Month: January 2024

Ivory Tower – Heavy Rain 2024

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The album “Heavy Rain” by Ivory Tower is a captivating and powerful release that showcases the band’s exceptional talent and musical prowess. Released by Massacre, this digipak edition is a must-have for fans of progressive metal and melodic rock.

Ivory Tower’s “Heavy Rain” is an album that seamlessly blends heavy riffs, intricate melodies, and thought-provoking lyrics. The band’s unique sound combines elements of progressive metal with catchy hooks and memorable choruses, creating a truly immersive listening experience. From the opening track to the closing

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Acerus – The Caliginous Serenade 2024

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January 26th, 2024 Highly recommended for fans of Ironsword, The Chasm, Warlord, and Manilla Road. After four years of waiting, Acerus’ fourth studio album, The Caliginous Serenade, is finally here: nine tracks of molten heavy metal from the mind of Daniel Corchado (The Chasm, ex-Incantation).

With more than 10 years writing for Acerus and more than 30 years writing for metal bands, Corchado’s experience has crystalized to a sharp point on this new album. His trademark dense, layered approach is presented at its finest as soaring melodies, masterful layering, mesmerizing polyphonic writing, and pure pounding epic heavy combine to form a new masterpiece. All of this songwriting expertise is combined with the return of the powerful voice of Esteban Julian Pe

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Joe Cocker – Respect Yourself – Live [2002, DVD]

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Year of release: November 19, 2002.
Genre: Blues/Rock.
Country, label: USA, Eagle Vision.

Concert in Cologne, Germany at the Limelight club. Performs songs from his album Respect Yourself.
Bonus: interview.

You Can’t Have My Heart [4:11]
Love Not War [4:39]
Never Tear Us Apart [3:47]
Midnight Without You [4:46]
Respect Yourself [5:54]
Everytime it Rains [3:39]
This is Your Life [5:12]
Unchain My Heart [5:51]
Bonus Feature:
Interview with Joe Cocker

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ANUBIS – Dark Paradise 2024

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Release date: February 23rd, 2024 ANUBIS have been building quite a reputation for the past five years. The outfit has been doing it the traditional way by playing shows all over Southern California, self-releasing a consistent handful of EPs & singles and promoting themselves organically not only online but actually getting out there and meeting people. Now armed with a powerful new album ANUBIS have teamed up with M-Theory Audio to take things to the next level.

Singer Devin Reiche may be a familiar name to fans of thrash an

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Mike Tramp – Mand Af En Tid 2024

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March 15th, MIKE TRAMP is probably the only person ever to sing about Jolly Cola, The Beatles, sauerkraut (a traditional German food) and karate on the same album. It happened on “For første gang”, which was released in 2022 and was Mike Tramp’s first-ever album in Danish.

With “Mand af en tid” he does it again. This time the songs are about everything from Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame to Ingrid & Lillebror, Muhammad Ali, Ole Olsen and roast duck. Again, it all happens in Danish.

Thus, Mike Tramp

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ELECTRIC DEATHBEAT – 1) A Ghost Triangle, 2) The Past Beats Of The Death 2024

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February 20th, 2024 – Hailing from Oulu, Northern Finland. Electric Deathbeat’s second album, A Ghost Triangle, continues the path with an upgraded boost which started with the debut album Dead Echo Paranoia in 2015. The band’s own sound started to found between the years and more aggressiveness and straight-forwardness was found naturally.

The album contains twelve versatile, catchy and modern melodic death metal songs. Different ranges of vocal styles, including clean, harsh and growls.

A Ghost Triangle encapsulates a

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Sweet Lizard Illtet – Sweet Lizard Illtet 1992, MP3+FLAC

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Country: US
Released: 1992
Style: Hard Rock, Noise, Heavy Metal, Funk Metal

1 Mutiny Zoo
Written-By – E.China*, M.Kilmer*, R.Shamburg*
5:12
2 Rat Funk
Written-By – E.China*, M.Kilmer*
5:15
3 Herstory
Written-By – E.China*, M.Kilmer*
Written-By [“Revolutionary Generation” Sample] – Carl Ridenhour*, Eric Sadler, Keith Boxley
3:28
4 Soule
Written-By – E.China*, M.Kilmer*
4:31
5 Merry-Go-Thrills
Written-By – S.L.I.*
Written-By

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The New Day – Subtronic Symbiosis 2024

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It is always awesome when the DR2 crew gets an email from artists we know and appreciate telling us that they have a new release, and they want us to give it a spin. That happened last week when Jeremy Marquardt(previously of Drop D), and Justin Babcock(previously with Fate, Abandon, and Blacksoul Swamp) reached out and sent us a copy of something that they have been working really hard on and is now ready for release Jan 24th!

01 – I’ll Never Know.mp3
02 – I.mp3
03 – Scars.mp3

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