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With the advent of the New Year 2012 well past us, new age and popular artists of every genre are releasing their best new project for 2012. While brand new CD and mp3 album downloads are arriving daily at music stores, legendary new age artist Gandalf and popular rock music icon Steve Hackett, formerly of Genesis, have a new 2012, re-mastered release of an exquisite instrumental music classic.

 

Gandalf’s Gallery Of Dreams – Plus Live featuring Steve Hackett is the title given to this definitive 3 CD Anniversary Edition, that is progressive instrumental music at its finest! Also available as mp3 digital downloads, the first CD is an original studio Gallery Of Dreams album digitally re-mastered.

 

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Legendary guitarist Pat Travers, an influence on numerous musicians including Kirk Hammett of Metallica, proudly presents this electrifying new album of blues recordings featuring songs that date back to the 1920s! Features full on classic rock production and heavy guitar versions of Blind Blake's ,,Black Dog Blues", Blind Willie Johnson's ,,Nobody's Fault But Mine", Son House's ,,Death Letter" plus more blues classics originally made famous by Bessie Smith, Tampa Red, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and more! Liner notes written by Pat himself!

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01. Detroit Rock City (2012 Remix) 5:16
02. King of the Night Time World (2012 Remix) 3:22
03. God of Thunder (2012 Remix) 4:17
04. Great Expectations (2012 Remix) 4:24
05. Flaming Youth (2012 Remix) 3:00
06. Sweet Pain (2012 Remix) 3:22
07. Shout It Out Loud (2012 Remix) 2:51
08. Beth (2012 Remix) 2:49
09. Do You Love Me (2012 Remix) 3:40
10. Rock and Roll Party (2012 Remix) 1:27
11. Sweet Pain (Original Guitar Solo) 3:19

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Sitting in the Hard Rock Cafe in Warsaw, just hours before our CD Release Show, it is hard to believe that it has come this far. 2 years of ideas, 9 months of hard work and finally here it is. 7 Billion and a Nameless Somebody. This journey, this musical evolution has been an incredible experience for the 4 of us and we are thankful for it. We sincerely hope for your continued support because we cannot go on without it.

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A glimpse at the enviable discography of prolific German psychedelonautDave “Sula Bassana” Schmidt will result in a lifetime’s worth of albums, live releases and jamming lysergic sprawl. Both on his own under the Sula Bassana moniker and with bands like Liquid VisionsSüdstern 44Zone Six and most recently Electric MoonSchmidt has overseen the creation of an entire scene’s worth of output, sustaining leads carving out a niche almost entirely his own within European heavy psych rock. His latest solo outing to be released through his own Sulatron Records is called Dark Days, and on it, Schmidt plays guitar, bass, drums, synth, organ, performs what little vocals there are and, on all but two of the tracks which feature live drumming (by Pablo Carneval, also formerly of Electric Moon), he programs the drum machine. Thus Dark Days is a solo record in the truest sense of being the

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Band The Commander-In-Chief
Info: Evolution (EP)
Years: 2012
Style: Heavy Metal / Hard Rock (Female Vocal)
Info: UK (London)
Info: MP3 VBR 200 Kbps Joint Stereo LAME 3.96
Info: 28.43 Mb

22-year-old Norwegian seven-string guitarist/singer/songwriter The Commander-In-Chief will release her debut EP, "Evolution", digitally on February 15 via Commander Records/The Commander-In-Chief Ltd.The effort was produced by Sterling Winfield (PANTERA, HATEBREED,HELLYEAH), who previously mixed The Commander-In-Chiefs' "brutal, adrenalin-fueled" cover version of the BLACK SABBATH classic"Paranoid" (audio stream avialable in YouTube clip below).

According to a press release, "the recording process of the EP was very different from what normally happens in studio these days, so Sterling Winfield made a statement about it.

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Well everyone it has been a long time coming but we are proud to announce that UNBOUND will be dropping July 31st.

This album serves as a milestone in this bands career and is very important to us and the people that made it happen mean even more. So as a showing of our gratitude we give you the power to spend whatever you want on this digital release. Pay nothing or be generous, whichever you decide, we just want this music our there and in your hands.

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The Finns PSYCHEMA place this year with "The entry point", in front after an EP in 2008, their official debut album. According to the information flyer plays progressive metal quintet. Well, if the word progressive increases in the original sense, is not it in a certain way. Stylistically, the limited band around singer / guitarist Tomi Kavala, anyway. However, they are not as brave as you could wish for good.

PSYCHEMA feel both the death metal and gothic metal and - as mentioned above - progressive metal attached. With the progressive element in the music of PSYCHEMA based not so much on Frickel passages, but rather by the combination of these ingredients. This is a risky business, and overall, the Finns are to do any bad way. As so often, it is sick but in the implementation of those objectives. "The entry point" does not sound really intended to end. One can see that the band made their mind works and has tried to implement it. This results in song fragments that promote the potential of PSYCHEMA well to light. On the other hand, there is far too much kitsch, as heard in "antiparticle". Overall, the proportion of kitsch is the debut album by the Finns simply too high. That was the mid-nineties, when the Gothic genre just experienced its high point, even annoying, but somehow it was. Today, one can elicit such sounds with at most dreamy teen Goths delight from the cellar and.

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01. Intro
02. Land of Hope
03. Wild Flower
04. Mister Mayor
05. Old Wreck
06. Slippery Case - Part I
07. Slippery Case - Part II
08. Jack
09. On a Ride
10. Land of Reason

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The "Wielder of the Blade" album takes the listener through an epic journey as the main character, Rais'Alon, works his way through the realms of magic to meet the final battle for the land of Phylean. Each song has a particular character (or characters) that tell a portion of the story.

Ron Burgoyne and John Logsdon have been jamming together for 30 years and were in various hard rock/metal bands over that time. They took a break away from band life for about 20 years in order to raise families and such, but they always kept the music going one way or the other.
KrethX was started by John and Ron in 2008. While we would love to get back into playing live, we're at a bit of a disadvantage...we live 6 hours apart and it's just the two of us that do all the music. At some point, if our music builds enough of a following, we would start looking toward adding members to the band and then who knows? Regardless, our goal is to make epic/fantasy metal where we can tell stories through our music.

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Hailing from the North of Ireland Filthy Angels sound like they've been brought up on a heavy diet of heads down rock 'n' roll, drawing their influences from a plethora of '80s rockers.  There is definitely a hint of The Wildhearts ('Destroy' era), some no nonsense hard rocking Almighty style here and there, as well as a smidgen of The Dogs D'amour to name but three influences heard on this here pledged album.

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With Home at Last, an EP of six tunes, Grave Digger gives fans a taste of the recent past and a foretaste of their forthcoming album, Clash of the Gods. However, I'm not sure it will be enough to satisfy the diehard; it's a case of too little too late.

So here's the skinny on this small offering. The first three songs are studio cuts. Home at Last will be on the new album, but Rage of the Savage Beast and Metal Will Never Die not so. Curiously, these three songs don't reflect the speedier side of Grave Digger's power metal; they're more steady traditional (Eighties) heavy metal.

The last three songs are live cuts from DVD/CD set The Clans Are Still Marching from 2010's Wacken Open Air. Actually, the songs are the very last three songs of the set: Ballad Of A Hangman, Excalibur, and Heavy Metal Breakdown, always a crowd favorite. With these, you get back to the faster side of Grave Digger.

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