Adrenaline Flow – Slow, pulsating dirt rock song with male vocal about pushing to the limit. Ride Into The Morning Sun – Punchy dirt rock stomper with male vocal about living life to the full. Speed of Light – Powerful dirt rock with feel-good male vocal about living life to the max. State of Fear – Hard hitting heavy rock song with anxious male vocal. I’m Alive – Frenetic driving dirt rock song with excitable male vocal about being alive. Take A Ride – Supercharged hard rock stomper with adrenaline fuelled male vocal. Sucker – Aggressive dirt rock with hostile male vocal about revenge. Stone Cold Killer – Driving, aggressive hard rock with homicidal male vocal.
Really hope you enjoy the album & if you like them please buy them & enjoy!
That’s right folks – we’re back… and LOUDER THAN EVER!!
A brand new 80’s Hair Metal album, with all the spandex and long hair you could wish for, is released today.
The result was a riotous album that folks seemed to love – 80’s Hair Rock Now, we’re here again with 80’s Hair Metal…
The albums feature Nigel Bailey on vocals.
Coming Alive – Up-tempo rocker with hot guitar riffs, slamming drums & male vocals
Give Me Your Love – Positive power ballad with huge drums & emotional male vocal
Heart Break – Melodic 80s power ballad with shredding guitars, big drums & male vocals
Got To Rock – High energy big hair metal. Living life to the limit lyrics with male vocals
Night Warriors – Razor-edged guitar riffs & hard hitting drums with classic rock male vocals
Primetime Love – Fists in the air 80’s stadium rocker with loud guitars & male vocals
What You Do To Me – Strutting classic rock with massive drums, powerful guitars & male vocals
Hit The Top – High energy driving 80s rock with chugging guitars & positive male vocals
Hope you find the album as much fun to listen to as it was for us to make!
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Can’t Get Enough – Slow, sleazy & aggressive garage rock song with insatiable male vocal Sweet Lullaby – Angry, explosive heavy rock with tormented male vocal Watch You Bleed – Dark, dramatic & violent dirt rock song about revenge. Male vocal Blacked Out – Raw, heavy dirt rock song about a one-sided relationship with male vocal House of Pain – Raucous, hard-hitting dirt rock with male vocal about sadomasochism. Ouch! Take It To The Limit – Bouncing, up-tempo dirt rock song with male vocal about living on the edge Ignite Power – Combustible dirt rock with passionate male vocal
Hope you enjoy the album & if you like them please buy them & enjoy!
Towards the middle of 2013, Kes Loy and I mused on an album project we could work on together for AudioNetwork. We wanted to try something a little different; something that would set a scene sonically & visually. An album that would be unified in its theme – a ‘concept’ if you will.
Bring forth the ‘Battle Zone‘ album.
Between us, we wanted to create an album that would build tension & foreboding, but one we could also twist and manipulate to create atmosphere and suspense.
For most of the main tracks on ‘Battle Zone‘, we created further versions which purposfully didn’t have the power & size of the main tracks. No power guitars, no drums… just a sonic ‘mood’.
When writing this kind of music, especially for TV & film use, you have to consider the musical needs of the producer and sound editor. They may want something as an under-bed… some atmospheric tension maintaining a ‘constant’, as opposed to a ‘song’ format or piece of music that develops and changes.
Kes & I worked very closely on this project & always kept a focus on its primary purpose. Even though the project & track titles will lead you to a given preconception of what a project is going to sound like even before you hear it, the music still had to deliver and take you to a different place entirely.
Can music trigger emotion and take you out of the ‘now’? I personally think so, and with this album, I think we succeeded in doing just that.
Battle Zone – The title track… Heart in the mouth rocktronica with smoking guitars & ripping synths
Death Toll – Dark, brooding & cinematic with piercing guitars. Builds to menacing climax
Check out the ‘Death Toll 2’ version for a dark, electronica underscore
Outlaw – ‘Nemesis approaching’ rocktronica builds to half time metal onslaught
Check out the ‘Outlaw 2’ version for a stomping, rocktronica underscore
Secret Mission – Nail biting espionage builds to guitar hero rock with dark, dominant drums
Check out the ‘Secret Mission 4 & 5’ versions full of cinematic ambience with spy Rhodes
Hostage – Defiant electronics break into stomping heavy rock with face melting guitars
Check out the ‘Hostage 2’ version for defiant electronica; tense & atmospheric with flickering synth textures
Stay of Execution – Unnerving atmosphere disturbed by brutal detuned guitars. Builds
Check out the ‘Stay of Execution 2’ version for an unnerving atmosphere filled with mangled synths & heart beat pulses
Strike Down – Dark electro, guitar driven rock
Check out the ‘Strike Down 3’ version for a dark, tense & menacing electro mix with haunting fx
Hero – Tense electro groove builds triumphantly into heroic heavy rock
Check out the ‘Hero 2’ version for dark, tense cinematic electro which morphs around smooth pads
The album has 8 tracks, all in the style of the 80’s Hair Metal bands – but not only are there vocal versions of the songs; Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy & Mark Pitchforth also recorded ‘Shred Guitar’ versions too! (Version 2 on all tracks).
Always Be There – Powerful stadium 80’s rock ballad about lost love.
Thirst For Life – Melodic, inspiring 1980’s heavy rock anthem.
She’s Primeval – Raw, driving 80’s heavy rock song about primeval desire.
Rock Is The Answer – Thumping 80’s heavy rock song with mighty call & response chorus – What was the question?
On a different note & despite the UK Winter being upon us (it’s always Summer somewhere)… another new track this month is ‘Lazy Summer‘ – Children’s sunshine pop with guitars, handclaps & cheerful bell melody.
RiCHARD KiMMiNGS 