His first musical calling card was Marc grass in front of more than 10 years, at that timeas Thonk. Another big footprint he set in 2004 with its new, named after his pen name,RAK progressive band in the landscape. The concept album about the life of themonarch butterfly and the story of a girl living through the changes must be satisfied with complex rhythm patterns, changing from quiet, melodic moments on one side andaggressive rock parts on the other side. Now sees "Lepidoptera II - The Book of Flight,"the light of day.
Marc Grassi has left for his third work of a lot of time. Eight years have passed, in whichhe, and I quote, "child of the conceptual predecessor," composed, recorded and grind.He himself describes the album as a modern, atmospheric, richly harmonic and rhythmicelements accessible to and in spite of its complexity as clearly and emotionally. As hehas also now on Lepidoptera Liechti Mike on drums and Dave Thwaites with a singer on board. New is joined by Stefan Gabele it on guitar. While grass is itself rooted in the tradition of great role models such as Genesis and Yes, Liechti controls in a strong andcomplex game in the vein of Tool, Planet X and Gabel takes a blend of blues and prog metal like Symphony X on the fretboard. Dave Thwaites finally, oftenrough-rocking voice. The music is moving, consequently, the force field of these influences: Retro progmetalligem with paint, packed into a concept album.
Band RAK Info: Lepidoptera II - Book of Flight Years: 2012 Info: Switzerland Style: Progressive Rock Tracklist: Mp3/ 320kbps Info: 149,87 ??
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1.Volume I - The Ascent 17:44
1. Chapter One
2. Chapter Two
3. Chapter Three
2.Volume II - The Breakthrough 11:07
1. Chapter Four
2. Chapter Five
3.Volume III - The Book of Flight 12:35
1. Chapter Six
2. Chapter Seven
3. Chapter Eight
4.Volume IV - The Deception 10:31
1. Chapter Nine
5.Volume V - The Descent 4:56
1. Chapter Ten
6.Volume VI - The Great Machine 7:27
1. Chapter Eleven
2. Chapter Twelve
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Composer/Keys: Marc (Rak) Grassi
Vocals/Lyrics: Dave (Zoz) Thwaites
Drums: Mike Liechti
Guitars/Bass: Stefan Gabele
German proggers InVertigo will release their new album, "Veritas", on 16th March in Europe and the 10th April in the US.
This is the follow-up to their debut, "Next Stop", which was released in 2010.
InVertigo is Sebastian Brennert (Vocals, Keys), Matthias Hommel (Bass), Carsten Dannert (Drums), Jacques Moch (Guitars) and Michael Kuchenbecker (Keys). Band Invertigo
Year: 2012 Style: Dark Rock Country: USA Format: mp3, 320 kbps Size: 20 Mb
Tracklist:
1. «Cold Blood»
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MaestricK – Unpuzzle! (2011)
Mar 11, 2012 13:35
Progressive Rock
VERY GOOD!
Hello guys, I'd like to talk to you now about an awesome band from my city. The band is called Maestrick. The have just released their first album Unpuzzle! yesterday. You guys should definitely check them out. It's a conceptual album. I'd share a bit of the story now, but it's quite long. They have scrambled the songs on the album, so the listenners would have to solve the puzzle (story) themselves. I've listened to lots of conceptual albums, from bands like DT, Pink Floyd and Angra, but NONE of the come even close to what they did. The booklet is mindblowing, on one side the begining of the story is written and on the other there is a little "poem" in portuguese, giving the listener some "advices". They have also spreaded some tips on their website and on the booklet about the story, and trust me, you're going to need it. I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan and I'll tell you: The Wall is NOTHING compared to Unpuzzle!. They took the word "concept" to another level.
Now enough with the story, musically talking they are inspired by DT (mainly Sistematic Chaos and Metropolis 2), Queen, Angra and many other bands. The songs in the album range from Prog Metal jewells to light musical-like ballads or even circus inspired music (part of the concept), and of course, like all bands from Brazil, brazillian music. They were also voted 2010's best band in the state of São Paulo by the readers of Whiplash, the most famous Rock/Metal site of the country, without and album. with only a 2 SONG EP, distributed in the DT concert, leaving behind bands like Angra, Shaman and Dr. Sin.
I take guitar lessons at the school they teach and I can say that they are the coolest motherfuckers on the face on the planet. Really down to earth guys, always fun to hang out with and also really humble.
01. H.U.C. 6:07'
02. Aquarela 6:57'
03. Pescador 4:45'
04. Sir Kus 1:44'
05. Puzzler 2:05'
06. Disturbia 6:33'
07. Treasures of the World 5:49
08. Radio Active 6:20'
09. Smilesnif 4:35'
10.Yellown of the Ebrium 6:23'
11. Lake of Emotions 21:03'
A powerfull mix of several metal styles; Power, Speed, Thrash, Black and Death metal combined with an extreme Symphonic Orchestra and Choir and lyrics full of social and political issues from Mexican society.
1. The New Dictatorship 05:28
2. The Great Deceiver 04:23
3. Proletarian Elite 03:59
4. The Wall of Shame 04:49
5. Made In Mexico 03:48
6. Blut Und Boden 11:07
7. Security On Demand 05:32
8. 1159 04:18
9. Kill Crusade 06:18
10. Heroes of War 05:26
11. Guardians of My Nation 05:55
12. Et Creavit Homo Deum 01:01
13. Last Human Prayer 04:32
14. Genesis of Evil 05:06
This German band has coined a catchy tag for their style of music: ProMeRo, which stands for Progressive Metal-Rock. It’s a memorable descriptor designed to announce their presence as a hybrid band that incorporate several different genres into their sound (besides progressive, metal, and rock, the group also mixes in modern rock, dabbles in death metal, and slips in some symphonic subtleties). Unfortunately, the acronymic tag is better than the actual music.
The press release claims Crow 7’s sound resembles “the good old rock of the ‘80s.” Yeah, well, McDonald’s can claim their Big Mac tastes like filet Mignon, but that don’t make it so. This album has as much in common with ‘80s rock as Paris Hilton has in common with a starving street urchin. What this album really sounds like is progressive rock slathered with the slick, beefy production so popular today peppered with some death metal growls to increase the intensity and up the modern metal appeal. Hard rock and power metal chops also come out to play once in awhile, but at its core this is modern prog with about as much interest in the ‘80s as the Pope has in exchanging his rosary beads for anal beads.
The musical mash-up Crow 7 attempted is laudable, even if it must be considered a failure. So many artists are content to cower in the comfort zone and crank out exactly the same thing as a thousand bands before them, so kudos to Crow 7 for having the guts to go against the grain and attempt something adventurous. The problem lies not with the innovative concept itself, but in the execution of that concept. While the members are all very skilled and the production is impeccable, there is an absence of energy and a hollow void where the hooks should be. With its tendency toward brooding seriousness, the progressive metal genre sometimes struggles to hold listener interest, and this is a struggle thatSymphony of Souls fails to overcome due to a scant supply of interesting songs.
But “scant” does not mean “absent.” Sift through the endless supply of tracks. Seriously, fifteen tracks is overkill—and you will uncover a handful of decent songs. “Street of Slaver” and “The Guide” both sport solid enough chorus hooks to make them stand out, though “solid” should not be confused with “good.” Sure, these songs are more listenable than the other dullards on the album, but that is damning with faint praise. Joining them in the “solid” category is “Dirty Lies,” a rocking mid-tempo number that avoids slavish commercialism by adding a progressive touch to the chorus as well as some growled backing vocals. “Breed of the Crime” brings some appreciable metal credibility to its sonic output despite the symphonic keys and violins accentuating the back of the mix, while “The Final Ride” brings a burst of double-kick adrenalin. Still, even if all these songs are awarded a passing grade, there are still ten songs remaining, and few people will be satisfied with that kind of lopsided ratio.
Symphony of Souls strives to be all things to all people and ends up satisfying none. Credit to the band for daring to do something different, but the cool idea is crippled by flawed execution and a disjointed approach to too many broad genres. The prog practitioners won’t appreciate the death metal dynamics. The hard rock crowd will be bored by the long songs and lack of catchy hooks. The heavy metal component doesn’t make an appearance often enough to satisfy the headbangers and the growled vocals do not offer enough compensation. And the symphonic elements are too much of an afterthought to impress that demographic. The band may describe themselves as ProMeRo, but a better phrase would be “jack of all trades, master of none.”
Track Listing
1. Symphony of Souls
2. Street of Slaver
3. Shiva Sigh
4. The Guide
5. Kingdom of Calm
6. Spawn of Evil
7. Dirty Lies
8. Virtual Reality
9. Great Spirit
10. Winter Breeze
11. Breed of Crime
12. Ocean of Fire
13. Winner of the Quest
14. The Final Ride
15. Where Do We Go Now
Mar 10, 2012 19:17
All Exclusive Heavy Metal |Power Metal
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British heavy metal singer Blaze Bayley (WOLFSBANE, ex-IRON MAIDEN).
When asked about the recording process for his new album, "The King Of Metal", Blaze said, "I don't like to spend a lot of time in the studio, I don't feel it's a very creative environment. I like to spend most of my time on an album in the writing process and the composing. I feel that's the bit that really counts. I'm always thinking of the audience, the fans and how I'm going to perform the songs live."
When asked if he could offer any insight as to what the new album will sound like, Blaze said, "It'll be a bit different to what I've done before because I'm producing it. There will be a lot of heavy metal, as you would expect from a Blaze Bayley album. We decided to have no rules; if we feel something is appropriate to sing or play, we will. It's all about the vibe and passion. I'm very hopeful it will turn out to be my best work."
You can listen to the entire interview using the SoundCloud player below.
Blaze has announced that he will be accompanied by the following musicians on his upcoming "King Of Metal" tour:
Bayley is currently at Fear Studio in Ravenna, Italy recording his new studio album, "The King Of Metal", for a spring release. A European headlining tour in support of the CD will kick off in early March in Belgium.
In a recent interview with Metal Blast, Bayley stated about "The King of Metal", "This album is a bit more back towards my classic metal style; it's closer to the 'Silicon Messiah' and 'Tenth Dimension' albums. Although I didn't plan it that way, this is how it has worked out. . . I've been working very closely with a young guitar player called Thomas Zwijsen, who has co-written most of the songs, and it has worked very well. Now, the title track, 'The King Of Metal', is dedicated to the fans, because they are the real kings of metal. Without the fans, there's no heavy metal, and I think that people trivialize that and even disrespect heavy metal fans, compared to fans of pop or jazz. I've called the album 'The King Of Metal' as a tribute to heavy metal fans, thanks to whom it has been possible for me to have such a wonderful career and spend my life as a professional singer."
Blaze last year parted ways with the rest of his band in order to pursue a career as a solo artist and the lead singer of WOLFSBANE. He explained the decision by saying that "the mental, financial and emotional strain of keeping the BLAZE BAYLEY band together has proven to be too much for me and has taken a terrible toll on my mental health. . . It has been an upsetting, frustrating and sad time because the BLAZE BAYLEY band will not be going on any more, but it is also for me a huge relief and a time to look forward."
1. The King Of Metal
2. Dimebag
3. The Black Country
4. The Rainbow Fades To Black
5. Fate
6. One More Step
7. Fighter
8. Judge Me
9. Difficult
10. Beginning
was born and raised in Memphis, a town where the music flows through the streets like rainwater. He grew up listening to the Beatles, but couldn’t help being influenced by the sounds of Memphis: Sun Studio, Beale Street, jazz, rock and blues. Just down the road from Beale and Sun is another musical landmark, Ardent Recording Studios.
Sound of the Broken was recorded at Ardent Studios and co-produced by Horn alongside James Joseph (Todd Agnew) and Curry Weber (Todd Agnew, Joy Whitlock).
Horn’s desire to serve through music has resulted in his role as the worship leader in his home church, Christ the Rock Community Church in Memphis, and an understanding of his calling.
Artist: Jeremy Horn
Album: Sound of the Broken
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Genres: Rock, Rock/Pop
Format | Bitrate: MP3 | 320 Kbps
Size: 74,7 Mb
Tracklist:
01. Sound of the Broken
02. Now Is the Time
03. Only God Who Saves
04. Sons and Daughters
05. Surrender
06. Emptied
07. Where You Are
08. Faithful
09. Father of Lights
10. This Reflection
We give you important news, after several years as a Fifth Amendment and a disc on the market we decided to go a step further in this harsh world and have announced that Fifth Amendment will become from now Phoenix Rising, name under which edit our 2nd album called MMXII (2012). This album is the first of a record contract already signed for threealbums with the German disográfica Sonic Attack / Force UG Music. The album will be released in late March on a double CD containing versions in English and Castilian disk.The record attempt a conceptual history and you can clearly see the evolution of the group. It has been produced mixed and mastered by Fernando Enrique Asensi andMompó.
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Band Phoenix Rising
Info: MMXII
Years: 2012
Info: Spain
Time: Power Metal
Info: mp3@CBR320kbps
Info: 112 Mb.
Tracklist:
1. Tenebris Revelantur
2. Agoraphobia
3. The Chosen One.
4. Last Eternal Night
5. Fury and Rage
6. My Love Still Remains
7. Abaddon
8. Exodus
9. Lost Souls
10. Nova Era
Hysterica, Sweden’s self-proclaimed “girls made of heavy metal,” are back with their second full-length album, titledThe Art of Metal. The all-girl traditional metal band may have garnered attention by being, well, an all-girl traditional metal band, but that only goes so far in a genre where the metal has to do the talking. Fortunately Hysterica’s brand of heavy metal speaks quite loud and clear and proves that this band is more than just a collection of pretty faces.
The Art of Metal continues the in your face heavy metal style we heard on the debut Hysterica album (2009’s Metalwar). It’s all bombastic guitar riffs, chugging rhythms, fantastic melodies (they are from Sweden after all), and shout-along choruses about kicking ass and being a warrior for metal. The vocals are mostly clean – a mix between softer singing and a more forceful style – but there’s also a measure of death metal growling (quite similar to Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow) that adds an extra metal punch to a few of these songs. Highlights include “Breaking the Walls,” “Fighters of the Century,” “Hysterica” and the closing anthem “Daughters of the Night,” but the whole of The Art of Metal is really rock-solid. You’re going to bang your head to this one.
While there’s an undeniable “gimmick factor” at work with this band (they’re certainly not downplaying their gender or looks in the promo photos after all), you can’t deny the fact that Hysterica has the musical chops to back it up. The Art of Metal is a very solid slab of traditionally minded heavy metal that’s on par with recent releases from White Wizzard, Cauldron, Enforcer and Benedictum. It may be cheesy, but it still kicks ass!
Genre: Heavy Metal
Band:
Hell’n (d)
Bitchie (g)
SatAnica (b)
Anni De Vil (v)
Marydeath (k)
Track Listing:
1. Breaking the Walls
2. Fighters of the Century
3. Live or Die
4. Spirit of the Age
5. Message
6. Fear of the Light
7. Force
8. Heels
9. Hysterica
10. Daughters of the Night
The first anniversary of the disastrous earthquake in Japan will be on March 11th, 2012. The aftermath of this catastrophe is still apparent, and to the present day the Japanese people are facing the impact of the events. The population of the affected area has not been able to completely return to their everyday live and the people are still grateful for our help.
Some of Europe’s leading Rock artists have united to join a campaign initiated by singer Tommy Heart (Soul Doctor, Fair Warning) and recorded a tremendous new version of the classic Beatles song “Help”. The EP “Help! For JAPAN” will be released in Europe on the German label Avenue Of Allies in early March 2012. All income from the sales of this project will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross.
This EP includes the following four songs :
HELP!
HELP! (Tommy Heart Version)
HELP! (Guitar Version)
HELP! (Extended Version)
The musicians: Don Airey (Keyboard & Piano, Deep Purple), Leo Leoni (Gitarre, Gotthard), Neil Murray (Bass, ex Whitesnake), Hena Habegger (Drums, Gotthard)
The singers: Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia), Bob Catley (Magnum), Andi Deris (Helloween), Torstein Flakne (Stage Dolls), Marc Storace (Krokus), David Readman (Pink Cream 69), Claus Lessmann (Bonfire), Oliver Hartmann (Hartmann), Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Bernhard Weiss (Axxis), Michael Kiske (Unisonic), Tony Mills (TNT), Carsten Lizard Schulz (Evidence One) and Tommy Heart (Soul Doctor, Fair Warning),
The solo guitar players: Cede Dupont (Downspirit), Kyoji Yamamoto (BowWow), Helge Engelke (Fair Warning), Roland Grapow (Masterplan), Leo Leoni (Gotthard), Henny Wolter (Nitrogods), Robert R. Rodrigo (Airless)
All “HELP!” versions produced and mixed by Tommy Heart, Tommy Remm & Rene Schostak (Valicon).
Vocal Arrangement by Tommy Heart.
Solo Guitar Arrangement for “Help” (Guitar Version) by Helge Engelke.
Audio mastering by TMM/Tom Müller Berlin/Germany.
Cover artwork “Help! For JAPAN” designed by Kai Swillus.
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Coming from things at roughly the same direction as, say, the guys in Riverside playing Opeth songs in a Katatonia covers band Enochian Theory are fine additions to the European prog metal canon – except they are as British as taxes and bad weather. The band wear their influences proudly on their collective sleeves although weave their own thread into the tapestry to come up with an overtly appealing album.
Formed towards the tail end of 2004, Enochian Theory are a massive talented three-piece consisting of Benedict Harris-Haynes (vocals, guitars and piano), Shaun Rayment (bass) and Sam Street (druns and percussion). The band already have two releases under their belts – their 2006 EP ‘A Monument To The Death Of An Idea’ and 2009’s debut album ‘Evolution: Creatio Ex Nihilio’, both self-released although the latter was picked up by Mascot and re-issued by the label in 2010 – and have maintained a fairly consistently high profile across the prog metal world both through well-received tours and a mass of highly complimentary reviews. Their second full-length offering ‘Life… And All It Entails’ should build nicely upon these solid foundations, presenting itself as it does as a full-blown challenge to the genre leaders to sit up and take notice.
With songs ranging from the introspective and alienated (opener ‘This Aching Isolation’, for example) to the more hard-edged and malevolent (‘For Your Glory’) ‘Life… And All It Entails’ encapsulates the beauty and majesty of contemporary progressive metal. The musicianship is flawless, the songs ebb and flow and twist and turn without ever losing their accessibility… It’s not so much an album as a masterclass of the genre. But that’s not to say it lacks soul: if you want to zero in on a highlight, check out the pairing of brooding and passionate ‘Nisi Credideritis, Non Intelligetis’ and its next-in-line, the cutting voice-overed instrumental ‘The Motives Of The Machine’: in just two songs the band say more themselves than many bands can manage in a whole album.
I’ve got a feeling that ‘Life… And All It Entails’ is just the tip of the iceberg for Enochian Theory. There’s a lot more hidden depths to reveal themselves yet.
In 1984, vocalist Kory Clarke (WARRIOR SOUL) recorded an album in LA with producer/songwriter Kim Fowley (THE RUNAWAYS, Destroyer-era KISS). The album was lost for 28 Years, but it has been found and brought back to life. This legendary Detroit band, THE TRIAL, will finally be heard.
The most important thing to know about The Trial – this remarkable, squalling, sneering, despairing riot of art rock – is that this is the proto-Warrior Soul. The place, for Kory Clarke, that it all truly began.
By the time Warrior Soul started swinging blows of timely warning from the shadows of New York City, Kory had abandoned his drum kit and was standing up front – all hair, raised fists and metallic street poetry. Nothing has changed. Those that truly supported him then truly support him now. But how many of those people are aware of The Trial, the origins of Warrior Soul and an important band and album in its own right? Even the most ardent fan probably only knows of The Trial by name, and fewer still will have ever heard their music.
That time has now ended, with the release of this extraordinary and pivotal album, a release that quite incredibly hails from 1983, not merely years before the rise of grunge and alternative metal, but even pre-dating the Hollywood hair metal era that that scene usurped. If you wanted any further evidence of Kory’s artistry and forward thinking, here it is.
Confrontational and steeped in reverb, The Trial’s music stalks the dark underground channels between the first Warrior Soul album and classic Killing Joke. “Where do I fit in?” roars Kory in 9th Grade, the start of a quest that continues today. Songs like this, the fiery New Rock and the deliciously cynical Human Beings, fight the fight for the underdog and the disenfranchised, the self-proclaimed losers that don’t fit. Drenched in psychedelic, seething guitars – a sound familiar to those who freaked out to Warrior Soul’s Trippin On Ecstasy – the canvas is colored in dark hues. It is propelled by Kory’s exhausting rhythmic barrage and, of course, his voice – a voice that sounds like the last voice at the end of the last bit of everything. Last decade, dead century anyone?
It’s impossible to listen to this decades-delayed work and not picture the doubtless head-fucking spectacle of the band playing live. Kory at the back, singing and playing drums simultaneously (no small achievement in itself!) but projected to the audience on big screens at the front. Footage interspersed with disturbing images of corpses, of porn and American TV advertisements. This already was an artist seeking to challenge people’s preconceptions, to disturb, probe and ask questions. The wicked riffs and anti-establishmentarianism that pummels “Ruler” along is yet another sign of things to come. The skittering guitars and shout-out-loud hooks of “Skeleton Dance” follow suit.
Much has been written, not least of all by this writer, about how Kory Clarke and Warrior Soul were among the most important artists to emerge in metal’s turn-of-the-Nineties rebirth, and that by rights they should also have stood alongside its biggest selling. No feeling of injustice, however keenly felt, can ever re-write history but, satisfyingly, this early project confirms that we were right all the time. For Warrior Soul fans past and present, it’s time to stand Trial.
1. The New Rock
2. Skelton Dance
3. Romans
4. Jailhouse
5. Kasper Hauser
6. Hellicopter
7. Human Beings
8. Ruler
9. 9th Grade
