Rising Force
In 1984, to the best of my knowledge, there was no such thing as “classical metal.” We were still beginning…
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Paradise Theater
The first thing I wondered, upon realizing that the Daily Vault had never reviewed Styx's Paradise Theater, was whether our Fearless Founder was actually from Chicagoland. I know that my home town was on the very periphery of the Part Of Illinois Around The Big Shoulders, where Chicago arena-rockers Styx were as omnipresent as Cub games on WGN and Italian beef sandwiches when I was growing up. That meandering aside, I turned my attention to actually writing the damn review.And…
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