Rating: 6.0/10 | There are albums that chronicle easier to others. In some cases, the qualities (or defects) are so obvious that it only remains to find the right words to translatethe impressions on paper. Such was not the case with "Ignition", debut albumPortuguese Flammarion.
The group consists of the binomial Migue Bruno and Luis Alfonso, ensuring both partiesof guitars, keyboards, vocals and programmed drums and spanning the composition ofsongs, all the more tantalizing duality that if Bruno Miguel said influenced by Dream Theater , Queensrÿche, Threshold, Edguy or Stratovarius, Luis Alfonso is mainlyattracted by groups like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Camel, without disdaining detours byQueen, Supertramp, Marillion, Toto and others.
Band Flammarion Info: Ignition Years: 2012 Info: Portugal Style: Progressive Rock Tracklist: Mp3/ 192kbps Info: 105.96 MB
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01. Lost – 03:47
02. Look The Other Way – 04:51
03. Shooting Star – 08:56
04. The Arrival – 03:55
05. Look At Me – 08:02
06. Declaration Of Insanity – 06:30
07. Out Of Tune – 10:26
08. Never Letting Go – 05:33
09. Darkness – 06:36
10. Lost – 10:46
11. Sunrise Mists – 05:18 -Bruno Miguel
-Luis Alfonso
For those of you who don’t know O.S.I. (shame on you!), they could easily be considered a supergroup of prog metal masters. Featuring Kevin Moore (ex-Dream Theater) and Jim Matheos (Fates Warning) as the two staple members, their albums have seen appearances from Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater, Adrenaline Mob), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth, Bloodbath), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), and several more. With credentials like that, this is a band that practically demands notice.
I’ve personally been a fan of this band for several years. That’s why I was so excited when I heard that a new album, Fire Make Thunder, was set for release. Now that I have it, does it live up to my expectations?
Let me describe the sound of O.S.I. for you real quick, as it’s unfair to just label them a prog rock band and leave it at that. Yes, they have some odd time signatures here and there. Yes, they do amazing mixtures of mellow and heavy. But there is also something very industrial about the band. I’m not referring to the electronic subgenre either. It’s more that I envision steel factories when listening to O.S.I.. Grimy smokestacks rising up, a dark smog cloud hanging overhead. That’s how I feel when I listen to O.S.I. and I like it.
With Fire Make Thunder, that same feeling washed over me as soon as I hit ‘Play’. It was a cold, mechanical welcome that I felt very comfortable embracing. Now, that’s not to say that the album feels harsh or overly digital. There are definitely moments of gentle warmth and beauty, such as in Winds Won’t Howl. There are also times when the band hits you hard, like in the instrumental Enemy Prayer.
This album doesn’t feel as heavy as previous releases, but that’s not what is important about O.S.I.. Listening to one of their albums is like embarking on a sonic journey where new and amazing tones and sounds assault you from all sides constantly. Crassly put, it’s an audiophile’s wet dream. It sounds fantastic and I truly enjoyed listening to it several times.
The Final Word: Fire Make Thunder only reinforces my love for O.S.I.. It’s a beautiful, harsh album that I’ll be returning to many times in the future.
Artist: OSI Title Of Album: Fire Make Thunder Year Of Release: 2012 Label: Metal Blade Genre: Progressive Rock, Metal Country: USA Quality: MP3 Bitrate: VBR248 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo Total Time: 43:10 Total Size: 78 MB
Tracklist:
1. Cold Call 7:10
2. Guards 5:03
3. Indian Curse 4:42
4. Enemy Prayer 4:54
5. Wind Wont Howl 5:05
6. Big Chief II 3:04
7. For Nothing 3:18
8. Invisible Men 9:54
Band Greenslade
Info: The Full Edition Live 2001
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 2002
Info: 320 kbps
Info: 170 mb
Info: U.K.
Tracklist:
1.Cakewalk
2.Feathered Friends
3.Catalan
4.No Room-But A View
5.Large Afternoon
6.Sundance
7.Wherever I Go
8.On Suite
9.In The Night
10.Bedside Manners Are Extra
11.Joie de Vivre
12.Spitit of the Dance
Band Anubian Lights
Info: The Eternal Sky
Style: Psychedelic / Space Rock
Years: 1995
Info: 256 kbps
Info: 135 mb
Info: USA
Tracklist:
1. Breaking the Seal
2. Soul Herder
3. Anubian Light Destiny
4. Grid Coordinate - Vorp One
5. Jackal and Nine
6. Trismegistus (Dettmar)
7. Pulse of the Nile
8. Arc of Ra
9. Medulla Mirage
10. The Various Hazards of Being
11. Field of Reeds
Mencea is back to present their new album entitled Pyrophoric . The eight track long soundtrack of unearthly moods demonstrates an immensely wide sonic landscape, packing punch and diversity that few bands can match. Most of all, it undoubtedly shows that Mencea is leading the movement of bands exploring boundaries between extreme metal sub genres, often morphing into a mix of extreme metal with progressive sensibilities, a non conformist approach to melody and storming rhythmic outbursts. Pyrophoric is a fresh, and fearlessly musical approach to what Mencea is all about. Energy, sonic richness and sheer heaviness.
Band Mencea Info: Greece Info: Pyrophoric Years: 2012 Style: Progressive Metal Info: mp3, CBR 320 kbps Info: 102 Mb
Like a blast of raw, progressive energy from the college town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee comes a group paving the way for aspiring musicians. Drenched in technical prowess and a desire to rewrite standards in mainstream music, MTSU quintet Ocean Architecture has risen in a remarkably short amount of time to become an intimidating presence. Members Nic Giordano (drums), Kyle Standifer (guitars), Joe Dorsey (keyboards), Eric Hodge (bass), and Parker Deal (lead vocals) employ a dazzling array of instrumentation and musical progression while retaining deep influences of hardcore, prog rock, heavy metal, and even classical and electronic. Founded by Giordano, Standifer, and Dorsey in the latter half of September 2010, the group soon expanded to include Hodge and, in late March 2011, Deal. Says Standifer, “The formation was really natural. It just kinda felt like we were supposed to be in a band together…(laughs). We came up with our first song (Metatheory) in like two and a half hours.” After a series of experimental jam sessions, the group realized their songwriting potential and set offto define themselves musically. This proved to be a rather tough challenge, as they attempted to channel influences such as Dream Theater, Isis, August Burns Red, Muse, Periphery and Explosions in the Sky, as well as several genre-bending acts like Between the Buried and Me, Daft Punk, Devin Townsend, and Tesseract. “It’s an interesting challenge funneling all of our influences into one single sound,” says Dorsey. “We have so many different aspects to cover, we try not to rob our creativity by limiting what/who we ‘need’ to sound like.” The result is an explosion of creativity, a moving flowing organism and a sound truly their own.
1. Metatheory, 06:23
2. The Last Stand, 08:16
3. Plato's Cave, 09:01
4. Velvet, 05:24
5. Columns of Time, 07:33
6. Steel Ecstasy: Columns Collapse, 06:07
7. Animus Part I, 09:16
8. Animus Part II, 10:59
We are an Atlanta-based progressive rock band called Six Elements. What’s the best way to describe our sound? Remember the Peter Gabriel era of Genesis? Their music helped shape our vocals and some of our guitar. You’ll also hear the influence of Pink Floyd in some of our guitar solos. The clarinet and flute in the music might remind you of Russian Romantic composers (think Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky). No matter what we remind you of, those descriptions are just window dressing for our message, which Victorian novelist George Eliot summed up well: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been”. Our guiding principle and inspiration is the idea that becoming everything you can be IS possible, arguably expressed best in Rudyard Kipling’s
Band Six Elements Info: USA Info: Primary Elements Style: Symphonic Prog Years: 2012 Info: MP3 CBR 320 Kbs Info: 90 MB(+3% ?? ?????.)
Tracklist:
01. Overture (2:56)
02. Welcome (2:49)
03. Childhood Books (7:29)
04. Nightmare (4:04)
05. Invictus (4:34)
06. Words Of Love (2:50)
07. Summer (2:35)
08. If (4:41)
09. Winter (2:54)
10. If (Radio Mix) (4:45)
Stanley Whitaker – Vocals
Jeffrey McGahren - Guitars
Michael (Misha) Shengaout – Keyboards
Dave De Marco - bass
Marc Norgaard - drums
Betty Sent - vocal
Inna Satunovsky - piano
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Tomorrow’s Outlook – 34613 (2012)
Mar 25, 2012 12:33
Heavy Metal |Power Metal Progressive Rock
34613 is most likely out sometime during the summer..on the Australian record company Battlegod Productions.
The band is currently working on an 8 panel digipack with 20 page booklet. As of today you can check out 3
complete tracks from their debut album. A Song For You, Doubt and The Ethereal Dream.
"34613" was recorded on a song-by-song basis (early 2007 through late 2010). It was recorded by different engineers and in different locations around the world (Norway, USA, Finland & Germany).
Mixing was performed during this 3,5 year period and mastering in Dec. 2010. All the mixing and mastering were handled by Colin Davis at Imperial Mastering (Pacheco, California). Produced by Trond Nicolaisen, Andreas Stenseth and Tomorrow's Outlook.
1. As Darkness Falls (Intro) 02:16
2. Gate to Freedom 05:26
3. Glass Mountain 04:28
4. A Song For You 04:59
5. Doubt 03:49
6. The Ethereal Dream 06:00
7. 34613 02:49 instrumental
8. White Lightning 03:52
9. Liquid Scream 04:34
10. Kill Again 04:04
11. March of the Demons 04:48
12. Red Rum (Lizzy Borden cover) 03:51
13. The Ethereal Dream (Reprise) 05:59
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MARK PALMER – VENUS 2012
Mar 24, 2012 23:14
Progressive Rock
Band Mark Palmer Info: Venus Years: 2012 Info: France Style: Progressive Rock Tracklist: Mp3/ VBR~250kbps Info: 80,91 ??
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1. The Fall
2. High
3. Be the Symbols
4. Suicide In Painless / Could Have Been Me
5. Symmetry Theory
6. Paris
7. I Have Created All I Know
8. Every Moment Every Fracture
9. Sons of Nothing from Venus
10. The Call
DTES (Dream The Electric Sleep) – Lost and Gone Forever (2011)
Mar 24, 2012 15:02
Progressive Rock
Dream the Electric Sleep could be described as a mixture of Kings of Leon, Pink Floyd and Road Salt-era Pain of Salvation. Lost and Gone Forever is a 70 minute concept album chronicling the trials and tribulations of an Easter Kentucky miner and his wife. The music here could be described as massive, moving and most importantly, memorable.
Band DTES (Dream The Electric Sleep)
Info: Lost and Gone Forever
Info: USA
Style: Neo Progressive / Art / Eclectic
Years: 2011
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Info: 168 Mb
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Tracklist:
1.Lost and Gone Forever
2.Coal Dust and Shadows
3.Canary
4.The Joneses
5.Roots and Fear
6.Stay On the Line
7.Hold Steady Hands
8.Listen to Me
9.Echoes Chasing Echoes
10.Sundown
11.No Air Left
12.Feel My Way
13.This Is This
14.What Will Be
Joey Waters - Drums
Matt Page - Vocals/ Guitar
Trevor Willmott - Guitar
Chris Tackett - Bass
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Janus – Nox Aeris (2012)
Mar 24, 2012 14:17
Progressive Rock
Release date: March 27th via Realid Records
Tracklisting:
01. In Flames
02. Stains
03. Lifeless
04. A Promise To No One
05. Pound of Flesh
Review: Perhaps the biggest endorsement I could make about this record is that it’s my most-played album in the last six months, it’s my third-most played in the last year, and I’ve only had the album for a little over a month. In a word, ‘Nox Aeris’ is addictive. From start to finish, it’s a fantastic album that still impresses me with each listen.
‘Nox Aeris’ is heavy, melodic, and dark, but no one element of it is taken to any extreme. There are many more adjectives I could use to describe the album, but the beauty of it is you can listen to it four different times and think four completely different words. Typically I’m not much of a fan at all of electronics, but they’re so well done in this album and placed so nicely that I actually enjoyed them. The blending and mixing of the album overall is nothing short of amazing, and similarly the way the vocals and music complement each other throughout says a lot about Janus and their cohesiveness as a group.
Another thing I really liked about ‘Nox Aeris’ is that overall it sounds like one complete album, without sounding the same. Any song could stand up fine on its own, but listening straight through allows it to build upon itself, and there’s no songs that are “just there” as a single or a filler. As mentioned earlier about the blending, the music seems to “take” you and almost guide you along as you listen, which is what allows it to use so many different elements without overexposing any one. It hooks into you, and you’ll want to keep listening again and again.
