If Solar Fragment would have their way they would single-handedly resurrect the power metal genre to its lost heights of glory. Heir apparents to the legends, Blind Guardian and Hammerfall, Solar Fragment delivers classic melodic heavy power metal on their second effort In Our Hands.
Not wanting to use words like 'conventional' or 'typical' but, nevertheless, the tunes on In Our Hands are derivative of the genre. The oft charging pace of openers In Our Hands, With Empty Eyes, and Inside the Circle are convincing pieces of the style. Yet, Solar Fragment can integrate some subtle changes adding some lightness from acoustic guitar on Race the Seas and Come Hell or High Water. But both songs quickly move into the bombastic. Well, of course. These songs tip the balance to the best content that comes in the second half of In Our Hands. Moana's Return and The March of the Golems are well-developed songs that exploit all the vital elements proving that Solar Fragment are quickly becoming masters of the genre. (As a side note: Solar Fragment gets some serious cred as the famous Hansi Kursch guests on the album.)
Indeed, Solar Fragment's In Our Hands is classic power metal in that great melodic heavy metal tradition, and done quite well. Long suffering fans of the genre should take note, your new heroes have arrived to revive this much maligned style. Recommended.
Band Solar Fragment
Info: In Our Hands
Info: Germany
Style: Heavy / Power Metal
Years: 2011
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps [CD-Rip]
Info: 106 Mb
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Tracklist:
01 In Our Hands
02 With Empty Eyes
03 Inside The Circle
04 At The Harbor
05 Race The Seas
06 Come Hell Or High Water
07 Homecoming
08 Moana's Return
09 The March Of The Golems
10 Once Again
Robert Leger - Vocals
Manuel Wiegmann - Guitars
Marc Peters - Guitars
Dominic Serwe - Bass
Sascha Schiller - Drums
Band Micheal Schenker Info: Doctor Doctor - The Kulick Sessions Info: Germany Style: Hard Rock Years: 2008 Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps Info: 170 ?b Upload: Depositfiles
Tracklist:
01. Save Yourself
02. Finding My Way
03. All Shook Up
04. Blood of the Sun
05. Doctor Doctor
06. War Pigs
07. I'm Not Talking
08. Money
09. Out in the Fields
10. Hair of the Dog
11. I Don't Live Today
12. Politician
13. Doctor Doctor (Instrumental)
14. War Pigs (Instrumental)
Band Iron Maiden Info: Somewhere In Time Info: England Style: Heavy Metal Years: 1986 Info: WAV Lossless/MP3 CBR 320 kbps (CD Rip) Info: 366 Mb/116 ?b Upload: Depositfiles
Tracklist:
01. Caught Somewhere In Time
02. Wasted Years
03. Sea Of Madness
04. Heaven Can Wait
05. The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
06. Stranger In A Strange Land
07. DeJa Vu
08. Alexander The Great
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Hard Rock Heavy Metal |Power Metal
Band Jonas Hansson Info: Valhallarama Info: Sweden Style: Hard & Heavy Years: 2006 Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps Info: 110 ?b Upload: Depositfiles
Tracklist:
01. Freeway
02. Addiction
03. I'm Flying
04. Oh My God
05. Valhallarama
06. Can You Feel It
07. I Am Me
08. Call It Quits
09. Alive Again
10. The Flake
11. Wanna Tell You
12. Love Me Again
13. Scherzo In C Minor
BLACK ROSE was formed in 1990 in Fagersta, a small town in Sweden. After a couple of member changes, the first year, the line-up was stable for almost ten years. The band played lots of gigs in Sweden between the releases. In the end of 1999 a new keyboard player (Magnus Vesterlund) and a new guitarist (Ola Carlsson) joined the band and brought in some fresh blood. The music style has been constant, even through all different music-trends that has come and gone. The style is Melodic Hard Rock Metal, often compared to the likes of RAINBOW, YNGWIE, PRETTY MAIDS, TALISMAN, PC 69 and EUROPE. In December 2001 Shark Records got in contact with the band, a contract was signed and a 16-track CD was released late March 2002.
01 - My Enemies
02 - Rise Again
03 - Turn On The Night
04 - Never Let Me Down
05 - We Were Winners
06 - Hunter
07 - The Bold And The Beauty
08 - Busted
09 - Our Wisdom
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
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.
When I saw the post music tag on Capture the Sun I kind of sighed and said “What have I gotten myself into?” But instead of having to listen to freaky slow notes rolling on top of each other I got the pleasure of listening to one of the greatest metal instrumental bands that I have heard in a long time. The music is very progressive and very fun to listen too. The guitar work is varied and shows a host of influences. The songs show a lot of technical skill on the parts of the guitarists and feature some really great riffs. Admittedly some of these riffs get over repeated and make your ears frustrated. The bass work is fairly solid and while it mostly just follows the guitar work it adds a layer of emotion to the band that normally would not be there. The drum work is pretty good, while overall it is fairly light, the job always gets done and the other instrumentalists always get a great rhythm pattern. Overall Capture the Sun is a really cool proggy instrumental band with some awesome riffs.
Band Capture The Sun
Info: Capture The Sun
Style: Progressive Metal
Info: United States
Tracklist: 320 kbps
Info: 163 Mb
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01. A War is Coming to this Island
02. ||:REPEAT:||
03. Aurora Borealis: The Northern Lights
04. ???????, ???????
05. Geothermal
06. Calculating… Remaining
07. *Epic Pose*
08. Creation of Cities and Empires
09. The Endless Column
10. Woe to the Blasphemer, Will Hell Swallow you Up
11. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living
12. Oceans of Glass
13. When the Sun met the Ocean
It has been a long four years since we last had an album from Shinedown. With their breakout album, Sound of Madnesswhich reached #8 on the Billboard’s top 200, along with six singles that went #1. This went along with almost three years of touring and close to 440 shows in that time. With each album, they have pushed the envelope of Rock music and in doing so, have increased their fan base to an all time high for a young rock band with only three albums to their credit. Shinedown is one of the few rock bands that can translate their music on an album to an even larger level on stage, as well as making sure their fans always come first and feeling like they are a part of this band as well. This explains the fans being know as the Shinedown Nation.
While most bands would coast on their huge success, singer Brent Smith has said, “We’ve always been a rock band and I didn’t want to lose sight of that. I told everyone the album had to do three things – It had to show sophistication in the songwriting, it had to show musical growth within the band, and I had to push myself to go places lyrically that I had never gone before.”
Amaryllis sees the guys teaming back up with super producer, Rob Cavallo, as well as the first-time bass player, Eric Bass and Zach Myers on guitar, who co-wrote several songs on an album, something they did off the smash hit, Diamond Eyes on The Expendables soundtrack. Music Tour Reviews was able to get their hands on an early copy to review; album official release is March 27th 2012.
01. Adrenaline
02. Bully
03. Amaryllis
04. Unity
05. Enemies
06. I’m Not Alright
07. Nowhere Kids
08. Miracle
09. I’ll Follow You
10. For My Sake
11. My Name (Wearing Me Out)
12. Through The Ghost
"Into The Fire", the new single from Swedish all-girl hard rock quartetCRUCIFIED BARBARA, is available for streaming and download below. The song comes off the band's third studio album, "The Midnight Chase", which will be released on May 23 in Japan and May 28 in Europe. A North American release via Nuclear Blast is expected this summer. The CD was recorded at Music-A-Matic Vintage Recording Studio in Gothenberg, Sweden with sound engineer Henryk Lipp and producer Chips Kiesby.
Commented guitarist/vocalist Mia Coldheart: "I've never felt this good about anything we've made before. I'm so damn proud of the new songs and the sound is better than ever. We can't wait to go on tour and perform them live!"
Formed in Stockholm in 1998 by bassist Ida Evileye (now-wife ofMESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake) and guitarist Klara Force,CRUCIFIED BARBARA plays a fiery brand of rock 'n' roll tinged with metal and lashings of punk, pop, thrash, and whatever else dares to cross their path. Ida Evileye dominates her trusty Sandberg bass, Klara Force rocks steady on her '76 Gibson Explorer, Mia Coldheart belts out her unapologetic vocals while riffing all over her Gibson Gothic Flying V, andNicki Wicked pounds on her hot pink sparkle Yamaha Maple drum kit until you're splayed across the floor with a bull's-eye knock-out punch that'll make you spit your teeth out. Now you know what happens whenMOTÖRHEAD mates with THE RUNAWAYS.
No strangers to hard work or success, CRUCIFIED BARBARA's debut single from their 2005 debut, "In Distortion We Trust", climbed to #8 on the Swedish pop chart. They played Australia, toured across Europe opening for MOTÖRHEAD, SEPULTURA, IN FLAMES, and DORO, and earned a prestigious slot alongside BLACK SABBATH, VELVET REVOLVER, and SYSTEM OF A DOWN at the U.K.'s Download festival. With all that touring, it would be four years before the band got around to recording their second album, 2009's "'Til Death Do Us Party". Next thing you know, there they were on national television performing at the 2010 edition of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.
So how did they get their name? The band members attended Denmark's legendary Roskilde Festival and came across something very unexpected in a nearby forest: a blow-up doll (generically called "Barbara" throughout Sweden) attached to a crucifix. And no, they didn't identify with the victim, they claimed the power of the aggressor right on the spot and have never looked back.
Band Robin Trower
Info: Day Of The Eagle (The Best Of Robin Trower)
Style: Blues Rock
Years: 2008
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 170,92 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 - Day Of The Eagle.
02 - Caledonia.
03 - Confessin' Midnight.
04 - Too Rolling Stoned (Live).
05 - Bride Of Sighs.
06 - Man Of The World.
07 - Take A Fast Train.
08 - Daydream.
09 - Gonna Be More Suspicious.
10 - About To Begin.
11 - Long Misty Days.
12 - Alethea (Live).
13 - In City Dreams.
14 - Victims Of The Fury.
15 - Rock Me Baby (Live).
16 - The Ring.
17 - Caravan To Midnight.
if there’s one thing I like it’s German sleaze. They’ve given us some great metal bands and, no doubt, videos of a particular genre that would earn me a full cavity search at customs. Kissin’ Dynamite are young, ambitious and out to prove something with their third album, Money, Sex, Power.
The title track belts out in true sleaze fashion, setting the pace for the entire album. Each track is built around a rock-hard riff and a belting chorus. The first appearance of the vocals is oddly reminiscent of something pseudo-industrial, but all trappings are dropped as the Skid Row and Ratt influences shine through on the dirty lyrics and chest-beating choruses. It’s brilliantly nostalgic, and it’s incredulous that the band weren’t even born when both of these bands were at their peak.
Operation Supernova is sing-along that Europe would be proud of, complete with a hands in the air chorus and football terrace chanting. As the album progresses, it becomes clear that Kissin’ Dynamite draw influence from a specific period of the hair/sleaze movement; the notorious third wave of the late 80s. Thankfully, they know the wheat from the chaff and there’s not a whiff of Britny Fox in site. The half ballad Club 27, the infamous age which all rockstars seem to die and DinosaursAre Still Alive are fitting tributes to their influences, as if the teenage years spent listening to nothing bar Accept’s Balls To The Wall didn’t shine through enough.
After closing with the acoustic swing of Six Feet Under, it’s easy to see why Kissin’ Dynamite are billed as the best new German band since Edguy. Money, Sex, Power very much exudes their age, with some riffs being a little simple for a band of their calibre, especially compared with other songs on the same record. Bar a couple of close calls with Cul-de-Sac Cliché, Kissin’ Dynamite have made a cracking third album and I wish that more young ‘uns would take this up instead of dancing in the mirror to yet another Justin Bieber video.
1. Money, Sex & Power
2. I Will Be King
3. Operation Supernova
4. Sex Is War
5. Club 27
6. Dinosaurs Are Still Alive
7. She's a Killer
8. Sleaze Deluxe
9. Ego-Shooter
10. Six Feet Under
Band Touch
Info: Touch
Style: Psychedelic / Progressive Rock
Years: 1969
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 198.35 Mb
Info: USA
Tracklist:
01 - We Feel Fine.
02 - Friendly Birds.
03 - Miss Teach.
04 - The Spiritual Death Of Howard Greer.
05 - Down At Circe's Place.
06 - Alesha And Others.
07 - Seventy Five.
08 - We Finally Met Today.
09 - Alesha And Others (Live Studio Demo).
10 - Blue Feeling.
11 - The Spiritual Death Of Howard Greer (Live Studio Demo).
12 - The Second Coming Of Suzanne.
