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[11 March 2010]

Special Features: STOCKHOLM ROCK OUT is a cool festival to be held in... yes, Stockholm, Sweden. A lot of hard rock heroes of the late eighties are performing, along with some new bands of the genre. RockUnited.Com sent out a few questions to the artists, and in our STHML ROCK OUT SPECIAL they'll tell you what's to be expected. Read it and start booking your tickets!

[07 March 2010]

Interviews: A lengthy interview with French artist Charly Sahona and a shorter "Rapidfirequestions" with Chris Kinder of Jon Oliva's Pain.

[03 March 2010]

Interviews: We're continuing our "Just For The Record" interview series with two new ones: Bangalore Choir's "On Target" and Guardian's "First Watch". Two Davids, Reece (BC) and Bach (G), answering questions.

[02 March 2010]

Reviews:

RECKLESS LOVE: "Reckless Love"
STATE OF ROCK: A Point Of Destiny"
NEWMAN: "The Art Of Balance"
H.E.A.T.: "Beg Beg Beg"
BROTHER FIRETRIBE: "Live At Apollo"
SWEET COMFORT BAND: "Breakin' The Ice"
SWEET COMFORT BAND: "Hold On Tight!"
SWEET COMFORT BAND: "Hearts Of Fire"
SWEET COMFORT BAND: "Cutting Edge"
SWEET COMFORT BAND: "Perfect Timing"

[26 February 2010]

Interviews: More RapidFireQuestions madness, today with Olli Herman of RECKLESS LOVE. This one's enhanced with photos from their gig in Turku yesterday. Yeah! Sometimes we're fast!

[25 February 2010]

Live On Stage: Not just a live review, but also a report from the new album launch party and a bonus interview... FM welcome you to their Metropolis!

Interviews: If "Just For The Record" represents the respectable side of our site, "RapidFireQuestions" is something quite different. Today's victim: Janne Hurme of HUMAN TEMPLE.

[24 February 2010]

Reviews:

TREAT: "Coup De Grace"
HEAVENLY: Carpe Diem"
DELIVERANCE: "Deliverance"
JON OLIVA'S PAIN: "Festival"
IRON MASK: "Shadow Of The Red Baron"
BIG KRUSH: "Wake Up World"
IMPULSIA: "Expressions"
VILLAGE OF DEAD ROADS: "Desolution Will Destroy You"
DUST AND BONES: "Voodoo"
CHINAWHITE: "Challenges"
Riverside: "Reality Dream" DVD

[23 February 2010]

Live On Stage: ...and we were the soldiers under command, as Stryper rocked Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland.

[22 February 2010]

Interviews: "Just For The Record" is a new concept: we're concentrating on one album at a time, and discuss it in detail. First up: Sweet Comfort Band's cult classic "Perfect Timing" with guitarist/vocalist Randy Thomas in the hot seat and Ted Poley's thoughts about Danger Danger's self-titled debut.

[11 February 2010]

Reviews: GlamThrashProgSleazeGoodBad and then some.

HANSEL: "Never Say Die"
VAIN: "All Those Strangers"
Charly SAHONA: "Naked Thoughts From a Silent Chaos"
EMBERSTORM: "Memories Of Time"
SECRET SMILE: "This Is Our Time Now"
ABADDEN: "Sentenced To Death"
The BONESMEN: "Deuce"
MASTERMIND: "Insomnia"

[08 February 2010]

Reviews:

BATTALION: "Underdogs"
The MARY MAJOR: "04:13"
FIRST CHILD: "Queen Of Hearts"
SACRED HEART: "Darkness Falls"
GHZ: "There's Trouble Coming"
DARK ILLUSION: "Where The Eagles Fly"
Rick SPRINGFIELD & Jeff SILVERMAN: "From The Vault"
ARBOGAST: "Certainties and Doubts"
FACTORY OF DREAMS: "A Strange Utopia"
CIRCLE: "Hollywood"

[04 February 2010]

Live On Stage: Metal Hearts turn Klubi into an Animal House - it's U.D.O., the German Metal Icon!

[02 February 2010]

Reviews: A massive reviews update with 27 (count' em!) new albums under scrutiny!

BRIAN HOWE: "Circus Bar"
GIANT: "Promise Land"
INNOCENT ROSIE: "Had Habit Romance"
AIRBOURNE: No Guts, No Glory"
DR.GRIND: "Speechless"
PRETTY WILD: "All The Way"
SUREFIRE: "Surefire"
JUPITER SOCIETY: "Terraform"
ORPHEUS: "Orpheus"
DEAD HEROES CLUB: "A Time Of Shadow"
DYNAZTY: "Bring The Thunder"
STRIKE TWICE: "Strike Twice"
CHERRY LIPS: "Cherry Lips"
EDGE OF FOREVER: "Another Paradise"
SEVENTH RIZE: "Full Moon"
SGT. Roxx: "Weapon Of Miss Distraction"
FELONY: "Helltown Hotel"
HARDREAMS: "Calling Everywhere"
FREEDOM HAWK: "Freedom Hawk"
ROBIN BROCK: "Monsters"
SILENT FALL: "Otherwise"
SEX DEPARTMENT: "Rock n' Roll Suicide"
KEEL: "The Right To Rock - 25th Anniversary Edition"
BRUNOROCK: "War Maniacs"
AJALON: "This Good Place"
LAST STOP CHINATOWN: "Into The Volcano"
LET THE NIGHT ROAR: "Let the Night Roar"

Live On Stage: Yö, one of Finland's biggest bands... the review's in english and finnish! This concludes our reviews of the gigs of 2009 finally, but fear not, there's been a couple of gigs already this year! Coming up: U.D.O. in Turku and Stryper in Helsinki.

[26 January 2010]

Live On Stage: Blues rocker Simon McBride!

[21 January 2010]

Reviews:

LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM: "A Touch Of Heaven"
TARA'S SECRET: "Vertigo"
HUMAN TEMPLE: "Murder Of Crows"
Bruce KULICK: "BK3"

[15 January 2010]

Reviews: The first reviews for the new year!

WIG WAM: Non Stop Rock & Roll"
Ozzy OSBOURNE with Chris Aires: "I Am Ozzy"
THE MURDER OF MY SWEET: Divanity"
SPIN GALLERY: "Embrace"
KEEL: "Streets Of Rock'n Roll"
LINEHOUSE: "Take One"

Live On Stage: Leverage's first visit to Turku, Finland.

[14 January 2010]

Live On Stage: Now that the holidays are over...here's some Heavy Christmas for y'all - Raskasta Joulua tour in Turku.

[11 January 2010]

Let's wrap it up! The eighties, that is! The years 1987-1989 are now online, and a new "frontpage" for the whole thing. Remember, the voting continues, and each voter will have a chance to win some goodies... a quick look at the prize box reveals that you could get yourself CD's from Preview, Farcry, Britton...

Here are the direct links to the three new "episodes": 1987, 1988 and 1989.

[05 January 2010]

More gig reviews from December! And there's still more to come!

Live On Stage: Winger in Budapest and Skin in Bristol.

[02 January 2010]

Happy New Year! Here's hoping that this year will be a good one for everyone, including our website...We could surely use a few helping hands and a sponsor or two wouldn't hurt either.

Let's start the year by uploading some gig reviews from December!

Live On Stage: Alice Cooper & Sebastian Bach in Espoo and The 69 Eyes in Turku.

[30 December 2009]

Reviews: The last reviews for 2009...

BLACKWOOD CREEK: S/T"
MARKONEE: "See the Thunder"
SEVENGATES: "The Good And The Evil"

[22 December 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1986 - Bon Jovi! Europe! Cinderella! Poison! The hair-raising year, when the sales of hairspray went to the roof (and the ozone layer).

[20 December 2009]

Live On Stage: Hard Rock Hell III - The Vikings' Ball at Pontins.

[14 December 2009]

Interviews: introducing our new interview template - RapidFireQuestions. First band on the line of fire: A.

[13 December 2009]

In the RockUnited.Com MySpace page's music player you can check out an exclusive preview track from the new HUMAN TEMPLE album "MUrder Of Crows", to be released in late January by Escape Music. The track is called "Ghost Of You". Enjoy!

[4 December 2009]

Reviews: First reviews for December.

Jeff Scott SOTO: "One Night in Madrid"
LIPSTIXX'N BULLETZ: "Bang Your Head"
HANOI ROCKS: "Buried Alive"
OVERLAND: "Diamond Dealer"
DELANY: "Blaze And Ashes"
CINDERELLA: "Live at the Mohegan Sun"

[3 December 2009]

Live On Stage: Fireflight, The Rain and HB at Maata Näkyvissä-festival.

[30 November 2009]

Live On Stage: Magnum, the elder statesmen of British Rock.

[29 November 2009]

Live On Stage: Francis Dunnery, the original It Bites frontman.

[28 November 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1985 - we've reached the mid-eighties...

[26 November 2009]

Reviews: Clearing the desks of albums to be reviewed...

LEVERAGE: "Circus Colossus"
Patrick DECOSTE: "MMIX EP"
SOUL DOCTOR: "Way Back To The Bone"
ELDORADO: "s/t"
LITA FORD: "Wicked Wonderland"
LILLIAN AXE: "Sad Day On Planet Earth"
STEREOFLUX: "Stereoflux"
GUN: "Popkiller EP"
Neil DANIELS: "All Pens Blazing"
FM: "Wildside EP"
THE LEVELLERS: "Live At The Royal Albert Hall"
THE DWYERS: "Gas Station Masturbation"
VANDAALIT: "Sattuu"
RAAKA-AINE: "Elämän Tarkoitus"

[23 November 2009]

Live On Stage: Firefest VI. The sights and the sounds of U.K.'s finest melodic festival.

[17 November 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1984 - the fifth part of the series added.

[10 November 2009]

Reviews: Thanks to the flu season, our updates have been a bit sporadical... but here's a bunch of reviews. Virus-free.

TRANSATLANTIC: "The Whirlwind"
BLANC FACES: Falling From The Moon"
REDEMPTION: "Snowfall On Judgement Day"
NIGHTMARE: "Insurrection"
BON JOVI: "The Circle"
MASTEDON: "3"
BLOODBOUND: "Tabula Rasa"
AT VANCE: "Ride The Sky"
STONELAKE: "Shades Of Eternity"

[30 October 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1983 - the fourth part of the series added.

[27 October 2009]

Interviews: Steve Rothery of Marillion interviewed.

[26 October 2009]

Reviews: We start the week with a bunch of reviews!

The POODLES: "Clash Of The Elements"
The VIOLET HOUR: "The Fire Sermon"
COVERED CALL: "Money Never Sleeps"
VISHUSGRUV: "Dirty Little Secrets"
ANTHONY: "Fragile"
TANGO DOWN: "Damage Control"

[23 October 2009]

Give-A-Way: A bloody good 69 Eyes competition is now closed, winners announced...

[22 October 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1982 - the third part of the series added.

[16 October 2009]

Reviews: A few additional reviews for this week!

KISS: "Sonic Boom"
W.E.T.: "W.E.T."
MR. BIG: "Back To Budokan"
PINK CREAM 69: "Live In Karlsruhe"

[15 October 2009]

Live On Stage: Mr. Big hit Hungary on their comeback trek.

[12 October 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1981 - the second part of the series added.

Reviews: ...and we're not all about nostalgia, here's a bunch of new albums!

W.A.S.P: "Babylon"
MIND KEY: "Pulse For A Graveheart"
WINGER: "Karma"
BRAINSTORM: "Memorial Roots"
KINGS OF MODESTY: "Hell Or Highwater"
CREKKO: "Paint The Town Red"
COWBOY PROSTITUTES: "Let Me Have Your Heart"
GRIMMSTINE: "S/T" 7
RICHIE KOTZEN: "Peace Sign"
SALUTE: "Toy Soldier"

[07 October 2009]

Back To The Eighties - 1980: Starting today, we'll start our big retrospective look at the eighties. We'll go through each year from 1980 to 1989, by listing our favourite albums and generally looking back at what was going on in hard rock and metal music and in world in general. New "episodes" will be added weekly, and what's more, you have a chance to vote for YOUR favourite albums. Freebie CDs will be given as prizes to several lucky winners!

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