Category: Prog Metal
Three Days Grace – Transit Of Venus (2012)
This is the 4th album by rock band Three Days Grace. It is produced by Don Gilmore and will be released on RCA Records. On June 5th, the band announced in a video on their official website that the album would be titled Transit of Venus and will be released on October 5th, 2012. The first single, “Chalk Outline”, will be available on August 14th. The album will be available for preorder on the same day.
1 Sign of the Times
2 Chalk Outline
3 The High Road
4 Operate
5 Anonymous
6 Misery Loves My Company
7 Give In to Me
8 Happiness
9 Give Me a Reason
10 Time That Remains
11 Expectations
12 Broken Glass
13 Unbreakable Heart
Saint Rebel – The Battle Of Sinners And Saints 2012
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After OLIVER WEERS’ “Evils Back” & SHOTGUN REVOLUTION’s “Join The Revolution” last year, BULLET TRAIN BLAST’s “Nothing Remains” in January and beforeMALRUN’s “The Empty Frame” in April, Mystic Music & Target Records from Denmark bring us another offshoot of this spontaneous generation, a new Rockin’ breed that mix Melodic Metalcore with Post-Grunge Hard Rock and even Heavy AOR (New Wave Scandi Melodic Modern Metal?)
Another band that seems to fit this definition is Swedish CERVELLO and their great and very very recommended self titled album or Norwegian TEODORTUFF “Soliloquy”…Concerning SAINT REBEL: here we have a very energetic bunch of Musicians raised by 90s Metal sound (METALLICA /ALICE IN CHAINS) but with some Influences coming from contemporary American scene (3 DOORS DOWN / ALTER BRIDGE) but also some hints more rooted in the 70s Euro Hard Rock…And the typical “Melodic-Efficiency Science” provided in trueScandinavian style…A good recipe.
Chaos Killed – Singularity (2012)
Chaos Killed’s sophomore album, is a war torn, universal scale concept album exploring the path to “Singularity”.
1. R.E.L.I.C.
2. Regenesis
3. Rack and Ruin
4. Crusader
5. Decay (Beneath the Salt)
6. Omega Point
Papa Roach – The Connection (2012)
California rockers PAPA ROACH will release their new album, “The Connection”, on October 2 via Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded at the band’s hometown studio, The Red House in Sacramento, California, and was produced by rock veteran James Michael (SIXX: A.M., HALESTORM) and John Feldmann (PANIC AT THE DISCO, THE USED, ESCAPE THE FATE).
The first single from “The Connection” is a track called “Still Swinging”, which many fans may have heard during last night’s Major League Baseball All Stars Home Run Derby on ESPN. The track will be featured byESPN/MLB in select games/events for the next few weeks.
A snippet of the track and behind-the-scenes footage of the band filming its video in New York City with David Brodsky of Brooklyn, New York’sMyGoodEye Music Visuals (HELLYEAH, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER,GOATWHORE, MUNICIPAL WASTE, SUFFOCATION) is available below.
The Kordz – Beauty and the East 2012
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.
Surrender The Fall – Burn In The Spotlight (2012)
1. Everything You Want Me To Be
2. Love Hate Masquerade
3. Bleed
4. Deeper Inside
5. Some Kind Of Perfect
6. I Don’t Wanna Know
7. Pitiful
8. Undesigned
9. 40 & 12
10. Nothing
11. Where You Belong
12. Into The Headlights
8-bit Harakiri – Oni (2012)
8BHK started out as a mere solo project of Chadd Adam’s born from years of tiresome playing in the quickly stale growing music scene. He desired something different, melding the very best of his favorite genres and infusing a subtle nerd quality into the foundation of the project.
Underwell – Plan Your Rebirth (2012)
n recent years, the word “change” or “revolution” often came to our ears, almost to be used too lightly. Many of those who appear on television screens, radio broadcasts, or simply on the printed pages of the newspapers in my long lost sight of what they want to say those words. What we must realize is that instead of a change we need in these times darker than ever, but it must be a desire to start from scratch, tear down the pillars on which up to now have been resting the basics of how to common life, and groped by all means to create a new reality, in which every individual that is part of has exactly the same rights and duties of man standing next to him.
Throughout history, artists have generally tried to give the greatest contribution to the various causes that could have taken place, and even today, the way in which we should all go seems to have become a point so far, there are people who struggle these injustices in their own way, through music, for example, consuming their fingers and vocal chords to impress upon the minds of those who govern this system to their message.
The Protest – Game Changer 2012
| now!The Protest (formerly Protest for Pluto) is a five-piece hard rock outfit in the vein of bands like Disciple and Pillar. The band is releasing their first full-length record since their name change and they have recruited Dove Award Winning producer Travis Wyrick to do so. Game Changer marks not only a stronger focus for the band spiritually, but also a much more polished sound musically and vocally.The album kicks off with the solid riffing of “Reinvention,” and with it, plenty of energy. The lyrics are sung as a prayer to God to be recreated in Him. Singer Josh Bramlett has obviously been working on his screams as they sound much better and crisper as he belts them out. While “Reinvention” is a solid opener, “Resist” may be the album’s best track. While most of the song is the same rock formula found on the rest of the album, almost two minutes in, it takes on a Powerman 5000 vibe that works really well for the band. “Don’t Waste Time” and “Throw the Roses” (about dying to sin and self) are two more solid rockers that lead up to the double dose of guest Noah’s found on the disc. (more…) |