Out for Blood is the debut solo album from guitarist/vocalist Lita Ford, formerly of the band The Runaways. The original cover art for this album featured Lita standing in front of a spiderweb holding a broken blood spurting guitar. It was later replaced with a cover of Lita standing in front of a purple background … Read more
Punk might have flown over the Scottish band’s collective head, yet the group couldn’t ignore the landscape they found themselves at the start of NAZ’s second decade. They could have lost their snap; instead, the ensemble engaged Jeff Baxter as a producer to smooth their hairy rock. The clue to their admission of the time’s … Read more
Wings of Tomorrow is the second studio album by the Swedish hard rock band Europe. It was released on February 24, 1984, by Hot Records. The song “Scream of Anger” was originally titled “Black Journey Through My Soul”. “Wings Of Tomorrow” and “Scream of Anger” have been covered by the melodic death metal band Arch … Read more
Kingdom Come is the debut album by German/US hard rock band Kingdom Come. The album reached Number 12 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and obtained Gold certification from the RIAA
Paradise Theatre is the tenth album by the rock band Styx, released in January 1981 (see 1981 in music). A concept album, the album is a fictional account of Chicago’s Paradise Theatre from its opening to closing (and eventual abandonment), used as a metaphor for America’s changing times from the late 1970s into the 1980s. … Read more
Corridors of Power is the third solo album by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, released in 1982. It contains a cover of Free’s “Wishing Well”.
Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, It was released on March 27, 1984 (see 1984 in music). Love at First Sting became the most successful album of the band in the USA where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984 … Read more
Women and Children First is the third studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on March 26, 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Ted Templeman, it was the first to feature compositions written solely by the band, and is described by critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as “[the] record where the group … Read more
The Yellow and Black Attack is the first release and debut studio album from the Christian metal band Stryper. It was originally released as a six-song EP, and fewer than 20,000 copies were pressed, as their label, Enigma Records, was unsure of the potential market for Christian metal. CCM Magazine was slightly critical, citing production … Read more
1984 (written as MCMLXXXIV on the front cover) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. One of the band’s most popular albums (in terms of both record sales and chart performance), it was the final album featuring singer David Lee Roth until 2012 when the band released A Different Kind … Read more