EMI 1989
Review by

The fact that this album failed to make it is a mystery. The musical climate was just right, they had a major company behind them, and what's more, album full of potential hit singles.

DVS Records 2003
Review by 21 June 2003

Watch out for this progressive debut album of the Dutch band called Silent Edge, founded six years ago by keyboardplayer Minggus Gaspersz and guitarpicker Emo Suripatty. In 1999 vocalist Willem Verwert joined Silent Edge and in 2000 they recorded a demo cd with two tracks, which are also on this full debut album. The response to that demo was overwhelming and so Silent Edge ended up doing a live gig on Prog Power 2001. Furthermore they won the Metal Bash, a contest organized by Aardschok magazine, and they were crowned best Dutch metal act of 2001/2002. Finally they recorded “The Eyes Of The Shadow” and drummer Marco Kleinnibbelink(ex Dead Head, ex-Syrinx) joined the band to complete the line-up.

The music of Silent Edge can be described as progressive, symphonic metal(Fates Warning, Eldritch, Symphony-X), combined with neo classical influences like for example Malmsteen’s Rising Force. This means that the music is complex with lots of rhythm changes, variety, musically interesting pieces and solos, almost no catchy choruses and more important: never a dull moment!!

Massacre Records 2001
Review by 19 december 2001

If you’re already familiar with ex-Royal Hunt singer D.C. Cooper’s new band Silent Force, then you know how much harder this is from RH. And if you heard the first Silent Force album “The Empire Of Future” you can expect even more harder music with this one. And even faster ! Right from the start the title track “Infatuator” makes every grannys hearts go boom ! This is screaming and shredding a’la Judas Priest, with Yngwie and Stratovarius influences. Love at first hear I have to say.

The third song “Hear Me Calling” is dedicated to DC’s brother who died in a tragic traffic accident, and it is more of a mid-tempo rocker and the only song that made me think of Royal Hunt on this cd and also my faves here. And talk about Judas Priest. Those who have seen SF have had the pleasure hearing the Priest cover “All Guns Blazing” live and it is also presented here with the same power and fastness that is known for SF. And it really kicks ass !

There’s also a trilogy of the Roman empire and it includes a beautiful classical intro, which then changes again to the SF power. I loved the third part of the trilogy most, “The Blade”, because it was more complex with piano and such. And what about ballads I hear you say ? Well, check out “In My Arms”. It has a strange surprise for the finns with a finnish female guest singer Inka Auhagen, who you would last expect to hear on a metal album, as she is known from pop music. But she does a great job with DC on this beautiful ballad.

Z Records 2002
Review by Endre "Bandi" Hübner 13 June 2002

"Inspired by: Gene Simmons" says the artwork of the new Silent Rage album. Gotta wonder what that means... The lyrics are bad enough for sure and the guys gained considerably since their heydays (about 80 pounds each) to live up to Simmons. (Okay, EJ Curse still has the steroid looks known from the "Don't Touch Me There" era but my advice would be: RUN if you see them attempting some stage diving.) Now seriously: the album starts out with "Still Alive", a great mid-tempo rocker in the vein of the "Revenge" album by Kiss (which I find one of their strongest albums). Nothing new under the sun but the production is bombastic enough to make the song explode and the thick choruses hide the individually weak vocal abilities of the singers (which is true for the whole album). As you probably all know the band has three vocalists and none of them can really sing but they don't fail to entertain because they are good at what they are doing: sticking to a limited vocal range, perform it with heart and soul, trying to keep it simple and energetic.

Much to my pleasant surprise the album continues with a Diane Warren penned song: "Unchained" and the band does justice to it. "Whiskey Woman" slows things down and turns out to be THE typical power ballad, not bad, not boring, but nothing special, heard it zillion times before. "Living For The Moment" makes me wonder if you can get overdosed by a drum sound. The sound of the kick drum is soooo much in the front of the mix and it is so thick that it rules the whole song. With its shout-out vocals this song might end up as one of the concert favorites. "At My Command" shows the band wanting to be very heavy, I prefer their melodic side, judgment: boring, weak attempt. Leave this to Manowar. :)

One or two of readers might not have heard of the name Silver before. But that doesn't mean that this band consists of unknown musicians. This five piece marks the welcome return of two "heroes of my youth". Bernie Torme was the legendary guitarist on Gillan classics such as "Mr. Universe" and "Glory Road". After the release of "Future Shock" he decided to quit and with the exception of one or two solo CD's, the guy was forgotten. Man on the microphone is Gary "Often Hired Even More Often Fired" Barden (of Statetrooper, Praying Mantis, Company Of Snakes and MSG fame). Keyboards are handled by the one and only Don Airey. The bunch is completed by German skinsman Marco Minnemann (ex H-Blockx) and Michael Voss (Casanova; Mad Max; Demon Drive) who not only played bass but produced this album as well. Fans of good old eighties hardrock can stop reading now and rush into the next record store instead.

Point Music 2002
Review by 29 September 2002

"I fell In Love With My Silver Dream Machine"...I'm not sure what to write here, but the all star project SILVER seem to have a strange desire about their Dream Machines. Well...what ever makes them happy right? Seriously though, this is the follow up album to last years debut by the much aclaimed all star band. Sensational figure sales in Europe and a #1 position in the Japanese import charts for 5 weeks are just to name some of their success.

"Dream Machines" was recorded with the very same line-up as the first album. Vocals - Gary Borden (MSG, Praying Mantis, Statetrooper etc.), Guitar - Bernie Torme (Ian Gillan, Ozzy, Mammoth, Alaska, Deperado, Rene Berg etc.), Bass - Michael Voss (Mad Max, Casanova, Demon Drive etc.), Keyboards - Don Airey (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Ozzy, Gary Moore, Ten, Alaska etc.) and drummer Marco Minnemann (H-Blockx). Add that Voss also handles the production here and it sound pretty darn good too. The band were also able to fall back on the talents of Andreas Bruhn (Sisters Of Mercy, Broon) once again. His unique songwriting has a big impact on the overall sound as he co-wrote most of the songs.

Point Music 2003
Review by 12 September 2003

"Intruder" is the third release by all-star project Silver, it's unfortunatly also the weakest of the bunch. The killer line-up is as always filled with various rock legends and superb musicians. The material is perhaps not as strong as in the past and I can't help feeling a bit disappointed.

They've spoilt us with some almost unique, surely strange?, and sometimes even weird, sounding music in the past. Only a minor step back feels like a huge let down, even though this is far from being a crappy release. The line-up consist as always of Gary Barden - vocals (ex-MSG, Statetrooper, Praying Mantis), Bernie Torme - guitars (ex-Gillan, Ozzy, Desperado, mammoth, Alaska), Don Airey - keys (Deep Purple, Ozzy, Whitesnake, Gary Moore, etc), Micakel Voss - guitars (ex-Demon Drive, Casanova, Mad Max, Bonfire), Marco Minnemann - drums (Paul Gilbert, H-Blockx). However, this time you can also add: Bob Daisley - bass (Ozzy, Rainbow, Gary Moore, etc), Bertram Engel - drums (Peter Maffay, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Palmer), Colin Hodgkinson - bass (Schon/Hammer, Whitesnake, etc), and Tommy Denander (ATC, Radioactive, Prisoner, etc), to the ever growing list of muscians.

Frontiers Records 2002
Review by 7 July 2002

"Let It Go" is the second album of a Yugoslavian guitar hero Slav Simanic. Unlike his debut "Water Of Life", it features mostly vocal tracks, with lead vocals provided by Phil Naro (Talas, 24K, Naro). Simanic surely deserves the title of a "guitar hero", his skills are undoubtful and he's not too bad a composer either. Phil Naro does a good job here too.

The music on this album ranges from 80'ies-styled hard rock (Firehouse, Ratt, Dokken, Stryper...) to classically influenced melodic metal (you guessed it - Malmsteen, Impellitteri et al.). I might add that most of the lyrics contain a christian message, but it's not too overbearing.

The album contains 14 tracks, 10 of which are vocal tracks. The quality of them varies greatly, from the somewhat hilarious "trottel metal" of "The Fallen Angel" to the catchy "I'm Going Up Higher" and "People Say". Some of the songs seem to have a slightly "recycled" feel to them, but Slav does have a way of making them sound like his own with his energetic guitar playing. Still, the intro of "You" made me think that I had placed a Ratt CD to my player, and "You're Never Gonna Die" sounds like it has escaped from Impellitteri's "Stand In Line" album.

There's two longer instrumentals, the rather good "...The Almighty" and the "epic" "The Message Of Three Angels", which gives Malmsteen a run for his money. There's classical themes, spoken parts, sound effects and plenty of good ol' fashioned widdlywiddly. Never a dull moment!

My rating won't go any higher because some of the songs are a bit lacking when it comes to good hooks - the likes of "Let It Go", "See The Light" and "Heaven Waits For You" for instance. Also, the drum sound of the album is a bit lifeless - almost like a drum machine, even though Morgan Evans is credited as being the drummer.

Simmons Records/Sanctuary 2004
Review by Urban "Wally" Wallstrom,
11 May 2004

The man, the myth, the a**hole??? Let's just say that Gene $immons is indeed the man of thousand faces. Single handlely responsible for laying down 1000's of women, and not to forget, composing 1000's of average rock songs. And don't even get me started with those "you must hate KISS" emails, I've been a fan of the band ever since I was six (6) years old. But let's be frank here, Gene hasn't exactly been spitting out great rock songs, since the very early 80's. Exception noted by a couple of killer tracks here and there, and most of his stuff from "Revenge". The rest has been anything from utterly disgusting to plain average and so-so.

This will hardly come as a surprise in other words. "A**hole" is an awful mish-mash of average rock songs, with a couple of absolutely killer tracks. Business as usuall and I'm not talking about those over 2000!!! different Kiss toys and games either. Gene brings out a bunch of old KISS rejects and demos and expect us to go wild and crazy about it. Well, I always find it interesting when artists experiment with different styles and such. However, Gene's cover of The Prodigy's hit "Firestarter", is nothing less than musical suicide. Hardrock fans will hate this version and same goes with the techno fans. Tracks like "Whatever Turns You On" or "Dog", shouldn't have been included in the first place either. While "Weapons Of Mass Destruction", sounds like any of those average Gene Simmons tunes. I'm not sure Gene's capable of writing a decent rock refrain anymore??? The best/worst example, "You Wanted The Best" from Psycho Circus, which is a freakin' marvelous rock song, until that horrible chorus kicks in. Perhaps he should leave those to Paul Stanley in the future, huh?

Lion Music 2002
Review by 13 September 2002

"The Rule Of Right" is the third release from Kelly Simonz's Blind Faith since April, but no, they are not hermits living in a studio. The first two albums were released a few years ago in their home country Japan, while this one is actually a set of new recordings, if I am not mistaken.

Multi-talented Simonz used to do everything himself in the studio, but for this new album he had help from the two other members of Blind Faith, Keisuke Nishimoto (bass) and Tetsuya Hoshiyama (drums). So in that sense, this is really the first band album for the group.

You can easily hear that Simonz is very much influenced by Malmsteen, adding classical themes to his songs and generally working in the same genre. Add an extra dose of keyboards and some US Metal influences (Dokken etc), and you've got a good idea.

Perris Records 2003
Review by Petri Kautto
24 February 2004

Sinn is a band that plays basic 80’s rock and delivers it in the vein of early Poison and Ratt. To make the comparison even more obvious they cover Poison’s “Look What the Cat Dragged In”. The band describes its music as “rock ‘n’ roll from the gutter” and that’s pretty much how it sounds. The lyrics are simple and melodies are catchy only occasionally. If the gutter should be an implication of some kind of attitude I fail to hear it.

It looks like the band has not gotten to a flying start because they’ve already changed their name to Dead Star Factory. And no matter how you look at it Jailbait is not the kind of album that would get you flying high. There are a few songs that don’t even qualify for fillers. Let’s look at for example "Science Girl". Someone must have told Tommy Krash and his crew that it’s cool to have a part in a song where you moan like it’s a porn movie. Try pathetic. "16 Sexy Sweet" brings out another problem. Krash’s nasal voice is not for shouting and sometimes it’s just annoying.

Sinnersville Records 2002

Review by 28 October 2002

This is an easy going, laid-back rock ‘n’ roll record that really appealed to me from the very first tune. Sinnerstar is a solo project from Koozie Johns, a man that at least I have not heard of before. Judging by this record his Iggy Pop – John Mellencampish style will fascinate many in the future.

This CD is really diverse in a very good way. Johns offers good melodies and tight guitars accompanied by his clear voice. In short this is a feel-good album; at least it works for me in a positive way. The production is good and everything functions splendidly from beginning to the end.

Generation Records 2002
Review by 16 January 2003

One of the nicest rock musicians around is back with his lifetime project. A quick look at the thank you list on this CD, and you'll notice that 'everybody' is mentioned there. Or wait... what the heck am I saying? Joey Sinopoli is of course the baddest mutha I know, he spits fire and drinks gasolin (not the best combination perhaps?). Still, you don't wanna mess with this dude and most of all, you don't wanna destroy his rock'n'roll image.

Hailing from New Jersey, USA, The Sinopoli brothers (Joey - vocals/guitar, Nicky - bass) toured constantly throughout the 80's over there. Local heroes that never really broke through to a wider audience I'd say. "The Eyes Never Lie" is a compilation of some of their work from the days. Many of the tracks here were actually produced by Eddie Kramer (KISS etc.) and others by Jack Ponti.

Indie 2004
Review by Kimmo Toivonen, 1 July 2004

Sipher, a band featuring two guys named Lasu & Tonttu hails from southern Finland. This is apparently their second bunch of demos, and it features four tracks of peculiar gothic metal. Lots of extremely fast drumming, layers of keyboards and gothic styled vocals.

The band has some cool ideas and their style is quite interesting, like a mixture of many of the popular Finnish bands - melodic death metal of Children Of Bodom mixed with 69 Eyes, Charon and other gothic-styled bands. However, there's a bit of a "home-made" vibe in everything. Especially the vocals sound like they were recorded in someone's bedroom, with the singer sounding like he's trying to "keep it down", as not to bother the neigbors. Frankly, the band could really use an actual singer with a strong voice, the singing here doesn't sound too convincing.

BraMusa Production 2001 (Indie)
Review by 28 April 2002

Another band from Turku, Finland, my current hometown. Sister Manik's press release says that the band plays "melodic rock metal with ambient and gothic influences", and that their songs have "strong athmosphere and massive choruses". Now that doesn't sound half bad on paper, and tell ya what, it doesn't sound half bad on CD either!

"Manik Heart" is a 3-song CD, also available in mp3 format on the band's website. Out of the three tracks, the standout one is "Like Your Tears" with its' indeed "massive chorus". "Sir Evil" is more of a straight-forward rocker, while "Hold On" is mid-tempo track that reminds me slightly of HIM and oddly enough, obscure german AOR group Laos. A word of warning though: this band is not your typical melodic rock stuff, their sound owes as much to Nine Inch Nails as it does to, say, Heart - yet they sound very little like either of these bands. The most striking feature of the band are the vocals of Pinja, who has a very unique voice. She seems to be the band's visual focal point as well - to the extent of the other band members being "left in the shadows" in the accompanying promo pic!

Apricot Records 1999
Review by

This is my first review for Kimmo and he gave a tough one to start with, a totally unknown band for me and I think to the most of the world too. This NYC-Based trio knows how to play their instruments but the music isn't to my taste. There are some very humorous stuff written like: "What would DeNiro do?" and "My mother likes black men" but even though the lyrics are fun the music isn't.

The songs are everything from Beck to Eagles. Variety of different styles so might be a good bar band but too much different styles mixed together in one CD.

I have to say that there were two songs that got my attention and they were "Our situation", typical college radio stuff, and the last song of the CD, "Hurricane Jo", which was a bit more rockin' than the rest of the songs and I like the horns on that song.

This CD was done in -98 and some new stuff might have come out since and hopefully it is in the line of "Our Situation".

Music is suppose to make one happy or feel something and this just didn't really do me anything. Like I said earlier The Situation might be a good bar band, but nothing really special.

SPV 2003
Review by 4 September 2003

Gone is Sebastian Bach and many Broadway shows has gone by and finally the new Skid Row CD is here. One must have an open mind to listen to this record and give the Skids a try. This surely isn’t S/T or Slave To The Grind but this is Skid Row 2003 and I like it.

The big screams are gone and in my mind a rockier voice is heard here by Johnny Solinger. The songs are again mainly written by Bolan and Snake and a very good set of songs have the guys written. Again this is just my opinion and I know the ones who had hoped for new Slave To The Grind are a bit disapointed but hey, one must move on and the Skids have surely done that.

The sound is much modern and is more on the Goo Goo Dolls and Nickelback side of things but there is still the good hard rock sound of Skid Row to be found. This CD rocks anyway and I’ve been listening to this for 3 days now and it still grows on me and I don’t even miss Sebastian's screams. The new version of “I Remember You” is a punk version and it’s really hard to listen to one of the ultimate songs with a different sound but it’s growing on me too. Still at the moment it’s the least favorite song on the CD for me. There might be some so called fillers here but I find something in every song and to me this is a really good CD. Maybe I’m getting old but some of the mellower songs are perfect. “See You Around” is totally awesome song and so is “Born A Beggar” and if you want it a bit harder then it’s “Thick Is The Skin”, “Mouth Of Voodoo” and “New Generation”, which opens the CD with a lot of anger.

Frontiers 2001
Review by 29 November 2001

Skin Tag has potential to leave a permanent mark on the melodic rock scene. Melodica and Shotgun Symphony are just some of the bands that the guys in Skin Tag have played in before so no doubt there’s experience, and the maturity shows. “Beauty Mark” is their first album and it is a solid effort from the band.

The album kicks off with “Brother”, which to was a bit surprising because in general the bands tend to put one of the better songs in the beginning. I felt that they a bit forcibly tried to have a powerful opener and then overdid it. The second song “Rainy Monday” is then the opposite, a killer riff hits you from the first second and the intense feeling lasts throughout the song. “You Gotta Love It” is a rocker and the guitar has more edge than the other songs in the album, too bad that the song itself is only regular. The rest of the album well-produced melodic rock and “All the Way Home”, “Forever in My Life”, “Nothing Left But Time” and a brilliant rocker “On the Run” guarantee that this album has many highlights.

Selina 2003
Review by Endre "Bandi" Hübner 4 April 2003

Rumors say that if you can pronounce the name of this guy for the first attempt in the record store you get his album for free. [Nah! Just kidding...] Now absolutely seriously this album is worth breaking your tongue with the name of the artist. Troels Skovgaard delivered a brilliant blues rock album, full of memorable melodies, touchy lyrics, and moody tracks with decent musicianship. As for comparisons Jeff Healey comes to mind but the arrangements and the thick backing vocals make Troels' music softer than Healey's. Some traditional blues lovers may shy away reading this but those who weren't into bluesy things so far should check the album, as it is easy to digest, very melodic, yet still not too commercial.

When playing the album first I got scared a bit as the first track "Almost a Sigh" has some very similar parts to "With a Little Help From My Friends" by the Beatles, also successfully covered by Joe Cocker but the following tunes washed my fear away. Troels' music is original, soulful, and well-played. He wrote all the music, arranged it, sang lead vocals, and played all guitars. He is also responsible for the production that turned out to be great. Especially if you take into account that the arrangements are very complex, we ain't talkin' about simple drum-bass-guitar stuff here but well- planned arrangements with horn sections, organ, piano, strings, accordion, percussion, lots of backing vocals, etc. included.

Boomtown Records 2003/1994
Review by 23 November 2003

They made a name for themselves as "Legs Up" in the early 90's and were considered as one of the most promising unsigned acts in the states. I believe that Metal Forces magazine did quite some write up about them at the time. Unfortunately the grunge wave (also known as the black plague by many) swept throughout America and these poor bastards never stood a chance.

They returned as Sledgehammer Ledge a couple of years later though and recorded their one and only album back in 1994. Thanks to SL bassist "JP" (Douglas), you can now find and buy this rather rare-ish sleaze album at CDBaby.com again.

SwedenRock Records 2002
Review by 1 January 2003

Oh baby, baby!!! Excuse me, I was only trying to get into the mood with my best Robert Plant impression. Some of you may have mistaken it for Britney Spears at first though [:-)]. But hey!!! It's darn difficult to sound like Plant only through some written words on your PC screen.

Slow Train was formed in Sweden by the Pennbrant brothers [Daniel -drums & Marco -bass], in the mid-90's. Obviously, heavily influenced by the 70's music the went out searching for fellow musicians. Power vocalist Stefan Paparo joined the two a year later and guitarist Andy Andersson, completed the quartet when the millenium was new. Slow Train is the name and retro-rock is the game.

LionMusic 2004
Review by Urban "Wally" Wallstrom,
16 May 2004

"Loud And Clear" and straight for the jugular!!! The debut album by Canada's Smeer is a fallout of aggressive guitars and heavy melodies. Not exactly the kind of stuff you expect to end up at Lion Music label. It's eleven tracks of intense rock in the tradition of Soundgarden, Nickelback, and the more uptempo tracks of Saigon Kick.

The band was originally formed back in 1998 and has since gone through a couple of changes. Smeer consist nowadays of Ryan Leclair (vocals), Deny Boucher (guitars), Bryan Cote (bass), and Niall Mellors (drums). "Loud And Clear" was released last year in Canada (this is the Euro-release), and their third single "Seed", was ranked #3 in CFAI's "Song Of The Year 2003". Only Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life" and Audioslave's "Like A Stone", ended up higher on the list.

Frontiers/Now & Then 1999
Review by

Guitarist Stuart Smith may be an unknown name, but he surely has some famous friends. On this album he is assisted by such household names of hard rock as Richie Sambora, Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner and Kelly Hansen, to name a few. And, even though Smith is a guitarist, this album is not self-indulged widdling. The emphasis is on songs, and even the instrumentals are very well structured.

The opener "The opener "Don't Keep Me Waiting" is a bluesy rocker, very much in the tradition of Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin. Not my favourites, even though the vocalist Kelly Hansen does a great job. Next up there's the brilliant title track, a very melodic midtempo track, featuring the vocals of Joe Lynn Turner. Then the Blues takes over... The old blues song "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (vocals by Glenn Hughes) doesn't do it for me, but the Deep Purple ballad "When A Blind Man" is better, thanks to Sambora's great vocals.

Turner leads the band back from the Blues City with the great melodic rocker "Memories". "Dream Of Desire" is a Bach-inspired instrumental, and a pretty good one too, very melodic. "Trouble In Paradise" is a bit of a standard rock'n roll song, but "Shadow Of The Tyburn Tree" is sometihng completely different. It's a very beautiful ballad with an exceptional melody and interesting instrumentation - just guitars, strings and woodwinds. Vocals are again provided by Turner, who seems to get all the best songs to sing!

"It's Got To Be love" is a heavy bluesy rocker, not my cup of tea, neither is the blues ballad "When The Blues Catch Up With You". "Do You Ever Think Of Me" is a good song, so good in fact that both Message and Unruly Child have covered it. Smith's version is quite similar to UC version, which isn't surprising, as Hansen sings on both of them!

Then the bonustracks..."The Road To Melnibore" is a beautiful instrumental ballad, and my favourite of the them. "Howlin' At The Moon" is an bluesy rocker featuring Paul Shortino on vocals, while "Telstar 2000" is a funny old guitar instrumental, and "Lose My Number" is another seventies' sounding hard rock number.

All in all, this is a very well produced and performed hard rock album, that has a lot ot offer to the fans of the bluesier side of things. For a non-blues lover like me there's a bit too many blues songs there, but thankfully there is a handful of brilliant AOR'ish songs in there too!

Brennus Music 2003
Review by 19 October 2003

Snake Eye was formed in Paris last year and their very first demo caused quite some attention all over France (well, at least in the melodic hardrock scene). Brennus Music decided to sign them up anyhow and the album "Wild Senses" is a promising debut release.

The band members are obviously very inspired by the whole US scene in the late 80's. Everything from artcover, booklet pictures, to image and overall material remind us of long-gone MTV days. The actually both look and sound like something the cat dragged in... back in 1988.

Indie 2002
Review by 28 November 2002

Roll the dice and hope for luck as Canadian rockers Snake Eyes enters the arena. They are not all from Canada actually as guitarist/keyboardist Wizard Oz, hails from Liverpool/England. Oz has played with UK band "The Shakers" in the past. Featuring both guitarist Peter Friesen (The Almighty, Alice Cooper) and drummer Les Binks (Judas Priest), I may add.

The other band members are from Canada though and the line-up goes like this: Paul LeComte (vocals), Mark Sandquist (bass) and Abe Michaud (drums). They've been touring all over the Vancouver area and parts of Europe. They also played at the Ultrasound-2000 in Las Vegas (Hi Dave) and was featured on thier compilation CD. Television appearances on the VTV Breakfast Show are also some of the stuff they got under their belt.

Metal Mayhem 2004
Review by Urban "Wally" Wallstrom,
29 May 2004

There seems to be a never ending stream of melodic hardrock from New Jersey. Snakeryder is yet another fine example of the fact that Jersey rocks. This may not be the most original sounding album lately, but it will surely please many hardcore 80's fans. Vocalist/guitarist A.J. Fedz was the original singer and founding member of Adriangale (yep! THAT band). It all ended in tragedy though as Kivel (their manager at the time), "stole" the name and released "his" version of the band.

Fedz is now back with a vengeance and the debut album of his new act. The line-up now consist of ex-Tokyo Rose guitarist Karl Karltson, bassist Joey Reno, and fellow ex-Adriangale member, Dino Castano (drums). Their music could be described as a mixture of Firehouse and Cinderella (a bit more of the latter though). Add that Fedz also comes through like a 50/50 singer of the the two above. Not that strange perhaps as he was a member of the same band (White Fox) as Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar, back in the days.