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Madam X - Monstrocity (2017)













Year : 2017
Style : Hard Rock , Glam Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 151 mb

Bio:

Madam X is an American glam rock band first active during the 1980s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach. Disbanding in 1988, the group reformed briefly in 1991, and has become active again after reforming for a second time in 2014. The band is set to release a new album in 2017.One of Madam X’s more distinctive songs, ‘Come One, Come All’, contained the line ‘We’re bad, we’re good, that’s all we ever wanted’. Unfortunately for them, most people thought they belonged chiefly in the former category. The band was formed in New York in 1983 by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (b. 17 March 1962, Rochester, Michigan, USA) on guitar and drums, respectively, along with vocalist Bret Kaiser and bass player Christopher ‘Godzilla’ Doliber. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles where their brand of glam metal was more readily accepted. In February 1985 they released an anthemic single, ‘High In High School’, backed with a suitably grandiose video. The single was produced by Rick Derringer who also performed the same task on the album. Both, however, were very average affairs and live shows fell short of the expected excitement.In 1986, Roxy Petrucci departed to join Vixen and Kaiser quit the scene with ego suitably deflated. Mark McConnell took over the drums while vocal duties were handled by Sebastian Bach (b. Sebastian Philip Bierk, 3 April 1968, Freeport, Bahamas). Within the year the band disintegrated, with Doliber forming a wild and heavy band called Godzilla (which failed). Maxine remained in the shadow of her sister, but Bach found stardom with pop metallers Skid Row.

Album:

Legendary Detroit hard rockers Madam X have signed a deal with EMP Label Group, which will release their long-awaited sophomore release "Monstrocity" on CD and digital, with a limited edition vinyl release planned. Produced by Madam X at Metro 37 Studios in Rochester Hills, MI, and mixed by Michael Wagener (Megadeth, Metallica, Skid Row, Ozzy Osbourne), with additional mixing by Mark Slaughter, "Monstrocity" is a hard hitting classic metal/rock record sure to serve as a proper return to form for Madam X, and a kick in the ass for fans old and new.Formed in 1981 by sisters Roxy and Maxine Petrucci, Madam X recruited bassist Chris “Godzilla” Doliber and vocalist Bret Kaiser, who released their classic, Rick Derringer produced, Jet Records debut "We Reserve The Right" in 1984, spawning the hit rock single “High In High School”. Four years later, after Roxy departed to join future arena rock superstars Vixen, and original vocalist Kaiser was briefly replaced by an unknown Canadian vocalist named Sebastian Bach, Madam X disbanded, and would remain mostly inactive until 2014, when the original line-up reunited at the Sweden Rock Festival.Fast forward to 2017, when the Petrucci sisters collaborated with vocalist Mark Slaughter on a Lemmy Kilmister tribute track for their VIP Aftershow project, Slaughter who introduced Roxy to the EMP Label Group head of A&R, Thom Hazaert, who released a 12” “Kilmister” single for Aftershow, and the conversation soon shifted to the upcoming Madam X release.Says Hazaert: “When I connected with Roxy and we were working on The Aftershow stuf, and she told me they were working on a new Madam X record, I was extremely excited at the prospect of releasing it. After a brief courtship, we made the decision to put it out together and I can honestly say I’m still excited. Madam X is such a kick ass rock band, I was always a huge fan of their first record and to be able to release its follow-up over 30 years later is just insane.”Adds drummer Roxy Petrucci: "Hell may not be pretty but good things will find their way out! It takes a huge pair of metal balls to sign a band like Madam X, David Ellefson and Thom Hazaert at EMP put their love of metal first and crushed it by signing Madam X! Raw and flawed."The album features 12 hard-hitting slabs of rock, including the pummeling title track “Monstrocity”, “Resurrection”, “Nitrous” and an updated version of their 1984 hit “High In High School.”

Line-Up:

Bret Kaiser (Vocals)
Maxine Petrucci (Guitar)
Chris "GODZILLA" Doliber (Bass)
Roxy Petrucci (Drums)

Tracklist:

01. Resurrection
02. Monstrocity
03. Nitrous
04. Freak Parade
05. Die Trying
06. Hello Cleveland
07. Big Rock Rolls Heavy
08. Detroit Black
09. The Rise
10. Good Stuff
11. Wish You Away
12. High In Highschool
13. Bride Of Frankenstein



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Madam X - We Reserve The Right (1984) (Lost Gems Remastered Edition 2014)













Year : 1984 (Lost Gems Remastered Edition 2014)
Style : Hard Rock , Glam Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 151 mb

Bio:

Madam X is an American glam rock band first active during the 1980s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach. Disbanding in 1988, the group reformed briefly in 1991, and has become active again after reforming for a second time in 2014. The band is set to release a new album in 2017.One of Madam X’s more distinctive songs, ‘Come One, Come All’, contained the line ‘We’re bad, we’re good, that’s all we ever wanted’. Unfortunately for them, most people thought they belonged chiefly in the former category. The band was formed in New York in 1983 by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (b. 17 March 1962, Rochester, Michigan, USA) on guitar and drums, respectively, along with vocalist Bret Kaiser and bass player Christopher ‘Godzilla’ Doliber. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles where their brand of glam metal was more readily accepted. In February 1985 they released an anthemic single, ‘High In High School’, backed with a suitably grandiose video. The single was produced by Rick Derringer who also performed the same task on the album. Both, however, were very average affairs and live shows fell short of the expected excitement.In 1986, Roxy Petrucci departed to join Vixen and Kaiser quit the scene with ego suitably deflated. Mark McConnell took over the drums while vocal duties were handled by Sebastian Bach (b. Sebastian Philip Bierk, 3 April 1968, Freeport, Bahamas). Within the year the band disintegrated, with Doliber forming a wild and heavy band called Godzilla (which failed). Maxine remained in the shadow of her sister, but Bach found stardom with pop metallers Skid Row.


Album:

Rare Aussie remastered CD reissue of MADAM X culet classic 1984 LP “We Reserve The Right”. Formed by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (later in VIXEN) among its several members there was a young future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach.With the US metal explosion in 1983, Jet Records signed MADAM X for the release of their debut LP next year, produced by Rick Derringer and engineered by legend George Tutko.The aim was to present a half women / half men glam metal band with the typical anthemic sound from the era, something like QUIET RIOT meets TWISTED SISTER. The cover art for “We Reserve The Right” looks funny now, but back in 1984 it made an impact.While MADAM X did a comeback the last decade with a new album and gigs, in the ’80s only lasted 4 years and split when Roxy decided to form VIXEN, and only put out this one album at the time. They exemplified the stereotype of glam rockers, the term big hair is an understatement when describing the band.But they also can play. And wrote some damn good rockin’ tunes. The album has plenty of catchy tracks like ‘High in High School’, ‘Metal in My Veins’ and the anthemic title track ‘We Reserve the Right… To Rock’.Maxine Petrucci shreds like a maniac here, sister Roxy bash the drums with that classic metal fills, and there’s a strong vocalist in Bret Kaiser (he later founded his own band, and also performs as an Elvis Presley tribute artist).There is no way that any 14 year old metal dude ever looked over this record in the bin at his local record shop in 1984 and did not at least ponder buying it, just for the cover. The band photo emblazoned across it, framed in red smoke, is one of the greatest, most absurd images of the ’80s.Roxy is wearing a leotard and a headband, just like Olivia Newton John in her “Let’s Get Physical” video. Bass player Chris “Godzilla” Doliber looks like he’s been constructed from old motorcycle parts. Just take a long look at this fella and tell me he’s not the inspiration for Edward Scissorhands.Maxine, the undisputed eye candy of the band, looks like a fluffer girl on the set of New Wave Hookers. Bret Kaiser, well, he just looks like a fuckin’ dirtbag… haha, oh the ’80s.It is an entirely classic photo, meant to satisfy every teenage metalhead desire – lust, power, mayhem, rock – at once. Yeah, sure, there was a record inside, but if Madam X were selling haircuts, not songs, then they would’ve have been bazillionaires.But maybe you were beyond all that back in 1984. I was only 14. I wasn’t beyond anything yet, so I bought a copy. Now, I am not saying that ”We Reserve the Right” is a lost flash metal gem, but if you did not heard this LP then you missed out on one of the most flagrant examples of dumb, bad fun ever committed to vinyl.Going with the please-everybody-at-once concept, Madam X tried to sound like a motor-riffing Brit metal band, like Judas Priest or Saxon, and a glammy-sleazy hard rock band, like Motley Crue or WASP, and a teenage-baiting party-anthem band, like Twisted Sister or Quiet Riot, all at once.And you know what? That’s pretty much how they sound.Brett Kaiser does a dead-on Rob Halford impression throughout the proceedings, screeching and growling like an arena monster, Maxine lifts Priest, Kiss, and Crue riffs like they were on sale, and effortlessly twists them into supersonic Cheezwhiz, and the band all yelp out a goofy refrain at every chorus.Best of all, the lyrics read just like the ones you used to write in your notebook during study hall in the ninth grade. The songs on this record are just amazing in their obviousness.In the self-explanatory Dirty Girls, the line “Dirty girls keep calling me” is accompanied, every time, with the ringing of a telephone.The only actual heavy metal song on the record is called ‘Metal in My Veins’, and is led off with a gratuitous ‘metal’ guitar solo. You know, stuff like that. Cheap and wonderful.The song you’d know MADAM X from, if you knew ‘em at all, is opener ‘High in High School’, which was also a memorably goofy MTV video. The lyrics, in part, are as follows: “Wake up, you’re late for school, now that’s history/1 plus 1 equals fun, that’s math to me”. You would literally have to get a chunk of brain removed from your head to write something dumber then High in High School.And yet, on a primitive, teenage hellraiser kinda level, it actually works. MADAM X was sort of like a Satanic Sweet in that way, capable of writing instantly catchy pop songs with enough grit to make the rockers think they were getting their dose of metal mania.And, also like The Sweet, their songs were so basic that even if you spoke Chinese, you could ‘get’ it. Hence, the brutal simplicity of songs like She’s Hot Tonight (“She likes her meat well-done”), Good With Figures (“I’m good with figures/ and I like your figure”), and Cat’s Got Your Tongue (“F is for fighting, C is for chew, K is for knuckles, all I need is U”).And, as was standard policy in those days, half the songs on the record were about rock (Stand Up and Fight, Metal In My Veins, Reserve the Right to Rock), and how you’ve got to “Fight for rock”, whatever that means.“We Reserve The Right” is state of the art ’80s Flash / Glam Metal, and unless you’re a total killjoy, it’s pretty much impossible not to like.This Lost Gems Rec. release is the best sounding version we ever heard, a pretty hard to find out of print collectible.

Line-Up:

Bret Kaiser – vocals - See also: Bret Kaiser's Speedway
Maxine Petrucci – guitars, backing vocals - See also: Maxine Petrucci, ex-Vixen
Chris “Godzilla” Doliber – bass, backing vocals
Roxy Petrucci – drums, backing vocals - See also: JSRG, Roktopuss, Vixen, ex-Maxine Petrucci, ex-Hell's Belles

Tracklist:

01. High In High School
02. Come On, Come All
03. She’s Hot Tonight
04. Dirty Girls
05. Max Volume
06. Metal In My Veins
07. We Reserve The Right To Rock
08. Good With Figures
09. Cat’s Got Your Tongue
10. We Want Rock
11. Stand Up And Fight

+ Video "We Reserve The Right To Rock" (Official Video)



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Madam X - We Reserve The Demos (Limited Edition) (2021)











Year : 2021 (Loudworks Records Limited Edition)
Style : Hard Rock , Glam Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 151 mb

Bio:

Madam X is an American glam rock band first active during the 1980s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach. Disbanding in 1988, the group reformed briefly in 1991, and has become active again after reforming for a second time in 2014. The band is set to release a new album in 2017.One of Madam X’s more distinctive songs, ‘Come One, Come All’, contained the line ‘We’re bad, we’re good, that’s all we ever wanted’. Unfortunately for them, most people thought they belonged chiefly in the former category. The band was formed in New York in 1983 by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (b. 17 March 1962, Rochester, Michigan, USA) on guitar and drums, respectively, along with vocalist Bret Kaiser and bass player Christopher ‘Godzilla’ Doliber. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles where their brand of glam metal was more readily accepted. In February 1985 they released an anthemic single, ‘High In High School’, backed with a suitably grandiose video. The single was produced by Rick Derringer who also performed the same task on the album. Both, however, were very average affairs and live shows fell short of the expected excitement.In 1986, Roxy Petrucci departed to join Vixen and Kaiser quit the scene with ego suitably deflated. Mark McConnell took over the drums while vocal duties were handled by Sebastian Bach (b. Sebastian Philip Bierk, 3 April 1968, Freeport, Bahamas). Within the year the band disintegrated, with Doliber forming a wild and heavy band called Godzilla (which failed). Maxine remained in the shadow of her sister, but Bach found stardom with pop metallers Skid Row.

Album:

Here’s the demos MADAM X taped before the recording of their debut album. Some songs ensed into the LP, others not, others were re-written / changed. This a bootleg CD titled “We Reserve The Demos” appeared last year, with fine sound quality.The good thing about these early versions is the band’s rawness, more ballsy than the tracks later released. Vocalist Bret Kaiser sounds a lot like Sebastian Bach, you gotta hear it. It’s not surprising that later a young Sebastian Bach was member of MADAM X in 1986 for a few months before joining Skid Row. Seems that was the type of singer the Petrucci sisters wanted for the band.“We Reserve The Demos” circulated for years among the fans as ‘Madam X with Sebastian Bach demos’. That’s not true, the singer here is Bret Kaiser. But the similarity is impressive.As said, there’s more nerve of titles like the killer ‘High In High School’, ‘Dirty Girls’, Cat’s Got Your Tongue’ or the properly titled ‘Heavy Metal’. Some songs even have an ‘Americanized’ Judas Priest feel circa 1982-83.There’s some live tracks recorded in Detroit in 1985 while MADAM X were touring the album.These are merely testimonial as the sound quality is pretty poor but enough o taste how good this band was alive.

Line-Up:

Bret Kaiser – vocals - See also: Bret Kaiser's Speedway
Maxine Petrucci – guitars, backing vocals - See also: Maxine Petrucci, ex-Vixen
Chris “Godzilla” Doliber – bass, backing vocals
Roxy Petrucci – drums, backing vocals - See also: JSRG, Roktopuss, Vixen, ex-Maxine Petrucci, ex-Hell's Belles

Tracklist:

01. High In High School
02. We’re Gonna Have
03. She’s Hot Tonight
04. Dirty Girls
05. Heavy Metal
06. We Reserve The Right To Rock
07. Good With Figures
08. Cat’s Got Your Tongue
09. We Want Rock
10. Stand Up And Fight

Live At Harpo’s – Detroit, MI. January 1985:

11. Come On, Come All (Live)
12. Hit And Run (Live)
13. Hard Rockin’ – I’m Breaking Out (Live)



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