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1. Second Hand (13:56)
2. Colors Of The Moon (9:12)
3. Fall Across The Sky (9:19)
4. Chaos & Clarity (12:30)
5. A Hint Of Grey (8:05)
6. A Brief Awakening (19:03)

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Lost Ancient Land is a vigorous album, which still aims at placing musicality in the first place, with an emphasis on the melodies, textures, counterpoints and superposition of the instruments. It brings the influences of the classic heavy metal with progressive touches, use of keyboards and orchestra. Introductions, moods, rhythm and tone changes are present in almost all tracks – what does not undervalue the commercial aspect, present on the melodic choruses. More»


1358325975_frontBlack Rose, a Swedish hard rocking heavy metalband has been putting out killer heavy metal tunes since 1990. The band, flying under the radar and fighting a few lineup changes but remaining stable, is releasing their latest album “Turn on the Night” in January 2013. The man credited for their record deal is none other than Christian Liljegren (Narnia, Divine Fire, Golden Resurrection…) so it must be expected to be epic and powerful music. Lately, the Doolittle Group is utterly on fire with some great melodic metal, and Black Rose is no exception!

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Neo-Star Nova Z is the colorful moniker of multi-instrumentalist Brian Waymire, and he’s just released his latest CD entitled Omega Factor. Basically this is a five song EP, but Brian has added instrumental versions of some songs, plus a number of remixes and demos from an earlier release (Infinity Factor).

Waymire is a decent guitarist, laying down solid rhythm lines and catchy hooks. His soloing is very good, although at times he tries to do a bit too much and ends up overreaching just a little. He is a very good bassist with an effective sense of timing and mood, and his drum work supports both guitar and bass well. The same can be said for his keyboard work – generally quite effective without dominating. More»


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today/sweden/MORGANA LEFAY Charles Rytkonen

01. Peace Out
02. Coming Back For More
03. With My Powers
04. Cibola City
05. Back To The Root

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Band: ETECC
Medium / Title: CD / “Volition”
Genre: Thrash/Groove Metal
Release: 07.12.2012
Label: SAOL / H’Art / Zebralution
Catalogue Number: SAOL 109
EAN: 4260177741090

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Lost Earth is an Auckland, New Zealand based project carried out by multi-instrumentalist André Birt (taking on vocal, guitar, bass and keyboard duties) and drummer Brent Martin. The pair have released their debut and self-titled album independently and citing the lack of a live scene for new bands in their homeland the band is a studio-only affair. Having said that; it does have a big sound with a bright production and the drums are very upfront in the mix. Although the band classifies its sound as melodic rock, I would say that it is sounds like very accessible prog rock with a bit of classic rock thrown in. The vocals, although pleasant to listen to, are half-spoken on the whole and prevent some of the songs reaching th More»


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600x600The AOR musical quintet led by hard rock singer Jeff Scotus has released a new single, which is called Learn To Live Again to turn part of his next studio album "Rise Up" which you can hear a preview of songs in the show that the band will this January 17th at Club Debaser (Stockholm) More»


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Sub Genre: Eclectic, Electronica, Progressive Rock
Label: Musea
Release date: January, 2013

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With their new album to be the harbingers emphasizes politically and socially. This helps a little but if the type of presentation so unconvincing acts like here. Really do not want to blend it all - a pinch of German rock and punk-Räudigkeit here, something Rammstein Esker pathos there, the whole thing is constricted in a corset made staccato played like standard metal riffs and nursery tunes. More»


1624e742ed9a35798b5bbf24ddaf1989ef875aaenow/melodic/GrandExit is an awesome metalband from Sweden!

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1357910756_ninja-magic-lethal-ninjaction-2012Band Ninja Magic
Info: Lethal Ninjaction
Years: 2012
Info: Sweden
Time: Power / Heavy Metal
Info: MP3, 320 kbps
Info: 60 Mb

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