Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Artizan, Aeon Zen, Bonfire, Dio, Helker, and U.D.O.

  Heavy rock is on show this week and it is all quite good.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 20, 2013

• Live Music Reviews: My Eurovision 2013 Top Five Performances

  As usual, we saw the tone-deaf, the dire and some gems. Here is Marty's top five.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 19, 2013

• Music Reviews: Amaze Me, Nick Glider, The Poodles, Sideburn, Tom Keifer, and Uhrijuhla

  A nice collection of decent hard rock, from blues to pop, through folk prog rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 16, 2013

• Music Reviews: Greg Lake, Freedom Call, Patrick Hemer, Rhapsody of Fire, The Ocean, and Warnot

  More progressive-influenced stuff this week. In fact, we start with one of the founding members of the genre.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 06, 2013

• Music Reviews: Deep Purple, Fair Warning, Heaven's Basement, Ian Danter, Clutch, and Rainbow

  Reviewed this week is some classic rock and at least one album that is a soon-to-be classic.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 29, 2013

• Music Reviews: Anvil, Black Cowgirl, Intoxicated, Pyschothermia, Spitfire, and Zed

  Up this week is a nice collection of new heavy rock releases, all of which will please some ears.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 22, 2013

• Music Reviews: Artlantica, Delain, Divided Multitude, Landmarq, Niacin, and Timo Tolkki's Avalon

  All sorts of glorious prog are reviewed in this week's column.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 16, 2013

• Music Reviews: Adema, Order of Nine, Trinakrius, Trollfest, Vicious Rumors, and Victor Griffin's In-Graved

  There's lots of heavy music for your pleasure this week, and Adema?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 09, 2013

• Music Reviews: Burning Rain, Charming Grace, Bai Bang, D-A-D, Laneslide, and Pretty Maids

  Reviews range from pop-tinged rock through quality AOR to some damn fine blues rock this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 01, 2013

• Music Reviews: The Arrows, De La Cruz, Double Treat, Eldorado, Paris and Perfect Crime

  All sorts of rock from cheesy pop to bluesy hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 25, 2013

• Music Reviews: James Williams, John Lawton & the Diana Express, Kingdom Come, Stahlmann, Temple of Thieves, and Waylon Speed

  Country, electronic and modern rock are in this cornucopia of reviews.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 18, 2013

• Music Reviews: Empty Flowers, High Priest of Saturn, In the Silence, Inedia, Intronaut, and Soen

  Reviewed this week is a fine and varied collection of releases in the genre called prog metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 11, 2013

• Music Reviews: Axel Rudi Pell, Cnoc An Tursa, Finsterforst, Gloryhammer, Serenity, and Visions of Atlantis

  Something for every sort of power metal taste this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 04, 2013

• Music Reviews: Buckcherry, Covered Call, Diamond Dawn, Davey Suicide, Lavett and The New Black

  This week I have pulled out six hard rock albums for my critical ear.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 25, 2013

• Music Reviews: Great White, Lordi, Poco, Tarja, Dark New Day, and Sevendust

  Norwegian folk music, the return of Poco and a bit of Lordi this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 18, 2013

• Music Reviews: Ancient VVisdom, Connor Christian & Southern Gothic, Holy Grail, Kingcrow, Tombstone Highway, and Voodoo Circle

  A varied sextet of new releases, all worth your attention.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 11, 2013

• Music Reviews: Eight Bells, Farewell My Love, Giant X, Circle II Circle, Stratovarius, and Unantastbar

  This week the reviews travel from the stoner to German lyrics to some epic pomp metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 06, 2013

• Music Reviews: Deep Purple, Mustasch, Mystery Blue, Pink Cream 69, Paganland, and Upon Wings

  Classic rock, pagan and heavy metal with a touch of goth are reviewed this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 29, 2013

• Music Reviews: Royal Hunt, Snakecharmer, Paul D'Adamo, Sammal, Focus, and Crashdiet

  Prog, blues, and jazz-prog topped with a touch of sleaze.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 21, 2013

• Music Reviews: Atkins May Project, Black Country Communion, Chickenfoot, Jorn, Wheels of Fire, and Whispers of Wonder

  Two supergroups CDs I missed and a mixed bag of heavy music releases.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 13, 2013