War

No, War to End All Wars isn't a Molly Hatchet album, the Frank Frazetta cover painting notwithstanding. It's Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force's 2000 album on Spitfire, which also finally gave Malmsteen's '90s output a proper U.S. reissue release at about the same time. The fleet-fingered Swedish guitar god plays all the electric and acoustic guitar parts on War to End All Wars, of course, and he also plays bass and sitar. And, for better or worse, he writes all the lyrics. His supporting players include vocalist Mark Boals, keyboardist Mats Olausson, and drummer John Macaluso…

The Great War was be released worldwide on July 19th 2019 through Nuclear Blast Records. As the album title reveals, all songs are based on events during the First World War. THE GREAT BOX EDITION Includes: CD HISTORY EDITION – CD THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREAT WAR EDITION – CD STANDARD EDITION

If Lonnie Jordan's 2007 long-player War Stories is to believed - that and a couple of thousand other 12" singles and albums by other artists around the globe - the era of nu soul has given way to soul, and acid jazz has given way to genuine jazz-funk once more. It's not so much that he makes a claim for these things, it's that the evidence is in the grooves themselves. Jordan is, of course, a founding member of Bay area legends War. His singing and keyboard playing helped to define that group's brave (and very successful) attempts at combining jazz, funk, soul, Latin groove and polyrhythmic pop. War Stories is Jordan's third album as a leader, and his first since 1982. It is also easily the best of his own recordings. Of course there are elements of War's sound here and the synthesis that was their trademark is, as expected, all over this 14-song set…

Direct from America's heartland (Ohio), power metal upstarts Jacob's Dream formed in late 1994 as Iron Angel and spend three years fine tuning their classically fused Heavy/Power Metal to perfection. In 1998 the name of the band was changed to Jacob's Dream (there was another Iron Angel) and their first demo CD was released, receiving excellent reviews both in the United States and abroad…

First new WAR album in 20 years includes bonus original platinum + greatest hits album never before released on CD. Features special guest collaborations with Cheech & Chong, Tower of Power, Joe Walsh, Malik Yusef and the USC Marching Band.

There really are more War best-of packages than the situation warrants, and while the double-CD The Very Best of War is a fine compilation if you don't already have one in your collection, it's questionable whether it was a necessary addition to the band's discography. For one thing, it doesn't differ all that much from the previous two-CD War best-of on Rhino, Anthology (1970-1994). Sure, each has a few tracks not on the other, but both are built around their lengthy string of big hits. Even Barry Alfonso's accompanying essay was adapted from the liner notes to Anthology (1970-1994). Still, this does have all of the big chart hits and a few minor ones, as well as standout album tracks from throughout the 1970s and early '80s that illustrate the band's versatility. Reading the small print on the track listings, it's revealed that half a dozen of these cuts are edits that either appear here for the first time or were only available on previous anthologies or imports.