Day: November 14, 2017

‘Beautiful Lie’ is the second of two poignant ballads featuring some powerful, soul searching lyrics and melodies. ‘Haunted’ is another crusher with Rozey’s angriest vocal backed by the band. ‘In My Head’ is a melodic chug over a menacing vocal with more big band backing vocals in the choruses. Multi layered guitar leads midway add texture. The album ends powerfully with the short, sharp ‘A Song For The Haters’, a punk rock blitz of vitriolic riffing.

Tracks
1. The Darkest Day Intro
2. The Day I Lost My Soul
3. Digital Disguise

Spiral Key is a UK based symphonic progressive metal band formed in 2012, specializing in melodic, thoughtful and heavy music, diverse themes and a subtly dark sense of humour. The band features the distinctive voice and intricate guitarwork of David McCabe and the thunderous bass work of Ken Wynne (Cut the Wire).

1. Reason Revolution
2. Dark Path
3. Freeze Time
4. Hollywood Dreams
5. Possessive
6. West Facing
7. Sanctimonious
8. Dead End

Legendary Dutch progressive rock band Kayak returns with its seventeenth studio album (the band’s debut on new label home InsideOutMusic).

1. Somebody
2. La Peregrina
3. Falling
4. Feathers And Tar
5. Walk Through Fire
6. Ripples On The Water
7. All That I Want
8. X Marks The Spot
9. God On Our Side
10. Love, Sail Away
11. Cracks
12. To An End

WildeStarr is the combined talents of three of the most dynamic musicians in heavy metal today: Dave Starr (Vicious Rumors, Chastain) on guitars & bass, London Wilde on vocals (who many regard as highly as Rob Halford, Dio and Geoff Tate) and powerhouse drummer Josh Foster.

1. Metamorphose
2. Beyond The Rain
3. Pressing The Wires
4. Red
5. Down Cold
6. Rage And Water
7. Crimson Fifths
8. Undersold
9. From Shadow
10. When The Night Falls

This is the superb follow-up to 2016’s “The Seasons Turn”. Lee Abraham: “The album features seven new songs that have a slightly different feel to my previous albums. Still very much a prog blueprint, but I have explored more AOR influences on this album with nods to Toto, Asia and FM.

1. Colours
2. Broken Dreams
3. Always Yours
4. Find Another Way
5. Warning Sign
6. Survive
7. The Mirror Falls

Newly found Symmetric Records (owned by Bob Katsionis) debuts with the release of heavy metal band Terra Inc?nita’s full-length album, called “Fragments Of A Ruined Mind”. The quintet from Athens, led by the charismatic frontman Billy Vass, delivers a solid, straight, simple & pure heavy metal album where everything sounds so familiar yet so inspired and powerful.

1. Strahd’s Revenge
2. My Emptiness
3. In The Mist
4. The Word
5. A Day Without Loss
6. Conqueror
7. Life Begins Again

Super-duo Geoff Downes & Chris Braide, known as the Downes Braide Association (DBA), release their new album “Skyscraper Souls” through their own label X2X Records via Cherry Red. This is their 3rd collaboration and follows their two previous critically-acclaimed releases “Pictures of You” (2012) and “Suburban Ghosts” (2015).

1. Prelude (ft Andy Partridge – XTC)
2. Skyscraper Souls (ft Kate Pierson – B52s)
3. Glacier Girl (ft Andy Partridge)
4. Angel On Your Shoulder

On January 26, the melodious rock band Ammunition with mixed Erik Mårtensson (Eclipse, W.E.T) and Åge Sten Nilsen (Wig Wam) releases a self-titled album through Frontiers Records. The track list looks like this:

1.Time
2.Freedom Finder
3.Virtual Reality Boy
4.Gung Ho (I Told You So)
5.Eye For An Eye
6.Tear Your City Down
7.Caveman
8.Wrecking Crew
9.Miss Summertime
10.Bad Bones
11.Klondike