Retro Active — перша збірка англійської групи Def Leppard, яка була випущена 5 жовтня 1993 року.

Heavy blues, indeed. Randy Bachman — leading a new group simply called Bachman isn’t soft selling his forthcoming album, advanced here by a raucous side featuring Peter Frampton.
“Heavy Blues” begins with an aggressively crunchy, “American Woman”-esque declamation before Bachman’s voice — as famous from his work with Bachman-Turner Overdrive as that guitar sound was with the great Guess Who hit — takes this song back toward more accustomed environs.

Looking On is the third album by The Move, released in the UK in December 1970. The LP is their first to feature Jeff Lynne, their first containing entirely original compositions, and the first on the Fly label, its catalogue number being FLY 1. It includes both their 1970 singles, the Top 10 hit "Brontosaurus," released on Regal Zonophone in March, and the less successful "When Alice Comes Back To The Farm," released on Fly in October.

Для оформления обложки альбомы была использована фотография певицы и фотомодели Аманды Лир, в то время - близкой подруги Брайана Ферри. Автором фотоснимка был Карл Стокер (англ. Karl Stoecker). На развороте оригинального винилового релиза все участники группы были сфотографированы в сценических костюмах, созданных для них Энтони Прайсом.

...Meanwhile is the tenth studio album by British pop band 10cc. It was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, The Hit Factory, New York, River Sound Studios, New York, Bill Schnee Studio, Los Angeles and Village Recorders, Los Angeles and released in 1992.

Undercover is the 17th British and 19th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1983. After their preceding studio album, Tattoo You (1981), which was mostly patched together from a selection of outtakes, Undercover was their first release of all new recordings in the 1980s. With the advent of the MTV generation, the band attempted to re-invent themselves for a new era.

Scotch - итальянская итало-диско группа, существовавшая в 1982—1987 годах. В 2004 году группа была объединена на один вечер в рамках фестиваля «Дискотека 80-х».

One of Brazil’s finest imports, Hibria, is back at it again with their fresh, invigorating EP, XX. Their current lineup – vocalist Iuri Sanson, drummer Eduardo Baldo, bassist Ivan Beck, with guitarists Abel Camargo and Renato Osório – presented the EP this past Tuesday, commemorating 20 years of the band’s existence. XX provides a perfect dosage of kicking blues licks, soaring power metal vocals, and gripping progressive rock experimentation. Veterans of metal, Hibria have been doing their thing for two decades now… so it’s a real shame that I’m only now discovering their progressive flair. Furthermore, XX is a great testament to their aptitude for creating a unique blend of metal, in all its glory and magnificence.

This is a dense album with lots going on and the band brought in a host of guest musicians and producers to help flesh(god) out their ginormous concepts. Guitarists Ricardo Dias and Vitor Carvalho do some impressive work leapfrogging across genres and styles, managing to craft quality goth, death and black metal riffs to fit the various songs as needed. They aren’t particularly flashy players but they know how to drive a song with a riff. Dias is also credited with the orchestral arrangements, which are omnipresent and generally well executed. They aren’t always as well anchored to the core of the music as with Shade Empire and Septicflesh, but they certainly work. Ernesto Guerra was required to pull off multiple vocal styles to make this all come together and he should be commended for his solid performance. His death roars are respectable and his singing is often quite emotional. Considering he’s a fairly limited vocalist, he really stretched his capabilities and helped put the material over the top.

Equilibrium have crafted an album full of cool, catchy tunes that makes you want to bang your head to the heavy as shit guitars, tap your foot to the big hooks, groove to the rhythm and want to go off reserve like you’re at a European progressive trance gig – all at the same time. There must something in northern European water that brings out almost virtuoso inventiveness, and Equilibrium can comfortably take their place alongside their Scandinavian brethren and fellow creative geniuses such as Vintersorg and Witherscape.