Love Roulette – Always.Forever.Heroes 2012

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Love Roulette is an upcoming band from Gothenburg in October released their debut EP “Always.Forever. (more…)

NERGARD – The Beginning 2012 EP

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Since May 2010 Norwegian musician and composer Andreas Nergård has written material for a metal musical entitled Memorial For A Wish. “Musicals and concept albums have always fascinated me,” Andreas says eagerly. “I created this project because I wanted to make an album with the singers and instrumentalists who have inspired me to start playing music. It’s because of them I’ve become a musician and a composer.” And he has an impressive line-up for the musical. The Beginning is an EP containing three tracks off this (more…)

The Pitts Minnemann Project – 2 L 8 2 B Normal 2012

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Jimmy Pitts, Marco Minnemann, and a gang of monster players laying down some serious Fusion/Prog!

Jimmy Pitts began his progressive journey as keyboardist/composer with the avant-garde metal band Scholomance on The End Records in the early 1990’s. Since then he has performed a diverse array of music, from jazz festivals with the Mikhal Caldwell group, to performing on cds ranging from obscure Classical, soundtrack, and world music, to the frenetic metal intensity of Ron Jarzombek’s (more…)

Full Houze – Streets Of Town 2012

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Full Houze is a five piece rock band (the type with two guitars to give you a clue on their style) from Thessalonika, Greece. The band´s sound is Southern Rock with influences clearly based on the likes of Lynyrd Sknynrd and the Allman Brothers. Certainly Panos Doucas on vocals has got a very realistic American accent and the guitar sounds are quite in keeping (I am reasonably sure it is a Les Paul and Fender Stratocaster dual guitar attack). (more…)

Vidocq – Vidocq 2012

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After only three years after their birth, reach the coveted goal record the onset nostrani Vidocq. If you are already disgusting as you think it is too short a period of time, keep in mind that we are not talking about kids beginners, but a group of musicians have been run and feet firmly on the ground. Proposed by the rock quartet (more…)

The Enid – Invicta 2012

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The Enid present their 13th studio album INVICTA. This masterpiece goes hand in hand with its predecessor, Journey’s End as the second in a planned trilogy. (more…)

CRASHING CREW – On Crash Course Tonight (2012)

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First look at the world of metal, for one of the young promises, surely they will succeed in the scene metalhead.
The promising German formation, has combined with style, genres like Heavy, rock and a touch powermetalero, at the height of his countrymen GammaRay. (more…)

WILD DAWN – Double Sided 2012

today/For fans of Whitesnake, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Deep Purple. Hard rock band from France. (more…)

MANNING – Akoustik 2012

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After having released twelve albums, Guy Manning thought a short hiatus was in order and it was guitarist/vocalist Kev Currie who suggested to record one of their ‘Akoustic’ sets and release it in this quiet (Manning) period. Says Manning: “I thought this was a splendid idea. It would be a good chance to show off the other side of what the band can do and to put on display, in a semi-live fashion, songs which under normal circumstances the bigger ‘Elektrik’ band would not perform.” Could well be, but as is the case with most of (more…)

Zero Down – Looking to Start a Riot 2012

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After the first time through Zero Down’s Looking to Start a Riot I was not particularly impressed. I felt like I’d heard this kind of dirty Hard Rock/Heavy Metal many times before. But the album started to open up on subsequent listens, revealing powerful riffs, sharp solos and some downright fun songs. (more…)