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Regarding from Melodicrock.com: Musicians Will Champlin andMiles Schon recently joined forces in a new band they are calling Miles of Will. The duo's debut EP is out now and available via Facebook.com/milesofwill. Digital Downloads will be made available shortly. Here is a little background info on the pair, as reported in Marin Independent Journal (San Rafael, CA), interview by Paul Liberatore.

"They have mixed emotions about being the sons of rock stars. "We've got a little bit of a push because of that, which is great," said Champlin, whose dad, singer-songwriter Bill Champlin, is a former member of Chicago and a founder of the legendary Marin band the Sons of Champlin. But, as a 28-year-old lead singer and keyboard player, just like his dad, being his father's son can also be a source of considerable insecurity. "It can be pretty overwhelming sometimes," he admitted. "You want to pretend like you're not, and then you think, 'But would people still like me?'"

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Disclosure is The Gathering’s most personal soundscape they’ve ever made. A great marriage between electronic and organic sounds and colourfull and diverse songs. It’s simply impossible to describe this new album in a few words. Keyboard player Frank says: “It’s for sure our most personal album we ever made, lyrically but also musically”.
“We tried a lot of new things, like harmony singing” he says. “ We stayed close to ourselves, working on long epic songs, which we love to work on knowing it is one of our strongest points. We took all the time to cristalize all ideas, not forgetting to experiment. We are incredibly proud of this album!”.

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8BHK started out as a mere solo project of Chadd Adam’s born from years of tiresome playing in the quickly stale growing music scene. He desired something different, melding the very best of his favorite genres and infusing a subtle nerd quality into the foundation of the project.

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Debut album from Central Pennsylvania's Witch Hazel

1. Secret Door (6:11)
2. Land Of Phantoms (3:53)
3. Moon People Unite (10:56)
4. Fog Of Lust (6:04)
5. De La Tombe (3:16)
6. The Spellbook (7:35)
7. A Witchs Haze (5:04)
8. Horrid Hell (7:48)
9. Ignite The Sun (6:41)
10. Ascend/The Faun (7:18)

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NOW!Kissing...

Kissin‘ Black are acoustic and raw. Sometimes fast and hard-nosed, at times slow-going but always catchy!

Driven by grayest Swiss skies and southern charm; four figures who need the black to find the colours, they want to experience the loss to savour the rising. A fascinating and relaxing rock-bath between melancholia and aspiration. Kissin‘ Black provides the perfect soundtrack for calm moments. Love, affection, light and above all music. With those atmoshperes the band from Lucerne enriches their sound in the midst of mist and mountains. With some fragile words, a glass of red wine and a bottle of fuel.

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NOW!Tree of Love...

ATOMIC FLOWER offers an attractive blend of energy and emotion, Metal with depth, compacted with prog and Doomelementen and psychedelic guitar arrangements. ATOMIC FLOWER is more than a band - there are creative musician with a high standard of songwriting. Swiss Metal's own coinage, with an authentic feel and a message: GET 100% AUTHENTIC METAL MUSIC!

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NOW!Will Be President...

ASHENVEIL, the new "ambitious" female-fronted metal band out of New Jersey featuring OPERATIKA drummer Yuri Liakhovitch and SYMPHONY X bassist Mike LePond, will release an EP, "Black Of Light", in August. The CD was mixed by Jeremy Krull (DARK EMPIRE) and was mastered atFinnvox studios (NIGHTWISH, CHILDREN OF BODOM) in Helsinki, Finland. The cover artwork was created by Albino-Z and Robert Laddand can be seen below.

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NOW!VERY NO BAD WITH Roland Grapow...

Lasted for years than you guys "off the street" anyone noticing. They said Absolut and after dozens of unsuccessful attempts to break through their music everywhere only listen to it finally gave up. But they did not give up and prove that the stories discovered unknown bands take place in Slovakia.

Suffice last (and only correct) meeting with producer Marcela pass that believed not only their music, but the band also opened up a whole new dimension - they met with one of the best guitarists Slovak Henry Tóth. The singer Martina "Benca" Haspr it was a dream come true: "I do not know what more I could ask for than that, we're on our debut were surrounded by such great musicians. Worth the wait and toil. Absolut because there is no superficial story . been years of hard work and rock'n'roll. "

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An instrumental journey through metal, jazz, flamenco, Samurai movies, video games, space, forests, tears, silence, trains, fear, anger, contention, honor, bliss, sadness, silliness, optimism, and finally landing on the sandy shores of the unknown.

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Now!mmm...

San Francisco based Doom Rockers, ORCHID, have announced to release an EP featuring 3 brand new tracks + 1 song from the latest full-length album, Capricorn, on September 7, 2012.

The EP, entitled Heretic, marks the first release for Nuclear Blast and will be released both digitally as well as on 10? vinyl.

Commented guitarist Mark Baker: “Late in 2010, after we submitted the „Capricorn“ full length to our label and waited for the release, we realized that there wouldn’t be any extensive touring, so we just kept writing and rehearsing new material. A few months later, we were back in the studio cutting basics for new songs. By the time we finished the business of changing labels, we had way more than one album worth of new songs. We, along with Nuclear Blast, decided it would be a great idea to release a few of those on an EP this year while we wrap up everything for our next full length. We’re really excited for people worldwide to get a chance to check out what we’ve been up to in the last year. These new songs have the classic, anthemic ORCHID sound that people expect from us, along with a few elements that we’ve never shown before.”

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Doing a bit of memory, will three years, a great friend of mine, Andres Rodriguez, by November, told me to look on youtube an unknown group, whose lead guitarist was his friend. That kid was a certain Adrian Ramos. Well, ... maybe soon I see the video ... about four or five months, because at that time did not have Internet at home and my brother I downloaded everything from the computers in the university library. Well, it's time, and the only three issues I heard, they were the only ones who had hung, "Murderer", "Rock Never Dies" and "Fire Chords", did not seem sufficiently well executed than I expected , July battery gave me the impression of being uncoordinated, Carlos's voice was sometimes incomprehensible, and the guitars were curiously well implemented, but seemed not to what I promised ... but it was a pretext to extracted the audio and put them on me mp3

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LEGEND will officially launch its new studio album, Chaos City, next September under the company and distributing PICAP Actual Records. City of Chaos, fourth album of the band Madrid, represents a firm step in the bet LEGEND did in 2005 when its released his first full-length work, Quintessence (Pies, 2005).
Later came at midnight (Akeloo, 2007) and Horizons (PICAP, 2009). In these troubled times, which appear to be heroes to get us out of the political, ideological, social, economic, and otherwise, LEGEND returns to prove it is possible to fight and find a way.
City of Chaos has been recorded at the Lair of the Raccoon and Royal Sound Studios, produced by Javier Palomeque (Santelmo, Nagasaki), and mastered in PKO Studios by Caco Refojo (Grammy winner). For this record large national artists have wanted to contribute their bit to the project legend and not want to miss the opportunity to work on the fourth album of legend, as:
-Jero Ramiro (Santelmo, Saratoga, etc..), Carlitos (Wizard of Oz)-Silver (Wall, Silver Filst)-Ignacio Prieto (Lost Eden, Atlas, etc.)-Patricia Tapia (Khy, Mage oz, Nexx)-Jose Paz (Santelmo, Koven), Eduardo Ortiz-(Perfect Smile, Ad Astra), C-Yeray

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at last i did it!Now!From France...

DreamQuest is a heavy metal band. Created in 1998, by two guitarists Joackim and Nicolas quickly joined by St?phane with the keyboards, the band knew tumultuous beginnings. It is only in 2001 that it started to be stabilized although it underwent from several changes of line-up in August 2004. In 2001, the group gives some concerts and then records the first d?mo entitled 'Falling Life' in February 2002. In July 2002, after having given some concerts, the drummer leaves the band, DreamQuest will remain in stand by during nearly one year. In September 2003, with the arrival of David (ex Total Death), the band takes again the repetitions and launches out on the composition of new songs. But in July 2004, the collaboration with one of the guitarists is stopped. This time, the band does not want a substitute for the vacancy. Therefore, the remaining members rearrange the songs to be played with only one guitar and also go back to the composition. Since December 2004, DreamQuest records the second d?mo which will be born in 2006.

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