You might have noticed that I have a routine of genre-tagging bands right in the first paragraph of a review I'm writing, in case my readers aren't bored enough to go through 300 words describing an album which is not of interest to them. Well, this time you'll just have to read the review, because this stuff is hard to pigeonhole.
Prominent bass, prominent drums (I quit counting around the sixth drum solo), a guitar player channeling every (positive) cliché in metal guitar, from riffs and guitarmonies laden with Maiden-worship to classic shredding, short appearances of synths/piano and a singer with a gentle, melodious approach take you on a journey through heavy, prog, thrash, and Opethian - or more precisely, Damnation-esque - ballads. Random cameos of other (metal and non-metal) subgenres find their place here as well. The genre-hopping doesn't take place within songs themselves - each (long!) song is mostly dedicated to one particular "style".
Though I've had listening experience with France's Spheric Universe Experience and their 2009 release Unreal, I passed it off to my son to review. However, I'm not entirely sure why. Perhaps, it's because, as he said, the variation between songs was suspect.
I'm not sure I would draw the same conclusion with this year's The New Eve. This is definitely a progressive metal album, notable on the first three songs at the start, and elsewhere. Yet listening to Never Heal and The Day I Died, I think I hear some modern alternative rock undercurrents. If anything has a modern metal feel it's Self Abuse with a touch of growling vocals. But that could simply be me searching hard for the dissimilarity between arrangements. If you're not careful, the riffage will run together, which is the exact thing that tripped up my son three years ago.
Artist: Baltimoore
Title Of Album: Fanatical
Year Of Release: 2005
Genre, Style: Hard Rock
Country: Sweden
Type, Quality: CBR 320 kbps
Total Size: 94,6 mb
For one so young Joanne Shaw Taylor is not only treat as an equal in what might be the most snobbish of musical genres but genuinely revered by many much older guitarists and this, her third album could well be the one that attracts the ears of Big League Promoters across the Atlantic Ocean.Joanne’s last album; DIAMONDS IN THE DIRT was generally perceived to be ‘career defining’ but ALMOST ALWAYS NEVER actually starts where that album left off and with the aid of some excellent production work from Mike McCarthy; Joanne Shaw Taylor throws down a gauntlet to the rest of the burgeoning British Blues-Rock scene.Soul Station which opens the album has all the hallmarks of a timeless classic and Beautifully Broken which follows is a breathy heartbreaker with a Rhodes organ complimenting the nicely choppy guitar breaks before Shaw-Taylor slides in her own trademark fluid solos.
In the past we've always been able to rely on P!nk for that heartfelt angst filled dynamite pop song.She says it how it is, slates who she likes, toys with her hubby's emotions through her lyrics and does all of this whilst looking like she could kick your backside at the same time.So it's perfectly understandable when she fell pregnant last year a tremor of fear went off in fan's minds. Would she be able to return to form with new music following her Greatest Hits package of 2010? The simple answer is yes.Having seen her perform live on more occasions than I can remember, I know she's the one artist you can rely on for longevity.So what if she's had a baby and she's been taking a few months out. It's not going to suddenly enable her to skip around Rodeo Drive in a tutu buying £2,000 handbags for her chihuahua to bed down in.P!nk's voice is raw, the lyrics are to the point (hardcore occasionally) and she's always been unique – it's her way or the highway.
Stealing Axion presents an interesting case study in just what exactly is meant by the term “progressive” with the band’s debut full-length “Moments.” Does combining different styles make a band progressive? Is it throwing in ‘70s rock vibes, or is it meshing clean and harsh repeatedly? Is djent the new prog? “Moments” ends up an album that will likely have many die-hard supporters, but just as many die-hard detractors, as it loses its own identity in the quest to be “progressive metal.”
This is an album that is amazing on a strictly musical and technical proficiency level, but overall is still a bit of an aimless mess. The style and atmosphere changes at the drop of a hat, and each song is massively different from any other. There’s power metal, death metal, a whole lot of Meshuggah worship, and yes, even some mallcore from time to time. Opener “Mirage of Hope” has a quasi-hardcore vibe, along with breakdowns and electronic elements. “Sleepless” starts out with a creepy mix of black and death, while “It’s Too Late Now” drops the metal and plunges into soft and clean territory.
n recent years, the word "change" or "revolution" often came to our ears, almost to be used too lightly. Many of those who appear on television screens, radio broadcasts, or simply on the printed pages of the newspapers in my long lost sight of what they want to say those words. What we must realize is that instead of a change we need in these times darker than ever, but it must be a desire to start from scratch, tear down the pillars on which up to now have been resting the basics of how to common life, and groped by all means to create a new reality, in which every individual that is part of has exactly the same rights and duties of man standing next to him.
Throughout history, artists have generally tried to give the greatest contribution to the various causes that could have taken place, and even today, the way in which we should all go seems to have become a point so far, there are people who struggle these injustices in their own way, through music, for example, consuming their fingers and vocal chords to impress upon the minds of those who govern this system to their message.
Place Called Rage – Place Called Rage 1995 (Escape Music 2012) Lossless
Sep 13, 2012 10:20
Hard Rock
Band Place Called Rage (ex-Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Savatage, Blue Oyster Cult) Info: USA Info: Place Called Rage Style: Hard Rock Years: 1995/2012 Info: Lossless/APE (image+.cue, scans) Rip By: slayer19/griffonnest Info: 453 ?b
Sep 12, 2012 12:43
Hard Rock Heavy Metal |Power Metal
British hard rocker TYGERS OF PAN TANG will release their new album, Ambush, on September 24th via Rocksector Records.
01 Keeping Me Alive 05:27
02 These Eyes 04:10
03 One of A King 04:14
04 Rock & Roll Dream 04:07
05 She 04:49
06 Man on Fire 04:10
07 Play to Win 04:51
08 Burning Desire 04:56
09 Hey Suzie 04:18
10 Mr. Indespensable 04:23
11 Speed 03:41
Nostra Morte is a symphonic rock group from Mexico, known
for its unique rhythm, the perfect orchestrations and lyrical voice.
After several lineup changes currently Nostra Morte
formed by the beautiful soprano vocalist Dollette, Eiven baritone voice, Voice
Alferis guttural, Pier Lead guitar, rhythm guitar Malek, Under Enhell and
Arcan on drums.
This project was born from the imagination of Pier and Alferis late 2006 from
a book of his own authorship with the intention to be giving to music
resulted in their first album "A Story Before Dying" by taking them to
presentations at major festivals around the republic
as the Hell & Heaven, Rockstk, Mortal Fest, Morbid Fest, The Battle of the
bands (Wacken) among others, have achieved great goals and his music
has become known worldwide.
Try keeping up with Neal Morse and you may have to catch your breath. The gifted musician and prolific composer is in full stride, seemingly unstoppable. Certainly, that's what his seventh solo album of progressive of rock, Momentum, would suggest.
Momentum once more proves that Morse, in the company of longtime friends Mike Portnoy and Randy George, is a master of progressive rock. His music is as much as easily identifiable with him as it is also creative and fresh. This is notable on Weathering Sky where heaviness is juxtaposed against a soaring, melodic, vocal arrangement. But also on the following song Freak, which is as much prog as it is accessible melodic rock. It's also a fine example of how Morse explores his Christian faith with honesty and gentleness. Then there's the lighter, acoustic driven, Smoke & Mirrors, which takes a page from early English prog.
