We Are The Damned - Devorador Dos Mortos (Official Video)

"Devorador Dos Mortos" is the first official Video from Portugal's We Are The Damned. The track is taken from the bands new record "Holy Beast", out march 18th 2011.
The album was recorded with Swedish producer Ulf Blomberg, responsible for albums by groundbreaking bands such as Exhale, Inevitable End or End Of All, Ulf Blomberg was a natural choice due to his visionary look towards the band's new material, the result was 14 relentless and savage tracks, where the band approaches a whole new concept on both death metal and punk styles, a new vicious and shocking atmosphere that will sure appeal to fans of most genres and an extended forefinger into the face of fashion!

Accept - Stalingrad [New Song]

You`re listening to the brand-new song "Stalingrad" taken from the forthcoming Accept album "Stalingrad". Out April 6, 2012 in Europe and April 10, 2012 in North America.

Accept - Official Album Cover Revealed

 

The new Accept album "Stalingrad" will be released worldwide on April 6th 2012. The previous album "Blood Of The Nations", which was released in August 2010 was a huge success and nominated over 50 times worldwide for the "Hardrock and Metal Album Of The Year" being the most successful album of Accept history. Following an extensive 180 show tour that took Accept round the world twice, the band retreated into the studio to produce an album that shows them in their most purist form. "Stalingrad" is a no compromise album from start to finish without a filler track anywhere to be found, sticking to the winning combination of working with producer Andy Sneap. 

Kreator - Phantom Antichrist Limited Edition Artwork Unveiled

German thrash metal veterans Kreator revealed the cover artwork of the limited edition of the band's upcoming album, "Phantom Antichrist". The limited edition will be made available as two-disc digipack, including a bonus DVD.

Commented Kreator guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza: "Jan Meininghaus, who did this one, is a cover artist from my hometown, Essen, Germany. I really love the artwork he came up with for the limited edition. It's pure mayhem, powerful and dark!"
"Phantom Antichrist" will be released on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with renowned producer Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, Devin Townsend, Amon Amarth).

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Brighteye Brison - The Magician Chronicles - Part I [Video]

 

Taken from Brighteye Brison's 4th album "The Magician chronicles - Part I". Released by Progress Records in November 2011. Cat No: PRCD 047. Line-up: Linus Kåse - keyboards, saxophones, vocals / Per Hallman - keyboards, vocals / Johan Öijen - guitars / Kristofer Eng - basses, vocals, theremin / Erik Hammarström - drums. All rights reserved (Music). Progress Records Sweden AB, and (Video) Brighteye Brison. 2011.

Moonspell - White Skies - Single

The new song by Moonspell, White Skies is the single for the upcoming album Alpha Noir.

Billy Corgan Compares New Music Artists To Strippers

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan blasted the current state of the music industry and alternative rock on Monday (March 12) in an interview conducted by author Brian Solis at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

Corgan explained, "Artists that break through now have grown up thinking that being famous is the goal. Not to be respected. Not to be dangerous." But, he warned, "Once you make that deal you're just the fresh stripper."

The Smashing Pumpkins are still at work on their massive, 44-song epic "Teargarden By Kaleidyscope", but will release 11 or so of the tracks as an album called "Oceania" in June.

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Dragonforce - Fallen World [New Single]

Here's the brand new single from Dragonforce! 'Fallen World' is taken from the band's long-awaited new album 'The Power Within', out April 15th via the band's own Electric Generation Recordings, distributed by Essential Music.

Unisonic - Official Video Premier

Unisonic - the long awaited reunion of Kai Hansen (ex Helloween / Gamma Ray) and Michael Kiske (ex Helloween), with Mandy Meyer (ex Asia, Krokus and Gotthard), Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69) and Kosta Zafiriou (Pink Cream 69).

UNISONIC Mini Album - Out January 2012.

UNISONIC Debut Album - Out March 2012

Heavy Metal Versions of Lady Gaga By Evile's Ol Drake

Guitarist Ol Drake of British thrashers EVILE has written and arranged a heavy version of the Lady Gaga's hit "The Edge Of Glory". The resulting track, which — according to Ol Drake — represents how "The Edge Of Glory" "might have sounded if IRON MAIDEN had written it with [the pop singer]" — can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. Ol added, "I'm a fan of MAIDEN and a fan of Gaga; this is an experiment and all in good fun. If you don't like it don't listen to it."

Ol Drake previously gave a similar makeover to Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way".

Wobbler - Rites At Dawn - Review

Welcome to the world of Prog. That is the line that should serve as a warning for all those who enter the realm of Wobbler. The new album from these Norwegian "lost in time" gentlemen is nothing short of pure, unadulterated love of Prog. First things first, they are fans of Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant and a couple of more Prog rock bands that have been instrumental in making Prog one of the most adored styles in history.

That being said, the music that Wobbler presents us with in Rites At Dawn is nothing more than a magnificent tribute. Lars Fredrik Frøislie has a voice that could be in Jon Anderson’s throat. The keyboards are reminiscent of early Yes. The Hammond keyboard that so many Prog fans like, the use of the Mellotron by Lars, they are all little precious gems that make me feel like I’m listening to a timeless album. However, to be completely honest, all of the band is quite capable, there is not one musician there who is not, in is own right, a master at what they do. Still, it is the keyboards that take us into a different world.

Rites At Dawn is a voyage through the wormhole that takes us to the early 70’s, late 60’s. Each music taking us through different places and emotions while keeping us completely calm. For example, the track Lá Bealtaine gives us that wonderful felling of being introduced to some magical, calm forest. The guitar work, along with the drums, gives us a peaceful scenery, while the keyboards are the ones that set the mood for that feeling that all Prog lovers look for: the mystery hidden in each track.

The entire album stays with you for days. There is not a single bad track in Rites At Dawn, but there is one magnificent track that must be acknowledged. In Orbit is a voyage through time and space. Right about the start of the 6th minute you're transported to a psychedelic planet made of keyboard melodies that make you feel like you're in the 60's or 70's while flying high, bound by nothing, capable of dreaming of everything... if you get the idea...

I recommend this album to anyone who likes to sit in the grass, in the sun, listening to something that feels out of this world, out of this time, a beautiful album, with stunning passages, with a song that will remain immortal for me. Yes, In Orbit is that damn good.

8/10

Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra - Review

It is soooo hard to review Limp Bizkit, mainly because most of us thought that one or two musics (even an whole album) are pretty damn good when we were younger. Hell, I even know a couple of metalheads who claim to hate them, even though every now and then their music pops up in their Last.fm profiles, their mix-cd’s in cars and in their Mp3 players… face it, Limp Bizkit is a guilty pleasure for a lot of people. Having said that…

This will not be a long review, mainly because there is not much to say about this piece of “work” by Limp Bizkit. Gold Cobra is an average album by their standards. We get DJ’s, we get rapping, we get the same guitar and bass sound we always got and we get the same Fred Durst we ever got over the years.
Here is the thing that bugs me. We’re in 2012 and these are guys are playing the same thing they played over, and over, and over again between 1998 and 2002. Fred Durst is still screaming into the microphone that he “doesen’t give a fuck”, he is still talking about shotguns being in his neighborhood, despite probably living in a mansion in the richest part of whatever town he is living in.

It gets boring. There is nothing new in this album. I wish I had something better to say, something more substantial, but the Limp Bizkit attitude died too long ago for anyone to care, and their music did not evolve in the slightest. Who cares if Wes Borland is back? Did he brought anything new? No, he brought the old Limp Bizkit back.

My advice? If you want to listen to Limp Bizkit, stick to the classics (yeah, I just used the word classics when talking about LP). This album is a waste of time, not because it is bad, but because it is completely unnecessary and boring. Average at best. Only die-hard fans (about 12 of them) will be interested enough not to go listen to the old tracks after hearing these.
Not recommended.

4/10

Ulver - Wars of the Roses - Review

Are Ulver still a black/avant gardwhatever metal band? Not really. This is not metal in the sense that will make metalheads pee their pants. It won’t make anyone headbang and it certainly won’t make anyone crave for a mosh pit. But still… there is something of that dark environment in Wars of the Roses.

First things first. Ulver have changed into an almost post-rock sound in this album, while making it accessible to listen to. They were already at the top of the experimental, non-conventional musical world in metal. The next step? Make it confusing. Is it dark? Yes it is. Is it oppressive in the ambient black-metal kind of way? No, it's surprisingly light in sound and dark in the atmosphere that it portrays.

Listening to this album, i found myself thinking that many of the sounds in it could be found in such different bands as Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues (Stone Angels is almost a tribute to spoken-word Moody Blues), Röyksopp (with the eletronic sounds hovering behind so many of these songs) and even a pinch of Sigur Rós.

Kristoffer Rygg does an amazing job with the clean vocals here, there is absolutely nothing i can say of bad from him. As stupid as it may seem, his voice actually soars above everything else, while at the same time never intruding on the actual music being played.

Listeners of pleasantly melancholic tones underneath and an ethereal vibe of a past in metal will no doubt like this. My favorites are by far Norwegian Gothic that actually reminds me of a cross between an 80's ambient prog rock and a movie soundtrack, and September IV, a music that has such a beautiful ethereal sound that results in being quite uplifting, only to evolve into a frenetic sound of prog-rock as time passes.

Give the album a couple of tries, there are too many layers in this wonderful work to dismiss it after just 3 tries.

I recommend it.

10/10

Why my Power/Heavy-Metal Mixtape Rocks Hard!

 

1 - Morifade - Enter the Past 06:06
Atmospheric and heavy (at least for power metal), After this EP, they hired a worse singer and the rest isn’t history!

2- Manilla Road - Necropolis 03:10
The 80’s were fun. Fuck Pro-Tools.

3- Fates Warning - Orphan Gypsy    05:59
Power prog, prog power, whatever, it works!

4- Masterplan - Heroes    03:34
Wow! It’s Michael Kiske singing the chorus! Yeah, yeah, fire, FIRE! Shut up Beavis.

5- Powerwolf - Midnight Messiah    04:13
In Romania metal listens to you!

6- Omen - Last Rites 03:41
Classic heavy/power. A slow burner.

7- 3 Inches of Blood - The Phantom Of The Crimson Cloak    03:11
King Diamond had a child with a disabled whore.

8- Fairyland - Fight for Your King    05:44
Everything is candy on Power Metal Land. Still, you’ve gotta fight. For your king.

9- Messiah's Kiss - Thunderball    04:04
Possibly about a meatball.

10- Virgin Steele - A Cry in the Night 04:05
It is I, Prince Pretty from Prettyland.

11- CIRITH UNGOL - Black Machine 04:16
Singing like a baby crow and being cool at the same time. What an achievement!

12 -Running Wild - Genghis Khan    04:13   
“The flame of badness burned inside him” Say no more!

13- Versailles - Antique in the Future    05:46
Japan. Easily more metal than North Korea.

14- Heavenly - Miracle    09:08
Cheesy lyrics, high vocals, epic chorus, great song.


Listen to the full mixtape on Youtube
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Journey - Eclipse - Review

Would you look at that? The dinossaurs are alive and kicking!!!
Journey come back from wherever they were hiding their good melodic rock to present us with a kick-ass awesome album. Guess what, they actually sound like a band who are not ashamed of their past. There are some hints at long lost years in the vocals and in some melodies. The thing is that they are writing awesome rock & roll, with awesome riffs… and amazing guitar solos.
At times the band actually seems happy to fool around with progressive rock of the 70’s. Trust me… this is a big deal for these guys. 

Just take a look at these songs, Edge Of The Moment is an awesome song, what really gets me going about it is the vocals and the awesome guitar solo. The chorus is just, just pure melodic rock awesomness! Chain Of Love has a that 70’s progressive light rock sound I already mentioned, but with a modern rock twist. Tantra is just a an old-school balad with those magnificent guitars I already mentioned. Resonate, another good ballad but with an awesome groove to it. She’s a Mistery is the low point of the album, its pretty damn boring that actually ends with good rock & roll, still… not enough. Human Feel is 6.43 minutes of awesomeness. Another low point is To Whom It May Concern, a poor sappy ballad that should get those old Journey fans really happy. I hate it. The album ends with Venus, a prog rock anthem of guitar, drums and keyboards.
Veredict! A very good Melodic Rock album, with some really cool musics. The vocals are cool, the guitars are awesome. Good for new and old Journey fans!

7/10

Vader - Come and See My Sacrifice [New Song]

Oooohhhh momma!!!! Vader's new song!!!! YEAH!!!!!

Amon Amarth - Destroyer of the Universe [Official Video]

Have fun with the new Amon Amarth video, from the album Surtur Rising