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ANOTHER PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED GEM AT THE AOR HEAVEN CLASSIX SERIES:

Following hot on the heels of the recently released ROQ ROYALE album the AOR Heaven Classix series continues with the never released second Marchello album entitled The Magic Comes Alive.
As with all other titles from the AOR Heaven Classix series the
album has been digitally remastered by Chris Lyne (Soul Doctor),
contains liner notes by Dave Reynolds and it's strictly limited to 1000
copies. It's set for release due September 7 and it will be available
through www.aorheaven.com, Cargo in the UK and selected retailers.
Despite having released a debut album at the tail-end of the 80s that
has since become a bit of a cult favourite amongst more than a few
aficionados of melodically tinged hard rock, unfortunately, as things
turned out for vocalist/guitarist Gene Marchello, the subject of longevity for his band Marchello
wasn't something that wound up being a regular feature on the agenda of
the CBS Associated label he had found himself signed with.

The fact CBS had been impressed by
Marchello enough to instigate the recording of a second album to follow 1989's 'Destiny'
affair wasn't, at the time, a surprise as the group had gained a
reasonable amount of interest in the States thanks to encouraging levels
of airplay on MTV for their first video and a fair bit of touring. Yet
as the musical climate began to change rapidly throughout the industry,
as the fast chicks and fast cars party atmosphere championed by peers
such as Mötley Crüe, Ratt and Bon Jovi began to be superseded by an
alarming trend towards a more depressing, drug infested style of hard
rock thanks to the emergence of Alice In Chains and Nirvana, the follow
up album Marchello and his band mates (bassist Nick DiMichino, drummer John Miceli and keyboard player Gary Bivona)
created remained unreleased for over twenty years. Marchello, along
with plenty of their peers who suffered similar fates, were dropped like
a stone by a company keen to disassociate itself with a genre of hard
rock – more commonly known, disgustingly so if you want my opinion on
the matter, as 'hair metal' – in order to promote the new order. The
music business is, indeed, a cruel one.

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» R.I.P. PEPPI MARCHELLO