THE DAMNED – Friday 13th EP 2013
now/UK/legend
The Damned must have been through approximately a million line-ups, but the Vanian/Sensible/Scabies/Gray line-up has always been my favourite, and this EP as an example of just how good they were in the early 80s.
When I had just discovered The Damned, “Disco Man” was my favourite song, and after dusting off the EP and giving it another listen, I was happy to discover that it’s still as irresistable as ever. In spite of the silly lyrics, (“Take my hand, disco man/Are you just a one night stand?”) it’s so fun and infectious that it can get away with it.
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now/Aussie Rock/Australia
voodoo ghost rock, clasical punk blues cabaret rock and roll
We would have loved to stretch with them, in terms of the creation of the Dr. Awkward, we have not felt that the four listening Burn In Hell Australians have paddled, but they have sweated blood and water .
We would have loved to be locked up with them, spend hours watching them ignite their ideas. It would surely understand what cross the Styx could mean. Rarely will there be “seen” music we survey the cortex also angrily, stretching, or sudden roar to velvet paw, but at no time does the next donut emotional predictable.
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Sub Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal
Label:Â Within The Mind Records
Release date:Â Â December 14, 2012 (Digital), January 4, 2013 (Physical)
The album mixes elements of Metal, Rock, Latin Music with Progressive and Ambient tendencies.
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now/austria
With the debut album the same in the Amazon charts – DiEversity have reason to celebrate. Well, they have to offer, too sorts.
Take: vigorous riffs paired with extremely heavy, pounding drums. Mix the whole thing with anger and passion influenced lyrics and shouts. Innovative, varied songwriting and virtuoso guitar solos. Then you get the very successful debut album ‘Last Day: Tomorrow, “the 7-piece band from DiEversity francs.
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now/germany
ALL HAZE RED is a German rock ´n´roll band influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath with obvious hints of contemporary groups like Clutch or Grand Magus. The four creative guys blow out a sound around stoner and vintage blues rock. Hippie-alike guitar riffs are barely able to tame the omnipresent rock steamhammer and are going to be blown into the nirvana by vocals swinging between raspy shouts and bluesy hooklines.
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Hi all, I present a few lines, I started playing guitar at the age of 13, I played in a group with my friends from college. At the age of 18 I left to join the group Oise Excess in Bourges, adventure lasted 10 years. Concerts, compositions, albums, good times, others more difficult and finally
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now/italyMOTUS TENEBRAE – Double Black 2012
now/italy
Motus Tenebrae signed a deal with Revalve Records and returns with their Fifht album ‘Double Black’, 13 tracks of an alchemical mixture of gothic rock and  metal; passion, sadness, anger with strong melodies. Commented Andreas Das Cox:
‘Double Black is a very special milestone of great importance in the discography of Motus Tenebrae.. an album that took almost two years to get to its production, which ended with the videoclip for the single ‘The Last Days Of December’ …strong raw images, where
FORTUNATO – Liberty 2012
now/fr/very good melodic
Markus Fortunato is a bassist-singer Lyon and self involved in the underground metal since the late 80s.
The concept album presented here follows his former band “MZ” which he was the leader and he had formed in 1999. Before splitting, the group had released seven albums.
On “Liberty,” his new project, the singer is surrounded bassist Jimmy Cerrullo the battery and Eliad Florea on guitar and violin. And to give one side more “open” to the music, many musicians and singers were invited on this album.
Transplant Research – Transplant Research 2012
now/uk
Transplant Research is a three piece metal band from the North East of England. They smash together aggressive guitars with punishing vocals, backed by a truly unholy drumming style. This leaves no doubt about the passion behind this savage assault on the senses. A vicious metal band that suits well the darkness that lives deep within all of us.
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now/Â Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin
Joint project between Porcupine Tree bassist Colin Edwin and guitarist Jon Durant. The pair first worked together on Durant’s 2011 CD, Dance of the Shadow Planets, and were so enthused by the project that they undertook a new collaboration in 2012 which features Edwin’s liquid bass and compelling rhythm programming alongside Durant’s unique guitar melodies and textures, as well
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now/like a Blind Guardian Dream Theater Iron Maiden/canada
Formed in late 2008, Scythia is a mosaic of many influences that combines storytelling, costumes, and heavy music. But this isn’t just grindcore in medieval garb… Scythia weaves folklore with double kick, detuned guitars with neo-classical melodies and catchy riffs with classical oboe playing. It is a musical experience that stands apart from all others.
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