Band It Bites
Info: The Tall Ships
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 2008
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 177.5 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 - Oh My God.
02 - Ghosts.
03 - Playground.
04 - Memory of Water.
05 - The Tall Ships.
06 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
07 - Great Disasters.
08 - Fahrenheit.
09 - For Safekeeping.
10 - Lights.
11 - This is England.
12 - When I Fall.
Rip By: Wolfman69
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AETHELLIS – NorthUmbria (2012)
Jan 18, 2012 14:12
Melodic Rock | AOR Progressive Rock
Ellsworth Hall is the brain behind the Neo Prog project AETHELLIS and his trademark sound are the keyboards, lots of keyboards, as is heard on the second album "NorthUmbria".
Listening to Aethellis brings me back about 25 years. Even though at times, some twists and turns make it obvious that this album is from the new millennium, there is always a strong early 80's feel about this music.
Tagged a Neo Prog, in my opinion Aethellis style is eighties proggy AOR, with diverse influences ranging from Camel, ELP, Genesis and Tony Banks solo albums, but also a strong Pomp feel in the vein of Shooting Star, Saga, Asia and The Alan Parsons Project.
Ellsworth Hall is an amazing multi-instrumentalist and a good vocalist. As singer, he can be compared to the likes of Greg Lake, Steve Hackett and why not, John Wetton. Musically most of his compositions are short with a classic format, although "NorthUmbria" features a couple of long numbers firmly planted into the classic prog tradition.
The Aethellis style is very melodic based and the keyboard is the main instrument in all songs, but all the instruments find its place in the rhythmic tracks of this album.
Whe have catchy tunes such as the pompy "Dire Need" or "Sounds Good", a great light-prog ballad in "Without A Sound" (where Aethellis sounds like earlier eighties Alan Parsons) and really good instrumentals as the rock-funkish "Celui Qui Soit La Bosse" or the beautiful crafted "The Penal Colony", where Camel comes to mind.
The more classic prog is represented on the two movements of "Northumbria / Mephisto Breeze" which features breezy harmony vocals and "The Peace Path" where the balladry fuses with a commercial Genesis light side.
"NorthUmbria" is a truly enjoyable album of 80's inspired prog including really well crafted songs.
The melody is the rule here, really easy listening and catchy but still adventurous enough to keep you interested from start to finish. Mr. Hall has also put a lot of effort into the production, as despite this is an independent CD the is sound remarkably good.
Hopefully Aethellis will find it's audience even though 80's inspired light prog is not really the flavor of the day, but I'm sure that any fan of the era (including AOR aficionados) will adore "NorthUmbria".
Love it.
01 - Northumbria / Mephisto Breeze
02 - The Awakening
03 - Dire Need
04 - The Penal Colony
05 - Without A Sound
06 - Celui Qui Soit La Bosse
07 - Exchanger Prague
08 - The Peace Path
09 - Sounds Good
Ellsworth Hall (keyboards / vocals / guitar / synths)
Mark Van Natta (guitars / vocals)
Erik Marks (bass)
Chris Marks (guitar)
Joseph Dwyer (sax)
Mike Harrington (drums)
Band Night Sun
Info: Mournin'
Style: Heavy Prog
Years: 1972
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100,6 Mb
Info: Germany
Tracklist:
01 - Plastic Shotgun.
02 - Crazy Woman.
03 - Got A Bone Of My Own.
04 - Slush Pan Man.
05 - Living With The Dying.
06 - Come Down.
07 - Blind.
08 - Nightmare.
09 - Dont Start Flying.
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Incidense – Incarcerated (2011)
Jan 14, 2012 15:46
Progressive Rock
01.Ultimate Sin (05:23)
02.Silence Must Break (06:55)
03.Tribulations (06:00)
04.Remnants Of The Past (08:04)
05.Nothing Left (03:19)
06.Abeyance (09:43)
Band Aleph
Info: Surface Tension
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1977
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 101,51 Mb
Info: Australia
Tracklist:
01 - Banshee.
02 - Man Who Fell.
03 - Morning.
04 - (You Never Were A) Dreamer.
05 - Mountaineer.
06 - Heaven's Archaepelago.
Rip By: LFfa
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Pete Bardens – Water Colors (1991)
Jan 13, 2012 18:02
Progressive Rock
Band Pete Bardens
Info: Water Colors
Style: New Age / Progressive Rock
Years: 1991
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.35 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 - Journey.
02 - De Profundis.
03 - A Higher Ground.
04 - Yellowstone Blue.
05 - Is It Any Wonder.
06 - Water Colors.
07 - Shape Of The Rain.
08 - Timepiece.
09 - Ghostwater.
Rip By: Pawell_dsl
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RPWL – Beyond Man And Time (2012)
Jan 12, 2012 02:16
Progressive Rock
01. Transformed
02. We Are What We Are (The Keeper)
03. Beyond Man And Time (Time Blind)
04. Unchain The Earth (the Scientist)
05. The Ugliest Man In The World (The Ugly) RPWL
6. The Road Of Creation (The Creator)
07. Somewhere In Between (The Dream Of Saying Yes)
08. The Shadow
09. The Wise In The Desert (I. T.W.I.T.D. – II The Silenced Song)
10. The Fisherman (I. High As A Mountain Part 1 & 2 – II. The Abyss)
11. The Moon (the Eternal Moment Of Return)
Following in the footsteps of the great neoclassical shred guitarists, Danish axeman Niels Veljyt has taken time away from Infinity Overture, My Empty Room and his own online guitar school to release his sophomore album Sthenic, a marked improvement from début The Predator in both production and composition. It’s relatively short at 40 minutes, but full of proof of his abilities, mixing in various metal styles such as heavy, melodic and progressive.
Enlisting the help of Kris Gildenlöw (ex-Pain Of Salvation) on bass and Jakob Vand (Infinity Overture) on drums, Vejlyt sets out to explore various fretboard techniques such as arpeggios, taps, sweeps and sustained notes, akin to his forefathers Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen, but unfortunately also succumbs to one of their faults: there are very few of the simpler chord progressions and riffs themselves, which means the songs are more divided sections that are repeated, such as in “Rain”. His guitar is like a vocal instrument rather than a stringed instrument, forming complicated and meandering lines that are less memorable than the power-ballad-like sustained notes such as on opener “Heads Up”.
To give the other musicians their credit, Gildenlöw and Vand hold up their ends very well. The bass is audible in several parts, including one multi-layered guitar section in “Die Today” which is particular chaotic. The drums play an interesting role in “My Little Rascal”, opting for a slow groove while Vejlyt flies quickly with tap after sweep, slowing down only when “Kajsa” commences, an interesting ballad intertwining just piano and guitar, and then finishing with the lengthy closer “Winter”, a relaxed acoustic riff and floating bassline that abruptly breaks out into the heaviest song of the lot, in a vibe reminiscent of Symphony X. Certainly an attention-grabbing finisher, but it unfortunately makes the middle tracks slightly forgettable in the build-up.
The world ‘sthenic’ means “possessing a high level of strength and energy”, and that is certainly the case here. For those that enjoyed John Petrucci’s Suspended Animation or the work of Michael Romeo, this comes highly recommended, as well as for any guitar enthusiasts or newcomers to the shred style.
01. Heads Up 03.23
02. Die Today 05.12
03. Rain 04.28
04. Samurai 04.46
05. Meteors 04.47
06. My Little Rascal 04.16
07. Kajsa 04.19
08. Winter 09.16
01. Overture
02. Quest for Fire
03. Primordial Enigma
04. Oracle
05. Gate to Tri Hour
06. Zone of Silence
07. Time Dilation
08. Polarity Shift
09. Illusion Land
10. Crystal Caves
11. Twilight Insomnia
12. Resolution
13. Playing the Game
Band Think
Info: We'll Give You A Buzz
Style: Progressive Rock / Heavy Prog
Years: 1976
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100,4 Mb
Info: New Zealand
Tracklist:
01 - Light Tile.
02 - Look What I've Done.
03 - Ripoff.
04 - Stringless Provider.
05 - Big Ladies.
06 - Our Children (Think About).
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Czar – Vertical Mass Grave (2011)
Jan 6, 2012 15:32
Progressive Rock
Vertical Mass Grave's cover depicts a widely known, in the world of science fiction "geeks" and cinema lovers, object. It's a Monolith. In Arthur C. Clarke's complex universe, Monoliths are advanced machines built from extraterrestrial species that appear in the solar system, triggering evolutionary shifts in human history. They are really bad-ass objects - anyone who witnessed the terror of those hominids in Kubrick's film can tell. Now, to those who already came up with a metaphor about how groundbreaking the band is, let's make it clear: Czar is a modern metal band that brings nothing new to the table. Should this be a reason to condemn Vertical Mass Grave to oblivion?
Definitely not.
Raised from the ashes of the industrial metallers Acumen Nation, Czar have created an amazingly massive sound which follows the learnings of Meshuggah and their latest immit...(ough), followers. The trio from Chicago isn't all about the bulkiness though. There's pretty much going on even when the heavy riffing doesn't engross all the attention. In "Diapers", melodic passages balance the storming, whereas coiling leads add brushstrokes of melody in the rather frigid and polyrythmic construction. The dialogue between the industrialized heftiness and the robotic sentimentality echoes through most of the songs. Still, it isn't melody nor rawness that drives the album, but rhythm.
Jan 5, 2012 19:32
Heavy Metal |Power Metal Progressive Rock
Czech Republic symphonic/extreme metal band Inner Fear, featuring Cradle of Filth drummer Martin "Marthus" Skaroupka, is offering its brand new release "First Born Fear" as a free download from the band's Facebook Page by visiting and clicking "Like." The album is the band's first since disbanding in 2003 after the release of the band's third LP "Symbiotry."
Drummer Marthus commented on the release: "We, finally did it. The album is ready and is available to our fans for free. I'm really excited about our new lineup, as we can't wait to start touring together. The guys are just amazing and we're working on the new album already."
The new lineup sees the addition of Serhio (Infected) on bass and Serg (Preternatural) on vocals.
Genre:Extreme Symphonic / Gothic Metal
Country:Czech Republic
Format:Mp3@Cbr320Kbps
Size:119Mb
Tracklist:
1. I.N.T.R.O.
2. Fear Proclaimed
3. Imprisioned in Forgotten Dungeon
4. Lustmistress
5. I Watch the Blood Forever
6. Inner Fear
7. Love is a Poisonous Cunt
8. Our Crimson Deeds
9. Akhu
10. Secrets Holder
