HOLYHELL – Darkness Visible: The Warning ( EP) 2012

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Darkness Visible”, HOLYHELL’s new studio release of epic, power-goth metal, will now be released as digital album and as physical CD in fall 2012. The band had originally planned to make the effort available in June.

“We know that our fans have been eagerly awaiting our new album and we are equally excited to share it with the world. However, conflicting schedules forced us to suspend the work in the studio to get ready for our upcoming summer festival tour,” explained HOLYHELL keyboardist and producer Francisco Palomo.

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SOULS OF DIOTIMA – What Remains of the Day 2012

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Symphonic album with many features and techniques happening all at the same time. The mix of English and Italian  vocals expressed by vocalist ‘Barsi’ has opened up this album beyond limitations and this combined with the death metal growls powers its way through the path of the unknown. The solo guitars display great understand of not just ‘Neo-Classical’ shredding, but total understand of Blues and metal phrasing at its best. Heavily influenced licks such as those of Y. Malmsteen, J. Becker, and R. Marcello are frequently heard among the passages not only in the guitars but the keyboards as well. The great use of a full symphonic orchestra at their disposal has created atmospheric elements and textures to the overall sound of each track including the ‘Intro’ and ‘Von Braun’ which on the bonus track is quite simply exquisite to hear.

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Andrew Appltree & the Neptune Riders -Dragonfly 2012

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Andrew Appletree has announced the formation of his new band The Neptune Riders “Andrew Appletree & The Neptune Riders”

Andrew Appletree has announced the formation of his new band The Neptune Riders “Andrew Appletree & The Neptune Riders” In anticipation of his 2nd Album Titled Dragonfly Recorded Live @ Zen Recording. Release date to be announce shorty. The band line up for the Dragonfly Release is Steve Connelly , Bryan Thomson , Barry Waddell With Special guest Rick Derringer , David McGough Jenda Derringer Koko Ray Hansen , Henry Lawrence, Stephen Jacobs ,Tony Farina , Aimee Trachtenberg & Maddy Lou Turner .

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DOCTOR SPEED – Face to Face (2012)

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First coming-out for the band SPEED Teutonic DOCTOR.
Actually there are four doctors who now have been serving the metal music, and hear them is a luxury, at least they know how to play as regards operations carried him pretty bad.

His music is quite difficult to label, Heavy Metal sounds, the voice can sometime reach the MetalGod remember, in this rare fusion there is also time for the Progressive and above, and as you will have proven, there are also some Speed Metal.The record label with which they worked, is the alemás MDD Records, which went on sale last May 18 debut “Face to Face”.

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Dakara Dirt – Miss Hollywood 2011

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After travelling, touring the world promoting their music Melbourne rock band Dakara Dirt is finally home and set to release their land mark debut release Miss Hollywood.
Lead vocalist, songwriter/producer Mick Brandon is not new to the music scene having already established himself as an independent musician in the LA underground, gigging and recording among some of USA’s elite musicians to even running his own studio and renting it out to the public.

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A New Tomorrow – Incandescent 2012 EP

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A NEW TOMORROW is a four-piece rock band formed in June 2009 in London, U.K. Their music combines the roughness of rock with melodic emotional vocals. Their debut EP “Incandescent” was released on June 15th.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve been holed up in the studio for the past couple of months creating a rock n roll tour de force for your aural delight. Hold onto your hats as our debut E.P. Incandescent is finished!This week on the 15th of June this monster E.P. will be released on iTunes, Amazon, and many other mp3 stores. Can’t wait for you guys to hear it

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Rawburt – Musketeer 2012

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Bio: GIT LA, ex Human Race guitarist, now with my own band RAWBURT. Three albums released by Human Race “Strange Horizons” (Jap), “For The Sake OF Your Soul” (Jap+EU) and “Dirteater” (EU).

Björn Jansson is one of Sweden’s hidden treasures when it comes to vocalists. Slightly crispy, he hits every tone and the charisma is hard to beat. Mind you, I am normally not a fan of screamy voices but this guy really catches my attention. Take the mid-tempo tune “Born Again” as an example; the half-note jumps in melodies and chords are almost slightly doom oriented, and I even think of some later albums by GLENN HUGHES here. A funky attitude is shown here and there – for example in “The Psycho Man”. If anyone bought the great album by SPEEDY GONZALES (Tommy Denander, Thomas Vikström and some other good musicians) you will absolutely like this one as well.

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Confidence – Prelude 2012

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Hoping to capitalize on the new era digital media distribution is Sweden rockers Confidence. Casting aside labels and CD releases, Confidence plans to release all their material in a digital format (although I got a CD, thank you very much), basically four to five tunes, twice a year. Hail the new technology. Prelude is their debut, their first toe in the digital stream so to speak.

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Kev Bayliss – The Project 2011

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For those of you with a keen ear, Kevin Bayliss was the vocalist with Voodoo Johnson, a Midland based hard rock band who released 2 E.P’s and  the excellent ‘10,000 Horses’, their 2010 debut album. These releases served to demonstrate the vocal prowess of Bayliss who decided to part company with the band citing the enemy of all musicians ‘musical differences’.

However not wishing to rest on his laurels Bayliss pulled together a group of musicians and set about writing and recording his debut solo album. And ‘The Project’ is the result of all those hours of soul searching and endeavour.

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Love and a .38 – Love and a .38 2010 (EP)

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Los Angeles based rockers Love And A .38 are asking for their fans to help fund the recording on a new album. Says the band, “We’ve been doing this rock and roll thing for a few years now, and as a result we’ve got a lot of music that we want to get out to you guys. Trouble is… if we try to pay for it ourselves… it’s gonna take a long time. A REALLY long time. We’d love to expedite the process. Since we know that we have the greatest fans in the world, we thought maybe you guys could help. The studio’s out here in La-La Land ain’t cheap, and neither are quality engineers. So we’re asking you guys to give whatever you can to help us pay these wonderful people. We’ve put together what we think are some pretty rad reward packages for those who donate… so take a look. We’ve set our goal at $15,000. That should be enough to rent out the studio, pay for all the tracking, mixing, and (hopefully) production. If we miraculously surpass our goal… we PROMISE to put that money directly into a “tour” fund so we can come and rock YOUR hometown. That’s the ultimate goal anyway… to bring our rock to all of our awesome fans. You’ve earned it! So please, if you have the means, lend a helping hand. We won’t let you down!”

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