VA - The Many Faces Of Judas Priest (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

  

Another release from the series Many Faces. This time, the veterans of NWOBHM got the great and terrible Judas Priest. In the treklist three-disc box you will find both the names of superstars of a heavy scene, and the names are not much untwisted, but the whole collection leaves a surprisingly strong and strong impression.

Kansas - Point of Know Return Live & Beyond (2021/FLAC)

 

With a legendary career spanning nearly five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This "garage band" from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

The summer of 2020 marked the release of “The Absence of Presence,” KANSAS’s sixteenth studio album, which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart.  The wide-ranging progressive rock album, released by InsideOut Music, follows-up 2016’s “The Prelude Implicit,” which debuted at #14 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart. 

Throughout 2016-2017, the band celebrated the anniversary of breakout album “Leftoverture” with the highly successful KANSAS: Leftoverture 40th Anniversary Tour. That tour was released in 2017 as a live album, “Leftoverture Live & Beyond.” Since 2018, KANSAS has followed that tour with the even more successful KANSAS: Point of Know Return Anniversary Tour. That tour was captured as the 2021 live album, “Point of Know Return Live & Beyond”, available on Limited Edition 2 CD Digipak, 180g 3LP+2CD Boxset & as Digital Album.

Along with original KANSAS band members Phil Ehart on drums and Richard Williams on lead guitar, “Point of Know Return Live & Beyond”, features Tom Brislin on keyboards and vocals, Billy Greer on bass and vocals, Ronnie Platt on lead vocals and keyboards, David Ragsdale on violin and vocals, and Zak Rizvi on guitar and vocals.

Motorhead - Ace of Spades (40th Anniversary Deluxe,2020/FLAC)

 Ace of Spades is the fourth studio album by British rock band Motörhead, released on 8 November 1980 via Bronze Records. It is the band's most commercially successful album, peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart and reaching gold status in the UK by March 1981. It was preceded by the release of the title track as a single on 27 October, which peaked in the UK Singles Chart at No. 15 in early November.

It was the band's debut release in the United States, with Mercury Records handling distribution in North America. In 2020, the album was ranked at 408 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

VA - Chicago Plays The Stones [2018/FLAC]

 

They’ve been celebrating this music since the ’60s, but the Rolling Stones really amped up their adulation of the songs and giants of Chicago blues with their acclaimed 2016 album Blue and Lonesome.

There was always an irony in the fact that it took a British band to introduce much of America to the kings and queens of Chicago blues, but it was with the utmost sincerity that the Stones first covered these songs and then came to Chicago to be at Chess Studios and hang out with heroes like Muddy Waters. The gritty, urban, amplified and electrifying sound of Chicago blues was tapped by the original rock ’n’ rollers of the ’50s and even more so by the Rolling Stones starting in the mid-’60s. Blues titans like Muddy and Buddy Guy recognized and benefitted from the Stones’ outspoken adoration of them and their Windy City brethren, and a long-lasting cross-continental kinship was born.

VA - Krautrock: Music For Your Brain Vol. 5 [6 CD, 2012]

 

 

An incredible 6 CD compilation of some seriously rare Krautrock. It's compilers Andreas Baumann and Rudi Vogel set out to create an encyclopedia of Krautrock, and have suceeded here in a massive journey of 54 Bands, 65 titles over 474 minutes and 56 seconds!