Orianthi- “Some kind of feeling”

With the tag of ex Alice Cooper guitar slinger and an affair with Richie Sambora that led to a musical collaboration, Greek Australian guitarist Orianthi has some big shoes to fill. Add to this a very attractive appearance and immediately you have the comments focusing on her looks and relations, then her skills. But she has the answers although not always convincing Orianthi at her new album has decided to go on a MOR blues rock album with a lot of pop sensibilities. 

A cover of 'Sharp dressed man" (ZZ TOP) is a nice but not necessary touch. On the other hand, she seems more at ease with middle of the road blues tracks like "Ghost", "Some kind of Feeling", songs that could be easily on any Joe Cocker or Cher album. She insists on playing dirty blues rock but her attempts at "First time blues" with Joe Bonamassa are not as strong as they should. She has the chops, the ideas but she cannot decide on the album’s direction and is quite polished. On the contrary with other contemporary blues women like Erja Lyytinen, Joanne Shaw Taylor or Laura Cox, Orianthi can deliver a stunning solo but her voice and the way she composes flirt too much with the mainstream rock radio sound and reduces her blues woman credibility in favor of her success on the pop music genre. At the end the album is a bit plastic and the great guitar work cannot balance the MOR feeling that her mellow vocal levels. 

A nice album for a ride with the car but nothing more. "Dark days are gone" is a fine example of another poor rock song who lacks depth and strength but has a nice FM flavor, "Bad of each other" is another blues tune for white folks in the suburbs. Maybe Orianthi should forget the Sambora, Bon Jovi MOR , white boys’ blues tactics as in "Call you mine' and let herself in to the real low-down blues, following the great Australian tradition of bands like ROSE TTTOO, ACCDC, COMSIC PSYCHO or even the INXS formula She CAN’T have both worlds, and this album proves it. A nice album to listen to once or twice and move on.

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Song of the week- BLUES PILLS - HERE COMES THE NIGHT

 

BLUES PILLS - HERE COMES THE NIGHT 

 Here Comes The Night” is our take of the Swedish 60’s rock classic “Här Kommer Natten” by Pugh Rogefeldt. The original version is one of our favorite songs, beautiful in a very raw way. We wanted to do our take of this song, so we gathered in the studio and recorded it all analogue on tape. To capture it in english and channel it into our vibe was a true honor, and we hope you will enjoy it as much as we did making it. Here comes the darkness, dape - dape -dape - da - da -da… Stream "Here Comes the Night" by Blues Pills here: https://BluesPills.lnk.to/HereComesTh... 

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 CREDITS Song recorded at Red Telephone Studio by Blues Pills. Performed by Blues Pills Song produced by Zack Anderson Video by - SMACK! Film directed and edited by Carl Stenlöv & Benjamin “Banjo” Löfquist HERE COMES THE NIGHT (original title HÄR KOMMER NATTEN) Lyrics & composition by Pugh Rogefeldt (c) Warner Chappell Music Scandinavia AB #bluespills #HärKommerNatten #HereComesTheNight

 THE RIVEN- "Visions of tomorrow"

A sturdy 70s lovin ,retro hard rock band with female vocals looking more to Led Zeppelin and UFO than Janis Joplin. Groovy, hard rock songs with tight musicianship and great  twin guitars, on dwelling. For those of you who are in the more hard/heavy rock side of the 70s female lead bands like and less the BLUES PILLS soulful direction, not to mention the underrated  Lynne Jackaman  and SAINT JUDE. THE RIVEN are a fine example of the retro rock movement. The sum has been boosted by the songs, THE RIVEN knows how to pen a tune that is not another 70s mimicking but has style and character. 

THE RIVEN is a band that has grown up (at least the guitar players and songwriters) on a steady diet with NWOBHM,UFO, WISHBONE ASH and THE WHO, just listen at  "We Love You" and "Follow You" to listen to "Whos next " echoes or inspiration and "Set My Heart On Fire: and "Travelling Great Distance" for the WA/NWOBHM hints. At the end of the day a band capable of writing powerhouse tracks such as "Killing Machine " deserves wide recognition among retro rock and 70s influenced rock aficionados, but also for all those who like the early NWOBHM bands (CHEVY,SATAN, WITCHFYNDE,DEMON) as they have the freshness and the zealot of the young age combined with a deep knowledge and love of the Hard rock legacy.

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Song of the week- minem ft. Adele – Where Legends Rest – Ozzy Osbourne Farewell [Official Tribute Video]

 

Eminem ft. Adele – Where Legends Rest – Ozzy Osbourne Farewell [Official Tribute Video]

 Where Legends Rest” is a soul-stirring AI-generated tribute by Eminem & Adele to the one and only Ozzy Osbourne, honoring his legendary farewell show at Villa Park and his eternal impact on the world of music.
Adele’s haunting vocals and Eminem’s heartfelt verses blend to capture the essence of goodbye, legacy, and the fire Ozzy carried to the very end.
⚠️ Disclaimer: “This track is an original AI-generated composition created by Infinite Records. It is not associated with, endorsed by, or affiliated with Universal Music Group or any artist. Any resemblance to existing works is coincidental.

 H.E.A.T-“Welcome To The Future"

Swedish rockers H.E.A.T prove for another time they have all is needed to be a mega star band in the arena rock genre. Try and combine the best of early BON JOVI, EUROPE with the first SKID ROW class and HALESTORM modern approach all served in a power AOR bubble that comes straight from the 80s full of catchy chorus and immense bridges and you get the point.

 Melody, guitars, hooks, melodic lies that stay for days in the listener's mind, a band that has their feet solid in the 21st century but their music has strong roots to the golden days of the 80s. A real hard rock act with some heavier moments ,just to prove that they know grunge put its mark on the modern scene and that they're not in it for the melody only. Opener ‘Disaster’ is a melodic punch to the chin, with no trace, an out of nowhere hit that blows you off.  ‘Bad Time For Love’  screams LA and sunset boulevard all over it  while' Call My Name’ is an instant hit. The album has no fillers, only stadium rockers, with melody and edge and keyboards where as much needed as in ‘The End’ is pure class, a keyboard led mid tempo rocker that sounds like you imagine first album Bon Jovi would sound if they were transported into the future! Man I love those keys, they drive it forward and the guitars sound so huge!Children of the Storm’ stands out for   Leckremo w vocal delivery and a haunting chorus.while ‘Paradise Lost’ shows how iEUOPE have influenced the band's sound in a heavier, darker way. But in our Kobra Kai age the back to the 80s  ‘Tear it Down (R.N.R.R.)’ screams to be on the soundtrack, or even at the Mindfield movie,with its groovy, anthermic style.  

Closing Final track ‘We Will Not Forget’ is a winner, reminiscent of H.E.A.T considered among the hottest bands of the genre with melodic hard rock written all over it. A trademark song that asks for attention.Simply one of the best and probably among the top 3 melodic rock albums for 2025, melodic,groovy,straight to the heart and catchy as an STD.The future is here and it is fabulus.

8,5

 

Ricky Warwick- "Blood ties"

Ricky Warwick has to work on music,with music and another solo work is nothing less than what we expect from him. He is the sum up of the influences he has, punk, metal, hard rock and the bands he has been in ALMIGHTY, THIN LIZZY, BSR and the opening track in his new album is a bold statement of his love and respect to his past, 'Angels of desolation' is a song that combines ALMIGHTY and THIN LIZZY in a perfect hard rocking , up tempo song with poignant lyrics that would make Lynott proud for his in spirit son. 

 

A more punkish, groovy "Rise and grind" follows, reminiscent of ALMIGHTY latest ,dark, groove days and BSR works, a groovy, loud rocker with Charlie Starr of BLACKBERRY SMOKE showing his punkier side. "Don't Leave Me in the Dark" (feat. Lita Ford) has written 80s metal written all over its addictive chorus."The Crickets Stayed in Clovis" is just THIN LIZZY in the best twinguitr atack ,ala "The boys are back in town" while a more melodic Lizzy esque track comes in the form of "Don't sell your soul to fall in love". Warwick carries a lot of anger and vigor and "Dead and Gone" is a fine example of the ways he finds to show it, a song about addiction and isolation, an uptempo melodic song, with his melodic lines shouting Ricky is here alive and well and a smell of Springsteen underlying. 'To hell of me and you" is an up tempo hard rocking dynamite that has the additional force of Billy Duffy (THE CULT) on the guitars, as expected is an in your face melodic hard rocker that takes no prisoners. 

 

 

"Crocodile Tears" is another Warwick trademark tune, bit twelve bar blues, bit pun rock riff driven rocker, always melodic, always on the Irish side of things. "Wishing Your Life Away" reminds us of Warwick's age and influences, melodic punk rock coming from the early 80s, decades before GREEN DAY touched their instruments, a sensible rocker puts his heart on his sleeve. Closing track "The Town That Didn't Stare" shows no sign of gas shortage, melody, big guitars and another up tempo rocker that has a bit of GODFATHERS in its melody,at the guitars and that is a reason to like it a bit more and a touch of THE WHO in its overall approach."

 

 

Blood ties" is far rockier than expected and show Ricky Warwick in fine form ,ready to take the stage and give us some good, old,distorted rock n roll.

7.5

Song of the week- Biohazard - F**k the System - Official Music Video

 Biohazard - F**k the System - Official Music Video

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LYRICS:

We kill each other over nothing at all

And blame each other for taking the fall

We disagree about human rights

No discussion there's only a fight

We fight for our women, our children, our men

But they don’t give a f**k about them

We fight to be heard with nothing to say 

We fight like savages to get our way

 

So don’t waste your breath

Telling me who’s left

Or telling me who’s right

F**k the system 

 

So don’t waste your time

All of you and your kind

Trying to divide

F**k the system

 

Innocent victims become the slaves

Beautiful cities become our graves 

Desperate people they start to pray

While women and children are murdered and raped

Manipulate the people into fighting their wars

Barbaric need to conquer, we always want more

A never-ending battle, which nobody wins

One slaughter ends, another begins

 

So don’t waste your breath

Telling me who’s left

Or telling me who’s right

F**k the system 

 

So don’t waste your time

All of you and your kind

Trying to divide

F**k the system

 

Divided we fall

F**k the system

No more war

No more war

F**k the system

 

We’re all taught the way to follow their rules 

We all learn the same shit from all the same schools

We all believe the nonsense they put on the news

We accept propaganda as the absolute truth

We all forgive the promise that they make and break

We never question the news that we know is fake 

We all know this life and our world is at stake

How much more can we take?

How much more can we take?

 

F**k the system

No more war

No more war

F**k the system

 

 

BIOHAZARD:

Billy Graziadei (vocals/guitar)

Bobby Hambel (lead guitar)

Danny Schuler (drums)

Evan Seinfeld (vocals/bass)

 

“F**k the System” written and performed by Biohazard

Produced, mixed and mastered by Matt Hyde

 

VIDEO CREDITS:

Director - Dale Restigini

Editor - Aeson X & Billy Graziadei

Director of Phototgraphy - Jason Cowan

Production Company - Raging Nation Films

Executive Producer - Paul Gargano