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Bullet Highway Pirates

by Mark Allen Staff Writer If this Swedish band was aiming for an AC/DC meets Accept kind of vibe, then they have hit the bulls-eye with sniper-like precision. This is the band’s third album and they exhibit zero signs of wanting to evolve, apparently happy with the niche they have carved out for [...]

Bonafide Fill Your Head With Rock (Old, New, Tried & True)

by Joe Mis Staff Writer If imitation is the sincerest for of flattery then the boys in Bonafide certainly try to flatter AC/DC and Whitesnake. The Swedish quartet pays shameless homage to some of the great hard rock bands of the 1980s and is poised to release a 6 track EP to prove the point. Fill [...]

Mean Streak Metal Slave

by Alissa Ordabai Staff Writer Impeccable instrumental virtuosity redeems this Swedish quintet’s occasional overuse of the old power metal cliché, but by the time the album ends you can’t escape the feeling that you’ve heard it all before. Manipulations of the old standards come easy to Mean [...]

Houston Houston

by Joe Mis Staff Writer Take one part Journey, one part Chicago and one part Asia and mix them together, and allow the band to write only songs about relationships and you’ll get something that sounds like Houston. Hailing from the Deep South of… Sweden (!), Houston is definitely NOT a [...]