Mike Pietrini – Off the Cliff 2012
NOW!Like a Led Zeppelin Rush Yes
Mike Pietrini’s music is made up of an edgy. but melodic sound, with interesting lyrics/chord & riff sequences and lots of guitar layers.
Peter Larsen – City Lights 2012
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Here’s a tip on a plate that has a few months old. It’s about the Danish singer Peter Larsen in april released their fifth album “City Lights”. Here we are treated to great pop and rock in the style of Chris Isaak and Bruce Springsteen. “City Lights” is now available via Spotify. For those who want to know more about Peter Larsen and his music
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For the record, I saw Kix live about 30 years ago (yeah, I’m that old) in a shithole of a nightclub called The Village (it may still be a shithole) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Besides surviving the heat, sweat, and overpriced beer (yeah, it’s always been that way) of that night, I recall Kix putting on an energetic show.
You’ll get a taste of that energy withLive in Baltimore, a recording made at one their favorite hangouts, Rams Head Live. As with most reunion bands, the show is basically Kix’s greatest hits played live. They haven’t recorded any new material since 1995. You get many Kix classics like Kix Are For Kids, Girl Money, Cold Blood, the successful ballad Don’t Close Your Eyes, and a hyper-exaggerated version of Yeah Yeah Yeah. Surprisingly, the band sounds really good, and with that last song, front man Steve Whiteman is at his lewd, crude, and rude best.
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French metal band Venturia returns with their third album, Dawn of a New Era, which could refer to their becoming a four piece act. Vocalist Marc Ferreira has been gone since 2009, with founder and guitarist Charly Sahona taking over to compliment Lydie Lazulli’s leads.
Musically, however, this album could have been called Hybrid II, though it has a more commercial melodic metal feel than progressive metal. Venturia continues to pump in the sequences and synths, familiar to the previous work. Secret Dream, A New Dawn Rising, What We’re Here For, and What If are all examples of Venturia mixing metal with a groove equally suitable for a European rave session or a heavy metal arena.
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NOW!BEAUTIFUL SWEDEN AS…
As we told you on facebook, not all these songs will end up on the album. In Charlie’s opinion, the best albums contains 10 songs. But it is really hard to kill any of these ones. We’ll see what happens.
The first single + video for the song The Lost River Band will be released in very soon.
And about the cover: It’s an old painting by Luis Ricardo Falero called “The Departure of the Witches” made in 1878, that we stumbled over a year ago, and it just screamed our name!
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We are Seed of Sadness, a Female Fronted Melodic Metal band from Greece. We have just released our debout work
Seed of Sadness is a Melodic Metal band from Greece
Stellaria studied at Musicians Institute Macedonia, Greece. Since 2004 she is performing in various blues, jazz, soul, funk, latin, pop bands in Nothern Greece. Jimmy Nore is a well known Shredder in their region, performing flawless covers of famous guitar players such as Steve Vai, Andy James etc. He is also the composer and lyricist of all their songs. Mike G studied at Musicians institute Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Since 2005 he is teaching music to young students. Johny k is a virtuoso drummer from Xanthi who studied under the famous Greek teacher Anastasiadis. He is performing countless lives every year.
Continue reading Seed of Sadness – SEED OF SADNESS EP 2012 -->The Dimestore Junkies – On the Corner 2012 (single)
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Continue reading The Dimestore Junkies – On the Corner 2012 (single) -->Television 60’s – Celebr-Hate 2012
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It all started from an idea between the two basic and original members, Mikki (bass & vocals) and Cioxxx (drums) back in 2005. After several line-up changes, they settled down and Mikki finally took over the vocals as well. What they wanted to do was to play rock & roll with a little bit of garage & punk music without any compromises. Adding elements from The Hellacopters, Gluecifer, Imperial State Electric (mostly), Backyard Babies, Hardcore Superstar, Hanoi Rocks and so on… they started writing their own tunes. With lyrics talking about sex, fun, good time, drugs & girls you can’t bypass the fact that those youngsters wanna party all day long.
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“Black Jack”, the second LP of Power metallers of Spanish, will be available on Sept. 26 thanks to the Holy Grail Records label. Below you can see a promotional trailer, which contains extracts of the songs that make the album. Very interesting the proposal
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Karma To Burn – Slight Reprise 2012
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If, like West Virginia stoner rockers Karma To Burn, you’ve got huge guitar riffs and gargantuan grooves on tap, why bow to convention and have a ‘whining, posing douche-bag at a microphone’ spoiling all your fun? That’s exactly what Karma To Burn thought back in 1996 when they were offered a deal with Roadrunner Records. Here were three guys having a ball, knocking out some quite superb uncompromising, bulldozing stoner grooves as an instrumental power trio free of the complications a singer brings to the table. The only problem was that Roadrunner were not having any of it. The deal, and the money, was on the table on the condition they get themselves a singer. The lure of the filthy lucre was too much to resist, so singer Jay Jarosz was recruited and vocals were added to what became their first album, ‘Karma To Burn’. Things didn’t exactly work out though, so Jarosz was ejected, the band lost the deal and returned to their original incarnation as an instrumental trio.
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I’m quite sure most of us have a hard luck story from our childhood, our teenage years certainly; that ‘outcast’ feeling of being a rock fan definitely applies to most of you who make your way to these cyber pages. Well, imagine then that you had been born in a war torn country in the Middle East, where religious zealots and politicians try and control every aspect of life. Well, that’s the fascinating backdrop to which this band, The Kordz, was formed originally whilst the guys were at university in Lebanon in the early nineties.
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NOW! Is Not Sex…
Melodic Metal band Scar for life was founded by guitarist Alexandre Santos in 2008 following his compositional work with ‘Redstains’. Creating songs from vitriolic, groovy assaults to soft acoustic pieces this band is set to make an emotional yet powerful stand. 3 Minute Silence, is the bands third album to make a shout in the world. Recorded at Pressplay Studio at the begining of 2012, features a new lineup and an handful of guests such as Violinist Anne Vitorino d’Almeidam, Finnish singer Kari Vahakuopus (CATAMENIA) and British keyboardist Ged Ryland (ex-TEN). Drummer Joao Colaco (ex-MORE THAN A THOUSAND) stepped in whilst guitarist Sergio Fariaadded new depth on live performances.
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