Hard Rock

VA - Hard Rock (Remastered) (2018) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 19, 2023

The roots of hard rock can be traced back to the 1950s, particularly electric blues. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to modify rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming, and louder vocals. By the end of the decade a distinct genre of hard rock was emerging with bands like Led Zeppelin, who mixed the music of early rock bands with a more hard-edged form of blues rock and acid rock, and Deep Purple, who began as a progressive rock group in 1968 but achieved their commercial breakthrough with their fourth and distinctively heavier album, In Rock in 1970. Half a century later Hard Rock music is still one the favorite of millions of fans around the world and The Hard Rock Box showcases in 6 CD's many of the genre's most successful artists and songs. Uriah Heep, Saxon, UFO, Foghat, Alcatrazz, Ian Gillan, Todd Rundgren, Nazareth, Mountain and Molly Hatchet are presented along epic classics such as 'Slow Ride', 'Get It On (Bang A Gong)', 'Blind Faith', 'Hair Of The Dog' and 'Ballroom Blitz'. With remastered sound and fantastic artwork, The Hard Rock Box is a never before available collection of classic rock music that you need in your music library. Also, remember that it is not available on any streaming platforms.

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VA - I'm A Freak 2 Baby A Further Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene: 1968-73 (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 31, 2019

VA - I'm A Freak 2 Baby A Further Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene: 1968-73 (2019)
Flac (tracks, .cue, log) / Mp3 320 kbps | 03:53:15 | 1,4 Gb / 530 Mb
Genre: Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock / Label: Grapefruit Records

UK three CD set. Released in 2016, I'm A Freak Baby - Grapefruit's overview of the UK's late Sixties/early Seventies nascent hard rock/proto-metal scene - received rapturous acclaim from pundits and punters alike. And, like all good follow-ups, I'm A Freak 2 Baby expands upon the original while simultaneously tightening the stylistic mesh. In addition to further selections from some of the subterranean stars of the first volume, we feature many of the genre's pioneers, with key tracks from The Jeff Beck Group, Edgar Broughton Band, Atomic Rooster and High Tide. Our scope ranges from Top Five hit singles (Love Sculpture's manic, heavily influential 'Sabre Dance' and the original brass-free demo version of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's gothic masterpiece 'Fire') to a clutch of bands (Thor, Tonge, Tarsus and several others) that were active during our timeframe but didn't get beyond locally-recorded demos.

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VA - Hard Rock Hits (2013) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 15, 2023

VA - Hard Rock Hits (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 520 MB
3:45:34 | Rock, Hard rock | Label: Paradiso

Hard Rock Hits collects a mixture of original hits and album cuts by popular bands of the '70s and '80s. Several of these groups are featured on more than one track including Nazareth, Black Sabbath, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, the Raspberries, and Golden Earring. Cuts by Kansas, the Tubes, J. Geils Band, Styx, Survivor, Rainbow, and REO Speedwagon are also included on this triple-disc compilation.

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VA - We’re An American Band (A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973) (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 10, 2023

Three CD set charting the birth and early development of American hard rock. In the late 60s, the parallel emergence of psychedelia and the blues-based power trio format saw pop evolve into rock. In America, bands became harder, heavier, rawer and louder to a backdrop of the Vietnam War, street drugs and increasingly powerful amps. Commercially successful acts like Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly spearheaded a new wave of bands whose sound would later be codified as heavy metal. Over three CDs and four hours of music, 'We're An American Band' charts hard rock's evolution during the late 60s and early 70s, culminating in Grand Funk's game-changing, chart-topping late 1973 single of the same name. In addition to the aforementioned bands, we feature the likes of Alice Cooper, The Stooges, ZZ Top, MC5 and Love, hard rock dilettantes (Todd Rundgren, Kim Fowley, even Muddy Waters) and such pioneers as Kurt Cobain-endorsed satanic rockers Coven and early metalheads Sir Lord Baltimore. We include tracks from some of the most valuable vinyl LPs on the planet (Bolder Damn, Brigade), ultra-rare local singles (The Mass Confusion Rock Band, Wildwood) and vital music that went unreleased at the time (B. F. Trike, Cold Sun, etc). With accompanying 48-page booklet, 'We're An American Band' is a fascinating window on American rock's epic journey from the bowels of the late 60s underground counterculture to mainstream mid-70s acceptance.

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VA - Hard Rock Essentials: The 80's (1994) {Rebound/PolyGram} Music

Posted by TestTickles at Oct. 1, 2018

VA - Hard Rock Essentials: The 80's (1994) {Rebound/PolyGram}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 475 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 241 mb
Genre: hard rock, Southern rock, classic rock

Hard Rock Essentials: The 80's is a 1994 compilation of some of the best hard rock songs of the 1980's but are they limited to just songs released by the PolyGram family? No but most of it is PolyGram/Universal oriented. This was released by the PolyGram budget compilation subsidiary, Rebound.

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Bad Company - Hard Rock Live (2009) Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 9, 2023

Bad Company - Hard Rock Live (2010)
XLD Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + Log ~ 561 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 207 Mb
Full Scans | 01:19:26 | RAR 5% Recovery
Image Entertainment / Universal Music #06025 273 026-6
Arena Rock / Classic Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock

Hard Rock Live is a live album and video by the English hard rock band Bad Company released in 2010. It was recorded at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on August 8, 2008, and marked the first time original members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke had performed together, since their brief reunion in 1999.

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Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Democracy 3D: Live at the Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas (2014) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 12, 2024

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Democracy 3D: Live at the Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, full scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 392 MB
2:20:24 | Hard Rock | Label: UMe / Geffen

This live concert film captures a post-Chinese Democracy era Guns N' Roses performing in late 2012 at The Joint in Las Vegas' Hard Rock Casino. GN'R namesake Axl Rose leads a revamped version of the band (including former Replacements member Tommy Stinson on bass and longtime Guns collaborator Dizzy Reed on keyboards) through almost three hours of material. The massive set list includes a number of classic tunes from Appetite for Destruction, several Chinese Democracy cuts, and covers of Pink Floyd, Neil Young, and the Who.

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Blue Öyster Cult - Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 (2020) [Blu-ray 1080i + DVD] Music

Posted by v3122 at May 31, 2021

Blue Öyster Cult - Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 (2020)
Blu-ray: MPEG-2 23392 kbps, 1080i, 29,970 fps, 16:9
Dolby Digital 5.1, 48 kHz, 448 kbps / LPCM 2.0, 48 kHz, 2304 kbps, 24-bit
DVD-9: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | AC3, 6 ch / LPCM, 2 ch
Hard Rock | 01:57:45 | ~ 23.12 or 7.66 Gb

Recorded at the Hard Rock Casino in Northfield, Ohio, ‘Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014’ offers a comprehensive and exciting look at the Blue Öyster Cult repertoire. Containing almost two hours of music, the band is on fire, performing some of the finest and most beloved songs from their extensive catalogue, while not forgetting some deeper cuts that will make long term fans of the band very happy…

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V.A. - Hard Rock Cafe: Party Rock (1998) Music

Posted by gribovar at June 25, 2020

Rhino chips away at more rock nostalgia of the surface variety. This time out, both the '70s and '80 are pilfered for chart-toppers by Foreigner, Foghat, the Romantics, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Knack. Thankfully, despite the agitprop cover art, one is spared any overriding theme here, save for a virtual romp through an '80s mods (read: new wavers) and rockers party. And there's even a bit of hip-hop by Tone-Loc, and some proto-lounge swing from Buster Poindexter to bolster the mix. But, the bulk here will be best enjoyed by muscle-car driving heshers who don't mind hearing their favorite Frampton or Joe Walsh cut yet one more time.

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VA - I'm a Freak, Baby: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72 (2016) Music

Posted by delpotro at July 8, 2024

VA - I'm a Freak, Baby: A Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72 (2016)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,49 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 694 Mb | Digital booklet | 03:53:21
Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock | Label: Grapefruit Records, Cherry Red Records

Although vintage British psychedelia is viewed by many these days as an Alice In Wonderland-style enchanted garden full of beatific flower children innocently gathering flowers or chasing butterflies, there was always a more visceral element to the scene. Pointedly free of such fripperies as scarlet tunic-wearing gnomes, phenomenal cats and talismanic bicycles, the power trio format that was popularised by the likes of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience spawned a host of imitators. As the Sixties drew to a close and pop evolved slowly but inexorably into rock, psychedelia gave way to a sound that was harder, leaner, heavier, louder.

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