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Band Easy Going
Info: Easy Going
Style: Disco
Years: 1978
Info: 320 kbps
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Info: Italy

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NOW!London GOOD BYE...

London-based To-Mera took matters into their own hands and self-produced their third and latest album, Exile. It's concept album concerning some rather complex and perplexing matters. The protagonist, having faced hardship, suffering, and loss, places herself in personal exile to avoid any future harm. While in her self-imposed exile, she searches for answers about existence, humanity, and the meaning of life. Darn heady stuff. I'll leave it to you, once you buy the disc, to discover the answers she finds.

Coming to a new To-Mera album can be quite the challenge. They play true progressive rock and metal, that is, always pushing the boundaries of complex arrangements. While the music is compelling and the musicianship first class, it's hard to call To-Mera's prog overly accessible or commercially viable. But if it's intrigue and challenge you want, To-Mera's delivers to the full extent, and that makes Exile entertaining.

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"We are defined by the fact that we can't be defined by anybody," says Matt Bellamy, the singer-guitarist-pianist of Muse, as he runs down the range and nerve of the British trio's new album, The 2nd Law, out in October. "There are electro-pop sounds and songs that are obviously classic rock," Bellamy notes, referring to the machine-funk nightmares "Madness" and "Panic Station" and, in the latter category, "Big Freeze" and his lead-guitar blowup in "Animals."

"Then there are the orchestral things," he adds over lunch in New York: the strings-choir-and-metal "Survival," already a hit as an official Olympic theme song, and the symphonic chaos of the two-part title suite. The 2nd Law would sound like "three different bands," Bellamy contends, "if it wasn't for my voice."

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Over the last winter, Earthship immersed at Hidden Planet Studio one more time to rehearse and record their second album „Iron Chest“.The album title stands for the soul of every single being on this planet, vulnerable and exposed to the cruel force of life, yet withstanding its lashes with iron rigor... and only opening up with the right key in the end... „Iron Chest“ is a vile beast of an album, spitting iron nails in every direction, yet rich with groove and soul. EARTHSHIP's abrasive, heavy custom sound has grown and reached a new level of intensity.

01. Old Widow's Gloom 04:04
02. Athena 03:52
03. Iron Chest 05:16
04. Boundless Void 04:34
05. Eyes in the Night 01:42
06. Brimstone 05:04
07. Catharsis 03:05
08. Silver Decay 05:14
09. Shattered 04:44
10. Teal Trail 05:19

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The Caribbean island of Trinidad is the birthplace of Dana Jade. Despite the cultural calypso musical background she was raised in, Jade spent her Summers in New York where she found the electric guitar and punk infused rock styles of Patti Smith and Hole more to her liking. In 2002 she emigrated to London where these early influences and the English live scene began shaping her own musical journey. Since then she has spent 3 years as part of the all-girl alternative choir Gaggle, performed at Reading, guested on Later….with Jools Holland and 2012 sees the release of her debut solo album.

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LEGEND ALMAFUERTE NEW CD HEAVY/ROCK

01 Muere, Monstruo Muere (4:06)
02 Trillando La Fina (3:26)
03 Pa'Pelusa (4:44)
04 Si Me Ves Volver (3:49)
05 Pa'l Recuerdo (4:00)
06 Ciudad De Rosario (3:25)
07 Mi Credo (4:03)
08 La Llaga (1:54)
09 Glifosateando (3:51)
10 Mamuil Mapu (2:48)
11 Caballo Negro (2:00)

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NOW! DAY OF TRASH AT PLOTN08...

KRYPTOS - though probably relatively unknown - has quite a history behind them. They may not have the biggest discography compared to other bands, but their origins grow farther back than their debut album. One of the first Thrash bands from India to do a cross country tour of Europe in 2010, the band finally began to get some international recognition. For those expecting a full on Thrash assault like that of SLAYER, think again! Trading fast, aggressive sounds for a rather groove oriented, mid paced tones, there is plenty of melody going around within KRYPTOS’ music. Sometimes, from the snarling rasp of the vocals, they feel a bit like they’re contrasting each other. But, in the long run, everything pans out smoothly. For the band’s third album, ‘The Coils Of Apollyon,’ the band expands on their sound while sticking to their roots, so fans should certainly lend an ear when considering the music here.

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NOW! Motörhead+Pantera+Slayer...VERY

Thrash but not only. The disc of onset of Zombie Scars proposes to overcome the narrow spaces of the revival thrash offering a vision as less personnel of matter. An attempt is made now necessary, given the inflation that the movement, although relatively new, is already showing. No longer enough to know how to play, not just show love and passion, skill and attitude: we must have recourse to a dowry that only a few can actually boast the personality. The band, formed in 2011 from the ashes of the previous experiences of the guitarist and drummer Marco Francesco Riganelli Milloni (both ex-Fear Traders), proves that he already clear its ambitions and in little more than a year here comes the publication of this Revenant , which follows an EP Spirits, published in September 2011. Dates back to reality even as important as Blaze Bayley, DGM, Ciompo Rock and Pino Scotto, are part of a curriculum already quite rich, which sheds light on the will of this band is strong and determined.

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Conceptual records are really fun and it absolutely doesn’t matter what they are about, as you can normally hear how much work the musicians had in composing the record. The latest record of träumen von aurora is a post-metal (respectively post-black metal) one and therefore quite depressive/sad, but still worth listening?

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NOW!Like a Led Zeppelin Rush Yes

Mike Pietrini's music is made up of an edgy. but melodic sound, with interesting lyrics/chord & riff sequences and lots of guitar layers.

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BLOODGOOD was one of the most underrated American Hard Rock acts of the '80s, perhaps due their Christian origins. But they were a real quality band in the genre.
After two pretty heavy albums, they changed the musical approach to the dominating glossy-sounding Hard Rock around 1988.
"Rock In A Hard Place" is one of my favorite albums in this style from the 2nd half of the eighties.
It's commercial yet defiant, melodic, with catchy songs and that 'big' production; razor compressed guitars courtesy of the great David Zaffiro, shouting vocals, bombastic drums and even some keyboards into the mix.
Talking about the mix, there's was a big problem with the original release of "Rock In A Hard Place": the bass lines were almost completely missing.

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Sheratan - "World Without Forgiveness", our third album will be available this week through our website and our facebook page. The cover was done by the same artist that made the Brazilian from our previous album "The Curse":

1. Generación Revolución
2. En Manos del Odio
3. Mundo sin Perdón
4. Dame una Razón
5. Eternamente
6. Resignación
7. Jugando a Matar
8. Abrazo Final
9. Hija de Luzbel
10. Segunda Atlantis
11. Resurrección

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