GAMMA RAY – Skeletons & Majesties Live 2012
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German power metallers GAMMA RAY will release “Skeletons & Majesties Live” on double CD, Blu-ray and DVD on November 30. The set will feature footage of the band’s April 29, 2011 performance at the legendary Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland.
“Skeletons & Majesties Live” has a playing time of two hours and is a tour de force through the band’s history so far, including lots of hits and classics, but also tracks which were undeservedly under-represented to date.
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Alloy is a new Swedish combatant on the battle grounds of classic heavy metal. To quote themselves they are on a path frequently trodden. Alloy plays classic sounding eighties heavy metal, showing quite obvious traces of Iron Maiden and Manowar, but also US metal band Brocas Helm. They place themselves alongside newcomers like Enforcer, Steelwings, Helvetets Port and Evilseve, and they do pretty well. There are some flaws here and there, but nothing major. The songs have all the necessary
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I have to say that I really like this band a lot. Their debut release was a damn fine piece of 80’s, early 90’s, influenced melodic hard rock stuff with catchy choruses, some impressive tracks, inspired riffs and solos and great vocal performances from the band’s shouter Marc Farrano.
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Pick up Citizen Zero’s sophomore EP – Life Explodes! A CD full of heavy, melodic, aggressive Rock & Roll…PLEASE PLAY LOUD!!!
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Come enter a world of eccentrical melodies , that twists and entwines the ever elusive realm of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal; symphonic at it’s core, daring you to hear it’s ROAR!
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FATAL IMPACT – Esoteria 2012
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Esoteria album by Fatal Impact metal is scheduled to be released Dec 11, 2012 on the Nadir label. Esoteria CD music contains a single disc. After a few years in search of the perfect line-up, Fatal Impact as we know it was born in 2005. The band hit stages all around Norway with their forceful, pounding, dark yet illuminating music. The solid rhythm section Sondre (drums) and Freddy (session bass guitarist) serves the perfect structure for the melodic and grinding guitar of Per Anders Olsen. With Jørns vocals and guitar in the mix – y
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Siegen is located in North Rhine-Westphalia, and has about 100,000 inhabitants. Four of them are Steve, Tobi, Felix and Valentin. They form the band BROKEN BLAZE. Just released their debut album “Dose of Self-Destruction” was released.
And what the young Germans are presenting here has what it takes. Alternative rock with a large pinch of psychedelic on a very varied album. The gang of four shows the high school intelligently composed and arranged music.
Janus Experiment – Michelangelo 2012
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One may accuse the band what you want, just do not think they would fear complex projects. Make a historical theme, to make it a psychological interpretation and the whole thing einzuspielen as power metal concept album – respect!
However, it is thus in danger of being measured with considerably large scale.
Ripe – The Eloquence Of Silence 2012
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I figured that an album warranting a name that deals with expressive measures of silence would actually have something to do with actual stillness. Nonetheless, I forgot that in Metal music, nearly everything is a paradox, silent conundrums you may call it, but no so silent after all as it would seem to be. The Danish RIPE, formed back in 2000, has something going on with the elements of silence but with their powerful Metal doctrine, silence is just a noun written on paper as they blasted through yet another wall with their new
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Rock melodic band The Fire have just released their new album “Supernova”!
In the music world they used to say that the third album for a band is the big one. Nowadays though only few bands survive until their third album, so it would be more correct to consider it the album of the miracle…. The miracle of still finding record labels that want to invest on a new project, the miracle of playing in sold out clubs…
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After several demos and an EP, Sweden’s Void Moon release their first full-length album On the Blackest of Nights on the Cruz Del Sur label. The album title is appropriate as Void Moon offers some deep, dark, and heavy doom metal.
Void Moon isn’t reinventing the wheel as much as channeling the peers that defined traditional epic doom metal: Black Sabbath,
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The live album was recorded in December 2011 at the HAMMERFALL tour and contains eleven songs, including nine classics and two brand new covers of “Sign of the Southern Cross” (BLACK SABBATH) and “Running Wild” (Judas Priest)!
San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans VICIOUS RUMORS will release a new live album, “Live You To Death”, on November 27 (one day earlier internationally) through SPV/Steamhammer. The CD was recorded by Pontus Norgren of HAMMERFALL, mixed by Juan Urteaga and produced by VICIOUS RUMORS guitarist Geoff Thorpe.
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