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Front_1It’s taken from new pledge-funded album Truth, Lies & Half Lies, which is released on May 15.

The band say of their fifth long-player: “It’s the best-sounding album that we’ve ever done. Not only that, but we’re hugely proud of the songs too. There is a band philosophy that each record has to be better than our last – and this is very much the case here.”

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600x600There is something irrevocably indomitable about the British rock scene. Like a dog with a chew toy, it simply refuses to let go. Through nearly forty years of imitators trying to steal its crown, good old rock’n'roll has proven time and again that it simply will not go away.
Very much in the Guns n Roses, Thin Lizzy and Motley Crue molds, the Guttergodz fuse the altogether brash, fist-pumping and ever-so More»


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Transubstans veterans OBLIVIOUS is back on track, this time with the stunning 8-tracker "Creating Meaning"! Bluesy, groovy hard rock with flowing bass lines and mysterious riffs that resembles the inventiveness of LED ZEPPELIN and SABBATH, but also acts like DOZER or CLUTCH. Since their 2009 debut "Goons And Masters", OBLIVIOUS has not lost the harshness of the tone in their sound. During these four years, they've rather built up a more solid wall of sound, with well-arranged riffs and conceived 70's grooves. Explore this record if you wanna know what Transubstans is all about!

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Ex Wife's Skull - The Ultimate FrightmareEX WIFE'S SCULL one succeeds in connecting the Sleaze rock of N GUNS ROSES with the vigorous hard rock of ZEPPELIN LED on her album "The Ultimate Frightmare". And also if they are resident at last already more in the Sleaze rock, she removes the line particularly appearing with the reef to the 70th thus a little bit of other tape of the genre.

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Nosound

Nosound is an Italian band formed in 2002 by Giancarlo Erra (vocals and guitars). Together with Giancarlo we have Paolo Vigliarolo (guitars), Alessandro Luci (bass), Marco Berni (keyboards) and in the past year the band was joined by the ex-Porcupine Tree and Blackfield Chris Maitland (drums). The album also has Marianne De Chastelaine (cello) in a couple of tracks.

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Steve Cone is a New York native and has been a member of several prominent bands in his years of making music. After relocating to the desert, Cone built a studio and started writing his own brand of metal, forged in the classic European tradition of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends such as Iron Maiden, Saxon but also Accept and Motorhead to name but a few.
His mix or heavy metal/ progressive hard rock is tempered with his own street-smart style picked up from his days of playing the dark, seedy clubs of New York City. The results have been nothing short of impressive with each Cone release topping its predecessor with intelligent yet wild songs about power, betrayal, and the various dark places in our minds.

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TICKET TO THE MOON - Dilemma on Earth

 

TICKET TO THE MOON (3TM) is a progressive band from Basel, Switzerland. It was founded in 2003 by Daniel Gosteli drummer and Andrea Portapia guitarist, two friends that shared the passion for prog-music. Since, Matthias Zwick keyboardist and Guillaume Carbonneau bassist joined consecutively. Vocals are alternatively shared between Andy and Danny. 3TM is a true product of Europe with no less than 4 nations represented: Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France. Some say it might be the root of such an eclectic musical...

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Australia's Taipan originally formed way back in 1979, after a few EP's and demo's the band disbanded all the way to around 2006/7 and are now on the fourth of the reunion releases. METAL MACHINE is a collection of straight cut Heavy Metal, no-frills although boasting youthful energy that would belie the band's age. Everything across the album has a decidedly ´classic` type of feel, from the riffs to the solos this is all by the book which was started in the seventies and fleshed out over the eighties. Fans who love no-bullshit Heavy Metal should be able to happily bob their head throughout the duration of METAL MACHINE.

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"Dangerosa" is the 3rd album of SONOLOCO. This new opus of the aquitain combo distils a high-powered Rock tinted with Heavy Metal and some reek Punk...

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600x600The sextet, composed of Clement Marsé in song, Franck Dibari in keyboards, Mickael Raverdino in the bass, Guillaume Moreno to the battery, Aldebaran and Philippe Gabison in guitars, is influenced by one put together such as Symphony X, Bread Of Salvation, Dream Theather, or, still Génésis, while visiting again the fantastic atmosphere of Lovecraft, and, the world science fiction of Arthur Clarke... More»


JAVIER MIRA

THE THEATER IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STAGES TO RECREATE US IN OUR ILLUSIONS AND OUR SLEEP, WHICH BETTER THAN YOU TO OFFER A STAGE LIKE THAT FOR A SPECTACLE FULL OF ROCK.
JAVIER LOOKS THERE PRESENTS ITS FIRST WORK ALONE, AFTER 25 YEARS INSIDE THE NATIONAL SCENE OF THE ROCK, THIS BIG MAGICIAN OF SIX ROPES, DELIGHTS US WITH ITS LAST MADNESS DONE FROM THE HEART, WITH FORCEFUL SOUND AND MAGIC OF LIGHT AND SOUND.
ARE YOU GOING TO GET LOST IT?

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Great band from Canada ... Support Band HERE

Definitely in the "symphonic prog" category. Remind me of Eloy, Camel and Rush...maybe even Acqua Fragile a bit. They have just released their first self titled CD in 2013.  3 tracks in the 15 minute category...another that is 7 minutes in length and a shorter one at 5 mnutes.The track "Social Engineering" is very impressive.  Recurring themes, great guitars and keyboards.  A fine prog rock suite.

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The debut album by Bergamo-based band THUNDER AXE, titled “Grinding The Steel”, will be published on April 22nd 2013 under My Graveyard Productions.

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