May 17, 2012 15:13
All Exclusive Heavy Metal |Power Metal Progressive Rock
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Here's another first for April, Juggernaut is my first experience with Texas metal band All Too Human. It appears that this album has been sometime in the making. We last heard from the band in 2002. The core members remain: Clint Wilson (g), Maurice Taylor (b), and Chris Lucci (d). They've borrowed Gordon Tittsworth from Images of Eden on vocals. (Lucci also plays drums for Images of Eden.)
With one spin I'll admit I was skeptical. Juggernaut is a rather diverse and dark album. To the former, you'll hear a variety of influences informing the prog, including traditional heavy metal, power metal, and modern hard rock. As to the latter, the heaviness unleashed here gives the album a weighty brooding quality. The best pieces are the bookends of the title track and the revamped instrumental Arrythmia, from 2002's Entropy.
Legendary Greek classic metal band MARAUDER have joined forces with Pitch Black Records. Having recently celebrated 22 years since the band was formed, with a number of metal anthems composed throughout the years and having established themselves as one of the most respected acts of the Greek metal scene, MARAUDER are now back with their fifth album, “Elegy of Blood”.
MARAUDER were formed in early 1990 and have since then performed live countless times in Greece and abroad, acquiring a huge following and the respect and admiration of many amongst their local scene.
May 15, 2012 14:03
All Exclusive Heavy Metal |Power Metal
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2012, End of September is definitely one of the most promising bands from Scandinavia at the moment. This young band shows with their debut album that they know how to create fantastic, memorable songs, and perform them to perfection. They have also been able to successfully create a mix between melodic metal and more modern metal that not many bands have. With the well-crafted and intelligent song-writing of Erik Tordsson and the smooth and emotional vocals of Elin Redin, End of September is a force to be reckoned with during the coming years. The band is hungry to hit the stages around the world, and is destined to make it. Perfect for fans of Evanescence and Within Temptation.
Pretty Maids – It Comes Alive: Maid In Switzerland 2CD (2012) Lossless
May 14, 2012 21:28
Hard Rock Heavy Metal |Power Metal
Band Pretty Maids Info: Denmark Info: It Comes Alive: Maid In Switzerland Style: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Years: 2012 Info: Lossless/FLAC (image+.cue, scans) Info: 448 Mb + 451 Mb
Sonata Arctica – Stones Grow Her Name (2012) [Deluxe Edition]
May 14, 2012 19:34
Heavy Metal |Power Metal
Of all the albums I’ve reviewed, Sonata Arctica’s “Stones Grow Her Name” has been by far the most challenging. In part, this may be due to my penchant for gravitating to what my progressive metal friends would call childish “simplistic” metal. With “Stones Grow Her Name,” Sonata Arctica proved its recent history as the most unpredictable band in metal to the point where genre tagging is fruitless. Fear may strike the hearts of fans when a band utters the bold statement “this is going to be really different.” That may prove to be the understatement of the year, for at the end of this astronomically fun thrill ride the band is still undeniably Sonata Arctica.