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Dutch classic rockers Golden Earring are to release their first studio album in 9 years. The album ‘Tits 'n Ass’ will hit stores on May 11th. With this collection of driving rockers and passionate ballads it's obvious why George Kooymans, Barry Hay, Rinus Gerritsen and Cesar Zuiderwijk are still on top of the Dutch rock scene after 50 years.

Band Toehider
Info: To Hide Her
Years: 2012
Info: Australia
Style: Progressive Rock
Tracklist: Mp3 192kbps
Info: 68 ??

As a music reviewer, I am lucky enough to be in a situation where bands, artists and record labels alike actually care about, and want to know what I think if their music. This puts me in a great spot where I am constantly flooded with new music to listen to and get to discover a lot of up and coming talent that most people haven’t heard of yet for one reason or another. Okay, so I get stuck listening to some crappy stuff sometimes, but every now and then I get to hear something really great too. I must admit though, It’s been a long time since I’ve been genuinely excited about hearing a band for the first time. You know that kind of excited when you hear something and you immediately know it’s one of the best things you’ve ever heard? Yeah, well that’s exactly what happened to me when I first listened to TO HIDE HER, the first full-length album release from Melbourne-based art rock group TOE HIDER.

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The Scottish heavy metal scene is well known for being heavy as hell – bringing the world some of the finest death metal and grindcore bands around. From Cerebral Bore to Achren the musical calibre from Scottish musicians is superb, and it only seems fitting to introduce who break free of this typical scene and go for a more traditional approach to metal. Presenting Ascension, a melodic power metal band from Aberdeen who has so much flare and style in their music, they give the likes of Power Quest, Freedom Call and Blind Guardian a run for their money. By combining lightning fast guitar riffs, powerful melodies and superb, sing along chorus’s, Ascension have created one of the finest power metal albums of the past ten years with Far Beyond the Stars, and hopefully we will see the eventual rise to power of this Scottish five piece within the next few years!

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Hangfire's claim to fame  if you will  is that former Tigertailz drummer Matt Blakout is a member of the band. Although if you are looking for the type of outrageous glam that Tigertailz are known for you are going to be extremely disappointed with Shoot The Crow. If anything, Hangfire is closer to the post-grunge sound that helped destroy the careers of countless '80s glam bands -- Tigertailz included.

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From French mother and Spanish father, since he was a child he has felt passion for music,being specially keen on groups like Toto, Journey, Survivor. His first introduction in music was with "Refuge" in 1992. One year later he left the band together with the bass player to join the group Banam Banam with whom he was for about one year,cooperating in new compositions and recordings, sharing all this with singing lessons in the music conservatory. At the end of 1993 he started the band "D.O.N.T" (Days Of No Trust) with the

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Frontiers Records will the release of the brand new studio album from Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN,AVANTASIA), "Bring Heavy Rock To The Land", on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America.

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Band Santana
Info: Shape Shifter
Years: 2012
Time: Classic Rock
Info: USA
Info: mp3 320 kbps
Info: 130 mb

Guitar legend Carlos Santana has enjoyed a tremendous resurgence in popularity and cultivated a new generation of fans over the past couple of decades via his collaborations with the biggest names in pop music. He made a huge impact in 1999 with Supernatural, which featured the multiple Grammy-winning hit “Smooth” with vocalist Rob Thomas, and other guest appearances by the likes of Eric Clapton and Dave Matthews. Santana’s three subsequent releases have followed that winning formula and focused on vocal-driven numbers with a star-studded cast including Michelle Branch, Steven Tyler, Chris Cornell, India.Arie, and Nas, among many others. But while these outings have cast him as a pop culture icon, his die-hard guitar fans longed for some new incarnations of what they consider “classic” Santana—the guy that kicks ass on the 6-string.

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This 5-piece hard rock band theFALLEN from York have already impressed HTF with their live presence a few years back on their tour with Heaven’s Basement, and with their brand new album being released earlier this week, we’re itching to find out whether they can do the same on CD.

‘Ignite The Fire’ kicks off the album to a spookily climatic start, with the use of electronics and synthesisers to create an album battlefield-like primer, shortly followed by the heavy double bass and thudding guitars.

Then ‘Judgement Day’ begins, and the wild 80?s sounding guitars kick in, with its melodic riffs and the crash of the drum setting the ultimate party mood. Vocalist Johnny Fallen adds a mixture of Jettblack, Heaven’s Basement and The Treatment influences to the band. With a tad of Avenged Sevenfold in there to top it all off. With the reckless guitars and raunchy baselines, it’s hard not to like this album.

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Not Your Kind of People is the forthcoming fifth studio album to be released by alternative rock group Garbage.[1] The album marks the return of the band after a six-year "hiatus", taken after the release of their last set, and has a worldwide release date of May 14, 2012.[2] The album will be released worldwide through the band's own record label, STUNVOLUME.[3] "Working with Garbage again was very instinctual,” said guitarist Duke Erikson at the launch of the record. "Like getting on a bicycle…

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This band from Valencia, we liked his previous work Vicio y virtud. In this new album, are betting big on its formulation: Do not do anything new or strange sounds innovate, but what they do, they do well and pampered lot. And this is the first highlight of this new album Rebellion. The band's sound is much more elaborate, much more rounded sound and production quality is clearly superior.

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Band Damned Nation
Info: Sign Of Madness
Years: 2004
Info: Sweden
Time: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Info: 98,4 Mb
Upload: Depositfiles; Rapidgator

 

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Band HELLOWEEN ? GAMMA RAY
Info: "HelloRay - A Tribute To HELLOWEEN & Gamma Ray"
?Years: 26 ????? 2012
Info: 15
Style: ?????-?????

Two well-known German bands GAMMA RAY and HELLOWEEN, who perform music in the style of power metal, have joined together to participate in one project. Their totalalbum comes out March 26 by Epicus Records label and has the name of «HelloRay - A Tribute To HELLOWEEN & Gamma Ray». The disc includes early songs of the greatteams from 1985 to 2007.

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With a middle finger proudly raised to your average schmuck and the mundane lifestyle they idly peddle, punk as fuck glam cult heroes SPiT LiKE THiS have returned amped to shove the metal right up all them tight asses with their 2nd full-length 'Normalityville Horror'. Produced by Grammy-nominated Chris Tsangarides (Judas Priest, Ozzy, Anvil) getting this hot-rod out the gates was no easy task but 2 years after its conception and 18 months after it was recorded, 'Normalityville Horror' is ready to burn rubber and take an already well-established underground band into top gear.

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