Eclipse - Are You Ready To Rock - [ 2008 ]

One of the best releases of Melodic Hard Rock of the lasts years, unbelievable energy, strong guitars, excellent vocals, and very good songs with great melodies and choruses.
An absolutely brilliant stuff, if you call yourself Melodic fan you must have this record.
¿ Are you ready to rock ?

Breaking My Heart Again


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After Forever - s/t - [ 2007 ]

Great Symphonic Melodic metal, an album filled with heavy guitars, catchy rhythms, great choruses, superb melodies, awesome keyboards and above all an excellent vocal work and execution by Floor Jansen, an absolute amazing singer. If you like this kind of bands dont doubt, and if you don´t like, give them a chance, sure that they really surprised you.

Evoke


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True Love - Only True Love Lasts Forever -

This is a self-compilation of some of my favorite ballads of all times of Melodic Hard and AOR , I hope that you enjoy as much as i and remember, ¡ Only true love lasts forever !

Red Dawn - Take These Chains -


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Pathfinder - The Beginning - [ Demo 2008 ]

This is a 4 track demo from this Poland band, they practice an Epic-Fantasy-Power Metal, a mini-ep with really faster guitars, thundering drums, speed solos, great sound, fantasy melodies and choruses and a nice singer, for fans of Rhapsody Of Fire, Dragonforce or any good Epic Power Metal band of the last 90´s.¡ Very interesting band !
In her Myspace you can find a great cover of Mike Oldfield´s Moonlight Shadow.

The Whisper Of Ancient Rocks


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Eternal Flame - King Of The King - [ 2002 ]

Great unknow album, inspired by the style of 80´s and 90´s (Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen, Deep Purle, Nation). A release full of hard guitar riffs with solos and powerful hard rock vocals and Keyboards, good songs and an amazing power ballad (Bridge To Your Heart), the way of singing reminds me to Jeff Scott Soto. anyway ... A great underrated Heavy Metal album, at least for me.

Hold On


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Serenity - Fallen Sanctuary - [ 2008 ]

Great example of Symphonic Power Metal, This band performs their music professionaly and delivers Melodic Heavy Metal, even progressive at times, full of melody, strong guitar riffs and symphonic orchestral parts.
Strong clear production, great songs and a very nice voice, if you like bands like Kamelot, probably you like it.

Rust Of Coming Ages


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Hevisaurus - Jurahevin Kuninkaat - [ 2009 ]

¡ Probably you think that this is a joke ! but not, they are the Finnish version of the Teletubbies.
Is a band formed to entertain and teach children, but dont be scared, there is a lot of quality here, a lot of Metal people are involved in this project, names like Mirka Rantanen and Nino Laurenne (Thunderstone), Jens Johansson (Stratovarius), Mikko Salovaara (Kiuas).
Dont Think that this is a music for children, this is a really great Heavy/Power Release, if there is anything that dont really like in here is that the lyrics are in Finnish, the rest are a true guitar riffs, catchy rhythms and choruses, superb melodies and a perfect execution and production.
A very Rare and original release ¡ Give them a chance !

Jurahenin Kuninkaat


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AOR Soundtracks - Sonic The Hedgehog 1993 -

This is a 6 track compilation of Sonic The animated series, featured by Ted Poley (Danger Danger) and Tony Harnell (TNT), here you can find a collection of Melodic Rock/Pop songs, Not the typical Hard songs, but never mind, the songs are very funny and faster. An original and very rare tunes.
¡ Enjoy !

We Can


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Free Spirit - Pale Sister Of Light - [ 2009 ]

Another quality band who emerge from Finland, excellent playing with some great harmonies and keys especially note with superb hooky emotional choruses, amazing production as always in Finland, prety good singer and great Melodic Hard tunes.¡ A jewel to discover !

Pale Sister Of Light


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Valentine - Soul Salvation - [ 2008 ]

¡ Far away from their first release !, this is a great Melodic AOR comeback, the voice and the vocal work of Hugo is great as always, an album filled with a great songs, pretty good production, superb melodic rhythms and excellent and catchy chorus lines, for people who likes 80´s AOR style.

Everytime You Go Away


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Strangeways - Walk In The Fire - [ 1989 ]

¡ Let´s back to AOR !, This is one of the Top 3 best albums of all times, if not the best.
The songs, the amazing sound, the musicianship, the hooks, the harmonies, the vibe, the feeling, the unbelievable Out Of This World vocalist Terry Brock, this album have all the elements to be a music masterpiece.
An awesome performance song after song, one of the finest productions ever, the passion, feeling and the strenght of Terry brock is just fuckin´incredible. Every song is a high class and emotional hit. A really perfect AOR release, totally classic, words can´t describe how good is this album.
¡ I doubt that one day will make a record as good as this !
If you like the Melodic AOR this is a Must buy.

After The Hurt Is Gone


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Keldian - Journey Of Souls - [ 2008 ]

¡ Wow ! this Norwegian band really surprised me, this is an awesome mix between Symphonic/Power/Melodic and a soundtrack/cinematic songwriting, always with a lot of melodies and vocal harmonies, catchy power melodic rhythms, celestial female choruses and above all a strong clear production.
¡ Just listen the song Memento Mori and enjoy the feeling of this Epic in-crescendo track, look at the atmospheric guitar and keyboard solo´s at the middle of the song, ¡ simply amazing !

Memento Mori


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Dignity - Project Destiny - [ 2008 ]

A really pretty good Melodic Hard Band with Power touches, Crystal clear modern sound and production, Hard rock guitar riffs, songs full of melody, catchy refrains and a brilliant vocalist, whose performance sometimes reaches power metal levels.
¡ This is a really original release !.

Inner Circle Sympathy


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