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Band Angel City (The Angels)
Info: Beyond Salvation
Style: Hard Rock
Years: 1989
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.87 Mb
Info: Australia

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I Fall Apart was mixed by Randy Staub (METALLICA), Mike Fraser (VAN HALEN, AC/DC), and Paul Silveira (SEAL, GOB).

"We're excited for our fans to finally hear this album. Anyone who was a fan of what we did in Neurosonic will instantly get what we're doing with CrashScene and see that this is a natural progression for us," commented Troy Healy. "This album is a bit heavier, but still has all hooks and melody that have become a trademark of our sound. On this album I really think we clicked on all levels." CrashScene ready to attack the hard rock scene with all guns blazing. Armed with infectious sing along choruses, powerful emotionally driven vocals, and top-notch musicianship, CrashScene have created some commanding hard rock that is ready to storm airwaves.

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Darrell Lance Abbott (August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004), also known as Dimebag Darrell and Dimebag Darrell, was an American guitarist. He was best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan.Abbott also contributed to the album Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration between Pantera and David Allan Coe.

Darrell is considered to be one of the driving forces behind groove metal. Abbott was shot and killed while on stage during a Damageplan performance on December 8, 2004, at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. He ranked 92 in The Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarist

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Style: Epic Power Metal
Info: Cyprus
Years: 2012
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Most fans of international heavy metal know isle of Cyprus to be fertile soil for bands of different types. Yet few have had the international label success of Winter's Verge, now on Massacre records and delivering their third album, Beyond Vengeance.

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Glamor-gravestone color Traumatisme music from the early demos, so rare now, has become a distinctive "chip" of the rocker. More recently still quite friendly and open to thepress recently, the musician has decided in principle not to give any inervyu, allowingpeople to judge him only by his music.

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“When The Pick of Destiny was released it was a bomb,” Jack Black (nay, JB) sings. “And all the critics said that the D was done.” This is true enough — after a surprisingly successful debut album in 2001, Tenacious D (Black and cohort Kyle Glass, a.k.a. KG) followed it up a few years later with a feature-length movie and concept album/soundtrack to the film, and neither film nor album were met with the same level of enthusiasm as the breakthrough. Black, of course, was hardly struggling for work — he went on to pursue a string of hit (and not-so-hit) movies, leaving The D on the back-burner for a while.

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Some things just go together...heavy metal and thunder...denim and leather ...SAXON and Wacken.

They've been old friends for many years now, their harmony collecting an army of thousands upon thousands who view SAXON live as a pilgrimage to the heart of metal music. And when that pilgrimage takes you, repeatedly, to the largest heavy metal festival in the world, Wacken Open Air in Germany, the results will always be electric.

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The spotlights are on: GOTTHARD are releasing the first single from the album “Firebirth” to be released in June.
The 2-track single, with the name “Starlight” features two versions, a Rock Radio Mix and an Acoustic variation. None of these versions will be available on the main album.

According to the band, “Starlight” is the virtual shooting star of the upcoming new album: the song was one of the first that the band wrote together with Nic Maeder, the new member at the microphone.
“The chemistry between us worked immediately”, says guitarist Leo Leoni. “It is really unusual to be able to sit down together and straightway write a song which is later the single.”

“Starlight” is not only the first official single to be released but also the lucky star shining on the new formation’s collaboration.
It's a good song with a rockin' vibe, and Nic Maeder fits perfectly with Gotthard's style. I am not completely convinced by the drum sound in the 'Radio Mix' version, surely the band decided give it a more 'accessible' sound to rank on the playlist of all relevant radio stations.
Anyway, a promising advance.

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Five years of waiting for CIRCUS MAXIMUS new masterpiece album “Nine” to be released in worldwide June on Frontiers

Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of the anticipated third album from Norwegian Progsters CIRCUS MAXIMUS entitled “Nine” on June 1st in Europe and June 5th in North America.

Five years after the successful release of the concept album “Isolate”, this time Circus Maximus are back with a strong and mature cd. “A lot happened in our personal lives during the past few years “, explains drummer Truls Haugen. “Three of us had kids, plus we also had a several bumps in the road with the production. So it has not exactly been a joyride, but it feels great to finally be done, and after all this time we are ready to unleash our new monster !”

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Band Anima Barroca
Info: El Camino Del Hades
Years: 2012
Style: Melodic Power Metal / Progressive Metal
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Tracklist: mp3  320 kbps
Info: 178 mb

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Shell is 30 years and a server could not pass up the opportunity of returning in the form of criticism all that have given the rock. Those who grew up watching them in "Toccata" on Tuesday evening we know that the way the band has been hard but see them as they are now and listen to Fortu remains a pleasure even better than its beginning.

It begins the show with a "sucker Run" which begins with a problem Fortu tempo endingto be solved. Brutal sound "Freeway", "The one", "Infernal Affairs" (best have been left in this directory), "Fuck you", "Money, Money" and summarizing all. It is amazing how in"We very well," accompanied by the cream of our rock.

The DVD is a great example of how a group that has never stopped playing cash can stilllive. Howitzer always been the most pimps the country, the big concerts, which have always tried to offer a bonus in addition to music and now have done it again. Another great band that is 30 years old and hopefully be many more. Big.

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XII ALFONSO's "The Lost Frontier" is a great first album with an ambitious concept. These young musicians from Bordeaux (France) have built a superb work with long instrumental passages, some female vocals, and a Celtic-influenced atmosphere sometimes reminding of Mike OLDFIELD. "Odyssees" is the second album in 1999, presenting the same sort of beautiful and majestuous music that could have been heard three years ago.

"Claude Monet Vol. 1" is the first delivery of a trilogy dedicated to the last years of the french impressionist painter's Claude Monet life, for the French group XII ALFONSO. This first one surrenders it occupies from the years 1883 to 1889. The relative influences to progressive bands that are appreciated in the album, I believe that they would come mainly from French formations as VITAL MINIMUM or Jean Pascal BOFFO, besides others as Mike OLDFIELD and Steve HACKETT. Those that have not been satisfied with XII ALFONSO's first two albums, they can prove with this third that sincerely I believe that it is a great disk.

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The idea of making a musical transposition of the famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was conceived by Fabio Zuffanti years ago in 1995, but soon abandoned until today, right after the release of the four chapters of the successful "Seasoncyle" tetralogy about the four seasons. Zuffanti, eminent personality of today's Italian Prog scene, and worldwide acclaimed thanks to his various projects such as Höstsonaten, Finisterre and La Maschera di Cera, has now concluded the first in a series of two volumes dedicated to the "Rime...". The first CD contains the first four parts of the opus, while the second three parts will end on a second album which will be released in 2013. The music is, if possible, more symphonic, theatrical and majestic than ever, with touches of celtic music, hard/new-prog and much more, developed in five long compositions. The vocal duties rely on five different vocalists, with the aim to explore, interpret and give the listener the emotions of the dark and dreamy poem by Coleridge. Fabio Zuffanti's guests in this new adventure are Maurizio Di Tollo (drums), Luca Scherani (keyboards), Matteo Nahum (guitars), Edmondo Romano (sax, bagpipe), Sylvia Trabucco (violin) and Joanne Roan (flute), while Alessandro Corvaglia (La Maschera Di Cera), Carlo Carnevali, Davide Merletto (Daedalus), Mar

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