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If, like West Virginia stoner rockers Karma To Burn, you've got huge guitar riffs and gargantuan grooves on tap, why bow to convention and have a 'whining, posing douche-bag at a microphone' spoiling all your fun? That's exactly what Karma To Burn thought back in 1996 when they were offered a deal with Roadrunner Records. Here were three guys having a ball, knocking out some quite superb uncompromising, bulldozing stoner grooves as an instrumental power trio free of the complications a singer brings to the table. The only problem was that Roadrunner were not having any of it. The deal, and the money, was on the table on the condition they get themselves a singer. The lure of the filthy lucre was too much to resist, so singer Jay Jarosz was recruited and vocals were added to what became their first album, 'Karma To Burn'. Things didn't exactly work out though, so Jarosz was ejected, the band lost the deal and returned to their original incarnation as an instrumental trio.

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California rockers PAPA ROACH will release their new album, "The Connection", on October 2 via Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded at the band's hometown studio, The Red House in Sacramento, California, and was produced by rock veteran James Michael (SIXX: A.M., HALESTORM) and John Feldmann (PANIC AT THE DISCO, THE USED, ESCAPE THE FATE).

The first single from "The Connection" is a track called "Still Swinging", which many fans may have heard during last night's Major League Baseball All Stars Home Run Derby on ESPN. The track will be featured byESPN/MLB in select games/events for the next few weeks.
A snippet of the track and behind-the-scenes footage of the band filming its video in New York City with David Brodsky of Brooklyn, New York'sMyGoodEye Music Visuals (HELLYEAH, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER,GOATWHORE, MUNICIPAL WASTE, SUFFOCATION) is available below.

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The full-length debut for the Alabama-based Southern soul-rock quartet was produced by the band.

01. Hold On
02. I Found You
03. Hang Loose
04. Rise To The Sun
05. You Ain't Alone
06. Goin' To The Party
07. Heartbreaker
08. Boys & Girls
09. Be Mine
10. I Ain't The Same
11. On Your Way
12. Heavy Chevy (bonus)

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I'm quite sure most of us have a hard luck story from our childhood, our teenage years certainly; that 'outcast' feeling of being a rock fan definitely applies to most of you who make your way to these cyber pages. Well, imagine then that you had been born in a war torn country in the Middle East, where religious zealots and politicians try and control every aspect of life. Well, that's the fascinating backdrop to which this band, The Kordz, was formed originally whilst the guys were at university in Lebanon in the early nineties.

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Face Off - this is the third work Biss and, accordingly, the third man at the microphone - this time it was Marc Storace, who sang earlier in Krokus. More»

According to the promotional letter 'great debut work' "King Of Pain", which was published eight years ago with Mausoleum Records, I have for some reason just missed me as the band name THE ORDEAL has come across yet. Before determining whether you have missed great because now what, but the first time you come in out of the ordinary. About the print on the promo cover 'Only China Limited Edition'. If the album actually in China and then in a different edition will appear, although not explained, but the background is likely related to a few festival appearances, the band has completed there. The band for some time for a documentary will be accompanied by a TV crew, for a relatively unknown band is not exactly commonplace. Then won the quintet for the mastering of "Descent From Hell" none other than star producer Michael Wagener, and finally proves the composition of the formation of a self-proclaimed progressive metal band to be quite unusual as the protagonists quite different musical directions come. The commonality is found here in the home, because all the musicians probably came from the Hanover area. For example, guitarist Kai Reuter was over 30 years ago by VIVA, the band with Marco Paganini and Barbara Schenker, bassist Hannes Vesper belongs to the current cast of for a long time again active Krautrocker BIRTH CONTROL, Dirk Rogon has time (or still does) at one of the three variants JANE played guitar and drummer Michael Fromm was just like the rest of the squad for Jutta Weinhold (including ZED YAGO) active. Leader and singer Oliver Oppermann still seems to be the most naïve wrote sheet, which is very surprising, since it pretty quickly proves to be most recognizable feature of THE ORDEAL.

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NOW! Is Not Sex...

Melodic Metal band Scar for life was founded by guitarist Alexandre Santos in 2008 following his compositional work with ‘Redstains’. Creating songs from vitriolic, groovy assaults to soft acoustic pieces this band is set to make an emotional yet powerful stand. 3 Minute Silence, is the bands third album to make a shout in the world. Recorded at Pressplay Studio at the begining of 2012, features a new lineup and an handful of guests such as Violinist Anne Vitorino d’Almeidam, Finnish singer Kari Vahakuopus (CATAMENIA) and British keyboardist Ged Ryland (ex-TEN). Drummer Joao Colaco (ex-MORE THAN A THOUSAND) stepped in whilst guitarist Sergio Fariaadded new depth on live performances.

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About halfway through his band's first new album in three years, Dave Matthews announces, "I'm too old to wanna be younger now." It's an apt summation of where his head's at on this 11-song set, which reunites the Dave Matthews Band with original producer Steve Lillywhite for the first time since 1988 -- not counting the aborted 2000 sessions whose songs later surfaced on 2002's "Busted Stuff."

After the more full-bodied and bombastic tone of 2009's "Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King," "Away From the World" is more restrained, moody and subtle. It has its big footprint moments, of course, and there's an audible ambition that gives the album a crackling if slow-burning energy. The album is also decidedly inward-looking: with a couple of ruminations about the world out large (such as first single "Mercy" and "Gaucho"), "Away From the World" focuses on love, relationships and parental responsibility, making it both musically and lyrically a kind of state of the DMB union. The band is as intriguing and adventurous now as it was when the Lillywhite-produced "Under the Table and Dreaming" came out 18 years ago.

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Dig deep into the loo certainly have no one to whom the band met 2Ugly2Die first time - in the toilet cover art or not. For the trio's music is far from grottig or shit, but can be heard in the general. The Berlin go though. In the self-imposed "rapture of the deep", which seems to mean the bottom line is however that one of the German Rock missed a damn heavy bias and thus the direction of heavy rock and stoner-squint
The ten tracks collected here almost rolling over the listener away, cover of rolling over slowly threatening to tough all typical nuances. The "rapture of the deep" turns out to be so as extremely heavy rock interpretation of dirty Gröhlgesang and metal guitar riffs.

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Spaceaxers is the second album from Nightosaur, and is heavier, weirder, and even more epic than the first. Hear tales of a world clinging to the edge of madness, with dynamite sludge and dual-guitar hooks big enough to hang a side of T-Rex.

Spaceaxers is the second full length album from Minneapolis metal band Nightosaur. Featuring seven all new songs, this release is heavier, weirder, and even more epic than 2011’s debut, Black Blood of the Earth. With duelling lead guitars and an explosive rhythm section, Nightosaur draws inspiration from the prog-blues metal of early Judas Priest and Black Sabbath, the taut ferocity of Dio and Iron Maiden, and the brutal force of today’s sludgiest stoners. Spaceaxers expands on these roots and spins epic tales of a world on the edge of madness, with hooks big enough to hang a side of T-Rex. Recorded and mixed in four days in a South Minneapolis duplex, Spaceaxers manages to capture the intensity of Nightosaur’s relentless live show. Within are epic stories of doomed polar explorers, lost love avenged, and salvation by fire from the stars. The album’s centerpiece “There May Be Dragons” is a thunderous rallying cry to embrace the monsters within us all, and to join Nightosaur in their conquest of all that is heavy.

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01. Ray of Hope
02. La Nahuala
03. Heroland
04. Delpho's Oracle
05. Fly With You
06. La Reyna de los Sucubos
07. The Beginning
08. La Llorona
09. Silent Dream (Rhapsody of Fire Cover)
10. The End of This Chapter (Sonata Arctica Cover)

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It's rather unusual to find a band that released a demo (in this case "Sampler") a year before forming. But, that seems to be the case from everything I have read about this French-Canadian progression rock act. "Sampler" was released in 1993 while this Montreal, Quebec outfit is said to have officially formed in 1994. Whatever the case since forming the band has had a rather sporadic history when it comes to studio albums. "Food For Thought Substitute", the band's debut full-length album, was released in 1996 and, from most accounts, was fairly well-received by fans and critics alike. The band's follow-up release, "Primal Power Addiction", was released in 2002. It took 10 years, but now we finally get to the band's 3rd release, "Wheels of Impermanence", and , from what I can tell from a bit of research (in other words I did some random Google searches for descriptions of previous albums) , it's more of the same for Heaven's Cry. At least if progressive, melodic rock/metal is still the game being played? You know it probably does not say much when possibly the biggest claim to fame for the group is not their own music. That would almost make too much sense. Rather, quite possibly the biggest claim to fame for the band seems to be the fact that Heaven’s Cry member Pierre St-Jean was a session bassist on Voivod’s

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