Click --EZCODE LINK START--HERE --EZCODE LINK END-- to see it. below is the English translation provided by Andrea (thanks!)
--EZCODE ITALIC START--"From the state of New York, Caroline Blue is a solid
melodic hard-rock trio moved by classic inspiration taken
from Kiss, but never figuring as a their cover band, and
never as rakes and lack of personality. Indeed, Caroline
Blue weight down the sound in phase of riffing, and run with
a rythmical section aggressive and more powerful
guaranteeing a precise trademark. "Slaves To The
Hourglass" is their first studio work, a five tracks
EP(more two hidden tracks that does not add a lot in matter
of quality: an acoustic instrumental song, and a telephone
call by Wayne while promoting the record), dynamic and
spontaneous that let truly imagining a monstro attitude to
the live show dimension(very large is the number of cover
songs in their own catalogue). Title-track and "The Queen
Of Pleasure", in this sense, express on the better way the
concept of CB's "wall-of-sound". In auge for sure we
have Wayne Johnson, vocalist, determined and visceral
axe-man who drags all the compositions in a vortex made by
electricity and sweat, in a certain way paying tribute to
Paul Stanley, but able to communicate his own personality
and rock'n'roll glamour. The producing, unfortunately, is
not the best one. The sound is too much stuffed with
wadding, and drums sounds too much like as in the '80, but
i'm also speaking about a kind of autoproducing, and
therefore lack of technology to "clean or modernize the
sound". Anyway, are Caroline Blue the "next big thing"? They
surely could be it. The potentialities does not lack, the
same to say in fact of determination to assert
themself(furious is the promotion on the web, so much
organized and detailed). At last just a note to say that the
band members signed on the cd credits are not same than
actual(except Wayne), and therefore i do not know the
effective quality of the new ones, but voices said that
their recently live performances has been great. Then, what
we have to do is to wait for the full-lenght record, but
this Ep is a nice aperitif that open your stomach as well
until that time."
Appresial: 73/100 --EZCODE ITALIC END--
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CAROLINE BLUE will be opening for Reloaded at Schultzies in Phoenix,NY on Saturday ecember 30,2006. Show starts at 10 PM & Admission is TBA. For more info visit http://carolineblue.com/
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As you may know, back in August 2006, CAROLINE BLUE filmed a concept/live video for the song "Slave to the Hourglass" at The Half Penny Pub in Syracuse, NY. The lineup of the band at this shooting was Wayne W. Johnson (Vocals/Guitar), Azriel Mordecai (Bass) & Monster Mike Merrifield (Drums). We were told that the video will be broadcast thru several outlets by as early as mid January 2007 . However, we just found out that the "Slave to the Hourglass" video can be seen RIGHT NOW at the UVTV site! Go to http://www.uvtv.info/carolineblue.php
to check it out! Please remember to vote for the song by moving your mouse to the stars and clicking (if you move it to the 5th star, it counts as a vote of 5 stars-HINT!). Don't forget to check out and vote for the other CAROLINE BLUE videos while your there-not to mention you can also check out other videos from such bands like Dogs on Mars, Zadoc & The Nightmare, Hemorrhage, Brand New Sin and many more!
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Hiya! We jusy got word of a great review of CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" from the website Metal to Infinity (Belgium). Click HERE to see the page or just read below!
CAROLINE BLUE - SLAVE TO THE HOURGLASS
INDEPENDENT
METAL TO INFINITY
Caroline Blue is a three piece band that is located in Syracuse, New York. Current line up is Josh Dean on drums, Johnny Sniper on bass, and mastermind Wayne W. Johnson is taking care of the lead vocals and guitars. All members have played in numerous bands before, so they could acquire experience a lot! The members on the picture of the CD are not the current members and did not play on this EP. The only reason why they were printed is because they were part of the line up at the time of the CD's release. It might be a bit confusing, but you can read all details on the bands homepage: http://www.carolineblue.com/.
It was my first acquaintance with the band, and from the opener Slave To The Hourglass, there was a pop up in my head that directed me to Kiss their Paul Stanley. Not only the voice of Wayne is resembling, also the intonation, and the way he brings it on, refers to Kiss their front man. Musical wise, we hear great, solid but Melodic Hard Rock that will please a lot of fans that are into the old school 80's hair metal. The band shot a video for this title track, and also one for ''The Queen of Pleasure'', perchance my favorite tracks from the EP. Wayne holds the string tight, and whatever the line up is, he's the man that controls the band and the songs.
So far, the band has a repertoire of more or less 20 songs, and a huge catalog of cover tracks. Does it surprise you that they cover about 15 Kiss tracks, but also Metallica, Godsmack, Black Sabbath, Halford, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, AC/DC... a.o. I have the feeling that this band is a real live act that knows what people like and know how to bring it down to the masses! The five songs on the EP are above the average what I've heard these months, and make me curious about the next material that is being recorded at Strangeland Audio Studios in Phoenix, NY.
Scott Patnode is doing the producing/engineering, and the release is set for early 2007. Besides 12 songs, there might be a bonus or hidden track on the disc, but I do hope that the band will deliver upper class material than the 6 minutes acoustic track (track 6) that was hidden on this E.P. or the second hidden track (#13), which consists of a telephone call of a complaining of their landlord... Totally negligible and of no use at all...My rating: 80/100
This CD review was written by Patrick de Sloover on behalf of Metal To Infinity Webzine
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Hey everyone! We just found out earlier today that WAYNE has been feautred in the "Defenders of the Faith" section in the February 2007 Edition of Guitar World Magazine! Very cool-even though they got his middle initial wrong ( "M" instead of "W"). Way to go Wayno!
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CAROLINE BLUE will be performing at The Gathering Place in Rome,NY 13440 (287 E. Dominick Street) on Saturday November 18,2006. Admission is $5.00. CAROLINE BLUE will be going on 1st at 10 PM. Following them will be Zadoc...& The Nightmare with a spacial appearance by Jane Evil .The last band performing will be Jayne Dracula. Show is 18 & over but everyone must bring scannable ID.
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CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" is now available online thru a site in Japan named DISK HEAVEN (JAPAN) Click on the link to check it out! Btw-you'd don't have to install the language pack to read the site.....
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CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" has just been reviewed on Oblivion.de in Germany. It can reached by clicking HERE Below is a transcript of the review in English (translated by Ela-thanks!)...
This, what Wayne Johnson,Lead singer and Guitarist of the the Hard Rock Combo Caroline Blue send to me,is actually the Music taste and right up the alley of our Editor Steve.But because Steve has been running behind in reviewing his Import dealings,I thought I would take it up on myself to review this 5tracker plus a hidden track.Melodic Hard Rock is the trademark of these boys and with Influences from bands like Kiss,Motley Crue,and early Judas Priest ,the music is ideal also for the Classic Hard Rocker to give a listen to.Anybody that feels the need to really wanna rock out again would be well served by listening to this band.
Kiss- and you can really hear it periodicly are definetly heard in their music and are known to be their Idols,where only in the distance will you identify a small amount of the dirty sound of Motley Crue.The whole thing is actually on the cool,easy going side.Pretty cool is the Track"Queen of pleasure" where the song is about money,gang bangs and a Pornostar,but the lyrics get repeated quite often during the song.About the written part of the songs there are really no Highpoints,so it makes this self released CD actually a very down to earth Melodic Hard Rock piece.Nothing huge,but nothing small either.
In addition, Walter Scheurer's review from powermetal.de has found it's way to another German site at Underground Empire.com. Click HERE
to check it out. A translation to this review has been posted in our earlier blog in regards to the powermetal.de review.....
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CAROLINE BLUE has entered into a distribution deal with Hellion Records (Germany) for the sale of their "Slave to the Hourglass" CD! It is now available for sale thru their website which can be reached by clicking on http://www.hellionrecords.de/ . They have a very extensive catalog of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal titles in stock. If you wish to purchase CAROLINE BLUE's "Slave to the Hourglass" thru Hellion Records, the Item number for the CD is #14179.
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We are proud to announce that CAROLINE BLUE has a new drummer! His name is Josh Dean and from our 1st encounter with him, young Josh is ready to kick booty boy howdy! Course, being the pros that we are here at CBNET, we have the skinny on the newbie for all you fanatical CB fans, friends & freaks! Learn more about Josh by checking out his BIO and his FACTS N STATS. Hoody Hoo!
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CAROLINE BLUE / Blog
12/29/2006-STTH CD Review-Hardsounds.it (Italy)
Click --EZCODE LINK START--HERE --EZCODE LINK END-- to see it. below is the English translation provided by Andrea (thanks!) --EZCODE ITALIC START--"From the state of New York, Caroline Blue is a solid melodic hard-rock trio moved by classic inspiration taken from Kiss, but never figuring as a their cover band, and never as rakes and lack of personality. Indeed, Caroline Blue weight down the sound in phase of riffing, and run with a rythmical section aggressive and more powerful guaranteeing a precise trademark. "Slaves To The Hourglass" is their first studio work, a five tracks EP(more two hidden tracks that does not add a lot in matter of quality: an acoustic instrumental song, and a telephone call by Wayne while promoting the record), dynamic and spontaneous that let truly imagining a monstro attitude to the live show dimension(very large is the number of cover songs in their own catalogue). Title-track and "The Queen Of Pleasure", in this sense, express on the better way the concept of CB's "wall-of-sound". In auge for sure we have Wayne Johnson, vocalist, determined and visceral axe-man who drags all the compositions in a vortex made by electricity and sweat, in a certain way paying tribute to Paul Stanley, but able to communicate his own personality and rock'n'roll glamour. The producing, unfortunately, is not the best one. The sound is too much stuffed with wadding, and drums sounds too much like as in the '80, but i'm also speaking about a kind of autoproducing, and therefore lack of technology to "clean or modernize the sound". Anyway, are Caroline Blue the "next big thing"? They surely could be it. The potentialities does not lack, the same to say in fact of determination to assert themself(furious is the promotion on the web, so much organized and detailed). At last just a note to say that the band members signed on the cd credits are not same than actual(except Wayne), and therefore i do not know the effective quality of the new ones, but voices said that their recently live performances has been great. Then, what we have to do is to wait for the full-lenght record, but this Ep is a nice aperitif that open your stomach as well until that time." Appresial: 73/100 --EZCODE ITALIC END--
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12/27/2006-CAROLINE BLUE Show-Schultzie's-Phoenix,NY-12/30/06
CAROLINE BLUE will be opening for Reloaded at Schultzies in Phoenix,NY on Saturday ecember 30,2006. Show starts at 10 PM & Admission is TBA. For more info visit http://carolineblue.com/
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12/25/2006-New CAROLINE BLUE Can Now Be Seen on UVTV Site
As you may know, back in August 2006, CAROLINE BLUE filmed a concept/live video for the song "Slave to the Hourglass" at The Half Penny Pub in Syracuse, NY. The lineup of the band at this shooting was Wayne W. Johnson (Vocals/Guitar), Azriel Mordecai (Bass) & Monster Mike Merrifield (Drums). We were told that the video will be broadcast thru several outlets by as early as mid January 2007 . However, we just found out that the "Slave to the Hourglass" video can be seen RIGHT NOW at the UVTV site! Go to http://www.uvtv.info/carolineblue.php to check it out! Please remember to vote for the song by moving your mouse to the stars and clicking (if you move it to the 5th star, it counts as a vote of 5 stars-HINT!). Don't forget to check out and vote for the other CAROLINE BLUE videos while your there-not to mention you can also check out other videos from such bands like Dogs on Mars, Zadoc & The Nightmare, Hemorrhage, Brand New Sin and many more!
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Slave to the Hourglass CD Review-Metal to Infinity (Belgium)
Hiya! We jusy got word of a great review of CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" from the website Metal to Infinity (Belgium). Click HERE to see the page or just read below! CAROLINE BLUE - SLAVE TO THE HOURGLASS INDEPENDENT METAL TO INFINITY Caroline Blue is a three piece band that is located in Syracuse, New York. Current line up is Josh Dean on drums, Johnny Sniper on bass, and mastermind Wayne W. Johnson is taking care of the lead vocals and guitars. All members have played in numerous bands before, so they could acquire experience a lot! The members on the picture of the CD are not the current members and did not play on this EP. The only reason why they were printed is because they were part of the line up at the time of the CD's release. It might be a bit confusing, but you can read all details on the bands homepage: http://www.carolineblue.com/. It was my first acquaintance with the band, and from the opener Slave To The Hourglass, there was a pop up in my head that directed me to Kiss their Paul Stanley. Not only the voice of Wayne is resembling, also the intonation, and the way he brings it on, refers to Kiss their front man. Musical wise, we hear great, solid but Melodic Hard Rock that will please a lot of fans that are into the old school 80's hair metal. The band shot a video for this title track, and also one for ''The Queen of Pleasure'', perchance my favorite tracks from the EP. Wayne holds the string tight, and whatever the line up is, he's the man that controls the band and the songs. So far, the band has a repertoire of more or less 20 songs, and a huge catalog of cover tracks. Does it surprise you that they cover about 15 Kiss tracks, but also Metallica, Godsmack, Black Sabbath, Halford, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, AC/DC... a.o. I have the feeling that this band is a real live act that knows what people like and know how to bring it down to the masses! The five songs on the EP are above the average what I've heard these months, and make me curious about the next material that is being recorded at Strangeland Audio Studios in Phoenix, NY. Scott Patnode is doing the producing/engineering, and the release is set for early 2007. Besides 12 songs, there might be a bonus or hidden track on the disc, but I do hope that the band will deliver upper class material than the 6 minutes acoustic track (track 6) that was hidden on this E.P. or the second hidden track (#13), which consists of a telephone call of a complaining of their landlord... Totally negligible and of no use at all...My rating: 80/100 This CD review was written by Patrick de Sloover on behalf of Metal To Infinity Webzine
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12/11/06-WWJ IN FEBRUARY 2007 ISSUE OF GUITAR WORLD
Hey everyone! We just found out earlier today that WAYNE has been feautred in the "Defenders of the Faith" section in the February 2007 Edition of Guitar World Magazine! Very cool-even though they got his middle initial wrong ( "M" instead of "W"). Way to go Wayno!
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11/17/06- CAROLINE BLUE Show-The Gathering Place-Rome.NY-11/18/06
CAROLINE BLUE will be performing at The Gathering Place in Rome,NY 13440 (287 E. Dominick Street) on Saturday November 18,2006. Admission is $5.00. CAROLINE BLUE will be going on 1st at 10 PM. Following them will be Zadoc...& The Nightmare with a spacial appearance by Jane Evil .The last band performing will be Jayne Dracula. Show is 18 & over but everyone must bring scannable ID.
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11/2/06-Slave to the Hourglass CD now available in Japan!
CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" is now available online thru a site in Japan named DISK HEAVEN (JAPAN) Click on the link to check it out! Btw-you'd don't have to install the language pack to read the site.....
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11/2/06-Slave to the Hourglass CD Review-Oblivion.de (Germany)
CAROLINE BLUE's CD "Slave to the Hourglass" has just been reviewed on Oblivion.de in Germany. It can reached by clicking HERE Below is a transcript of the review in English (translated by Ela-thanks!)... This, what Wayne Johnson,Lead singer and Guitarist of the the Hard Rock Combo Caroline Blue send to me,is actually the Music taste and right up the alley of our Editor Steve.But because Steve has been running behind in reviewing his Import dealings,I thought I would take it up on myself to review this 5tracker plus a hidden track.Melodic Hard Rock is the trademark of these boys and with Influences from bands like Kiss,Motley Crue,and early Judas Priest ,the music is ideal also for the Classic Hard Rocker to give a listen to.Anybody that feels the need to really wanna rock out again would be well served by listening to this band. Kiss- and you can really hear it periodicly are definetly heard in their music and are known to be their Idols,where only in the distance will you identify a small amount of the dirty sound of Motley Crue.The whole thing is actually on the cool,easy going side.Pretty cool is the Track"Queen of pleasure" where the song is about money,gang bangs and a Pornostar,but the lyrics get repeated quite often during the song.About the written part of the songs there are really no Highpoints,so it makes this self released CD actually a very down to earth Melodic Hard Rock piece.Nothing huge,but nothing small either. In addition, Walter Scheurer's review from powermetal.de has found it's way to another German site at Underground Empire.com. Click HERE to check it out. A translation to this review has been posted in our earlier blog in regards to the powermetal.de review.....
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10/16/06-CAROLINE BLUE Enters Distribution Deal w/ Hellion Records(Germany)
CAROLINE BLUE has entered into a distribution deal with Hellion Records (Germany) for the sale of their "Slave to the Hourglass" CD! It is now available for sale thru their website which can be reached by clicking on http://www.hellionrecords.de/ . They have a very extensive catalog of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal titles in stock. If you wish to purchase CAROLINE BLUE's "Slave to the Hourglass" thru Hellion Records, the Item number for the CD is #14179.
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10/16/06-New Drummer for CAROLINE BLUE!
We are proud to announce that CAROLINE BLUE has a new drummer! His name is Josh Dean and from our 1st encounter with him, young Josh is ready to kick booty boy howdy! Course, being the pros that we are here at CBNET, we have the skinny on the newbie for all you fanatical CB fans, friends & freaks! Learn more about Josh by checking out his BIO and his FACTS N STATS. Hoody Hoo!
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