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The Best Hard Rock Album
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Music Factory, a début album by this young Belgian band Arrow Haze offers some fresh rocking tunes that are surely going to catch your attention. A very high quality solid album to start off their careers. So solid, in fact, it'll take a couple of spins to get into the groove of it. While the vocal work might be a bit of an acquired taste, instrumentally this is a superb album.
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| Unbroken sounds anything but something that's broken and needs mending. In fact, your neck muscles will probably break from excessive head-banging while listening to this release, and putting a few craters on your wall in the process. Having been around since 1979 and still coming up with an album of such quality when so many of its peers are wallowing in a sea of mediocrity, Demon deserves some well-earned credit. |
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More of a left field nominee with their alternative and progressive leanings, Hatred, Love & Diagrams is no less rocking and heavy than the rest, if not more. Massive rolling riffs complimented by some surprisingly technical drums are thrown at you in rapid succession, with vocals of raw desperation being the icing on the (rocky road) cake.
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It has only been a year since Graveyard released the fantastic Hisingen Blues, but these Swede's are back already to offer us another slab of 70's influenced psychedelic bluesy Hard Rock. With little time between this and the last release there has been little in way of change to their sound or style, except for a slightly less aggressive yet darker & moodier approach. If you liked any of their previous albums, you'll love this.
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Here's a rather popular and a commercial choice for a nomination. Because, well, sometimes these things turn out rather good, you know. And we like good music. Lzzy Hale's got a fine, hard rocking voice and the music's got the edge most of the time. You might even say it bites.
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Extremely charismatic and psychedelic occult rock with great female vocals is on the menu! What's not to like? Jess And The Ancient Ones present us with well composed retro music full of hooks which really feels genuine and beyond catchy... Offering your soul to Lucifer has rarely been this fun.
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This is admittedly an unconventional choice for a nomination. Whether you like blues in your hard rock or hard rock in your blues, you'll have to concede that Joe Bonamassa is a master at work. The riffs and tunes that this man conjures up on his guitar won't leave you unemotional. An excellent album to go for a night drive, just like the title suggests.
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It's February, it's winter in the Northern hemisphere and we're sure a lot of you are freezing your asses off as much as we do. Time to spin some Koritni! In the tradition of AC/DC and Airbourne, Lex Koritni and his gang of Aussie hard rockers will bring some "Sydney in the Summertime" vibe straight into your living-room. And those muscular grooves certainly won't leave you cold. Promise!
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| He of the big hair and bigger hat is back with a slew of famous guest musicians on his second solo release. AL features some quasi-vintage other band rocking party tunes as well as some ballads, and his soulful and skillful Gibson neck massaging. |
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Whiskey and beer drenched hard rawk tunes with plenty of balls and swagger. The sound track to your next party, where everyone gets drunk, everyone gets laid, and the po-po arrive, sirens blazing, not to bust it up but to deliver more beer to the rowdy revelers.
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