Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

1. I Am Made Of You
2. Caffeine
3. The Nightmare Returns
4. A Runaway Train
5. Last Man On Earth
6. The Congregation
7. I’ll Bite Your Face Off
8. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
9. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture

Release date: 13 September 2011

The master of macabre is back with what is to be considered part two of one of his most famous works, 1975's Welcome to My Nightmare. Joined by Bob Ezrin, who was the producer of the original 1975 multi-platinum seller, they again weave together another story from within the mind of the Alice Cooper character.

"This is Alice's nightmare 35 years later," explains Alice, "Bob and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we're not writing for me, we're writing for Alice. We kept the first 'Nightmare' album very personal to us, on this one we found more humor and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries; we went where the lyrics took us."

Riot - Immortal Soul

1. Still Your Man
2. Riot
3. Crawling
4. Wings Are for Angels
5. Sins of the Father
6. Fall Before Me
7. Majestica
8. Immortal Soul
9. Insanity
10. Whiskey man
11. Believe
12. Echoes

Label: Steamhammer/SPV

Release date:
Germany 28.10.2011
EU October 31st
USA Canada November 22nd

Ok, I will admit upfront that I have not followed Riot's career for the past 20 years. I am an old school Riot fanatic, and cut my teeth on Fire Down Under and Restless Breed; I love the Rhett Forrester years the most, and just as much, the early Guy Speranza years. When Thundersteel came out in 1988 with new vocalist Tony Moore, I listened to it, and it was good, but the band "felt" different to me, and eventually got lost in the huge amount of 80's bands that were around at the time. Tony recorded two albums with the band before leaving in 1992, and over the years I have revisited a few releases here and there, but again, they just never grabbed me and held me (I guess I listen to way to many different bands).

The band has went through many line-ups, and different vocalists over the years, but now, with 2011, after more than 20 apart, they have come back around to the Thundersteel line-up consisting of Tony Moore (vocals), Mark Reale (guitar), Don Van Stavern (bass) and Bobby Jarzombek (drums) plus live guitarist Mike Flyntz, and I am again listening...and enjoying.