BABYLON FIRE – Dark Horizons 2012

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Manchester, UK-based metal act BABYLON FIRE will release their debut full-length album, Dark Horizons, via Rocksector Records on November 12th.
Built in 2007 on a foundation of IRON MAIDEN and BLACK SABBATH, extended into the territories of STONE SOUR, MACHINE HEAD and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, the band learned, developed and ultimately emerged with a signature sound which has helped them deliver an uncommonly mature and multi-dimensional debut with both hooks and depth.

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Troubled Horse – Step Inside 2012

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Swedish heavy rock act Troubled Horse is streaming the new track “One Step Closer To My Grave.” The song appears on the band’s forthcoming release “Step Inside,” which is scheduled for release on November 5, 2012 (EU) and November 20, 2012 (North America) through Metal Blade Records.

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KEITH SEMPLE – Slow Down the World 2012

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Keith was born in Northern, Ireland, in the small town of Larne. He started professionally playing music at the early age of 16, where he performed all throughout Europe. He played with a few different bands during that period of time, but always maintained a certain vision for his own music, which he loved to write and perform. Since 16 years old, Keith has played all over the world in small venues through large sold out shows of more than 80,000 seats.
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REVENGIA – Lake Of Fire 2012

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Lake Of Fire was recently mastered by Dragan Tanascovic at Studio Bohus and features the following tracks:   ‘Free From Sin’  ‘His Will’  ‘Lake Of Fire’  ‘The Day I Die’  ‘Alone’  ‘Purest Of Emotions’  ‘Sin For Sale’  ‘Asylum’  ‘Bloodline’  ‘Termination By The Hand Of Creation’  ‘The Galleon’  ‘The One’ (first pressing bonus track)

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Alkbottle – Für Immer 2012

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Four years have pulled back since the last Alkbottle CD into the country. Four years in which not only gone our world economy multiple times or completely to the dogs, as well as four years in which Christian Zitta (git) has come to the following realization: “I’ve now even the last year due to be heard and I think we can do better. ”

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ECLECTIC SPAWN – Panspermia 2012

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Eclectic Spawn is a Mexican Project formed in 2004 and led by Multi-instrumentalist Martin Martinez (Xipe Totec, Yatrogeny),the band publish their first release “Noosferic” in 2006 (Ablaze prods).

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Plector – Punishment Day 2012

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This is a really good release from a small town Swedish band. A band that quit just the other day.

I don’t have the details about the breakup so I won’t comment on that. “Punishment Day” on the other hand, has been in my ears a few hours now. It’s a solid album packed with riffing, tight drumming and super-evil vocals. Sound-wise there’s nothing to complain about: the mix is clean but heavy. Style-wise I ended up thinking that this is some kind of Meshuggah turned heavy metal turned death metal. Don’t get too hung up on that simile though.

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MY JERUSALEM -Preachers 2012

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Preachers, the sophomore release from Austin’s My Jerusalem has the rather dark and sinister theme going on in the background. Founder and singer Jeff Klein (ex-Gutter Twins, The Twilight Singers) describes it as the Post-Modern Southern Gothic Soul album surrounded by beautiful, comforting, darkness. It’s real, not selfish, according to the mad hatter and Klein’s baritone vocals are ever so moody and emotionally black.

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Stella Blackrose – Death & Forever 2012

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So does anybody still remember Anouk from the 90s? The female alternative rock/pop icon whose chart-topping megahit “Nobody’s Wife” was all the rage back in ’97-98? Those that do should namely find remarkable similarity in how Anouk sounded on her debut “Together Alone” and how Danish rockers Stella Blackrose sound on their sophomore album “Death & Forever”. Perhaps not so much instrumentally, given that Stella Blackrose have a distinctly heavier hard rock / alternative rock soundscape in comparison, but there’s just no way of going around how much vocalist Rebecca Lou Armstrong sounds like Anouk during her pissed off days. We’re talking a female singer with an attitude and the kind of far-reaching power in her pipes to front a rock band, which has always been a rare feat for any female vocalist and the reason why there are so few successful female fronted rock bands around.

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THROW THE GOAT – BLACK MOUNTAIN 2012

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There’s much to like about this little band from the boondocks of Idyllwild, California. Throw The Goat offers a blend of punk, stoner, and heavy rock in a rather intriguing package with Black Mountain. It’s like a mash up of Ramones, Motorhead, and maybe some Kyuss.But, ultimately, I think Throw The Goat simply wants to be a good rock band. Their take may be on the heavy, sometimes stoner, side, but they delivers some deep rockin’ grooves. You get this at the start with Southeast Bound, but also later on Predictable, I

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