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Time: Progressive Rock/Metal
Info: Mp3, CBR 256 kbps
Info: 149 M?

The history of this band goes all the way back to the 1970s; however, MAGICAL KARMA is only the second album of the Hanover-based rock veterans, helmed by multi-instrumentalist Wieland Hofmeister. This album is also the last record to ever be graced with the vocals of Andrew MAC McDermott (Threshold, Sergeant Fury), who died last year at age 45. It is this voice that adds a very special tone to the lushly arranged hybrid of art-rock and prog metal. The music is complex, and at times, even overloaded, but MAC’s voice always serves as the rock in the surf, as the railing the listener can hang onto in this wild sea of eclecticism. MAGICAL KARMA is heavier than YARGOS’ previous output, but that new heaviness is actually quite becoming. Listen to the final mammoth track, “The Wolves Howled (And You Pray)” if you don’t believe me. MAGICAL KARMA is an album that requires patience, but it is also the powerful legacy of a great singer.

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01. Throw the Horns 2:53
02. Sex Will Do 3:01
03. Poisoned 0:39
04. Saturday Night 5:41
05. Hot Glass 3:18
06. Bang Your Drink Down 3:50
07. Been a Slice 3:59
08. Black is the Rockinest Colour 2:48
09. Belushis Fight Song 0:54
10. Turn it Around 3:30
11. Deadly Business 5:28
12. Go Home Get Stoned Watch a Fucking Movie 3:17

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German heavy metallers WIZARD will release their 14-track digital compilation, Taste Of Wizard, on August 3rd via Massacre Records. The compilation will be available for a special price on iTunes, Amazon, Musicload and other digital music stores.

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Progressive Metal aggressive, decisive and sharp sounds and melodies well delineated. And 'the sound of Metaphysics, influenced by '90s prog metal and prog rock of the '70s and '80s.The album sees Andrea De Paoli of the Labyrinth as a special guest on keyboards.

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after a long hiatus Angel Dust singer returns with his band Mercury Tide. The previous release "Why" was an alternative power-metal-album and even if the album title "Killing Saw" indicates an extreme metal release, the music melodic hardrock with some metal guitar riffs.

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New release of Saratoga, which will not count as yet another, but as the third of the new training.

On a first listen, the disc is not easy, does not enter the first and leaves you feeling disappointed first. I must say, GREAT previous work of the band, I have become bored with many listeners. I think this is a bit otherwise. The guitar master Tony Hernando, have a multitude of shades and colors that are probably not of easy listening, but for lovers of art and the more elaborate compositions may shelling delight your ears for long.

The voice of Tete Novoa, is a reference already in this country, when adjectives seek other vocalists. Having already demonstrated its scope in terms of octaves and multiple records in this record, you note loose, not wanting to prove anything anymore, and therefore more comfortable. He has done an excellent job with the voices, without abusing acute, but of course, not without them.

Niko del Hierro, referring to the band, gives credit for demonstrating sound was voted best bassist in the country at different times, a title the other hand, is difficult to maintain given the a level that Spanish musicians have today: Sublime.

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Artist: Brian Howe
Title Of Album: Emotions (EP)
Year Of Release: 2011
Genre, Style: Melodic Rock, AOR
Country: UK
Type, Quality: CBR 320 kbps
Total Size: 40 mb

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PANDORA'S BALL bear bitter drawings in the booklet of "Full Size Nothing" together: children who push their guns in their mouths, and scribbled sayings like: "Without a reason to complain, Kurt Cobain did just that in vain? If there is nothing to defend, why do not we break what we can not bend? "Pithy words and pictures ... How may fail because the music?The quartet comes from the Freiburg area and ventures hereby to a demo and an EP a first long-distance running, which was produced during the past two years. The issue of timeliness is irrelevant, because the band heard on the amount of time is:-edged alternative rock and, in the broadest sense is the order, which - in order to answer the initial question - a grim but not hopeless mood prevails.

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You might know Daniele Liverani best in his role as a keyboard player in many metal acts including Khymera, Genius the Rock Opera, Twin Spirits or Cosmics. But did you know he was an accomplished guitar player. I'm suspecting you did. He's been playing guitar from an early age. With his new solo album, Eleven Mysteries, Liverani picks up his axe once again.As you would suspect, Eleven Mysteries contains 11 songs where Liverani demonstrates his exceptional skills. Also, as you would likely surmise, he follows in the neo-classical guitar tradition. Expect some sizzling shredding throughout this disc, and you'll find it bunches. But it's not always that way, ripping up the fret board that is. A songs such as Supreme Gladness and All Is Pure find Liverani offering some smooth, often soothing licks, over pyrotechnics.

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Gorgeous guitar with new material, exclusive as usual

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01. Abolished 02:44
02. The Nether 02:57
03. Mysterious Ways 03:04
04. Changes 03:37
05. New Meaning 03:33
06. Passing 03:51
07. Cycles 03:13
08. Spiritual Warfare 04:00
09. Taken For Granted 03:09
10. Of The World 03:09
11. Unshakeable 02:47
12. Encounters 03:27

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"Take My Soul" is presented as the evolution of heavy metal from Alicante Hamunaptra, a band and their debut album left us relatively recently and are willing to take root in the national scene, with a second much more dramatic effect successful than the first, although there is still a long way to go.

Before getting to the content that is after all what we are interested in a review, I want to comment as a curiosity that the CD on the back incorporates a QR code (such as fashionable in recent days), to through which we can access their official facebook and follow the record with their respective letters, all new to this that I wrote (perhaps some see it as normal ...).

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