Hemi – The Chosen Ones: Live in the Fire 2012
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The long-awaited LIVE album that captures the raw power, aggression, and intensity of the HEMI concert experience.
After nearly a decade on the road, countless setbacks, lineup changes and lots of blood, sweat and tears along the way HEMI finally arrived at it’s rightful place. Armed with their strongest lineup yet the band that never said die decided that it was the right time to release a live album for it’s fans to show how the battles of the last 10 years only made them stronger and took them even further in their fight to keep heavy metal alive.
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Hellbent & Heartless is The Black Saints much awaited follow-up EP to their debut record, All Sinners Welcome. In this EP, you hear the band make huge steps forward with their writing process, but still keeping the same unique flavor that grabbed so many people from the beginning. With fast paced rock
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Debut album from the So Cal heavy rockers. A piercing hard boiled & dirty story, currently corrupting today’s youth!
“Blood Highway” is the debut album of the rock punk/metal outfit Seven Dirty Words based out of Southern California, following up the bands previously released EP’s “Seven Dirty Words” and “Hard Boiled & Dirty”. The album was recorded and mixed at D.O’B. Studios in Santa Fe Springs, CA between the months of March and October. Produced and mixed by Larry Ramirez & Seven Dirty Words, Engineered by Larry Ramirez & Craig Tully
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Provocative and entertaining Oklahoma progressive metal act Vangough takes a turn to the acoustic with their new EP Acoustic Scars. According to principal songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Clay Withrow, this set was born out of their round trip to the most recent ProgPower event in Atlanta. The EP revisits the last two albums covering the themes and stories of the Rabbit Kingdom.
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Labels DeFox and Heart Of Steel released a new album of Greek heavy metal PRASSEIN ALOGA called “Midas Touch”. Recorded two songs disc attended by former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul DiAnno (Paul Di’Anno).
PRASSEIN ALOGA were founded in 1995 and immediately achieved success at home, using the hard sound and writing texts in Greek.
ARROW HAZE – MUSIC FACTORY 2012
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Arrow Haze is an upstart melodic rock band from Belgium debuting with Music Factory. First impressions give rise to some interesting observations and suspicions. The first observation is that this a guitar driven album. The first suspicion is how they do they count Deep Purple as one of their influences.
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Take Metallica add some Lynyrd Skynyrd, sprinkle in Pantera and you have Modern Day Outlaw, Southern Metal kicking your ass track to track. You want new, here’s new!
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Legendary Italian heavy metal pioneers ASTAROTH have announced the release of their first ever full-length album, entitled The End Of Silence, through She Wolf Records on December 21st.
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Driving Force is the first single from the new concept album Counterclockwise from Ivan Mihaljevic & Side Effects. After a great reception of their previous album Destination Unknown which got a lot of great reviews and made it into several top 10 albums of the year lists of 2011, the guys are back with new songs and refurbished sound.
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EIDON – Crystalight 2012
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THE RELEASE DATE OF EIDON’S FIRST ALBUM IS NOW OFFICIAL : TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 2012!!!You will have it for christmas!!
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ROADWAY, initially started as a side-project for guitarist Ross McEwen has quickly become the main project for all involved. With their debut EP currently achieving sales in 14 countries, radio play in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan, several Scottish tours completed and a new record in the plans for an early 2013 release, ROADWAY are proving their worth among the new hard rock acts of today.
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Kevin Ridley is a well-known figure in the UK metal scene as vocalist/producer of Skyclad. He also earned his spurs as a producer for bands like Anathema,Venom and Lindisfarne, amongst others. Besides his work as a producer he kept on working on his own music. The fruit of his hard labour comes in the form of “Flying In The Face Of Logic”, his first true solo outlet.
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