posting as I feel like I’ve been watching things progress to this point for the past six years. “Razed on Rock” is the excellent new album from Clifford Hoad’s Kings of the Sun and it was independently released on 20th October. It can purchased from the band’s website at http://www.kingsofthesunband.com/
The title track is included on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 28th October.
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Many rock fans will recognise the name Kee Marcello, but many people probably won’t. Those who know him will most likely do so because he was the guitarist in the band Europe from 1986 to 1992. Since then he has largely remained below the radar of mainstream rock for the majority of people not living in Scandinavia. Until now! His latest solo album, perhaps appropriately, entitled “Scaling Up” is his first for Frontiers Music and it was released on 14th October. The track “Black Hole Star” was included on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 21st October.
On the Friday NI Rocks Show this week we’ve 16 tracks. The tracks either have a link to gigs in The Limelight in Belfast this weekend or are featured as new releases. We open with Kiss and close with Motorhead as tribute bands Hotter Than Hell and Motorheaders play The Limelight on Friday 28th October. Local bands Stormzone and Sinocence feature as they are part of Distortion Fest on Saturday 29th and then we have Fastway, Girlschool and Saxon who play The Limelight on Sunday 30th.
There are new releases from The Answer, FM, Eden’s Curse, Kings of the Sun, Kix, Pretty Maids, Hardline, Whiskey Myers and Secret Sphere.
The Show is available now via the On Demand Player (the Show uploaded on 27th Oct) and is broadcast online at 9pm UK time on Friday 28th October - http://www.rockradioni.co.uk/hosts/ni-rocks-friday-rock-show.html
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“Cardinal” is the latest studio album from Eden’s Curse and it was released on 14th October by AFM Records. The melodic metal band formed in 2006 and has been through a number of line-up changes. Over the past ten years they’ve managed to release not only five studio albums, but a live album (“Live With The Curse” in 2015) and a couple of EPs as well. The “melodic metal” genre can be hit or miss with me personally, but I enjoyed listening to “Cardinal” and it definitely deserves a recommendation. The track “Sell Your Soul” was played on the Friday NI Rocks Show on 14th October and “Unconditional” which features former Leaves Eyes singer Liv Kristine is on the Show on 28th October.