Month: May 2021

While concerts and cheering crowds seem to be a long-lost echo of the past these days, melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS bring back some of the life and incomparable energy that many of us have missed so much. When the recording took place on December 7, 2019 at their special hometown show, little did the Finns know that this would be one of their last concerts before the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020. With a total of 15 tracks and a running time of over an hour and a half, AMORPHIS takes us on a journey through their past, showcasing their best songs of the last 30 years, during which the band developed into one of Finland’s best metal exports.

01 Intro & The Bee
02 Heart Of The Giant
03 Bad Blood
04 The Four Wise One

If ever a moment in history called for the caustic, corrosive rantings of guitarist-composer-poet Todd Clouser and the abstract grooves of his combustible beat-skronk band Magnet Animals, it’s this one.With our collective headspaces dizzied by a nearly yearlong pandemic induced isolation and battered by an unceasing barrage of political insanities, the serrated wit and surrealist insights of Fake Dudes arrives with the kinetic force of a madcap sermon.Fake Dudes reconvenes the geographically scattered members of Magnet Animals – Minneapolis-born, Mexico City-based Clouser, Mexican drummer Jorge Servin, and Abraxas bandmates Eyal Maoz (guitar) and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass) – four years after their bracing debut, 2016’s Butterfly Killer. The startling dr

ED FANG return with their highly anticipated new album, Arrows! Their first album in four years, everyone’s favorite beer-crushing, zombie-killing, air-guitar-contest-judging metal heroes are back in action, doing what they do best- AND MORE.

01 Take It Back
02 Unreal Estate
03 Arrows
04 My Disaster
05 Two High
06 Anodyne
07 Interop-mod
08 Fonzi Scheme
09 Days Collide
10 Rabbits In Hives
11 Why
12 Dr. Owl
13 Funeral Coach

Having opened for such legendary acts Blue Oyster Cult, Warrel Dane, Geoff Tate, and Gus G, the heavy metallers new album is the next step in their widely praised evolution to follow 2016’s Polysyllabic (7hard/7us) and 2013’s “The Ivory Tower” (The Leaders Records). Melodic, riffy, cerebral, and complex “Crimson Wreath” is a very emotional and melodic release, yet heavy and strong at the same time.

01 Besetting Sins
02 Acedia
03 Crimson Wreath
04 Immortal No
05 All Shall Fade
06 All Blood Red
07 The Voice Inside Me
08 S.t. Forsaken
09 Ashes To Dust
10 A Poem I Couldn’t Rhyme
11 Pedestal, Pt. 1 (past Forever Last)
12 Pedestal, Pt. 2 (the Isle Of Shadows)
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The songs from the ‘White Heat’ album from 1982 have all been remastered and are now being re-released by Karthago Records. The time has come to rediscover the Belgian band WHITE HEAT.

01 To The Land Of The Rock
02 Supertramp
03 Never Mind
04 In Need Of Ya
05 Babbling Wind
06 Calling
07 Keep Cool Girl
08 Oh Girl
09 Don’t Act Cold With Me
10 Rock ‘n Roll Kick
11 In Need Of Ya (2021)
12 Babbling Wind (2021)
13 Calling (2021)
14 Keep Cool Girl (2021)

Barry Gibson’s LOCAL HEROES was a tribute band with a difference. Across three albums, they paid homage to the musical legacy of Britain’s most successful instrumental combo, THE SHADOWS – only most of the musicians were actually ex-members!

Track Listing:

DISC ONE:
ONE OF OUR SHADOWS IS MISSING

1. SHINDIG
2. MOONLIGHT SHADOW
3. JESSICA
4. ROUNDING THE CAPE
5. THE GHOST OF OLD COMPTON STREET
6. SACHA
7. THE RISE AND FALL OF FLINGEL BUNT
8. HAD TO BE
9. NIVRAM
10. I’LL STAND BY YOU
11. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
12. FRENCH RENDEZVOUS
13. ONE OF OUR SHADOWS IS MISSING
14. TOCCATA IN D MINOR
15. A LOVE SO BEAUTIF

Format:2CD
Style:Progressive Rock & Metal
Release:28.05.2021

01 Stuttgart 75 Eins 00:20:11
02 Stuttgart 75 Zwei 00:14:00
03 Stuttgart 75 Drei 00:35:58
01 Stuttgart 75 Vier 00:10:22
02 Stuttgart 75 Fünf 00:09:35

Mother of All is a one-man band fronted by multi-instrumentalist Martin Haumann. The style is deathmetal with melodic and progressive elements. The songs of Mother of All are varied, eclectic and always exploring the artform. Ultimately the inspiration is drawn from the deep cauldron that is Metal.

01 Autumn
02 T Agree
03 Curators Of Our World Scope
04 Age Of The Solipsist
05 At The Edge Of A Dream
06 Blood Still Owed
07 Feel The Pain

German metallic super-group! Chris Boltendahl and Axel Ritt (GRAVE DIGGER), Timmi Breideband (Gregorian, ex Bonfire, ex Freedom Call) and bass player Steven Wussow (Orden Ogan, ex Domain, ex Xandria). HELLRYDER stand for straightforward, metallically hard, diabolical and uncompromising traditional Heavy Metal and all signs point to a true assault.

01 Hellryder
02 Sacrifice In Paradise
03 Night Rider
04 The Devil Is A Gambler
05 Jekyll & Hyde
06 Faceless Jesus
07 Chainsaw Lilly
08 I Die For You
09 Bad Attitude
10 Passion Maker
11 Harder Faster Louder
12 I Don’t Wanna Die (bonus Track)