The new album will be released outside Moscow of AGE on September 11 via Metalsim Records. AGE formed in 2007 and for 5 years career has released one full-length release, "The stigma of perpetual debt." In the past 3 years, the musicians working on a new concept album, occasionally reminding me of themselves participating in various compilations and concerts in the central part of Russia. And now, a monumental work completed! Metalism Records with the assistance of producer center Mindcrusher Heavy Power presents you sociohistorical metal opera "The Hammer of Witches." This conceptual work tells the story of the creation and development of penal institutions since the establishment of the Inquisition to the present day.
After re-issuing the self-titled debut 2009 release as “Svölk 'Em All” in 2011 through Napalm Records, Norway’s own “bear metal” act Svölk has returned for more reefer blazing debauchery with “Nights Under the Round Table.” Now before you go thinking that Svölk is all about fun times getting high, the new album, more so than its predecessor, presents some seriously impressive riffs that catch you "on guard," especially if you have come to know the band. While the album is no trailblazer, it is worth a listen for those that need to satisfy that Sabbath sweet leaf....er, tooth!
JUDAS PRIEST – SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE (30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION) 2012
Sep 3, 2012 23:03
Heavy Metal |Power Metal
We may have just celebrated the 30th anniversary of the classic Judas Priest album ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ earlier this week, but the band have something special in store concerning the release a little later this year.
The ‘Screaming for Vengeance – Special 30th Anniversary Edition’ is expected to drop Sept. 4 with several notable additions. The group’s eighth studio album returns in remastered form, with bonus tracks and a live DVD from the 1983 US Festival in San Bernardino, Calif.
Tempest is Dylan’s 35thth (sic) studio album as they say, and what a beauty. The thrill is in hearing such a cross-sectional hodgepodgian mishmash of eclectic ways to say ‘Dylanesque pastiche.’ Like the surface of the earth, he’s all over the place—congo bongo, Django jazz, Flying Nun jangle, Northern soul, Canadian punk, gypsy rag, Scottish reel, Xenakisian electronica, gumbo dirge, Elvis-impersonator, beatnik poetry, Delta reggaetron, Hindi laptop, K-pop thrash, J-skronk, avante acoustic field, and an endless helping of Dylan’s take on Tuvan throat-singing. What may come as a relief to many fans, is that there’s no 12 bar blues here. It seems he’s gone all out to bring it all back home. Amen to that.
Formed in 1999, was previously shown SHOEILAGER rather quiet ... Yet the author of a 4 tracks demo (2003) and their first album, Gladiator, released in 2006, with the means at hand, the name was SHOEILAGER ever happened to the ears of your servant is so with this Dark Pact that we discover the Marne, and I must say it would have been a shame to miss such a great achievement this album as the powerful scent Heavy 80's is a success, it is thought in turn to KILLERS, H-BOMB and all these groups made in France that have rocked our youth (I'm talking about a time that less than twenty years may not know!). Everything about this Dark Pact breathes authenticity and sincerity, we feel that these guys are fun and break out to play their music ... Extremely efficient nine compounds presented here are equally unstoppable as each other, ranging from mid-tempo and fast songs ("In The Position", the aptly named "Metal" ...) SHOEILAGER offers us a solid album direct and unadorned that will delight fans of the 80's and the French Metal scene ... Moreover PMFF organization does not make a mistake and invited SHOEILAGER for its fifth edition to be held in Paris in January 2013 ... a good opportunity to see firsthand the good performance of this excellent live album provided.
The first new studio album from ZZ Top in nine years is LA FUTURA, set for release September 11 by American Recordings. The album harks back to the hallmark raw sound of the band's formative years and will, inevitably, be considered a return to form on multiple levels. LA FUTURA, produced by Rick Rubin and Billy F Gibbons, the band’s guitarist/singer, finds the legendary group infusing the newly recorded work with the electric blues/roots approach that typified ZZ Top's earliest work while, at the same time, reaching for new sonic horizons. At its fundament, this is the incarnation of the band whose influence resonates today with such artists as The Black Keys, Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age and many others.
Now celebrating their 42nd year with the same line-up, Gibbons along with bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard have come up with ten tracks that reflect the band’s intuitive take on rock brought to new, sometimes surreal, plateaus. “We thought long and hard about what this album should be,” commented Gibbons. “We wanted to recall the directness of our early stuff but not turn our backs on contemporary technology. The result of this melding of the past and the present is, of course, LA FUTURA.”
Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon [Deluxe Edition] (2012)
Sep 3, 2012 17:57
Indie Rock
Danny Boyle's decision to hand one of the songs at the Olympics opening ceremony (Caliban's Dream) to Two Door Cinema Club's frontman Alex Trimble suggests that the Northern Irish trio's time has come. In truth, while their second album is polished, thanks no doubt to U2 producer Jacknife Lee, there is nothing to distinguish Two Door Cinema Club from several other excitable indie-disco bands. Their debut, Tourist History, was endearingly odd but, Sun aside, Beacon is prosaic and frenetic, its tireless synths and fidgety guitars unable to camouflage the group's dearth of ideas.
01. Son Of Wolf (05:30)
02. Diary Of Eternity (07:35)
03. Soul Warrior (05:16)
04. Kill Me Madness (04:59)
05. Innocent (04:59)
06. Dark Day (05:33)
07. Waverly Hills (04:23)
08. Existance (04:15)
Sep 3, 2012 14:49
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The Forgotten started in 2004 just one guitar and one voice. They started playing anywhere that would allow them.It stayed a 2 piece for about 4 years until three new band members transformed THE FORGOTTEN into an extremely diverse musical group that has shared a stage with bands such as SHINEDOWN, BUCKCHERRY, SEVENDUST, DROWNING POOL, 10 YEARS, SEASONS AFTER, PUDDLE OF MUDD, and CHEVELLE. The Official line up for The Forgotten is Chase Coles- Vocals, Tony O-Guitar, Colby Coles-Bass, Logan Brundy- Lead Guitar, and Travis Taylor- Drums/Percussion
Progressive rock meets metal in a fresh way. From the inspired minds of young musicians writing their debut album, comes an overdose of head-banging riffs, rich textures and atmospheres, untraditional arrangements, and involving melodies and storylines.
It is done. LETZTE INSTANZ has arrived at a long musical journey. The upcoming release “Ewig" is the last part of the trilogy and comes out with a flourish.
The black angel (artwork “Schuldig”, released 2009) and the white warrior (artwork “Heilig”, released 2010) will set forth for the final decision. The stories about life and all the big and small conflicts day-to-day have come full circle with “Ewig”.
LETZTE INSTANZ has ripened like a good wine over the years (14 since band formation). Countless concerts, shows in China and Russia, constant entries in the top positions of the German Media Control Charts could not satisfy the band – quite the contrary: they seek for more – the only explanation why “Ewig” has become so powerful, convincing and especially personal.
In 1994, Kosta Bayss founded APVTH in Montreal Canada and recorded the 'Motorcrash' demo later that same year (with R. Chicoine and Doug McIntosh helping out on vocals). Hating the sound of his own voice, Bayss elected Chicoine to do vocals and play bass (up until 2005's 'Resurrection' CD) but would still sing one song per album himself. Chicoine would stay on board as APVTH's singer/bassist until 2006 when friction between the two made continuing impossible. Bayss searched for a new singer, recording new songs and re-recording earlier songs but was not happy with what he found out there, and so it was decided that the only logical course was to do everything himself. The end result was 2010's 'The Goetic Sessions: Gateways to the Necropolis', a collection of old and new songs which varied in styles (as Bayss wrote for various potential new singers). APVTH operates on a budget of $0 and everything is done at no cost. Bayss is currently working on the followup CD, 'The Necropolis' which is set for a 2011 release... .
Sep 3, 2012 13:40
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California based duo of Jeff Lane and Jim Nahikian. Jim handles all the percussion and Jeff everything else. Its amazing how these guys are able to channel the sound of 70s classic rock. They've come up with a perfect balance of prog and hard rock. From the band's name you would suspect a Rush influence and its quite apparent. Its obvious these guys spent a lot of time dissecting Farewell To Kings. Lane's vocals are quite similar to Steve Walsh but with a touch of Geddy Lee in the upper registers. Kansas is definitely an influence. I'm not sure I hear the often referenced Iron Maiden and Queen feel but I'm sure its in there somewhere. If someone told you this was a long lost album from 1977 you'd wouldn't give it a second thought. Highly recommended.
