|
Band:TONY VISCONTI, WOODY WOODMANSEY WITH GLENN GREGORY AND STEVE NORMAN
Album:THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD LIVE IN LONDON
Label:Maniac Squat
Format:2CD
Genre:Rock
Legendary Bowie bandmates, producer/bass player Tony Visconti and drummer Woody Woodmansey performed together for the first time since 1970 in September 2014 in a four date UK tour. Fronting the band was Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17 and on saxophone and guitars was Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman. This is a live double album of The band is: Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T-Rex, Thin Lizzy), bass Woody Woodmansey (David Bowie), drums Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), vocals Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), sax, guitar, percussion and vocals Erdal Kizilcay (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Freddie Mercury), keyboards and vocals James Stevenson (The Cult, Generation X, Scott Walker, Gene Loves Jezebel), guitar Paul Cuddeford (Ian Hunter, Bob Geldof), guitar / Rod Melvin (Ian Dury, Brian Eno), piano / Malcolm Doherty (Rumer), 12 string guitar and vocals / Hannah Berridge Ronson, backing vocals, recorder and keyboards / Lisa Ronson, backing vocals The album features special guest performances from Marc Almond and Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp.
Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy with Glenn Gregory are touring the UK and Dublin in June 2015 at the following venues: 12 June – Isle of Wight Festival 13 June – Oxford, O2 Academy 14 June – Bournemouth, O2 Academy 15 June – Bristol, O2 Academy 17 June – Norwich, Arts Centre 18 June – Liverpool, O2 Academy 21 June – Leeds, O2 Academy 22 June – Hull, The Welly 24 June – Dublin, Olympia 25 June – Glasgow, O2 ABC 26 June – Newcastle, O2 Academy 28 June – Colchester, Arts Centre 29 June – Birmingham, O2 Academy 30 June – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
|
Band:GORGOROTH
Album:INSTINCTUS BEASTIALIS
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL LEGEND GORGOROTH FINALLY RETURNS WITH A NEW ALBUM!
After making a pact with the Devil in 1992, Infernus founded GORGOROTH, an early Norwegian black metal band. The band has released albums on labels such as Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Season of Mist, Malicious Records and Regain Records, and has toured extensively abroad, and the line-up has been subject to several changes, with Infernus being the only remaining original member. After GORGOROTH's controversial gig in Poland in February 2004, massive media attention led to an increase in both notoriety and record sales for the already infamous band.
“The best I have done so far” – Infernus
Giant line-up with Infernus, Asklund (ex-DISSECTION), Bøddel (Frank Watkins, ex-OBITUARY) and with stunning debut performance of Atterigner on vocals!
LTD DIGIPAK CD.
|
Band:GORGOROTH
Album:INSTINCTUS BESTIALIS - PICTURE VINYL
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:LP - PICTURE VINYL
Genre:Black Metal
NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL LEGEND GORGOROTH FINALLY RETURNS WITH A NEW ALBUM!
After making a pact with the Devil in 1992, Infernus founded GORGOROTH, an early Norwegian black metal band. The band has released albums on labels such as Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Season of Mist, Malicious Records and Regain Records, and has toured extensively abroad, and the line-up has been subject to several changes, with Infernus being the only remaining original member. After GORGOROTH's controversial gig in Poland in February 2004, massive media attention led to an increase in both notoriety and record sales for the already infamous band.
“The best I have done so far” – Infernus
Giant line-up with Infernus, Asklund (ex-DISSECTION), Bøddel (Frank Watkins, ex-OBITUARY) and with stunning debut performance of Atterigner on vocals!
LTD PICTURE VINYL LP.
|
Band:GORGOROTH
Album:INSTINCTUS BESTIALIS - LP BLACK VINYL
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:LP - BLACK VINYL
Genre:Black Metal
NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL LEGEND GORGOROTH FINALLY RETURNS WITH A NEW ALBUM!
After making a pact with the Devil in 1992, Infernus founded GORGOROTH, an early Norwegian black metal band. The band has released albums on labels such as Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Season of Mist, Malicious Records and Regain Records, and has toured extensively abroad, and the line-up has been subject to several changes, with Infernus being the only remaining original member. After GORGOROTH's controversial gig in Poland in February 2004, massive media attention led to an increase in both notoriety and record sales for the already infamous band.
“The best I have done so far” – Infernus
Giant line-up with Infernus, Asklund (ex-DISSECTION), Bøddel (Frank Watkins, ex-OBITUARY) and with stunning debut performance of Atterigner on vocals!
LTD BLACK VINYL LP.
|
Band:GORGOROTH
Album:INSTINCTUS BESTIALIS - CD JEWEL CASE
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD - Jewel Case
Genre:Black Metal
NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL LEGEND GORGOROTH FINALLY RETURNS WITH A NEW ALBUM!
After making a pact with the Devil in 1992, Infernus founded GORGOROTH, an early Norwegian black metal band. The band has released albums on labels such as Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Season of Mist, Malicious Records and Regain Records, and has toured extensively abroad, and the line-up has been subject to several changes, with Infernus being the only remaining original member. After GORGOROTH's controversial gig in Poland in February 2004, massive media attention led to an increase in both notoriety and record sales for the already infamous band.
Giant line-up with Infernus, Asklund (ex-DISSECTION), Bøddel (Frank Watkins, ex-OBITUARY) and with stunning debut performance of Atterigner on vocals!
“The best I have done so far” – Infernus
CD JEWEL CASE
|
Band:PHILIPPE PETIT
Album:MULTICOLOURED SHADOWS
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Avantgarde/Electronic
Since he started making his own music Philippe Petit has constantly tried to expand his art, and avoid categorization. From his early days manipulating vinyls and foundsounds or field-recordings, he moved on to using piano, organs, vibes, synths, then cymbalum, electric psalterion, guitar, caterpillar drum-guitars built by Yuri Landman, and various other percussive devices… He released dozens of collaborations and some solo works, none of which resembled the previous one, though forming a sonic choreography using space/time, in a multi-dimensional way, spatializing genres with an electro-acoustic approach while preserving a human touch, mostly due to the use of real « classical » instruments, kazooed voices, and percussions.
Composed in 2014, celebrating 30 years of activism in music, Philippe came with another new approach, twisting into unexpected turns while developing some melodies… Building up a tension in his narratives where “Multicoloured Shadows” of Shoegaze dance with electro-acoustically-psyched-out atmospheres… Mouth-noises going thru Kazoos being treated thru amps and reverbs bringing a melodic human touch that is unique and guarantees that once heard Petit cannot be mistaken with any other. “Multicoloured Shadows” is powerful and unpredictable while managing to stay oneiric. CD FORMAT.
|
Band:THE BARON FOUR
Album:WALKING OUT
Label:STATE RECORDS
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Psych/Garage
With their debut LP still making waves and sales around the globe, The Baron Four unleash their 3rd single, and 2nd for State Records. Recorded in February at The Ponswood Hit Factory, the almighty outpouring of energy on these 2 cuts is astounding. Top side “Walking Out” pitches elements of ‘Psychotic Reaction’ and ‘You Don’t Love Me’ against an all too familiar tale of woe at the hands of a demon temptress! Mike Whittaker’s impassioned vocal is matched by a brutal instrumental track, resolutely recorded ‘in the red’ for maximum impact. Jagged guitars, pounding bass and clattering drums combine to make the biggest and best racket you’re likely to hear this year!
Over on the flip, things calm down a little (but not too much!) with the moody minor key vibe of “Can’t Find My Way”. Some ace tremelo guitar and sweet backing vocals are on display here, showing a more controlled side to the group, in stark contrast to the full-on cacophony on the A-side!!
|
Band:THE BEATPACK
Album:WHERE THE WATER RUNS DEEP
Label:STATE RECORDS
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Psych/Garage
The Beatpack initially peddled their primal wares from 1987 to 1991, terrorising audiences with their distinctive brand of violent Rhythm & Blues, their intense hessian-sack-clad live shows and their acres of hair. Recording an EP, a 45 and an LP for Screaming Apple Records, the group burned out in a blaze of glory and its members scattered to the four winds.
Fast-forward twenty years and the 'Pack are back. Reunited in order to complete their mission to bring hip-shakin', feedbackscreeching, blues-wailing garage punk R&B to the masses, and featuring original members Simon Harvey (lead guitar), William Bourton Esq. (bass guitar) and Hugh Dellar (vocals and harmonica) alongside new boy Adrian Smith on rhythm and the inimitable Ian O'Sullivan on drums, the band have already played a pre-Purple Weekend night in Leon, Spain, the Berlin Beat Explosion and Le Beat Bespoke in London.
These 2 new sides are primitive, high-energy, kick-ass R & B at their finest. Pulling out all the stops at The Ponswood Hit Factory, these guys could show ANY new young group how it should be done, with all the necessary elements in place—crackling guitars, pounding drums, throbbing bass and hysterical vocals. Any fan of The Pretty Things, Downliners Sect and Clapton-era Yardbirds should cock an ear in this direction IMMEDIATELY!
|
Band:MONTEVIDEO BLUES
Album:MONTEVIDEO BLUES
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
First time vinyl reissue of 1972 South American Holy Grail •Grooving and edgy rock with native Uruguayan rhythms •Insert packed with photos, detailed history, and bi-lingual lyrics for this important Uruguayan band •Limited to 500 copies !
The one and only album by Montevideo Blues (1972) is a serious contender as one of the most important, and as it happens, most grooving records released in Uruguay. It's also incredibly rare, fetching big prices when it appears, which is almost never. But there is another reason that the album has attained exalted status: Montevideo Blues was founded by Uruguayan song-writing legend Gastón “Dino” Ciarlo as a way to fuse the rawness of rock music with obscure native Uruguayan rhythms like malambo, milonga and chamarrita. “At the time, we were revolutionary and looking for change,” said Dino. Montevideo Blues demonstrated an unyielding and combative attitude. During live shows in 1971, Dino criticized the government—a dangerous level of political commitment, reflected in the lyrics of the songs, some of the most radical ever set to music. Eduardo Mateo, the sacred monster of modern Uruguayan music, was succinct: “You have decided to prune the tree,” he said to Dino. The album opens with one of Dino’s most famous songs ‘Milonga de Pelo Largo’ (‘Milonga of the Long Hair’), a sinuous groove transformed by the arrival of the dictatorship into a hymn of Uruguayan popular resistance. The rest of the album tracks—the fantastic 'Para Hacer Mùsica, Para Hacer' and 'Un Color' are standouts—have an edgy quality, with terrific unconventional angular guitar and a kind of ragged glory, driven along by insistent grooving rhythms. Insert is packed with photos, detailed band history, and bi-lingual lyrics for this important Uruguayan band.
|
Band:JARVIS STREET REVUE
Album:MR OIL MAN
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
From the original master tapes •Limited to 500 copies • Heavy tip-on gatefold jacket + insert with band history, photos, images of sheet music for several songs, and lyrics for the band's greatest statement, 'Mr. Oil Man.'
“I could go on and on about how great the record is..." —Helios Creed / Chrome
Poised between Toronto and Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Ontario became the refuge for every touring band in Canada; a mandatory break while crossing the perilously vast Canadian Shield. No doubt, Canada’s vastness can be heard in much of the Northernly musical output. There is perhaps no better example of this than Thunder Bay’s Jarvis Street Revue. Their lone LP, leased to Columbia for release in 1971, leaves no one untouched by the band’s sheer avalanche of psychedelic heaviness, wasted acid leads and harrowing vocals. Every song is laced with a conviction born from the physical landscape they called home. Jarvis Street Revue spent (literally) a month of Sundays recording the album and bouncing tracks to create effects. “Chuck Williams was so freaked out, he used to leave the room,” Jarvis leader and Neil Young running mate Tom Horricks said. “It was so anti-establishment.” Creative and far-seeing... and not without some chemical support. The albums's (and band's) concern with the environmental—including bold statements on the use and abuse of the oil reserves, rapacious business men, and the depletion of Earth’s natural resources—were truly visionary.
|
Band:BRAIN DAMAGE MEETS VIBRONICS
Album:EMPIRE SOLDIERS LIVE
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:CD
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
This is the Live version of Empire Soldiers : Brain Damage & Vibronics unleash a fiery dubwise journey into the lesser known volumes of history. When two of Europe’s most notorious dub producers and an international cast of singers meet up to discuss the start of the Great War 100 years ago, you know the results are going to be big. « Empire Soldiers » is the often overlooked story of the colonial troops in World War One, a heavyweight musical collaboration with an emotive set of lyrical tales from Africa, Asia and The Caribbean told by Madu Messenger, Parvez, Sir Jean and Mohammed El Amraoui. Vibronics & Brain Damage teamed up and decided to come together around a concept, a narrative inspiration that will undoubtedly surprise: Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-African soldiers’ experience during the first world war. The academic historian, poet & songwriter, Madu Messenger, uses the product of years of study and research, to develop, within that very framework, a series of texts on some key topics such as travel, friendship, war and death.
This project thus aims at offering a learning experience about this often little-known period of our history. It will draw troubling parallels with some more contemporary considerations on culture shocks, immigration, imperial powers and horrors of war that still affects all of us today. Following their reflection on this sensitive issue, the musicians of the project’s – all of many other origins, Anglo-French, Jamaican or Asian – move towards a cultural alignment, opposite to certain enslaving and communitarian models. Brain Damage and Vibronics’ digital reggae-dub comes in different colors throughout many influences, completing the best of their know-how, with the spontaneousness of the collaboration & human experience. CD FORMAT.
|
Band:BRAIN DAMAGE MEETS VIBRONICS
Album:EMPIRE SOLDIERS LIVE - LP
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:DLP
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
This is the Live version of Empire Soldiers : Brain Damage & Vibronics unleash a fiery dubwise journey into the lesser known volumes of history. When two of Europe’s most notorious dub producers and an international cast of singers meet up to discuss the start of the Great War 100 years ago, you know the results are going to be big. « Empire Soldiers » is the often overlooked story of the colonial troops in World War One, a heavyweight musical collaboration with an emotive set of lyrical tales from Africa, Asia and The Caribbean told by Madu Messenger, Parvez, Sir Jean and Mohammed El Amraoui. Vibronics & Brain Damage teamed up and decided to come together around a concept, a narrative inspiration that will undoubtedly surprise: Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-African soldiers’ experience during the first world war. The academic historian, poet & songwriter, Madu Messenger, uses the product of years of study and research, to develop, within that very framework, a series of texts on some key topics such as travel, friendship, war and death.
This project thus aims at offering a learning experience about this often little-known period of our history. It will draw troubling parallels with some more contemporary considerations on culture shocks, immigration, imperial powers and horrors of war that still affects all of us today. Following their reflection on this sensitive issue, the musicians of the project’s – all of many other origins, Anglo-French, Jamaican or Asian – move towards a cultural alignment, opposite to certain enslaving and communitarian models. Brain Damage and Vibronics’ digital reggae-dub comes in different colors throughout many influences, completing the best of their know-how, with the spontaneousness of the collaboration & human experience. DOUBLE LP FORMAT.
|
Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:SHAKE A FIST VOLUME TWO
Label:FLUFFER
Format:CASSETTE
Genre:Garage Punk
Fluffer Records are a new independent record label based in Whitechapel; London, England. They release the best in up and coming psych garage punk records, put on monthly parties around East London and are the founders of Flufferfest, a brand new 3 day music festival showcasing new bands from around the UK
Shake a Fist Volume 2 – is a cassette showcase of the very best of new garage/ psyche/ and punk from across the UK and features 29 artists, all playing the now legendary Flufferfest new music festival.
“A powerhouse line-up including The Telescopes, Kagoule, Demob Happy and Love Buzzard… Totally mouth-watering” – Artrocker Magazine
Limited edition cassette run of 300. The very best in new psyche/punk/garage sounds from around the UK handpicked by new label Fluffer Records. New NME favourites “Demob Happy” join psych legends “The Telescopes” & Artrockers ones to watch “Love Buzzard” along with Thee MVP’s, Taman Shud, Kagoule and many more.
|
Band:ABYSSAL
Album:Antikatastaseis
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
ABYSSAL have always been a really low-profile entity within the death metal scene for the most part. Even though their new album “Antikatastaseis” is their third album, the band have recorded their previous two releases mainly for self-release digitally (where they would make their albums available mainly for free) and via CDR for anyone who requested a physical copy of their work. The band never had partaken in any live activities, interviews or any kind of promotion likewise for their work either. When the band made their last album “Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius” available digitally and would burn CDRs for any listener who requested, Profound Lore just happen to come across this mesmerizing death metal release by chance and decided to release it officially in a limited run (now pretty much sold out). It was then that ABYSSAL’s awareness was being made as a band who created some of the most intriguing death metal coming out today combining vicious brutality, technicality, and a very dark foreboding atmosphere which would compare them to the likes of such bands as PORTAL, IMPETUOUS RITUAL, ULCERATE, and MITOCHONDRION.
With their new album “Antikatastaseis”, ABYSSAL are primed to release what will be considered one of the most intriguing and most brutal and darkest death metal releases of the year, one that will realize them as one of the best death metal bands coming out of the UK today alongside GRAVE MIASMA and CRUCIAMENTUM. By taking their musical fortitude to heights much darker, more brutal, and even more melodic and technical, ABYSSAL have raised a bar in the genre of death metal with their new album....For fans of PORTAL, MITOCHONDRION, IMPETUOUS RITUAL, ULCERATE, WORMED, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN, and GRAVE MIASMA
|
Band:VANUM
Album:REALM OF SACRIFICE
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
VANUM is a new band formed by two of America’s most respected underground black metal musicians, namely K. Morgan of ASH BORER and M. Rekevics of FELL VOICES/VORDE/VILKACIS. Throughout the years, with their own respective bands (namely Ash Borer and Fell Voices), the two likeminded musicians have had a comradeship with each other by sharing split releases and touring together. With VANUM, this marks the first time both musicians have actually collaborated musically together. With the goal of creating a certain expression of dark atmospheric music with each album, the debut VANUM album treads the ground for those familiar with Morgan and Rekevics’ respective repertoires; that of creating some of the most stirring and mesmerizing black metal coming out today. The VANUM debut album features some of the strongest material each musician has ever created and will be recognized as one of the most respected black metal releases of the year.
VANUM is a new band formed by two of the most respected musicians in the American underground black metal scene today, K. Morgan of ASH BORER and M. Rekevics of FELL VOICES/VORDE/VILKACIS...For fans of each musician’s respective bands along with being for fans of Leviathan, Weakling, Drudkh, Hate Forest, Black Twilight Circle etc
|
Band:BRUTUS
Album:BRUTUS.
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Brutus' debut album is onto its 4th pressing already! Due to severe popular demand, here's a new edition of the Brutus debut album. Wrapped in a gatefold jacket and pressed on clear vinyl, this 4th pressing is limited to 500 pcs. Also available on CD after being out of print for a few years! Recorded at Music-a-Matic studios by Henrik Lipp (Union Carbide Prod., Burst, Sator) in Gothenburg Brutus treats you with a lesson in how classic 70's heavy rock should be played. Influences are spelled Hendrix, Blue Cheer or Grand Funk Railroad or todays Graveyard without being any copycats. A real monster!
|
Band:BRUTUS
Album:BRUTUS - LP.
Label:SVART
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Brutus' debut album is onto its 4th pressing already! Due to severe popular demand, here's a new edition of the Brutus debut album. Wrapped in a gatefold jacket and pressed on clear vinyl, this 4th pressing is limited to 500 pcs. Also available on CD after being out of print for a few years! Recorded at Music-a-Matic studios by Henrik Lipp (Union Carbide Prod., Burst, Sator) in Gothenburg Brutus treats you with a lesson in how classic 70's heavy rock should be played. Influences are spelled Hendrix, Blue Cheer or Grand Funk Railroad or todays Graveyard without being any copycats. A real monster!
The Svart Clear vinyl version of the debut album contains one track not available on CD.
|
Band:THE EXPLODING EYES ORCHESTRA
Album:I.
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
What started as a pastime for Jess and the Ancient Ones guitarist and songwriter Thomas Corpse has morphed into an actual band: The Exploding Eyes Orchestra. With a lineup consisting of five out of seven Jess and the Ancient Ones members, the band's debut album, simply titled I, will hit the streets on June 12th. According to Thomas Corpse, the idea behind the new combo was to find an outlet for material which the prolific songwriter found incompatible with the Jess and the Ancient Ones concept. The album is culled from lengthy recording sessions held in Kuopio, Finland in the winter of 2013 and 2014, and these sessions also produced another album's worth of excellent material, which will see the light of day on the next release, II, in the spring of 2016. Despite the relaxed nature of the sessions, these are not jam-based improvisational tracks but strong, carefully planned compositions. The music is laid back and soulful, influenced by classic rock, with powerful female vocals. What else the future might bring to The Exploding Eyes Orchestra is difficult to foretell, and Corpse likes to consider the band as a loose collective unit which doesn't necessarily follow the traditional route of rock bands (even though they do play live and release albums) but is not a therapy session either. CD.
|
Band:THE EXPLODING EYES ORCHESTRA
Album:I - LP
Label:SVART
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
What started as a pastime for Jess and the Ancient Ones guitarist and songwriter Thomas Corpse has morphed into an actual band: The Exploding Eyes Orchestra. With a lineup consisting of five out of seven Jess and the Ancient Ones members, the band's debut album, simply titled I, will hit the streets on June 12th. According to Thomas Corpse, the idea behind the new combo was to find an outlet for material which the prolific songwriter found incompatible with the Jess and the Ancient Ones concept. The album is culled from lengthy recording sessions held in Kuopio, Finland in the winter of 2013 and 2014, and these sessions also produced another album's worth of excellent material, which will see the light of day on the next release, II, in the spring of 2016. Despite the relaxed nature of the sessions, these are not jam-based improvisational tracks but strong, carefully planned compositions. The music is laid back and soulful, influenced by classic rock, with powerful female vocals. What else the future might bring to The Exploding Eyes Orchestra is difficult to foretell, and Corpse likes to consider the band as a loose collective unit which doesn't necessarily follow the traditional route of rock bands (even though they do play live and release albums) but is not a therapy session either. LTD VINYL LP.
|
Band:HARD ACTION
Album:SINISTER VIBES
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Scandinavian action rock is back with a bang !
The Finnish 4-piece rock n’ roll band Hard Action will be releasing their first full length album ’Sinister Vibes’ on Svart Records in June 2015. Started in March 2014 by guitarist Ville Valavuo (Speedtrap, Death Toll 80K), drummer Markus Hietamies (Speedtrap, Forced Kill) and lead singer/guitarist Günter Kivioja (Chestburster) the lineup was finally completed in late 2014 with bass player A-P Heinola (First Times), and the band are already working hard on new material. Even though Hard Action have only played a handful of shows so far they’ve already gained attention and radio play in Spain, Germany, Canada, Australia and the US. Following the debut single ’Dead Dogs’ the band takes up where they left off with the first release only to take it up a notch with this 10-track LP. The music is deeply rooted in 1970’s rock and late-70’s punk rock, and the simple-yetcatchy songs are topped with burning hot lead guitar parts, so expect nothing less than an album filled with electric guitar worshipping rock music. This album will definitely be one of the highlights of Finnish rock music in 2015.
|
Band:HARD ACTION
Album:SINISTER VIBES - LP
Label:SVART
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Scandinavian action rock is back with a bang !
The Finnish 4-piece rock n’ roll band Hard Action will be releasing their first full length album ’Sinister Vibes’ on Svart Records in June 2015. Started in March 2014 by guitarist Ville Valavuo (Speedtrap, Death Toll 80K), drummer Markus Hietamies (Speedtrap, Forced Kill) and lead singer/guitarist Günter Kivioja (Chestburster) the lineup was finally completed in late 2014 with bass player A-P Heinola (First Times), and the band are already working hard on new material. Even though Hard Action have only played a handful of shows so far they’ve already gained attention and radio play in Spain, Germany, Canada, Australia and the US. Following the debut single ’Dead Dogs’ the band takes up where they left off with the first release only to take it up a notch with this 10-track LP. The music is deeply rooted in 1970’s rock and late-70’s punk rock, and the simple-yetcatchy songs are topped with burning hot lead guitar parts, so expect nothing less than an album filled with electric guitar worshipping rock music. This album will definitely be one of the highlights of Finnish rock music in 2015.
LTD CLEAR VINYL LP.
|
Band:FESTERDAY
Album:THE FOUR STAGES OF DECOMPISITION
Label:SVART
Format:2CD
Genre:Death Metal
Complete works (1989 - 2014) by Finland's old school Carcass freaks !
Hot on the heels of archival releases from bands such as Abhorrence, Xysma and Mordicus, Svart Records is delving deeper into the Finnish death metal scene of yesteryear with the complete works of Festerday. This double CD package consists of all Festerday studio material, live and rehearsal rarities, plus new renditions of nine old songs, which the band have rerecorded, renamed and re-composed.
|
Band:FESTERDAY
Album:THE FOUR STAGES OF DECOMPISITION - VINYL
Label:SVART
Format:3LP
Genre:Death Metal
3LP WITH POSTER AND BOOKLET
Complete works (1989 - 2014) by Finland's old school Carcass freaks!
Hot on the heels of archival releases from bands such as Abhorrence, Xysma and Mordicus, Svart Records is delving deeper into the Finnish death metal scene of yesteryear with the complete works of Festerday. The triple LP package consists of all Festerday studio material, live and rehearsal rarities, plus new renditions of nine old songs, which the band have rerecorded, renamed and re-composed.
|
Band:CULT OF ENDTIME
Album:IN CHARNEL LIGHTS
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Unsettlingly brilliant Death Metal of the vintage persuasion
Cult of Endtime is a five-headed cadaver from Finland, reanimated with the blackest of magick and possessed to play vintage death metal. The beast has roamed the barren wastelands of eastern Finland since 2010 and has now been successfully captured on tape. The resulting album has been christened In Charnel Lights, and Finnish label Svart Records has been given the daunting task to unleash the work to the world on May 29th. In Charnel Lights sounds like something one would see circulating in the tape trading circles of the early 90s, played back by long haired teenagers at high volumes on beaten ghettoblasters. The same black blood that gave birth to the best of early Scandinavian death metal flows in Cult of Endtime's ruptured veins. Recorded and mixed by the band's guitarist and mastered at Orgone Studios, London, the album takes what was an exceptionally promising demo band to wholly new levels. Ranging from more melodic doomy parts to breakneck riffery, from the muddy, fuzzy walls of guitars to demonic growls also known as vocals, Cult of Endtime are here not to reinvent things but to reinforce and refine them. CD.
|
Band:CULT OF ENDTIME
Album:IN CHARNEL LIGHTS - LP
Label:SVART
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Unsettlingly brilliant Death Metal of the vintage persuasion !
Cult of Endtime is a five-headed cadaver from Finland, reanimated with the blackest of magick and possessed to play vintage death metal. The beast has roamed the barren wastelands of eastern Finland since 2010 and has now been successfully captured on tape. The resulting album has been christened In Charnel Lights, and Finnish label Svart Records has been given the daunting task to unleash the work to the world on May 29th. In Charnel Lights sounds like something one would see circulating in the tape trading circles of the early 90s, played back by long haired teenagers at high volumes on beaten ghettoblasters. The same black blood that gave birth to the best of early Scandinavian death metal flows in Cult of Endtime's ruptured veins. Recorded and mixed by the band's guitarist and mastered at Orgone Studios, London, the album takes what was an exceptionally promising demo band to wholly new levels. Ranging from more melodic doomy parts to breakneck riffery, from the muddy, fuzzy walls of guitars to demonic growls also known as vocals, Cult of Endtime are here not to reinvent things but to reinforce and refine them. LTD VINYL LP.
|
Band:COSTIN CHIOREANU
Album:MAGIC AS A GOLDEN MEAN
Label:SVART
Format:BOOK
Genre:Avant-Garde
The publishing wing of Svart Records, which kicked off with the legendary Isten Fanzine compilation, continues in April with Magic As A Golden Mean, which is a selection of mixed-media artworks by Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu. The hardcover book will be launched at Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland in April 2015. Costin has been creating album artwork for over a decade. He started out illustrating his band’s demos, but would soon be influenced by circumstances in post-Communist Romania, too. In the mid-1990s, metal fans in Bucharest were lucky to find bootleg cassettes with badly photocopied covers. Undeterred, Costin simply made his own using Heavy Metal Magazine, the country’s sole heavy music publication, as a reference. Today, he has emerged as one of the most talented artists in the realm of avant-metal and dark psychedelica, producing work for the likes of Darkthrone, Ulver, At The Gates, Triptykon, and Opeth. Whether the images he conjures are disturbing, provocative, or enchanting, they consistently show great finesse, sensitivity and depth. Comments the artist himself, “This is my first book, and it contains a fine selection of mixed media arts I made in the last years. After 12 years of working with bands, booking agencies, festivals, record labels, promoters, and studios, I realized the common denominator of the events in my creative life is indicating actually the golden mean. Working with same passion and dedication for dark and light entities made me realize that I am always the one in the middle, and I will always need both sides in order to evolve to a higher state of understanding of the world around me. So, the artwork selection was divided in three big chapters – one is related to darkness, one is related to light, while the closing one is related to magic and the middle path. So, in my case, the ‘golden mean’ represents the magic of manifestation, the desirable middle between two extremes, marked by darkness...
|
Band:KALEIDOSCOPE MAGAZINE
Album:KALEIDOSCOPE NO. 48
Label:VOLCANO PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Issue 48 of Kaleidoscope magazine.
Cover stars ; Suicide - The New Yorks art rockers create a Punk Mass
Also featuring ; Keith Emerson -His virtuoso synth adventures / Peter Zinovieff Sonic Boom on his unsung electronic hero / Arthur Brown Looking back on his Crazy World / Super Furry Animals Running Rings Around The World / Gnod Discuss the collective psychedelic experience.
|
Band:ZONE SIX
Album:LOVE MONSTER
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
After 11 years without a proper studioalbum, german spacerockers Zone Six are back with a new album! Founded 18 years ago, Zone Six is one of the oldest active spacerock / acidrock / neo-krautrock bands in Europe, even if they are lazy as hell. The band now consists of founder member Dave Schmidt (aka Sula Bassana) on drums (formerly bass), Martin Schorn (aka Modulfix) on synthesizer, Komet Lulu on bass and Rainer Reeff on guitar. All four members also are in Krautzone, Lulu and Sula are the founders of Electric Moon and Rainer plays in The Pancakes. They met some days to freak out together and produced 4 tracks to blow your mind away into deep space! This whole thing is very groovy and psychedelic – kaleidoscopic flights are stopping the time from existing and mix it up with the space which is endless... And full of acid!
|
Band:GOOD LOVELIES
Album:BURN THE PLAN
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
With Burn The Plan, a long‐awaited new album, Good Lovelies are both fulfilling and defying their so‐called musical destiny as a “folk trio.”
This time around, the trio has spent time developing, expanding and honing their sound as individual musicians first, and as Good Lovelies second. These new songs were crafted not to ‘fit’ their catalogue per se, but as expressions of individual voices within a tightknit group dynamic. What keeps the three Lovelies making music together is not just their uncanny musical compatibility; it’s their unshakeable friendships, which supports each member contributing to the songwriting in distinct ways. 2011’s Juno‐nominated Let The Rain Fall was the last time the Good Lovelies released a full‐length studio album. It may not feel so long ago, since the band’s profile has continued to grow with awards, steady and sold‐out touring, and a live album in between, but you can do a whole lotta living, loving and letting go in four years. For Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough and Sue Passmore, four years has been the exact number of hours, moments and experiences needed to take the next step, to burn the plan. UK tour this June.
|
Band:CATHERINE FEENY AND CHRIS JOHNEDIS
Album:SELF-TITLED.
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
Acclaimed songwriter Catherine Feeny met jazz drummer Chris Johnedis after recording her rebellious fourth solo album, "America." She had just come back from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, and he was returning from 2 years of working and studying in Thailand. Johnedis helped translate the varied rhythms of "America" ‐‐ which ran the gamut between vintage drum machine sounds and captured eld recordings ‐‐ into a live show setting. Two years later, working with producers Sebastian Rogers (Floetry), Sheldon Gomberg (Ben Harper, Ricki Lee Jones), and mixing engineer Tony Lash (Elliot Smith, Feist) in an intense four‐day session in Silverlake, CA the two created a universe of sound that is sparse, yet playful and propulsive for their eponymous collaborative album. Leveraging Feeny's quietly costly vocals and classic pop songwriting against ohnedis's exhilarating polyryhthms, the team masterfully maximized what a single ukulele, a solo voice, a looped guitar and a set of drums can be. Audiences across the US and Europe have been mesmerized by the spell Feeny and Johnedis cast on stage.
Feeny is best known for her 2006 album, “Hurricane Glass” The single “Mr. Blue,” was featured in “Running with Scissors”, “The O.C.”, and “Miss Conception”. All of the attention garnered by “Hurricane Glass” resulted in the album being picked up by EMI Records. Feeny has played internationally as a headline act and in support of: Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, Suzanne Vega, John Prine, The Indigo Girls, Kelly Jones (Stereophonics) and Martha Wainwright.
|
Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:THUNDER AND STEEL DOWN UNDER
Label:SKOL
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
As it was mentioned on VH1's "That Metal Show", RIOT are one of the innovators of Metal music in America and beyond. Their albums such as "Fire Down Under", "Rock City", "Narita", "Restless Breed" or "Born In America" are the classics of Heavy Metal, and their '88 LP "Thundersteel" helped to shape a genre which we know as Power Metal. Band's history has been marked by bunch of tragic events: Rhett Forrester who fronted RIOT between 1981 and 1986 was killed in 1994, the original vocalist Guy Speranza (in RIOT between 1975 and 1981) lost his battle with cancer in 2003, and band's founding member and leader Mark Reale (who was also the only one constant RIOT member since the beginning of the band) left us in 2012, after suffering Crohn's disease.
"Thunder And Steel Down Under" is not a usual compilation with bunch of cover songs. It's a celebration of the RIOT and Mark Reale legacy, and a homage paid by both American and European bands and musicians
TRACK LISTING 01. FERDY DOERNBERG (Germany) - Soldier 02. AXEL RUDI PELL (Germany) - Warrior 03. ATTACKER (USA) - Fire Down Under 04. WALPYRGUS (USA) - Outlaw 05. SAVAGE MASTER (USA) - Swords And Tequila 06. ANGELO PERLEPES' MYSTERY (Greece) - Sign Of The Crimson Storm 07. OCTOBER 31 (USA) - Loanshark 08. ALPHA TIGER (Germany) - Flight Of The Warrior 09. STALLION (Germany) - Rock City 10. ROCKA ROLLAS (Sweden) - Riot 11. EVIL UNITED (USA) - Altar Of The King 12. NIGHT DEMON (USA) - Road Racin' 13. DEXTER WARD (Greece) - Running From The Law 14. CRYSTAL VIPER feat. Todd Michael Hall (Poland/USA) - Thundersteel.
|
Band:NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA
Album:SKYLINE WHISPERS
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
"The Night Flight Orchestra" started like so many others as an innocent yet serious drunken idea when Björn Strid (Soilwork) and David Andersson (Mean Streak, Soilwork session player) were on the road together somewhere in North America in 2007. Björn and David were bonding over what they considered "classic" or not, from rock'n'roll conspiracies to being arrested in a lobby with nothing but leather pants on. All those scenarios, fictional or real, needed a soundtrack. They also came to think that whether you're on a metal tour or not, a lot of classic rock songs say it all and can really lend you a helping hand and make you forget about everything, especially when in motion or travelling. The classic escape. The never-ending road trip. The transatlantic night flight. It may sound simple and naive but what it all comes down to is that we all need that soundtrack to feel extra special, whether you have been arrested in a lobby or not. It didn't take long before bass player Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars) joined forces as well as keyboard player Richard Larsson (Von Benzo) and drummer Jonas Källsbäck (Mean Streak). The goal was to reclaim the 70's/early 80's sense for classic melody, the forgotten recipe to a timeless song, preferably a song mentioning a city, street name or an exhilarating alcoholic beverage. Anything that will have you spitting out the word "classic".
|
Band:DISARMONIA MUNDI
Album:COLD INFERNO
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
It all started around the year 2000 when Ettore with a bunch of friends/musicians composed and recorded into his own home-studio the first self-produced opus entitled “Nebularium”: a brilliant piece of progressive and atmospheric extreme music. The record received an amazing feedback and allowed the band to sign a contract for the worldwide distribution of the next two albums. While working on the new album the band almost lost all of its components and joined forces with Claudio and got in contact with Speed from Soilwork to have him as a guest on the new record. The year 2004 finally saw the release of the long anticipated second studio album entitled “Fragments Of D-Generation”: no more progressive atmospheres, but a faster and more energetic musical vibe with a huge injection of melody and a more twisted and aggressive vocal/lyrical approach. Being a worldwide success the record helped the band to enlarge their fan base and granted them their own place in the crowded melodic extreme metal scene. The year after Mirco left the band, but new songs were already coming out Ettore’s hat and the third record (“Mind Tricks” - 2006) showed that the renewed creative identity built by Ettore and Claudio was stronger than ever and far from being exhausted: a darker and heavier sound featuring multiple vocal layers by both Claudio and Ettore (with Speed collaborating again as a guest on some parts of the new songs) made this record their best release so far. And finally year 2009: Ettore and Claudio are once again working together to properly complete the songs that will be featured on the fourth Disarmonia Mundi record entitled “The Isolation Game”. Before the unleashing of the new full-length album a re-issue of the first album “Nebularium” sees the light via Coroner Records featuring a brand new artwork and an additional cd of previously unreleased tracks entitled “The Restless Memoirs”. Winter 2009: finally “The Isolation Game” is unleashed worldwide. The album sounds like the heaviest thing the band has recorded up to date: a perfect combination of brutal aggression, classical guitar melodies, extreme vocals and catchy choruses. Some of the songs also feature guest appearances by Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork) on vocals and Olof Mörck (Nightrage) on solos. In 2011 Disarmonia Mundi's third album "Mind Tricks" (produced by Ettore Rigotti and mixed at Studio Fredman in 2006) has been re-released by Coroner Records in an "Extended Version" Digipak format with new cover artwork and four additional bonus tracks including a brand new song entitled "Ringside Seat To Human Tragedy" featuring Christian Älvestam (Solution .45, ex-Scar Symmetry).
|
Band:TOTEM TERRORS
Album:HARD SCIENCE
Label:DIET POPS
Format:CD
Genre:Post Punk
Highly anticipated sophomore album from Cardiff noise-rock two-piece Totem Terrors builds on the success of underground hit debut ‘Repeat Play Torrent Rar’ (2013). Like its predecessor, ‘Hard Science’ was fan-funded and released on the band’s own ultra-cool Diet Pops label, and features sleeve artwork from Adventure Time illustrator GHOSTSHRIMP (Nehruvian DOOM, Daedelus, Patrick Sexx).
RIYL: Big Black, Pavement, Wire, A Place To Bury Strangers, Future Of The Left, Thee Oh Sees...
|
Band:TOTEM TERRORS
Album:HARD SCIENCE - LP
Label:DIET POPS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Post Punk
Highly anticipated sophomore album from Cardiff noise-rock two-piece Totem Terrors builds on the success of underground hit debut ‘Repeat Play Torrent Rar’ (2013). Like its predecessor, ‘Hard Science’ was fan-funded and released on the band’s own ultra-cool Diet Pops label, and features sleeve artwork from Adventure Time illustrator GHOSTSHRIMP (NehruvianDOOM, Daedelus, Patrick Sexx). Vinyl LP.
RIYL: Big Black, Pavement, Wire, A Place To Bury Strangers, Future Of The Left, Thee Oh Sees
|
Band:GREAT FALLS / THOU
Album:GREAT FALLS / THOU SPLIT
Label:HELL COMES HOME
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Available on 7” vinyl on Hell Comes Here. Split 7” with Thou and Great Falls each taking a side and covering a different 'Shellac' tune in their own heavy ways. Thou brutalise "Prayer to God" while Great Falls tackle "Wingwalker". Limited pressing of 1040 copies, screen printed cover with download code included.
A unique and vital tribute to a unique and vital band.
|
Band:MACHINISTA
Album:GARMONBOZIA
Label:Analogue Trash
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
AnalogueTrash Records are proud to announce that Swedish electropop sensations Machinista are back with their second album, Garmonbozia, the follow-up to 2014’s critically-acclaimed Xenoglossy. Featuring the sublime vocals and brilliant, soulsearching lyrics of John Lindqwister (Cat Rapes Dog, Basswood Dollies) and the sweeping, driving beats and synths of Richard Flow (Vision Talk, Haze For Sale). Released June 15th worldwide. Mixed, mastered and produced by Machinista.
For fans of Code 64, Seabound, Rotersand, Advance, In Strict Confidence, Hurts...
|
Band:DEMON EYE
Album:TEMPORA INFERNALIA
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Dark and groovy, loud and heavy - DEMON EYE are back are back with their new full-length entitled "Tempora Infernalia"! DEMON EYE was unearthed in Raleigh, North Carolina during the Spring of 2012. Shortly thereafter, the band was receiving international recognition for their highly acclaimed songcraft and their stunning live performances. The band channels the introspective darkness of Pentagram, the heavy grooves of Black Sabbath, and the fist-banging shred of early Iron Maiden. The band's sophomore release after last year’s highly acclaimed debut, "Leave the Light", is a blast of wicked riffery and skilled songcraft that conjures apocalyptic visions of a world on the brink of destruction. The end is near, and we welcome its arrival!
Highly anticipated follow up to Demon Eye’s 2013 debut “Leave the light” - CD.
|
Band:DEMON EYE
Album:TEMPORA INFERNALIA - LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Dark and groovy, loud and heavy - DEMON EYE are back are back with their new full-length entitled "Tempora Infernalia"! DEMON EYE was unearthed in Raleigh, North Carolina during the Spring of 2012. Shortly thereafter, the band was receiving international recognition for their highly acclaimed songcraft and their stunning live performances. The band channels the introspective darkness of Pentagram, the heavy grooves of Black Sabbath, and the fist-banging shred of early Iron Maiden. The band's sophomore release after last year’s highly acclaimed debut, "Leave the Light", is a blast of wicked riffery and skilled songcraft that conjures apocalyptic visions of a world on the brink of destruction. The end is near, and we welcome its arrival!
Highly anticipated follow up to Demon Eye’s 2013 debut “Leave the light” - Ltd LP.
|
Band:MIST
Album:INAN
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Band:MIST
Album:INAN - LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Band:NIBIRU
Album:PADMALOTUS
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Since their inception in 2012, NIBIRU gave vent to their ritualized improvisation urge. They totally refused the concept of ordinary song form, leaving their energy flow, and channelling that into live recordings. In Fall 2014 NIBIRU signed to Argonauta Records, and CAOSGON and NETRAYONI (originally self‐released) were reissued by the label in January 2015. Following their philosophical path, the band crafts PADMALOTUS. Once again, the lyrics are in Enochian language. The 4 tracks were written between September 2014 and January 2015. According to the previous albums, also PADMALOTUS is connected to occult themes of Eastern Orient. NIBIRU loves exploring the Left‐Hand Path (Vama Marg), Kuala rituals, Aghori rituals and Kundalini awakening.
Recommended if you like: BONG, CELTIC FROST, SWANS, LEVIATHAN.
|
Band:TOVARISH
Album:THIS TERRIBLE BURDEN
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Based in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) and combining dark ambient electronics, metal guitars and excruciatingly inhuman vocals, TOVARISH explore themes such as bio‐terrorism, man‐made disasters and paranoia. Glaciallypaced, cold, and depressive, their music challenges listeners with dense, aleatory textures offering only fleeting respite in brief moments of coherent rhythm and melody. The new album “This Terrible Burden”, also featuring the stunning voice of Yoshiko Ohara (of BLOODY PANDA fame), is highly anticipated as a destructive work made on drones, guitars and beastly voices! Highly recommended if you like acts as Gnaw Their Tongues or Khanate.
Recommended if you like: GNAW THEIR TONGUES, KHANATE.
|
Band:GYZE
Album:BLACK BRIDE
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
In May 2009 SUICIDE HEAVEN was formed in Sapporo, Hokkaido, by Ryoji, Shuji and Shogo. The distinguishing characteristics of SUICIDE HEAVEN consisted of the "twin vocal" of Ryoji and Shogo, the thrilling fast-paced drum of Shuji and the lyrical guitar melodies of Ryoji coloring the whole music. Performing with many talented artists, SUICIDE HEAVEN received special recognition and was given outstanding engagements, creating a new sensation in the "Extreme Scene" in Sapporo. In the same year, SUICIDE HEAVEN moved its base from Sapporo to Tokyo and was renamed as GYZE. In 2013 GYZE debut album “Fascinating Violence” had been released by Coroner Records. After a short period Shogo left the band and been replaced by Aruta on Bass. 2013 and 2014 had been very full and busy years for GYZE touring all over Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
|
Band:DEMON HEAD
Album:RIDE THE WILDERNESS
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
After the Copenhagen 5 piece formed in 2012, released a demo EP and a two-track EP, the first longplayer of top knotch doom will be released through TCM. The previously released songs wer recorded once again and put on the new record.Rock is the backbone of the record, the ghosts of classic rockbands haunts this records, but not taking over the sound of the band. The Vocals are reminiscend of Danzig and Year Of the Goat, but less anthemic and more gritty. The guitar sound is not overly distorted, which gives this record the taste of old spiderwebs from a tomb, but played in the fashion of Thin Lizzy.The lyrical center orbits around doom rock topics, like occults, fantasy, close to In Solitude and Cirith Ungol.Obviously these dudes gave the universe, demons and drugs a serious thought!As if the last 30 years of metal evolution weren't there, the band strikes through distorted blues riffs, spooky lyrics and mind crippling slow drum parts. This proto-doom band swings like Bill Ward, battling through guitar parts when Tommi Iommi and Victor Griffin meet in hell, topped with the reminiscient sound of Bobby Liebling. Blues, swing and soul mixed in satans kitchen, can't miss this out!
Ltd. 100 colored Vinyl / FOR FANS OF: THE YEAR OF THE GOAT, THIN LIZZY, CIRITH UNGOL, BLACK SABBATH
|
Band:WATERTANK
Album:DESTINATION UNKNOWN.
Label:SOLAR FLARE
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Two years after their first release, Watertank are back with “Destination Unknown”, a 9- song full length (a little less than 35 minutes), composed and recorded on a unusual short notice, revealing a more confident band through strongly crafted songs. The Nantes based band are still in love with melodic hooks, and down-tuned heavy riffing (“Dcvr” / “Doomed Drifters”), evolving from their post-hardcore background (“Contrails”) to explore new territories (“Scheme” / “Destination Unknown”), they aim to deliver a lasting listening enjoyment.
If you’re into Torche, Quicksand and Failure, Watertank will be for you.
"You want a new cool band to check out. Well start here. Excellent and highly recommended" - The Sludgelord
|
Band:DEAD SEXY INC
Album:RODEO BOYS
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
The video for the EP "Lonesome Poupée" was directed by Baptiste Chesnais (C2C, Woodkid…) and Remy Gente. The videos from the remix of "Panorama" by Dualesque and remix of "Slow Motion" by People Theatre features performances by Tim Burton's favorite japanese dancers 86b810. The result, "Rodeo Boys", a mix of classic beats and hypnotic riffs, between the electro boogie "Lonesome Poupée", the indie electro rock of "Anyway", the dancefloor rock tribute to Berghain « Panorama » or the early new wave influences of « You Can Make It », their upcoming new single.
|
Band:PATOKAI
Album:THE SQUARE WAVE KNIGHT
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Patokai shows a fusion between electronic music, rock and science fiction, being catalogued internationally within styles as Electroclash, Synthpunk and Futurepop.
Recently returned from his first European tour that took him to the cities of Berlin and Barcelona, while continuing presenting his first LP “The Square Wave Knight” (2014). It has been recorded entirely in the argentine analog-electronic paradise “Siesta del Fauno” with Ernesto Romeo, the synth master behind albums of bands such as Babasonicos, Coiffeur, Maxi Trusso and Pez among others. The album offers a critical view of an apocalyptic future dominated by new technologies, filled by robots on the edge of the rebellion, which also has time to cyber romance, showing his love for science fiction writers as JG Ballard, William Gibson and Philip Dick.
|
Band:CHRIS CHESTER GROUP
Album:ME MYSELF AND I
Label:Chris Chester Records
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
Me Myself & I... (3rd album) 11 numbers. Pop, heavy blues and still psychedelia... The original music of the Chris Chester Group is a rhythm 'n' blues - beat sixties very inspired by the psychedelism, pop music and the vintage blues in the style of the music of the "Swinging London" and the Mod Style, with a nod to the Small Faces!
“Me Myself & I...” continues today to propose 11 songs with a view of the fountain of Piccadilly Circus, circa 1968. Sounds vintage & British like a “classic rock band” with a great sense of melody, felling and a big originality. Made with vintage guitars, organ, piano, melotron, acoustic drums and sitar… This third album is sometimes rock and electric and sometimes intimate and very sensitive…
|
Band:A GREAT NOTION
Album:A LITTLE SCARED
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Emo
Four track seven inch from Peterborough's A GREAT NOTION and their brand of folk-punk.
Limited pressing of 200 copies.
Clear orange vinyl with download code (download code also includes a bonus fifth track, a cover of Bon Iver's “Blood Bank”).
|
Band:LAY IT ON THE LINE
Album:A PRELUDE TO THE PROCESS
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
New EP from South London hardcore punk band LAY IT ON THE LINE, serving as a precursor to their upcoming full length. A concept EP, with all of the five tracks about the Process Church of the Final Judgement.
Initial pressing limited to just 100 copies with fold out sleeve.
|
Band:CONVULSIF
Album:3...
Label:Get A Life!
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
After two conceptual CDs in crossover style – Jazz, Metal, Classic, Free – and changing collaborations of various artists and musicians, Convulsif is about to concentrate to heavier sounds and to a fixer line up. With a special instrumentation – a classic rhythm section and heavy amplified, treated violin & bass clarinet – they go deep in the sound of the actual metal scene and mix different tendencies to a new unknown conglomerate: Grind, Doom, Drone, Black Metal and Soundscapes are played with the means of conceptual improvisation and imposed themes.
|
Band:DOOMRAISER
Album:REVERSE
Label:Bloodrock Records
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Doomraiser is an Italian band from Rome, since 2004, Reverse is the 4th album, they play great heavy-doom influenced by Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Pentagram. Mix by Billy Anderson in the USA.
The band the 15-16-17 May support Angel Witch in the Italian tour. CD
|
Band:DOOMRAISER
Album:REVERSE - LP
Label:Bloodrock Records
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Doomraiser is an Italian band from Rome, since 2004, Reverse is the 4th album, they play great heavy-doom influenced by Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Pentagram. Mix by Billy Anderson in the USA.
The band the 15-16-17 May support Angel Witch in the Italian tour. LTD LP.
|
Band:DOOMRAISER
Album:MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Label:Bloodrock Records
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
3rd album of the Italian doom masters Doomraiser
RIYL Cathedral, Pentagram, Saint Vitus Etc
|
Band:DOOMRAISER
Album:ERASING THE REMEMBRANCE
Label:Bloodrock Records
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
2nd album of the Italian doom masters Doomraiser , with psychedelic inserts in the sounds
RIYL Doom metal, Cathedral, Pentagram, Saint Vitus...
|
Band:DOOMRAISER
Album:LORDS OF MERCY
Label:Bloodrock Records
Format:2LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Doomraiser debut album on 2LP + poster, classic doom metal.
RIYL Doom metal, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Cathedral et al...
|
Band:DENDERA
Album:PILLARS OF CREATION
Label:METALBOX
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Dendera combine classic metal with an aggressive modern edge. Formed in 2010, Dendera self-released their EP ‘We Must Fight’ in October 2011; an EP full of explosive drums, massive riffs, epic vocals, and a keen sense of melody. In 2013, Dendera’s debut album ‘The Killing Floor’ was released on Metalbox Recordings and attracted widespread attention from UK and European press. Dendera have gone from strength to strength and the last few years has seen them support the likes of Saxon, UFO, Fozzy, Skindred, Firewind, Alestorm, Orange Goblin, Grand Magus, Ill Nino, POD, Gloryhammer, and Soulfly, among others. ‘Pillars Of Creation’ is the band’s much anticipated second album.
|
Band:ICON
Album:THE BLACKLIST
Label:METALBOX
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
‘The Blacklist’ is the long-awaited second album by British metal band I.C.O.N and sees the band deliver a more aggressive, comprehensive representation of what they are about. Years of travelling the length and breadth of the UK have finally culminated in a stable line-up that shares a common vision, as this new album will testify. I.C.O.N have shared the stage with Breed 77, Blaze Bayley, Warrior Soul, Diamond Head, Furyon, Zico Chain, and Voodoo Six among many others. Stunning, exciting live appearances over recent years have firmly established I.C.O.N as one of the UK's fastest rising, hardest working, genuine, gritty metal acts...
|
Band:FOO FIGHTERS
Album:OFF THE RECORD - FOO FIGHTERS
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:Rock
When Nirvana were dissolved following the death of their iconic frontman Kurt Cobain, few considered the future prospects of their surviving members due to the seismic shock and enormous cultural impact of the tragedy. Yet drummer Dave Grohl’s metamorphosis into a singer, songwriter and bandleader proved as successful as it was unexpected, and with the release of the Foo Fighters’ debut album in 1995, a group was born that fused pop melody with the urgency and power of punk and grunge, and across a twenty year career they have become a towering force in the rock world. The revealing interviews featured on this DVD, taken from across the band’s career, capture a confident, passionate and inspired group of musicians, with Grohl as their driving force, and they discuss their musical journey in detail – their albums, their stage show, their sound and their influences.
|
.jpg)
Band:AC/DC
Album:NO HOLDING BACK - AC/DC
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:Rock
In the history of rock music, few bands can equal either the phenomenal commercial success or the remarkable longevity of AC/DC. Their distinctive brand of direct, no-nonsense hard rock has seen them amass an enormous and devoted international fan base, with over 200 million albums sold worldwide, yet their journey to the top was far from easy, and over the years the band have had to overcome a number of set-backs and tragedies. This DVD features in-depth interviews with AC/DC from across their illustrious career, in which the band members discuss their musical journey in detail – their albums, their stage show, their sound and their influences, as well as the death of their original, iconic frontman Bon Scott and the illness and subsequent retirement of their driving force, Malcolm Young. The interviews capture a determined, ambitious yet good-humoured group of musicians intent on keeping rock music, and everything that it represents, alive and kicking through five decades.
|
Band:MUMFORD AND SONS
Album:CHAPTER AND VERSE
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
When Mumford & Sons first stepped out onto the London club circuit in 2008, few who witnessed these early, intimate live shows would have anticipated the staggering rise to international prominence that would occur over the following two years. Blending the rustic, acoustic instrumentation of folk music with a modern sensibility and sound, the timeless material that emerged on their debut album, Sigh No More, found a significant global audience, and the band were propelled into the spotlight. Further cementing their reputation with Babel in 2012, Mumford & Sons continued to attract an ever-growing fanbase while collecting a brace of notable awards, yet the following year announced that they were going on an indefinite hiatus. In 2015, however, Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwanethey have returned to pick up where they left off. This DVD features over an hour of in-depth interviews with Mumford & Sons in which the band members discuss their musical career in detail – their albums, their stage show, their sound and their influences. The interviews capture a humble and good-humoured group of friends riding on the crest of a wave, aware that their best is still yet to come.
|
Band:AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Album:THE LONG GOODBYE
Label:WICKERMAN RECORDINGS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The iconic and mysterious Dutch ensemble is back to cast a shadow on your gloomy winter days with their unique blend of primordial black metal harshness and indie genius. Another lesson of eerie yet sophisticated art to be released in limited digipack edition with 8 pages booklet. The Long Goodbye is able to summarize the recent best moments of the highly acclaimed An Autumn for Crippled Children discography on the album that show a maturity that moves a further step on the expression of a proper sound and arrangements. The scream is like far cry of the black metal resonance but for the rest the liquid form of this art is capable to swallow all those elements in a catchy groove, alternating introspective moments to more upfront sounds still granting dissonant & joyless trips.
Limited to 500 Digipak version.
|
Band:EBONILLUMINI
Album:ARTKOS
Label:WICKERMAN RECORDINGS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
“Aktos” the second full length album by Ebonillumini is a continuum in the cyclopaedic chapter series. Music is meant as a sublimation of the spiritual journey, like a cheeky beggar. This is where a musical concept developed upon geographical exploration and the unveiling of lost forgotten realities, mysteries and legends. Let your soul be guided by the female singerThe Maiden charismatic voice, transmitting all the experience of a profound life overcoming the limit of the everyday existence. Ebonillumini can draw the fresh atosphere of a wider vision into a genre the heavy rock influenced music already upfront in investigating a new dimension into the musical spectrum. Don’t fear to be lead by this hand into unusual territories, surrounded by an avantgardish and mystic atmosphere.
For fans of Baroness & latest Mastodon - The Cover is an Oil paintings by Ian Wright.
|
Band:SATURNINE
Album:MORS VOCAT - cd
Label:TERROR FROM HELL
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Amazing debut album, expect a high dose of metallic Doom Sludge like no others played before by an all female band.
7 tracks to fill your nightmares through witchcraft......
|
Band:OLTEN
Album:MODE - cd
Label:DIVISION
Format:cd
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Why would ØLTEN release a new record? Their previous one is far from obsolete! To be honest, I never thought I'd need another. Their self-titled EP still sit proudly on my desk. It looks like my grandma's ancient dresser: it's built to last, assembled too carefully, impossible to move. It reminds me of these massive furnitures from the old days, when cabinetmakers were really willing to produce solid looking, patiently handcrafted and reliable furnitures you would only yield to your grandchildren when they get their fifth baby. ØLTEN's organic rock is like the finest forest wood, the older and the dryer it gets, the better it sounds. So frankly, now that I already own one, why would I bother getting another ? Simply because it is bigger, crunchier, heavier, louder, longer and olten-er. As a passionate broker I don't need it - but I desire it. Is there a weight limit to their art? What am I gonna do with all that firewood? What if my entire flat ends up being too small for their lumbermen riffs? Well, I guess the guys from ØLTEN just don't give a shit - all three of them are giants already…
Featuring a collaborative song with ex-Breach singer Tomas Liljedahl
|
Band:CLOSET DISCO QUEEN
Album:CLOSET DISCO QUEEN
Label:DIVISION
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Again? Jona Nido and Luc Hess (COILGUNS, KUNZ, THE OCEAN, THE FAWN, SCHWARZ, etc.) have a new hot friend. She came out of her auntie's closet and will ruin your teenage disco. The loudest cheerleader you've ever seen - barely dressed and roughly combed, queue jumping everyone at the entrance of the club. Here she comes, out of nowhere and without warning, carried around by two of the sexiest bodyguards - like she always belonged. Fact is that girl can dance. She dares. She rocks. Odd and weird, charming enough to turn any of her nights into a freak show. We all knew these two guys were party animals, but this band will bring them to a whole new level of frenzy. That CLOSET DISCO QUEEN delivers 70's instrumental psycheledic kraut rock'n'roll progressive beats for your ass to shake and your shoes to burn. Huuuh, you nasty girl.
|
Band:CLOSET DISCO QUEEN
Album:CLOSET DISCO QUEEN - LP
Label:DIVISION
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Again? Jona Nido and Luc Hess (COILGUNS, KUNZ, THE OCEAN, THE FAWN, SCHWARZ, etc.) have a new hot friend. She came out of her auntie's closet and will ruin your teenage disco. The loudest cheerleader you've ever seen - barely dressed and roughly combed, queue jumping everyone at the entrance of the club. Here she comes, out of nowhere and without warning, carried around by two of the sexiest bodyguards - like she always belonged. Fact is that girl can dance. She dares. She rocks. Odd and weird, charming enough to turn any of her nights into a freak show. We all knew these two guys were party animals, but this band will bring them to a whole new level of frenzy. That CLOSET DISCO QUEEN delivers 70's instrumental psycheledic kraut rock'n'roll progressive beats for your ass to shake and your shoes to burn. Huuuh, you nasty girl.
LTD 180g LP.
|
Band:DYSTERIA
Album:FUCK THE FUTURE
Label:RAD NAUSEAM
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Grindcore
DYSTERIA’S RAGING BLEND OF FILTH RIDDEN CRUST AND GRINDING D-BEAT IS A REFRESHING CHANGE TO THE SEA OF DISCHARGE WANNABES. MIXING UP NASTY GRIND AND DEATH ELEMENTS THEN COATING IT IN A SLOP OF DYSTOPIAN SLUDGE. FEAT MEMBERS OF DEAD EXISTENCE AND HATE FUCK
LIMITED TO 200 COPIES - RECENTLY PLAYED HAMMERFEST / CHIMPYFEST / BLEAURGH! FEST - HAVE PLAYED WITH MAGRUDERGRIND / D.R.I / THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN...
|
.jpg)
Band:GRAVEYARD SHIFTERS
Album:HIGH HEELS AND BROKEN BONES
Label:ETERNAL SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
This is only to be the begining of the Graveyard Shifters tale and their relentless lust for music and partying. Since their formation, within six months the band recorded their debut EP "Brainwashed by Moonshine" (2014) which self-financed by recycling the empty beer bottles from the rehearsal rooms floor... And now it's time to release debut album "High Heels & Broken Bones" (2015).
"Fucking nut cracking punk'n'roll from Finland." - Graveyard Shifters
For the fans of Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Disfear, The Hellacopters, AC/DC, Turbonegro, The Hives..
|
Band:OSUKARU
Album:TRANSITION
Label:ROCK IT UP
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
The Swedish Melodic Rock outfit OSUKARU return with their tird full-length studio album "Transition", their second album released under the flag of City of Lights Records. The CD feat. 11 tracks comes with an exclusive bonus track, a 20-pages booklet and feat. special guests of GRAND DESIGN, MISS BEHAVIOUR & TIGERTAILZ.
Band leader Oz Osukaru says: “Transition” has the melodies and layers from “Salvation” mixed with the playfulness of “Triumphant”. Add to that the biggest production to date on an OSUKARU record. What you have is an AOR fest for all fans of Melodic Rock.
|
Band:RISE TO FALL
Album:END VS BEGINNING
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Born in mid 2006 with the aim to make music performed by experienced members from different bands. It was not until 2007 when the group was finally completed with the enrolement of the new drummer. There is a wide range of metal bands which have had a big influence on the group, focusing overall on a melodic death metal sound, which comes from Sweden, however the band is always open to different styles. In april 2008 the band recorded what will be their first album, which includes 11 tracks recorded at THE ROCKSTUDIOS in Bilbao by the renouned producer Carlos Creator. The album is sent to be mastered at HANSEN STUDIOS (Jacob Hansen) in Denmark. RISE TO FALL played live with bands like Scar Symmetry, Amon Amarth, Neaera, Maroon and Textures. In 2010 RISE TO FALL played at the Bilbao BBK Live with Slayer, Faith No More, Rammstein, Pearl Jam, Skunk Anansie, Volbeat, Bullet For My Valentine and more. In 2011 RISE TO FALL toured in Japan on three memorable sold out concerts. At the end of 2011 new album production begun with well known producer Ettore Rigotti (Disarmonia Mundi, Blood Stain Child, Destrage, etc...) at The Metal House Studio (Italy) end ended up in 2012 with the release of “Defying The Gods” album via Coroner Records.
|
Band:MORTIFICATION
Album:REALM OF THE SKELETAUR
Label:SOUNDMASS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
With releases on label giants like Nuclear Blast and Metal Blade, albums like "Scrolls Of The Megilloth" and "Post Momentary Affliction" which are considered classics, world tours and a sound that is constantly being reinvented - having delved into death metal, grind, thrash, power metal, groove metal, classic metal and even a touch of punk - Mortification is a band that cannot be put in box. ...Which leads us to 2015 and Mortification’s 16th studio album “Realm Of The Skelataur”, where the band continues to experimenting with different sounds and styles. This is high energy thrash blended with the death metal Mortification is known for, along with a touch of doom, classic metal and NWOBHM. It’s an interesting mix of their early albums - extremely fast, slow and complex – played with the incredible musicianship you would expect from such metal veterans.
|
Band:TERRAPHOBIA
Album:TERRAFICATION
Label:SOUNDMASS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Going for something a bit different this time, Michael Jelinic has recorded a Mortification covers album. Having joined Mortification in 2002 and left his mark over 3 albums as one of the metal legends’ most gifted guitarists, Jelinic decided to re-record the 7 songs for which he wrote the music while in Mort. Titled “Terrafication - The Mort Years”, expect a feast of thrash/death metal swathed in the signature guitar playing that we all know and love from this talented musician, coupled with his intense and versatile vocal force. Jelinic also enlisted the help of the midera Mortification drummers who shared the stage with him - Mike Forsberg and Damien Percy - to perform on this Mort covers album, making it a reunion of sorts.
|
Band:DEMONCY
Album:EMPIRE OF THE FALLEN ANGEL
Label:FOREVER PLAGUED
Format:DLP
Genre:Black Metal
The return of one of the longest running true USBM bands DEMONCY, with three new songs plus one intro and a complete new rendition of their 2003 album Empire Of The Fallen Angel. DEMONCY stand for complete darkness and they transform their vision to black metal very nicely where so many have lost their way or have faded away to nothing.
One of the longest running USBM bands - ex-member of Profanatica - DLP & Poster.
|
Band:AASGARD
Album:OBSCURANTIST PURIFICATION
Label:UNEXPLODED
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The Greek black metal band Aasgard (Aasgard = home of the Gods in Nordic mythology) was formed 2006. After two ep's, two split albums and two full-length albums, they have built up a loyal fan base in the underground scene. Now they are back with their 3rd full length album “Obscurantist Purification” on Unexploded Records (ANGREPP, BLODSRIT, DANTALION, GRÁ etc).
A must have for fans of NECROMANTIA, MORTUARY DRAPE, VARATHRON etc!
|
Band:CHAINSHEART
Album:LEAVING PLANET HELL
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
CHAINSHEART are now back with their second album, titled “Leaving Planet Hell”, an album filled with anthemic heavy metal tunes, melodic lines, energy and passion and of course that somewhat “old-school” sound reminiscent of the good old days! Make no mistakes here; fists will be up high while headbanging will be non-stop upon listening to this album!
“Leaving Planet Hell” features guest keyboards by Bob Katsionis (FIREWIND, OUTLOUD) and a guest vocal performance by Nicholas Leptos (WARLORD, ARRAYAN PATH) and it was mixed by Bob Katsionis at his own Sound Symmetry Studio in Athens, Greece.
For fans of: Accept, Scorpions, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, UFO, Saxon
|
Band:VANHELGA
Album:ANGEST
Label:FOLTER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
VANHELGA was formed in Linköping, Sweden, in 2001 by ex-LIFELOVER musician J. Ottosson, aka 145188, who got together with like-minded musicians in order to finally breathe life into his vision, something he had not been able to do with any previous bands and musicians he had worked with. Through music and lyrics VANHELGA, which, translated from Swedish means "Profane", explores the darker side of humanity. The one that few will admit exists, but which nevertheless is a huge part of every individual's existence. VANHELGA's music can doubtlessly be classed as black metal, but that would be too restrictive a definition. Their music is cold and sinister but with melodies and melancholic moments that can draw you in and lull you into a false sense of security before you realize, too late, that you have been caught in an ominous web of sound that sends shivers down your spine.
Re-release of the sold out Ångest album - Highly recommended for fans of LIFELOVER and SHINING
|
Band:DISTRUZIONE
Album:DISTRUZIONE
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Long awaited new album, waited 10 years, celebrating 25 years of activity.
One of the best and well-known italian thrash-death metal bands together with Sadist, Necrodeath, Bulldozer, Schizo, Electrocution...for fans of Entombed, Obituary, Dismember and old school death metal.
|
Band:NEGACY
Album:FLAMES OF BLACK FIRE
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Debut album from Negacy, born from the ashes of Red Warlock ; featuring talented vocalist Marco Piu also in cult progressive band Memento Waltz, which "Division Zero" album was reviewed enthusiastically everywhere.
For fans of Nevermore, Sanctuary, Megadeth, Annihilator, Morgana Lefay.
|
Band:GOATBLOOD
Album:ADORATION OF BLASPHEMY AND WAR
Label:DUNKELHEIT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Evil, vile and blasphemous Death/Black Metal in the vein of CONQUEROR, BLASPHEMY and REVENGE
Made by German maniacs deeply rooted in the underground who have been active for many years / CD with bloodred artwork by Alan Corpse, perfectly depicting the darkness contained in the record.
|
Band:SAM SMITH
Album:FROM THE HEART - SAM SMITH
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
In recent times, few artists have made such a staggering entrance onto the global stage as Sam Smith. Having first risen to prominence in his native Britain with an appearance on electronic music duo Disclosure’s 2012 single Latch, Sam’s profile remained low for over a year. Yet with the release of his debut album In the Lonely Hour in 2014 he emerged fully formed – a major new vocal talent armed with an astonishingly mature collection of self-penned material. These songs of pain and longing, perfectly intoned by Sam’s rich, expressive voice, quickly won over audiences worldwide, and by 2015, with four Grammys to his name and a host of other awards and accolades, he had firmly established himself at the very top of popular music.
This DVD features over an hour of filmed interviews with Sam Smith, and they reveal a down-to-earth, sensitive yet charming artist with a real passion and dedication to his music, and in these revealing interviews Sam is fully prepared to discuss his work and his life with a refreshing honesty.
|
Band:LUKE BRYAN
Album:UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL - LUKE BRYAN
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:Country
When Luke Bryan first moved to Nashville in 2001 he was simply one of a number of young musicians flocking into the heart of the country world intent on pursuing their dreams. Yet in this city over-flowing with talent, Luke did manage to attract attention, first as a songwriter and shortly afterwards as a singer, at a time when country music itself was entering one of its richest eras, producing new artists who were crossing over into the mainstream and achieving global success. If his debut album, I’ll Stay Me, released in 2007, suggested that Luke also had the potential to break out of the traditional country market and ascend to international stardom, with his next three releases he attracted an ever-growing audience and cemented his reputation as one of Country music’s most successful acts. This DVD features interviews with Luke from across his career, in which he discusses his musical journey in detail – his songs, his albums, his stage show and his influences. The interviews reveal a humble, polite and funny artist who is both passionate and focused, aware that his best is still yet to come.
|
Band:MICHAEL BUBLE
Album:MICHAEL BUBLE - UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
When an unknown singer, Michael Bublé, came to the attention of former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, in 2000, neither was aware that this unplanned event would end up launching the career of one of the biggest-selling artists of the millennium. And although Bublé’s performance at the wedding of Mulroney’s daughter led him to connect with prominent music industry figures, at that time despite the talent on display, no one quite knew whether a male jazz vocalist could make much of an impact in the modern era. 30 million album sales later, his fans worldwide helped prove that Michael Bublé would make a very significant impact indeed. This DVD features over 90 minutes of filmed interviews with Michael from across his career, in which he discusses his musical journey in detail. These reveal him to be a down-to-earth and charming artist with a real passion and dedication to his music and a sharp sense of humour – a consummate performer who has reinvigorated and revitalised a beloved musical form for the modern age.
|
Band:LADY GAGA
Album:LADY GAGA - OFF THE RECORD
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
Lady Gaga – Enigmatic, eccentric, controversial, and yet endlessly fascinating. A self-styled icon for the outsiders, the outcasts and those who dance to a different beat, Gaga set out from her very first album, in 2008, to revolutionize pop music, and her fusing of eclectic musical forms, powerful vocals and distinctive song-writing, along with her inspired and dynamic visual style, have enabled ‘Mother Monster’ to carve her own path through pop culture. Despite the numerous female artists who have followed in her wake and tried, in vain, to inject some of Gaga’s eccentricity into their own personae, the artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta remains a totally singular figure. Whether recording a collection of jazz standards with Tony Bennett or singing a medley of songs from The Sound of Music at the Academy Awards ceremony, Lady Gaga’s musical journey continues to be as unpredictable as it is extraordinary. The revealing interviews featured on this DVD, taken from across Gaga’s career, capture a passionate and inspired artist with a biting sense of humour, and the singer discusses both her work and her life at length and in depth.
|
Band:KOMMUNITY FK
Album:THEE IMAGE AND THEE MYTH
Label:CRYSELLA
Format:CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Kommunity FK’s new full length album “Thee Image & Thee Myth” holds a vibrant spark missing in so many of today’s modern releases bringing together the beautiful conglomeration of Alternative Music, Post Punk, Gothic Rock, Deathrock, Electronic Rock, Industrial Music, and Noise. KommunityFK holds their groundbreaking influences that vibrates throughout their unique original sound and songwriting capabilities that are illustrated on their newest release. Clearly, there is a song for every listener on “Thee Image & Thee Myth”, with hints of both Kommunity FK’ s prior releases “The Vision & The Voice” and “Close One Sad Eye” (both releases stand as collectible classics)
"You really can't go wrong with one of the original deathrock bands." 9/10 – The Inside Outside Podcast
"Another good dark gothic release. again very reminiscent of the classic era of the early 80's" - Rock Radio
|
Band:TEZAURA
Album:UNLEASH THE BUTTERFLIES
Label:CRYSELLA
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Emotions. Dreams. Raw reality of life. This is the fabric which makes up the music of Czech Neo Gothic Metal band Tezaura. Their debut album „Unleash the Butterflies“ is built around intense clean female vocal melodies and balances across genres with modern electrosynth elements, classical orchestral parts and heavy distorted guitar riffs. It takes you on a dreamy journey to a world of fun, happiness, love, anger, sadness and every other daily emotion. The world that isn’t just grey, nor black and white, as sometimes may seem on the surface, but shines with many hidden colors of life. Like the wings of butterflies.
For fans of Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Xandria, Delain, Kerli, The Birthday Massacre
|
Band:DISSIDIO
Album:THISORIENTAMENTO
Label:OVERDUB
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
“Dark atmospheres, big guitar riffs blend with powerfull rhythmics. The lyrics are pervaded by a strong theatrical and visionary component”. From Thisorientamento will be taken 12 videoclips, one video for every album's track directed by Mario Vitale of Bunker Film and will be published on the 13th day of each month, starting in February and ending in January 2016, on the Youtube band channel and on Facebook band page”
|
Band:F@B
Album:TALMBOUT DAT
Label:OVERDUB
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
“Talmbout’Dat” is a debut music album by f@b. The name “Talmbout’Dat” stands for “tell them about that”, which means emotional release. It describes strong emotions usually people hide under the mask of politeness and social dignity imposed by society.”
|
Band:A L`AUBE FLUORESCENTE
Album:TAKING MY YOUTH
Label:OVERDUB
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Italian Alternative / Dream Rock
“Romantic and voluptuous,sensual and nostalgic.Orange is the color of dreams. Ethereal and dreamy simply pulses from its core. Our Youth is just like summer. "This is not life, it is a stolen season .”
|
Band:DIRA MORTIS
Album:RUSTY RAZOR CUTS
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Dira Mortis was formed in 1998 by Leszek Makowiecki (guitar, bass, vocals), Krzysztof Karpiński (drums). The demo debut of the band got very good reviews in press as well as on the internet, both in Poland and abroad. It was often compared to Asphyx and Grave. The bands has released two demos: "Revulsion" from 2001 and "Murder Epidemic" freom 2002 and split with Valinor in 2003. Afterwards they decided to record the first EP "Architecture of Mind". After the break caused by the problem with finding the drummer the band releases "The Cult of the Dead" in 2011 via Defense Records. Before the new material in 2014, the band decides to release its early demos. The band plays oldschool, rotten and minimalistic death metal in veins of Autopsy, Incantation or Cianide.
|
Band:HYADES
Album:THE WOLVES ARE GETTING HUNGRY
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Italian thrash metal masters Hyades formed back in 1996, but only gained worldwide attention in 2005 with the release of their debut album "Abuse Your Illusions". Two years after they issued their sophomore effort "And the Worst is Yet to Come", Hyades is back with their loudest album to date. After the summer of last year Hyades went into semi-seclusion in the studio to write and record their third album "The Roots of Trash", (Trash! - you read that right!), the first one with Jerico, their new bass player. Hyades once more produce the perfect blend of European and US old-school thrash metal. Fast drumming, mosh guitar riffing, old-school vocals and socially critical lyrics, combined with an oddball sense of humor; their music a treat for fans of legendary bands of the genre, such as Anthrax, Exodus, Artillery and Kreator. Now they are ready to release a brand new powerful thrash metal album!
|
Band:IN MALICES WAKE
Album:ETERNAL NIGHTFALL REISSUE
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
In Malice’s Wake are Australia’s premier thrash band. Combining relentless speed, iconic riffs and haunting melodies with virtuosic musicianship, their unique brand of thrash has built a league of loyal followers across the globe. With a long, rich history of unforgettable live shows. Having released two full-length albums: “Eternal Nightfall” (2008) and “The Thrashening” (2011) & a Live DVD (Visions of Live Destruction) In Malice’s Wake have truly made their mark on the global metal community. With a third album imminent, In Malice’s Wake are finalising pre-production on what will be a true statement of brutality – dark, destructive and unforgettable. As any member of their die-hard fan base with attest, In Malice’s Wake deliver thrash metal as it was intended fast, ugly and wild!
|
Band:DISLOYAL
Album:GODLESS
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
"Godless" - the 4th full-length revolutionary album of Polish death metal maniacs DISLOYAL. Precision, speed, technique, intelligence, brutality, atmosphere, everything that real death metal needs is here! And what’s most important - passion and devotion to this music. 10 killing and devastating tracks full of anti-religious lyrics, massive and mind-blowing guitar riffs, aggressive, fast and groovy drums, fat and bulldozer bass sound, and omnifarious vocals including growls, screams and clean. Featuring members of THY DISEASE and DEATHBRINGER and guest musicians from MASACHIST, YATTERING and AZARATH.
For fans of classic MORBID ANGEL, HATE ETERNAL, IMMOLATION, DEATH and GOJIRA!
|
Band:EASE OF DISGUST
Album:CHAOS.
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
These aren't your average Deathcore band, the average being growling, grunting, growling, blastbeats, riffs, growling (in that order). No, instead Russia's East Of Disgust do the opposite, in a similar style to that of Whitechapel, carefully structured tracks full of drum blasting, solo's and riffs to drive yourself insane, this is Russian Deathcore, a Teutonic onslaught of mesmerising complexity based on a charismatic ensemble of rampaging Russians.
|
Band:SUPPURATION
Album:DEVOURING YOUR PRAYERS
Label:GORE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Highly anticipated follow up to their last album “A River of Corpses” (2009)
Featuring current members of AMPUTATED GENITALS and EXTREMELY ROTTEN
As seen with Terrorizer, Malignancy, Putrid Pile, etc.
|
Band:SUPPURATION
Album:DEVOURING YOUR PRAYERS - MC
Label:GORE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Format:MC
Genre:Death Metal
Cassette of Columbian Death metal masters latest offering.
Limited to x150 white tapes worldwide.
|
Band:CHAOS PLAGUE
Album:EXISTENCE THROUGH ANNIHILATION
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Technical Prog Metal from Italy...
Inspired by the 90's masters of the genre!
|
Band:W. ANGEL`S CONQUEST
Album:TASTE OF LIFE
Label:FERRUM
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Ukranian Power Metal legends return...
RIYL ; Pagans Mind, Symphony X and Helloween.
|
|
|
|
