plus....Heaven & Hell
Foreigner
Asia
Marillion
Uriah Heep
Argent
Pentragon
Steve Hackett
Focus
Martin Turner`s Wishbone Ash
and more

http://www.highvoltagefestival.com/








An Evening With TRANSATLANTIC Whirld Tour 2010

Featuring:

MIKE PORTNOY (Dream Theater)
PETE TREWAVAS (Marillion)
ROINE STOLT (The Flower Kings)
NEAL MORSE (Ex Spock's Beard)

Sat Apr 17 - Downey, CA - The Downey Theater
Sun Apr 18 - San Francisco, CA - The Palace Of Fine Arts
Tue Apr 20 - Chicago, IL - Park West
Wed Apr 21 - Montreal, QUE - Metropolis
Fri Apr 23 - New York City - The Blender Theater at Gramercy
Sat Apr 24 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater Of The Living Arts
Tue May 04 - Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
Wed May 05 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
Thu May 06 - Poznan, Poland - Hala Arena
Fri May 07 - Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
Sat May 08 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
Sun May 09 - Stuttgart, Germany - Longhorn
Mon May 10 - Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg - Rockhal
Thu May 13 - Madrid, Spain - Macumba
Fri May 14 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 2
Mon May 17 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
Tue May 18 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
Wed May 19 - Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
Thu May 20 - Tilburg, Holland - 013
Fri May 21 - London, England - Shepherd's Bush Empire
Sat May 22 - Manchester, England - Academy

http://www.transatlanticweb.com/

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Demnächst erhältlich

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COMING SOON!
RELEASE DATE
JUNE 23, 2009!

Eines der besten Alben der letzten Jahre im Melodicrockbereich ab Juni erhätlich.

http://www.nativewindow.com/

Native Windows





Phil Ehart -Drums
Billy Greer - Bass/Vocals
Richard Williams - Guitars
David Ragsdale - Violin

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Noch`n CD Tip. Hab`se heut bekommen und bin grad am reinhören. Paul Gilbert und Freddie Nelson. Rock ala Mr.Big mit nem Schuss Freddie Mercury Gesang.

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Demnächst erhältlich !!

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Der Großunternehmer Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) hat es zum Milliardär gebracht. Von Mechaniker Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) trennen ihn Welten. Als sie sich zufällig im Krankenhaus das Zimmer teilen, entdecken sie zwei wichtige Gemeinsamkeiten: Beide wollen ihre restliche Zeit verbringen, wie sie es immer wünschten. Und außerdem möchten sie zu sich selbst finden und Frieden schließen. Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf den Weg, ihre Lebensfreude wieder zu entdecken.


Zwei Krebskranke vorgerückten Alters wollen vor ihrem Tod das Leben finden und schließen Freundschaft in einem herzlich menschlichen Drama von Rob Reiner ("An deiner Seite"), bei dem die beiden Hollywood-Größen Nicholson und Freeman viel lockeren Humor zeigen.

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“Why do you run” should warm the hearts of fans of Belgian pop at the tail end of 2007. This scintillating pop single bears good tidings. To celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary, Arid are finally releasing their third album, five years after “All is quiet now”. Despite the clear success of their first two albums, the vocalist Jasper Steverlinck took the chance to go solo, with this period of his career being marked by the successful cover of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”, followed by his first solo record. Singles such as “Life” and “Believer” are to date unique in the history of Belgian rock, so it is fantastic to see Arid back in great form. Thanks to this exceptional singer, their elegant and refined brand of rock with twirling guitars contains many more nuances than all the Coldplay and Placebo tunes put together.

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Jasper Steverlinck`s Stimme ist genial. Endlich mal wieder ein Sänger mit Seele. Er wird demnächst eine CD mit Arjen Lucassen in Angriff nehmen. Das ganze wird sich GUILT MACHINE nennen.
Arjen Lucassen: instruments, backing vocals
Jasper Steverlinck (Arid): vocals
Chris Maitland (ex Porcupine Tree): drums
Lori Linstruth (ex Stream of Passion): lead guitar

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On March 1st 2009 Foxtrot Music will release a brand new album "The Fading Ghosts Of Twilight" - by the new project called AGENTS OF MERCY.
The album will initially be a LTD edition Digipack with 77 minutes of brand new music.

Agents Of Mercy is a project spawned from a low key acoustic project that Roine Stolt set out to do in 2008, but after getting singer Nad Sylvan (Unifaun) on board to do a few "guest vocals" it turned into a full production prog album where Nad got more involved and did most of both lead and backing vocals on the album.
Songs got longer and more elaborated and more symphonic and the common love of late 60's and early 70's prog is all over this album.
A few favourite drummers tracked drums for the 12 tracks, Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC, Stickmen, Tuner etc.) Zoltan Csörsz (TFK, Karmakanic) and Jimmy Keegan (Santana, Spocks Beard Live) the eccentric Biggo Zelfries (Walrus Farm) did most of the piano and analogue keyboards and TFK bassist Jonas Reingold add some fretless bass spice too.

Silas Toball (www.silastoball.com) did the mysterious artwork for us and the album is mixed by agent 777 Stolt at Cosmic Lodge as usual.

Tracklist : (this can still change)

The Fading Ghosts Of Twilight
Waiting For The Sun
The Unwanted Brother
Heroes & Beacons
Jesus On The Barricades
Afternoon Skies
A Different Sun
Ready To Fly?
People Like Us
A Soldiers Tale
Bomb Inside Her Heart
Mercury & Mercy
the record can be ordered from (with paypal):

merchandise@flowerkings.se
Price: 20 euro (includes shipping)

Or from Brian Dorbuck (USA): nanoook@charter.net
Price: 27 us dollars (includes shipping) .

First 100 of these limited edition CD's will be signed & nr. by agent 777 stolt
First come first served.

The albums are in stock March 1st and will be shipped in order as your order came in - so don't be late!!!

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2DVD + DCD | VÖ: 27.2.2009
SPV 28188 2DVD+DCD IOMLTDDVD 020

Das Jahr 2007 war ein ganz besonderes in der Geschichte der kanadischen Kultrockband SAGA. Zum einen feierte sie ihr 30jähriges Bestehen mit einer umfangreichen Europa-Tour, zum anderen verkündete Mitgründer und Sänger Michael Sadler seinen Austritt aus der Band, um sich mehr seiner Familie und seinem neugeborenen Sohn widmen zu können.

Tracklist

01. The Interview (live)
02. That's As Far As I'll Go (live)
03. You're Not Alone (live)
04. I'm OK (live)
05. Can't You See Me Now (live)
06. Book Of Lies (live)
07. The Perfectionist (live)
08. Drum Solo (live)
09. The Flyer (live)
10. Mind Over Matter (live)
11. The Security Of Illusion (live)
12. Time's Up (live)
13. Piano Solo (live)
14. Scratching The Surface (live)
15. We've Been Here Before (live)
16. On The Air (live)
17. On The Loose (live)
18. Careful Where You Step (live)
19. 10,000 Days (live)
20. Wind Him Up (live)
21. Humble Stance (live)
22. Don't Be Late (live)
23. What's It Gonna Be? (live

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New !!
Danger Radio - Used and Abused
Lucky enough I didn't sum the musicyear 2008 too early cuz there are a few albums that have come to my mind lately that will enter the top 20, and here is one of them. And when it comes to this one we're talking high up on the list. Danger Radio plays a fantastic sort of groovy, joyfilled modern pop with influences of everything. Spymob, It Bites, Maroon 5, old westcoast, soft modern rock, Nuclear Valdez and hell know whatelse... The answer of this weird combionation of styles is the mix of nationalities in the band...Puerto Rico native Andrew de Torres (vocals) and Finland native Nico Hartikainen (drums, programming) met in 1999 while attending middle school in Everett, Washington, a city located just north of Seattle. And what I also know is that it is a fantastic mix and this years best song is on this album. It's called "One More Chance" and well... take a listen yourself. The coolest CD of the year.
Wertung:****(6)

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Bulletproof Messenger - Arm Yourself ****Wow! No, not World of Warcraft, I mean WOW in a good way. BulletProof Messenger is a new discovery for me although this is their second release. I got this album sent to me a while ago and I have been listening to it non-stop ever since. The band plays their music in the vein of Breaking Benjamin and Trust Company, so this is tough rock with effects and tons of edge. Boy, do these guys know how to lay down cool riffs because this album is packed with them!

The album starts off with This Fantasy, a song with a nice intro with some cool scratching that adds an extra dimension too it. This is a very cool track! Second out is the song Move On, also packed with cool riffs and a great chorus, one of the best songs on the album. Third out, Lose it All has a pumping bass line and another killer chorus, they just keep coming! DLD is an instrumental track that leads into the title track Arm Yourself. Now we are talking a quality song. Heavy riffing, chugging bass line and pounding drums all blended into a truly great song. Almost as good is the song Control that follows straight after. This part of the album has got me nodding my head with a big grin on my face, me like a lot!

As if that was not enough, No Way Out is another great song. Wasted brings out the acoustic guitar for the first time and Where We Belong stars with a beautiful piano intro. This is the closest to a ballad as we get so far on this album as it is piano-led with strings during the verses. I get some serious Skillet-vibes from this song and that is not a bad thing. Grand Disaster is a huge song that reminds me a bit of Fightstar, again, not a bad reference. Closing song Step Out is a song that sounds different compared to the others as it takes almost four minutes before the heavy guitars come in and it has a bluesy feel too it for the most part.

Overall this is a great album, a high variety of tracks combined with brilliant songs and a great production. BulletProof Messenger is a really tight band with great musicians all the way. The year 2008 might be over but this already sets the bar quite high for 2009. I think this is better than Breaking Benjamin as this is more varied than BB’s latest effort. I have high hopes for these guys, they are going to be really big if there is any justice in the world. If you are a fan of previously mentioned bands you know the drill: Get this now!!

A tremendous start to 2009!

Tracklist

1. This Fantasy
2. Move On
3. Lose It All
4. DLD
5. Arm Yourself
6. Control
7. No Way Out
8. Wasted
9. Where We All Belong
10. Grand Disaster
11. Step Out

Wertung:****(6)

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23.01.09

VÖ 30.01.09

VÖ 30.01.09

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Karmakanic
Who's the boss in the factory

CD | VÖ: 24.10.2008
SPV 79922 CD IOMCD 304

Für Songschreiber und Produzent Jonas Reingold, im Hauptberuf Bassist der schwedischen Progrock-Formation The Flower Kings, ist seine Band Karmakanic weit mehr als nur ein musikalischer Nebenschauplatz. Wann immer er die Zeit findet, widmet er sich der Gruppe, dessen harter Kern aus Reingold selbst, Göran Edman (Gesang), Krister Jonsson (Gitarre), Lalle Larsson (Keyboards) und Zoltan Csörsz (Schlagzeug) besteht. „Karmakanic setzen sich aus einer festen Band und Gastmusikern zusammen, die gezielt dazu stoßen”, erklärt er das generelle Arbeitsprinzip der Gruppe. Auf dem neuesten Album Who´s The Boss In The Factory findet man unter den erwähnten Gästen so namhafte Musiker wie seinen Flower Kings-Kollegen Tomas Bodin (Keyboards), Andy Tillison von The Tangent an der Hammond Orgel, Akkordeonspieler Lelo Nika, der schon mit dem Jazz-Pianisten Joe Zawinul arbeitete, oder auch den Tenorsaxophonisten Theo Travis, in dessen Vita Größen wie Robert Fripp, Gong oder Soft Machine auftauchen. Die Liste zeigt bereits, dass sich Karmakanic mit Who´s The Boss In The Factory stilistisch bewusst breit aufstellen. Reingold: „Ich würde das Album als traditionell-klassischen Progressive Rock mit einigen Fusion- und Jazz-Anteilen beschreiben. Auf der Bühne dehnen wir die Stücke aus und geben den Soloparts mehr Raum. Ich denke, dass wir einige der besten Musiker besitzen und es deswegen eine Schande wäre, sie nicht entsprechend in Szene setzen.
Wertung:****(6)

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