GALAHAD have announced that their new album, "Beyond the Realms of Euphoria", will feature cover art by the extremely talented up and coming young British artist Emma Grzonkowski.

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2012 live release from the internationally renowned guitar superstar. Special guests include vocal powerhouse Beth Hart, legendary singer/songwriter John Hiatt and classic rock star Paul Rodgers. Produced and directed by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Black Country Communion), the performance was filmed in HD with 14 cameras and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound and captures the magnetism and might Bonamassa showcases as a performer.

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Never judge a book (or album) by its cover! When this Denver, CO.-based band was first brought to my attention, going by the cover art and knowing that the label is owned and operated by Warrant’s Jerry Dixon & Erik Turner, I assumed Drug Under was going to be the type of hard rock act that drew heavily on ’80s influences. Not so. They are a modern hard rock/metal act that fits right in with the rest of the bands on active rock radio these days.

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1. Peklo, co rika si svet (4:44)
2. Kralovna Zeme I (3:44)
3. Hvezdam (5:29)
4. Obraz vzpominek (5:19)
5. Zastavte cas (5:19)
6. Kralovna Zeme II (5:29)
7. Utek do nikam (4:39)
8. Pod gilotinou (4:19)
9. Ve smeckach (5:09)
10. Cesta posledni (3:10)

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Brazilian metallers Angra are set to release their first "best of" album titled "Best Reached Horizons" in October 2012 on Steamhammer/SPV. This 20 year career spanning album was compiled by the band and will be available as a double jewel case CD with a massive booklet including liner notes by guitar player Rafael Bittencourt.

CD1 contains an overview of the Andre Matos era and CD2 spans the Edu Falaschi era featuring a cover version of Led Zeppelins "Kashmir." Release dates are listed below.

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"I seem extroverted but I'm incredibly introverted," Tori Amos says in an articulate whisper. She's sitting in a light-filled Tribeca apartment explaining why, after a life spent performing, it was a thoroughly nerve-racking experience recording her new album, Gold Dust (due October 2nd). The album – Amos' second foray into classical music, following 2011’s Night of Hunters – reads like a scrapbook of her career, comprising old favorites reworked with orchestration from the Metropole Orchestra.

It wasn't revisiting her discography so much as the orchestra itself that intimidated Amos during the album's recording, which saw her tracking her vocals in front of the nearly 60-piece Dutch orchestra (whom Amos first performed live with in 2010) and personnel from her label (Deutsche Grammophon). "I sing about some of these very intimate moments in my life, and a lot of them written before I got married to Mark [Hawley, also her sound engineer], and he's there and everyone knows," she says. "It was walking into a room full of people and baring your most intimate thoughts to after barely saying hello."

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"The Fallen Ones", the new single from the Karlstad, Sweden-based metal/rock band SPARZANZA, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The song comes off the group's sixth album, "Death Is Certain, Life Is Not", to be released on September 29 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was once again recorded at Leon Music with producer Rikard Löfgren, who helmed the band's previous three CDs and has also worked with such other artists as HELLFUELED, VOMITORY and DEATHSTARS.

SPARZANZA previously stated about the new record, "This time we have dug a little bit further in our minds, trying to create a really dark and heavy album, but still having focus on writing good melodies. We also added a lot more percussion parts, dark choirs and live strings. It sounds so good and we know that you will be blown away."

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The Great Bear is my first experience with Denver, Colorado, metal band Silencer. Although over past 10 years, they've had some domestic and international success with their version of American thrash metal. The Great Bear is intended to be a concept album, one considering alternative history.

Revisiting the early space race between the United States and Russia, Silencer wonder what would have happened if Russia "chose to one-up the American's moon landing by going somewhere further." They tell the story from the perspective of the Russian nation and an individual member of the mission. Sounds promising, right? But how does it pan out?

First, while the album has 11 songs,The Great Bear is a short album, on 30 minutes long. But if you knock the one spoken piece, 1969, and the last piece, which sounds like the Russian national anthem, then you're down to nine songs and just better than 27 minutes. If it weren't for quantity of songs The Great Bear might have been considered an EP. Second, Silencer's music is more heavy metal and less thrash. It's more like meat and potatoes Eighties traditional metal, with a side of thrash thrown in. Alternatively, Silencer packs a lot into many of the songs, mostly a big bass line and massive amounts of riffage, with a guitar solo now and then. Of these tracks Great Bear, Star City, The Roar, and Orders/Sacrifice are the best picks.

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On the album the band went through "a living hell" - said the leader of the team, Adam Savage. "It took four years, five line-up changes, two studios, two labels, and countless hours of work and here it finally comes out!"

During recording, the tension between the parties came to a head, and in the end it was decided to leave the vocalist and drummer. In place of the latter was quickly found Dave Kazukiewicz, but with a singer ... "We have found the singer, but quickly stepped life circumstances and everything will have changed" - says Savage. "Then I asked my friend, Jessica'y Sierra come with us on a few shows."

Following the presentations, Jessica became a regular participant Mongrel, and the group returned to the studio to re-record all of the material from scratch.

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This is the 4th album by rock band Three Days Grace. It is produced by Don Gilmore and will be released on RCA Records. On June 5th, the band announced in a video on their official website that the album would be titled Transit of Venus and will be released on October 5th, 2012. The first single, “Chalk Outline”, will be available on August 14th. The album will be available for preorder on the same day.
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French female-fronted symphonic metallers KERION will release their new concept album, "CloudRiders Part 1: Road To Skycity", on September 25 via Metalodic Records. The CD will feature guest appearances byCARAVELLUS' Raphael Dantas, FAIRYLAND's Phil Giordana and SILENT FALL's Adrien Eyraud. Also featured on the album is the 40-personRimiez Choir.

"CloudRiders Part 1: Road To Skycity" was produced by Will Lievin(HAMKA). The artwork for the album was created by Genzo (World Of Warcraft) and contains characters and scenes of the story.

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Their history dates back to 2001, but now Evershine has put together their full-length debut, Renewal, a platter of melodic power metal. Power metal? Italy? Could it be? Hold back your incredulity for just a moment. Evershine is pretty darn good.

Renewal is definitely epic, lively, and bombastic, like any Italian power metal band should be. Early in their career the band took cues from fellow Italian metallers Rhapsody of Fire, but also Stratovarius. How epic and over the top is that?

While somewhat typical of European power metal, Evershine works from three strengths. The first is the strong and versatile lead vocals from Marco Coppotelli and vocal arrangements. The second is the balance of guitar and synth solos. There's definitely some thrilling fret pyrotechnics, but the keyboards also do well. Third, Evershine concentrates on melody, and melody often with a rock groove. Yet, they can still be heavy and fast, as power metal should be.

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