Dice – Comet Highway (2012)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Progressive Rock,Rock by Alex F
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To be released on the 1st of March 2012 the new DICE studio album is now available!
Also, on this 18th Album: DICE has further refined the trademarks sounds by which they become known as an interesting band in the sophisticated, melodic prog scene: Extremely complex metric meets perfectly harmonious arrangements! DICE fans can look forward to six new long tracks. It is now almost normal for DICE, that they have compositions reaching beyond the 10-minute limit – The band increases the journey into an unending trip of musical passion for all to listen and travel along…
A special offer for our fans: We offer through our website the chance to pre-order the latest CD and to recieve it before the official release date… your orders will be processed as soon as possible to insure that you recieve the CD before the general public does!

01. Comet Highway

02. Every Open Window
03. The Speed of Light
04. About Tomorrow
05. Seven Tin People
06. Tunnel of Time

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Rizon – Masquerade (2012)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Heavy Metal |Power Metal by Alex F
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Switzerland’s Rizon is a big band, really, two vocalists, male and female, two guitarists, keyboardist, bass, and drummer, producing rather bombastic melodic power metal. Masquerade is their third album, the first with new female vocalist, Seraina Telli.

Rizon Masquerade Band Photo
Above, Rizon: men in black surround girl in red.

 Being my first experience with Rizon, my suspicions were aroused about the relationship of the male/female vocals. Would they be gruff male vocals (read death or ‘core’) challenging the siren sound of the female vocals. Thankfully, not. Both sing clean. Generally, the Matthias Gotz has the lead role, with Telli supporting in harmony, as on Sigh From Eternity or the very pleasing Remotion. Sometimes, she gets to step up as on Tears of the Sun. Ultimately, the vocal partnership is annealed by the sound vocal arrangements.

As to the music, Masquerade is generally rousing traditional heavy metal, with good melodies and notable hooks as heard on Same Same or Rise On. Guitar work is at a premium, and there’s enough appropriate synth solos to suggest they don’t exist only for accent. Several songs are longer, including Rise On, Out of Nowhere and Lost in Silence, allowing Rizon to stretch themselves, even seem epic at times. The album also contains El Dios, a song sung in Spanish.

With 13 songs, Masquerade is quite the platter of melodic heavy metal to digest. By the time you get to Cold Winter’s Night or Time After Time, you may suspect a little redundancy and, then, wonder if it couldn’t have been trimmed down by one or two songs. But in the end Masquerade is solid and entertaining album, good European melodic power metal. Recommended.

1. High Flyer
2. Sigh From Eternity
3. Masquerade
4. Tears of the Sun
5. Remotion
6. Same Same
7. Rise On
8. El Dios
9. Out of Nowhere
10. Cold Winters Night
11. Time After Time
12. Lost In Silence
13. Bells

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Ektomorf – The Acoustic (2012)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Rock by Alex F
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REALLY GOOD !

Whenever a heavy band does an acoustic album one of two things results. Either they just record acoustic arrangements of their existing songs, and either stick rigidly to the original structure or create something new and more delicate from them, or they completely mellow out and record wholly uncharacteristic tracks with softer vocals etc. Strangely, Hungarian Soulfly-clones Ektomorf have done neither of these things entirely. What they have done is rearrange five older songs, write five new ones, and top them off with covers of Johnny Cash‘s Folsom Prison Bluesand Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s Simple Man. Re-recording I Know Themsets the tone with a full on bass and drums assault that really does sound like a normal, heavy Ektomorf song with the guitars unplugged, even down to Zoltán Farkas’ growled vocals. I’m In Hate is a similar story (even if the chorus does sound like “I’m in heat”), while Redemption takes on an Alice In Chains feel mixed with Rammstein‘s LosStigmatized gets a softer treatment to begin with, but goes heavy in the second half, and Who Can I Trust is given a complete Spanish guitar overhaul. With the covers, Zoltán’s voice doesn’t quite suite either of them, and the decision to give the first minute of Folsom Prison Blues, which mostly sounds like Volbeat are playing it, the effect of an analogue radio with poor reception is strange, but overall at leastSimple Man is a great rendition. The real highlight appears amongst the new songs though. Be Free is actually a full-on heavy song much like the version of I Know Them, while ballads Again,Fate and Through Your Eyes are all a bit too alt-radio-rock, but To Smoulder is the kind of track the whole album should really have sounded like. Again much like an AIC acoustic song it’s dark and brooding without trying to be heavy and without being too “safe”. More like that, with some of the rearrangements and some slightly wiser choices of cover songs would have made this a superb record. Instead it’s only a slight-above-average one

01. I Know Them (4:39)
02. I’m In Hate (3:46)
03. Be Free (3:26)
04. Redemption (3:38)
05. Simple Man (5:01)
06. To Smoulder (3:17)
07. Folsom Prison Blues (3:10)
08. Again (4:07)
09. Through Your Eyes (3:23)
10. Fate (2:07)
11. Stigmatized (5:00)
12. Who Can I Trust (5:42)

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Gringos Locos – Gringos Locos (1987)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Hard Rock by


Band Gringos Locos
Info: Gringos Locos
Style: Hard Rock
Years: 1987
Info: CBR 192 kbs
Info: 59.94 Mb
Info: Finland

Tracklist:

01 – Higher Than High.
02 – Sweet Little Sisters.
03 – Jealousy.
04 – Mountain.
05 – I Ain’t Braggin’.
06 – Mean Rock’n’roller.
07 – Susie.
08 – Shout.
09 – Bad Luck’s Lament.
10 – Tough Kid.
11 – The Blues.

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Night – Night (1979)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Melodic Rock | AOR by


Band Night
Info: Night
Style: Melodic Rock / AOR
Years: 1979
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 84,54 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 – Hot Summer Nights.
02 – Cold Wind Across My Heart.
03 – If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody.
04 – Ain’t That Peculiar.
05 – Come Around (If You Want Me).
06 – You Ain’t Pretty Enough.
07 – Shocked.
08 – Love Message.
09 – Party Shuffle.

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Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl (1988)

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Band Paula Abdul
Info: Forever Your Girl
Style: Pop
Years: 1988
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 105,69 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 – The Way That You Love Me.
02 – Knocked Out.
03 – Opposites Attract.
04 – State Of Attraction.
05 – I Need You.
06 – Forever Your Girl.
07 – Straight Up.
08 – Next To You.
09 – Cold Hearted.
10 – One Or The Other.

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Orleans – Before The Dance (1978)

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Band Orleans
Info: Before The Dance [Compilation]
Style: Westcoast / AOR
Years: 1978
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.88 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 – Let’s Have A Good Time.
02 – Dance With Me.
03 – Wake Up Let There Be Music.
04 – Let There Be Music.
05 – The Last Song.
06 – Sweet Johanna.
07 – Sunset Money.
08 – Money.
09 – The Breakdown.

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Nektar – Nektar (1976)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Progressive Rock by


Band Nektar
Info: Nektar [Compilation]
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1976
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 100.79 Mb
Info: UK / Germany

Tracklist:

01 – Do You Believe in Magic.
02 – New Day Dawning.
03 – Wings.
04 – Cast Your Fate.
05 – Cryin’ in The Dark.
06 – King Of Twilight.
07 – Burn Out My Eyes.

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Boston – King Biscuit Flower Hour (Bootleg) (1977)

Posted on February 17, 2012 in Hard Rock by


Band Boston
Info: King Biscuit Flower Hour (Bootleg)
Style: Hard Rock
Years: 1977
Info: MP3 CBR 192 kbs
Info: 86.1 Mb
Info: USA

Tracklist:

01 Rock And Roll Band.
02 Shattered Images.
03 More Than A Feeling.
04 Drums & Guitar Solos.
05 Peace Of Mind.
06 Something About You.
07 A Man I’ll Never Be.
08 Smokin’.
09 Blues Intro.
10 This Time _ Slow Blues.
11 Foreplay _ Long Time.
12 Television Politician.

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