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MegaDriver - Brazilian heavy metal band doing mostly cover versions of the music of the games on the console Mega Drive.

The group calls itself a non-profit and independent. Its purpose - "to pay tribute to classicvideo games." Therefore, their work is available for free download on their website.
They have released eight albums, several singles and four full soundtrack for the projectMetal MAME, in which images of original music in games in MAME is replaced by theheavy metal version. The group creates a video of the games with his music, such as video «Raging Storm» - is a tribute to Jesse Howard, in which much of the video game series Fatal Fury, pictures and video of the anime Fatal Fury.

1 Axe Tales (Golden Axe)
2 Blood Symphony (Castlevania)
3 Mad Racer (Top Gear)

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Band Street Talk
Info: Restoration
Style: Melodic Rock / AOR
Years: 2002
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 110,12 Mb
Info: Sweden

Tracklist:

01 - Give Me A Reason.
02 - Hare And Hounds.
03 - Language Of Love.
04 - Tables Turning.
05 - Dancer In The Rain.
06 - A Place In The Sun.
07 - My Heart Beats For You.
08 - Forever By Your Side.
09 - In The Arms Of Love.
10 - Why Is My Heart Feeling Lonely Tonight.

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Band Air Supply
Info: Love And Other Bruises
Style: Soft Rock / AOR
Years: 1977
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.68 Mb
Info: Australia

Tracklist:

01 - Love And Other Bruises.
02 - What A Life.
03 - Feel The Breeze.
04 - Who Will Love Me Now.
05 - Do It Again.
06 - The End Of The Line.
07 - Ready For You.
08 - Empty Pages.
09 - Does It Matter.
10 - That's How The Whole Thing Started.

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Band White Horse
Info: White Horse
Style: Pop Rock
Years: 1977
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 76.89 Mb
Info: UK

Tracklist:

01 - It Doesn't Take Much - Give It Up.
02 - Over And Done With.
03 - Love In A Mist.
04 - Lost And In Trouble.
05 - Can't Stop Loving You.
06 - Through Thick And Thin.
07 - Without Your Love.
08 - Everloving Arms.
09 - Take Me Back.

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Band:
Phil Mogg - vocals
Vinnie Moore - guitar
Paul Raymond - guitar and keyboards
Andy Parker - drums

Additional Musicians:
Lars Lehmann - bass

Production:
Produced and engineered by Tommy Newton.

Review:
On their last album Phil Mogg and company ratcheted things up a few notches -- the result was the no frills 2009 album The Visitor. The latest UFO offering is entitled Seven Deadly, and features grotesque artwork that appears to have been created with Microsoft's paint program -- its cringe worthy.
Album cover aside the music found within Seven Deadly is a continuation of the foundation (of this incarnation of the band) laid with 2004's You Are HerePhil Mogg isn't an extraordinary singer by any means, but he does a magnificent job and is the right guy for UFOMogg remains the wily silver fox with the dry British sense of humor and the notebooks filled with clever lyrics -- "Fight Night" is evidence of this.
On this, album number four of the Vinnie Moore era, UFO have delivered yet another astounding, solid, and melodic classic rock record. Once again Mooredisplays a great feel for what the songs need rather than laying down meaningless notes and riffs simply for the sake of doing so -- he has also injected a bluesy feel to the albums that he's played on, at the direction of Mogg. This is a great move that has given this version of the band its own identity.
The standout tracks on Seven Deadly include "Wonderland", which has a great hook and a spectacular solo, and "Mojo Town", with its memorable groove, great driving riff and verbose solo. Ballads have been a UFO strong suit over the years, with "Angel Station" and "Waving Goodbye" continuing that tradition.Seven Deadly also succeeds with "The Last Stoner Rider", a great memorable mid-tempo track, and "Fight Night", a rambunctious rocker that rivals "Hell Driver" from The Visitor.
In 2012, despite the departure of Pete Way due to health reasons -- things are well in UFO land.
www.ufo-music.info - www.facebook.com/UFOofficial - www.spv.de

01. Fight Night (4:34)
02. Wonderland (5:08)
03. Mojo Town (3:56)
04. Angel Station (6:23)
05. Year Of The Gun (4:07)
06. The Last Stone Rider (3:52)
07. Steal Yourself (4:46)
08. Burn Your House Down (4:58)
09. The Fear (3:44)
10. Waving Good Bye (5:11)
11. Other Men's Wives (Bonus Track) (3:52)
12. Bag O' Blues (Bonus Track) (3:03)

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Band Kiuas
Info: The New Dark Age
Style: Power Metal
Years: 2008
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbs
Info: 119.3 Mb
Info: Finland

Tracklist:

01 - The Decaying Doctrine.
02 - Conqueror.
03 - Kiuas War Anthem.
04 - The New Dark Age.
05 - To Excel and Ascend.
06 - Black Rose Withered.
07 - After the Storm.
08 - Of Sacrifice, Loss and Reward.
09 - The Summoning.
10 - The Wanderer's Lamentation.

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To be released on the 1st of March 2012 the new DICE studio album is now available!
Also, on this 18th Album: DICE has further refined the trademarks sounds by which they become known as an interesting band in the sophisticated, melodic prog scene: Extremely complex metric meets perfectly harmonious arrangements! DICE fans can look forward to six new long tracks. It is now almost normal for DICE, that they have compositions reaching beyond the 10-minute limit - The band increases the journey into an unending trip of musical passion for all to listen and travel along...
A special offer for our fans: We offer through our website the chance to pre-order the latest CD and to recieve it before the official release date... your orders will be processed as soon as possible to insure that you recieve the CD before the general public does!

01. Comet Highway

02. Every Open Window
03. The Speed of Light
04. About Tomorrow
05. Seven Tin People
06. Tunnel of Time

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Switzerland's Rizon is a big band, really, two vocalists, male and female, two guitarists, keyboardist, bass, and drummer, producing rather bombastic melodic power metal. Masquerade is their third album, the first with new female vocalist, Seraina Telli.

Rizon Masquerade Band Photo
Above, Rizon: men in black surround girl in red.

 Being my first experience with Rizon, my suspicions were aroused about the relationship of the male/female vocals. Would they be gruff male vocals (read death or 'core') challenging the siren sound of the female vocals. Thankfully, not. Both sing clean. Generally, the Matthias Gotz has the lead role, with Telli supporting in harmony, as on Sigh From Eternity or the very pleasing Remotion. Sometimes, she gets to step up as on Tears of the Sun. Ultimately, the vocal partnership is annealed by the sound vocal arrangements.

As to the music, Masquerade is generally rousing traditional heavy metal, with good melodies and notable hooks as heard on Same Same or Rise On. Guitar work is at a premium, and there's enough appropriate synth solos to suggest they don't exist only for accent. Several songs are longer, including Rise On, Out of Nowhere and Lost in Silence, allowing Rizon to stretch themselves, even seem epic at times. The album also contains El Dios, a song sung in Spanish.

With 13 songs, Masquerade is quite the platter of melodic heavy metal to digest. By the time you get to Cold Winter's Night or Time After Time, you may suspect a little redundancy and, then, wonder if it couldn't have been trimmed down by one or two songs. But in the end Masquerade is solid and entertaining album, good European melodic power metal. Recommended.

1. High Flyer
2. Sigh From Eternity
3. Masquerade
4. Tears of the Sun
5. Remotion
6. Same Same
7. Rise On
8. El Dios
9. Out of Nowhere
10. Cold Winters Night
11. Time After Time
12. Lost In Silence
13. Bells

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REALLY GOOD !

Whenever a heavy band does an acoustic album one of two things results. Either they just record acoustic arrangements of their existing songs, and either stick rigidly to the original structure or create something new and more delicate from them, or they completely mellow out and record wholly uncharacteristic tracks with softer vocals etc. Strangely, Hungarian Soulfly-clones Ektomorf have done neither of these things entirely. What they have done is rearrange five older songs, write five new ones, and top them off with covers of Johnny Cash‘s Folsom Prison Bluesand Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Simple Man. Re-recording I Know Themsets the tone with a full on bass and drums assault that really does sound like a normal, heavy Ektomorf song with the guitars unplugged, even down to Zoltán Farkas’ growled vocals. I’m In Hate is a similar story (even if the chorus does sound like “I’m in heat”), while Redemption takes on an Alice In Chains feel mixed with Rammstein‘s LosStigmatized gets a softer treatment to begin with, but goes heavy in the second half, and Who Can I Trust is given a complete Spanish guitar overhaul. With the covers, Zoltán’s voice doesn’t quite suite either of them, and the decision to give the first minute of Folsom Prison Blues, which mostly sounds like Volbeat are playing it, the effect of an analogue radio with poor reception is strange, but overall at leastSimple Man is a great rendition. The real highlight appears amongst the new songs though. Be Free is actually a full-on heavy song much like the version of I Know Them, while ballads Again,Fate and Through Your Eyes are all a bit too alt-radio-rock, but To Smoulder is the kind of track the whole album should really have sounded like. Again much like an AIC acoustic song it’s dark and brooding without trying to be heavy and without being too “safe”. More like that, with some of the rearrangements and some slightly wiser choices of cover songs would have made this a superb record. Instead it’s only a slight-above-average one

01. I Know Them (4:39)
02. I'm In Hate (3:46)
03. Be Free (3:26)
04. Redemption (3:38)
05. Simple Man (5:01)
06. To Smoulder (3:17)
07. Folsom Prison Blues (3:10)
08. Again (4:07)
09. Through Your Eyes (3:23)
10. Fate (2:07)
11. Stigmatized (5:00)
12. Who Can I Trust (5:42)

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Band Gringos Locos
Info: Gringos Locos
Style: Hard Rock
Years: 1987
Info: CBR 192 kbs
Info: 59.94 Mb
Info: Finland

Tracklist:

01 - Higher Than High.
02 - Sweet Little Sisters.
03 - Jealousy.
04 - Mountain.
05 - I Ain't Braggin'.
06 - Mean Rock'n'roller.
07 - Susie.
08 - Shout.
09 - Bad Luck's Lament.
10 - Tough Kid.
11 - The Blues.

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Band Night
Info: Night
Style: Melodic Rock / AOR
Years: 1979
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 84,54 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 - Hot Summer Nights.
02 - Cold Wind Across My Heart.
03 - If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody.
04 - Ain't That Peculiar.
05 - Come Around (If You Want Me).
06 - You Ain't Pretty Enough.
07 - Shocked.
08 - Love Message.
09 - Party Shuffle.

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Band Paula Abdul
Info: Forever Your Girl
Style: Pop
Years: 1988
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 105,69 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 - The Way That You Love Me.
02 - Knocked Out.
03 - Opposites Attract.
04 - State Of Attraction.
05 - I Need You.
06 - Forever Your Girl.
07 - Straight Up.
08 - Next To You.
09 - Cold Hearted.
10 - One Or The Other.

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Band Orleans
Info: Before The Dance [Compilation]
Style: Westcoast / AOR
Years: 1978
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.88 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 - Let's Have A Good Time.
02 - Dance With Me.
03 - Wake Up Let There Be Music.
04 - Let There Be Music.
05 - The Last Song.
06 - Sweet Johanna.
07 - Sunset Money.
08 - Money.
09 - The Breakdown.

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