Death of a Dead Day is the latest album of the progressive metal band SikTh, released on the 26 June 2006. In the United States, the release date was June 6, 2006 (6/6/06). The album is one of the few albums to have been recently released without having leaked onto torrent sites or file sharing programs significantly before an official release date (It was made available on 6/5/06 because of early pre-orders received).
The Crusade is the third and upcoming album by metal band Trivium set for an October 10, 2006 release through Roadrunner Records.
According to frontman Matt Heafy, "There's one acoustic song, a Skid Row/Mötley Crüe-sounding song, a Def Leppard, Southern-rock metal song and then 11 ridiculously technical thrash songs. It's a solo insanity CD, but in a good way."[1] Matt Heafy uses a low singing voice similar to that of Metallica's James Hetfield, and the metalcore scream that dominated the band's first two albums is rarely heard.
Some of the songs off the album are about famous killings. For example, "Entrance of the Conflagration" is about Andrea Yates's murder of her five children, "Unrepentant" is about Nazir Ahmad's murder of his three daughters and stepdaughter, and "And Sadness Will Sear" is based upon the murder of Matthew Shepard.
Start a War is the fourth Static-X album. It was released in June 2005. A special version shipped with X-Rated DVD disc exists. The album marks the return of former guitarist, Koichi Fukuda, and is the first album with drumming provided by formerly "Tour-Only" drummer, Nick Oshiro. When asked about the album Wayne Static said - "We wanted to try to recreate the fun spirit of Wisconsin Death Trip, having Koichi back, with his flavor, helped." It is also the first Static-X album to be released without someone leaving the band after it (Koichi Fukuda after Wisconsin Death Trip, Ken Jay after Machine and Tripp Eisen after Shadow Zone).
It's been three years for Mudvayne, three years when metal
started to reject its "rap" and "nu" prefixes. At first, Lost and Found reflects that realignment. Vocalist Chad Gray and his mates have nixed the nicknames and makeup for their third Epic full-length, and they try to focus on songs instead of heavy music shtick. However, they equate getting real with the melodramatic plead that interrupts the razor-sharp main part of "Choices," and Gray can't overcome lines like "IMN"'s "No one/No one could ever understand/This life." The song is about suicide, which is very serious. But yelling "F*ck this sh*t!" over thudding rhythms just isn't very powerful anymore. They nail it on opener "Determined" -- one of Mudvayne's all-time strongest tracks, it's a fist-swinging blast of modernized thrash. But Lost and Found soon falls into the familiar, busting no-one-understands-me lyrics and matching moments of refreshing rawness to stretches of stereotypical "corporate metal," a non-genre that's risen up to accept loud rock refugees and the harder side of post-grunge. The energy in "Determined" and "Just" is sapped by the meandering "TV Radio" and "Fall into Sleep," and ultimately Mudvayne gets lost between thrash and diluted Slipknot devotion.
The Great Cold Distance is Katatonia's seventh full-length album, released on 13th March 2006 through Peaceville Records. There is also a special Swedish edition of the album which came in a strictly limited edition box with an exclusive Katatonia poster, set of Katatonia postcards and an enhanced video track of the single My Twin.
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Cannibal Corpse are now over 10 albums and continuously reinvigorating their career.
Alex Webster, being the principle songwriter, has possibly the sickest mind in death metal
and possibly the most talented on the music side. The lyrics are brutally demented as
always, what would a Cannibal album be without them and they technically get better with
every release. They do have Rob Barrett in the fold to add to the guitar ferocity the pushes
the music to amazing levels.
On several occasions CANNIBAL CORPSE has shown that they are able to create some heavy tunes and then I mean whole songs like they did on “Vile” and “Gallery Of Suicide”. Therefore my question is why they don’t make more songs like “Infinite Misery”. The album closer is one
of those heavy CANNIBAL CORPSE instrumentals that they do so well. A couple more of those
would have done wonders for this album, though it wouldn’t do any harm if some of them
also had vocals. Corpsegrinder has done some heavy songs in the past as vocalist for
MONSTROSITY so he is certainly up to the challenge. To be honest I think George could
use the change; a scream like the one he does at the start of “Make Them Suffer” is one
that he’s done a million times already.
Whole heartily recommended to any fans of CANNIBAL CORPSE, but I think fans of Death Metal in general will find more interesting bands out there.
Bad Morning
Forgive & Forget
What I Feel Is Mine
It Could Happen
Around The Block
San Sebastian
Lord Knows
Getting Closer
Crickets
Supreme Lifestyle
Consti2tion
State Of Emergency
Sleepwalker
She's Only Evil
Destiny and is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius.Stratovarius was founded in 1984 in Finland under the name Black Water. They went through a number of personnel changes and changes in style before the band found its own voice. The founding members were Tuomo Lassila, Staffan Stråhlman, and John Vihervä. By 1985, Timo Tolkki entered the band, replacing Stråhlman on guitar, changed the name to Stratovarius (a portmanteau of StratocasterStradivarius) and taking up vocal duties as well. Tolkki became the driving force and mastermind of the band, assuming relatively complete control of the song-writing. He brought along not only strong rock influences, but also a neo-classical tinge. The band released a demo to various record companies by 1987, finally being picked up by CBS Finland. In 1989, their debut album Fright Night was released, following two singles.
Dreamspace is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. This is the last album to feature Timo Tolkki on vocals. For many fans this is the band's most dark album, although Stratovarius (the album) reveals a more personal side in Tolkki's lyrics, and currently events inside the band.
St. Anger is Metallica's eighth original studio effort, released on June 5, 2003. The album was originally to be released on June 10, 2003, but because of fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released 5 days earlier, hitting #1 on The Billboard 200 with sales of almost 500,000 copies in its shortened first week. Sales soon plateaued, however, and St. Anger became Metallica's lowest selling album to date in the United States, with only 2 million copies sold. The album received a generally warmer response in Europe. The album also represents the last collaboration between the band and their longtime producer Bob Rock, with the announcement in early 2006 that Rick Rubin would assume production duties on their forthcoming album.
Alternative metal exploded during the late '90s thanks to
groundwork laid by groups like Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, and Rage Against the Machine, and as record companies scrambled to find the next Korn or Limp Bizkit, the genre became clogged with legions of similar-sounding bands, all trying to find just the right blend of low, heavy guitar riffs, rap-metal, industrial, and intense aggression. Often, those attempts could result in sounds that seemed too calculated and self-consciously cobbled together to feel natural; plus, inventive production was frequently employed to disguise many songs' lack of memorable hooks. The Sickness, the first entry by Chicago's Disturbed in the alt-metal sweepstakes, thankfully avoids those common pitfalls, turning in a mixture of raw, gut-level metal and industrial/electronic backing that feels logical and integrated. Although the music has its fair share of pummeling aggression and accompanying shouted vocals, Disturbed also isn't afraid to employ melody, and they're actually quite good at it when they choose that direction. Occasional forays into rap-metal aren't really the group's strong suit and can feel a bit awkward, although they do have a certain rhythmic acuity missing from some similar bands' attempts. But even if it has a few less-than-compelling moments, The Sickness overall comes off as the work of a band who really doesn't have far to go to achieve total control of its sound and compositional skills, and that makes it a terrific debut album.
Planets is Adema's third album, and the first to feature former lead singer Marky Chavez's replacement, Luke Caraciolli. The album was released by Earache Records on April 5, 2005. It obtained a peak position of 152 on the Billboard 200 before falling off. The album featured two singles: "Tornado" and the self-titled track, "Planets," the latter of which was featured in the movie Cry Wolf. This was the band's first and only album with Luke Carraciolli, who left the band on October 25, 2005, citing "personal differences."
Inquisition Symphony is Apocalyptica's second album, released in 1998. It has branched from their previous effort and only has 4 Metallica Covers; For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nothing Else Matters, Fade to Black, and One. Three more bands are covered on this album; Faith No More-From Out Of Nowhere; Pantera-Domination and Sepultura-Inquisition Symphony and Refuse/Resist and it also include three of their own compositions - Harmageddon, M.B. and Toreador.
1. A Light In The Dark
2. Beyond All Reason
3. Mirror Of Lies
4. The Believer
5. Disappear
6. Son Of The Son
7. More Than Your Master
8. Pill For The Kill
9. Temples Of The Sea
10. Blinded By Life
11. Watch The Children Pray
01 - metallica - hit the lights
02 - metallica - master of puppets
03 - metallica - harvester of sorrow
04 - metallica - welcome home (sanitarium)
05 - metallica - st anger
06 - metallica - leper messiah
07 - metallica - phantom lord
08 - metallica - fade to black
09 - metallica - blackened
10 - metallica - one
11 - metallica - breadfan
12 - metallica - damage inc
Personnel: Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass); Bernemann (guitar); Bobby (drums). Additional personnel: Harris Johns (acoustic guitar). Recorded at Spiderhouse Studio, Lutte, Germany in July 2001.
This is by far Sodom's BEST CD. It's got a better sound i think. Its more slayer like and the lyrics are real cool. The whole war aspect is perfect for thrash metal. Buy it if your a metal head. Best Song: M-16
Poisonblack are a Finnish metal band, that played gothic, emotional metal on their first album Escapexstacy. Now they play more rocking metal, still not forgetting the emotional touch from Escapexstacy. They were formed by Ville Laihiala, who was also the singer for the disbanded band Sentenced.
"Lust Stained Despair" is the sophomore effort from former Sentenced frontman Ville Laihiala and his project Poisonblack. Like Sentenced, Poisonblack traffic in moody, melodic, goth-tinged metal, and with Laihiala covering vocal, guitar, and songwriting duties the similarities are more than passing. Yet Laihiala has gathered a strong group of musicians for the album (Marco Sneck's keyboards are notable), and Laihiala's guitar playing delivers plenty of shred-heavy moments. While not an essential goth metal release, LUST STAINED DESPAIR is atmospheric, heavy, and well-crafted enough to be of interest to fans of both Sentenced and Poisonblack's first release.
Godflesh's first full album built on the strengths of their self-titled
EP and then some, resulting in one of the darkest, best classics of grindcore (admittedly a label Broadrick himself always hated). Of course, in comparison to the nuclear-strength, hyperspeed thrash Broadrick initially found himself associated with thanks to Napalm Death, Streetcleaner and doesn't so much grind as crawl, but it does with an awesome, bass-heavy power that feels like doom piled on top of further doom. Assisted with further guitar at points by past bandmate Paul Neville, BroadrickGreen simply explode with utter virulence, musically and lyrically. The song titles again evoke images of mechanistic destruction and organic decay, while Broadrick's roared words, when audible, contain such user-unfriendly lines like "Breed...like rats!" and "Don't hold me back, this is my own hell!" And these from the first two songs alone, the latter of which, one of the band's best numbers, has the title "Christbait Rising." Compared to so many metal wimps who invoke Satan and death in the cheesiest of ways, though, Godflesh let their own brusque impact do the talking for them, and the result is suitably apocalyptic. Drum machines shatter, shudder, and downright assault, while the riffs the two (or three) cook up are bludgeoning, well worthy of Broadrick's partial inspirations the Swans, arguably the best comparable forebear if one is talking about albums like Cop or Young God. The secret to the success of the album is the arrangements -- the songs themselves are almost deceptively simple, but the band deliver everything with a pinpoint precision, bursting out of the speakers and suddenly cut off when needed. As an interesting bonus, the CD version contains four tracks originally recorded for an EP but never formally released as such, including the planned title song "Tiny Tears," and "Wound," later re-recorded and remixed for other releases.
Demonic is a death metal album by Testament, released in 1997. It builds upon the death metal experimentation from Low and uses it more.
This is the first appearance of the demonic pentagram graphic since 1985.
Demolition Hammer were a thrash/death metal who have seemingly been forgotten amongst the metal community. After two demo tapes, they finally got picked up by band hailing from the Bronx New YorkCentury Media records after Robert Kampf (from Century Media) was in America for the Foundations Forum and came to watch both Demolition Hammer and Prime Evil rehearse. The original line-up consisted of Steve Reynolds, James Reilly, Derek Sykes and Vincent Civitano, more commonly known as Vinny Daze. The band's first two albums, 1990's Tortured Existence and 1992's Epidemic of Violence, illustrate the band's guitar riff-laden, full-fledged brutal thrash approach.
Black Sabbath is the self-titled debut album of the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath released in the UK on Friday the 13th, February 1970. The record sleeve featured an inverted cross on the inside cover with an apocalyptic poem written inside. This was done without the band's input or permission, and likely helped foster their image as "agents of the Devil" in the eyes of the media (though the band's name certainly did not speak to a particularly Christian ideology in the first place).
Many critics consider this album, especially the title track, to be definitive of the entire genre of heavy metal; it was arguably the first album to be classified as true heavy metal. The influence of Led Zeppelin, especially the use of blues rhythm, on heavy metal is apparent on this album, as are that genre's themes related to the occult.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Flick of the Switch is an album by Australian band AC/DC,
recorded shortly after their European Tour at the beginning in 1983. The album was originally released in the United States on August 15, 1983.
After problems with other members of the band, drummer Phil Rudd departed midway through the recording sessions, although he had completed his drum parts. He was eventually replaced by British drummer Simon Wright. Wright appeared in the videos for two of the singles on the album, "Flick Of The Switch" and "Nervous Shakedown". Rudd, however, eventually returned to the band in 1994.
Touched by the Crimson King is the second album of power metal/ heavy metal band Demons & Wizards and was released in late June, 2005. The album also contains a remake of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." For the North American release, all fourteen songs appeared on one disc, which had alternate cover art in the form of a sleeve around the jewel case.
Darkwell is the name of a gothic metal band from Innsbruck, Austria. Formed in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wiencke.Metatron is an album by Darkwell, released in 2004.
Razorblade Romance is the second album by HIM
This is the album that made HIM huge in Europe when their single Join Me in Death was featured in the sci-fi movie The Thirteenth Floor. It reached #1 on German sales charts, going platinum, and is the biggest-selling single in Finnish music history.
Razorblade Romance was released shortly after in the U.S. under the moniker HER. Appearently, there was a jazz band in Chicago named HiM and they did not want to give up the rights to their name. Eventually, HIM bought the rights to use their name in the United States and now can release their albums under it. The American albums were released under Jimmy Franks Recording Company, run by Jimmy Pop, singer of the Pennsylvania band Bloodhound Gang. They released the HER 'Razorblade Romance' around the Boston area, and once HIM regained the rights to their name, they rereleased 'Razorblade Romance' nationwide under Universal Records.This limited edition comes with six live song of HIM.Right Here In My Arms (Live),Your Sweet 666 (Live),Poison Girl (Live),Death Is In Love With Us (Live),Wicked Game (Live),Join Me (Live).
Lest We Forget: The Best of is a best of compilation album by
Marilyn Manson. A new song was recorded to promote the album, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." The album was released at the end of September 2004. The inside booklet contains previous photo-shoots and several new pictures to hint at Manson's next era and musical/lyric direction. The Deluxe Edition (now Out Of Print) includes a DVD containing most of the band's music videos, excluding "(s)AINT", "Tainted Love" and "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes".
Manson has been quoted as having called Lest We Forget the band's "farewell album"; however, the singer has since called that claim inaccurate.
Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. Four singles were released off the album: "The Dope Show", "Rock Is Dead", "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" and, only released promotionally and with a video, "Coma White". It is Manson's worldwide best-seller and all-around most critically-acclaimed work. Despite its success, the album was marred by controversy and is notorious for its shocking imagery. Initial sales were extremely strong but it became virtually blacklisted when it became the scapegoat of the Columbine shootings of 1999, with unit sales halting very close behind the figure for its predeccessor, Antichrist Superstar.
The band's breakthrough album, Dirt is widely regarded as Alice in Chains' best album, and
classic from the golden age of grunge. Recorded while lead singer Layne Staley was suffering through a heroin addiction, the album's gloomy, drug-addicted music helped turn it into a hit, reaching #6 on Billboard's 200 albums chart.
The songs "Sickman", "Junkhead", "Dirt," "God Smack," "Hate To Feel" and "Angry Chair" are based on Staley's experiences with heroin. The song "Rooster" is based on the experiences of Jerry Cantrell's father, who fought in the Vietnam war; the name was his nickname as a soldier.
"Iron Gland", the untitled track before "Hate To Feel", features vocals by Tom Araya of Slayer, who the band brought in so he could provide an Angel of Death scream.
Hold Your Colour is a 2005 drum and bass album by Pendulum. The album drew very positive critical attention in both Great Britain and Australia.
Hatebreeder is the second album from the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. In it, the band explores a far more classically influenced sound with a strong black metal vibe and atmosphere, predominately seen in the growling vocals and blast-beating drums. The 1999 release contains concert favorites such as "Silent Night, Bodom Night" and "Downfall". The keyboards show more presence on this album, with longer and more elaborate solos than in their previous work, Something Wild. The "Deluxe Edition" was released in 2005 with bonus material.
Tokyo Warhearts is a live album by the Finnish melodic
death metal band Children of Bodom which was recorded on the year of 1999, when the band only had two albums released. Tokyo Warhearts shows how the band performs on stage: with speed, emotion and technical perfection. It was recorded and filmed on July 10 and 11th of 1999. The band and their record label, Spinefarm Records, had plans to release the show as a DVD along with the CD, but they reached the conclusion that there were some mismatches between the video and the audio, as there was video footage from two different shows.
Two of the songs from this album have been released separately for promotional purposes and can be found on a Spinefarm DVD compilation: Silent Night, Bodom Night and Deadnight Warrior.
The intro for track 9 is a strain of music called "Hummel Gets the Rockets" which was composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith for the 1996 film The Rock
Termination Bliss is the second album by the Swedish industrial metal band Deathstars
The Best of Fear Factory is an album from Roadrunner Records, featuring a best of collection of Fear Factory's music with the label (As such, Archetype and Transgression material are not included). The record is being released without Fear Factory's involvement (they are currently signed to Liquid 8 Records), so it's unlikely that the album will be officially recognized by the band themselves. Songs from Concrete, as well as their various compilation, live, and remix albums, are not included.
The album was released on September 12, simultaneously with similarly unsanctioned best-of collections of the bands Sepultura, Type O Negative, and Ill Nino.
Accident of Birth is a heavy metal album released in 1997 by
Bruce Dickinson.
The second album made in collaboration with the guitarist and producer Roy Z and is therefore a very different album from Bruce's previous Skunkworks album. It marks Bruce's return to his more melodic style of singing. He was also assisted by another former Iron Maiden member Adrian Smith and the two would later return to the band in early 1999. Thanks to the slightly better success of this album Bruce would work with Roy Z in the future on his solo-albums (including his latest, Tyranny of Souls).
The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie and the artwork on all Iron Maiden albums 1980 - 1990 (and sporadically afterwards up until he completed his work towards 2000's Brave New World). Two versions of the albumcover exist. The regular European release had Edison (as the figure was jokingly named as "Eddie's Son") bursting out of a man's stomach. The regular cover only shows the stomach, but the poster that came with the limited edition of the album made it clear that the stomach belongs to man. This was deemed too explicit for the U.S. market, where the album was released with was a more frontal view of the puppet, which doesn't show the stomach. The 2005 re-release has an even different cover, with the puppet nailed to a cross.
Fist For Fight is the first album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. This was a self-produced demo album which was released under license by the Italian record label Underground Symphony.
Domine Non Es Dignus is the second studio album by British
black metal group Anaal Nathrakh.
In this album they change their style from raw black metal to a more black and death metal-like sound. A loose translation for the latin title is "Lord, You Are Not Worthy".
Under a Funeral Moon is the third album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone.
Darkthrone is a highly influential Norwegian black metal band formed in 1986. They began as a death metal outfit under the name of Black Death.
Ancient Devil Worshipping
Sluts Of Hell
Satanic Victory
Universal Funeral
The Art Of Spiritual Purification
Sanctum 666
Whore (Filthy Whore)
Mass-Destruction
Nattefrost Takes A Piss - (a recording of him actually takin a piss!)
The Gate Of Nanna
Still Reaching For Hell
Strange Old Brew is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest.
Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. Since the release of the band's now-legendary Bloodlust & Perversion demo in 1992 and the Journey through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern promo of 1993, Carpathian Forest have gained a cult status in the Norwegian black metal scene.
Carpathian Forest are unique among black metal bands in that their usual lyrical themes deal with not only satanism, evil, anti-christianity, etc. but sadism, sexual depravity, suicide, and other morbid subjects in addition to usual black metal themes.
Anoraknophobia is Marillion's 12th studio album, released in 2001. Following the success of their previous North American tour, underwritten by the band's fans themselves, Marillion turned to their fans to finance the making of Anoraknophobia, asking them to pre-order the album before it was even recorded. This was as unprecedented as it was successful, as more than 12,500 fans pre-ordered it. All who pre-ordered the album received a special double-CD version. Everyone who pre-ordered the album before a set date also got their names printed in the booklet of the 2-CD version.
Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion. It was released in 1987 and was the last album before the lead singer Fish left the band. Although commercially not quite as successful as its 1985 predecessor Misplaced Childhood, it is considered to be among the best work of Marillion's "Fish era" by many (including Fish himself, as he has stated in several interviews).
In 1999 a 2-CD 'Remastered Version' with additional B-sides and demos was released, with detailed liner notes from all of the original members including Fish.
System of a Down is the eponymous debut album by System of a Down, first released in 1998. The hand on the front belongs to the artwork of a poster designed by the artist John Heartfield for the German Communist Party during Third Reich. The text in the original poster is: "5 fingers has a hand! With these 5 grab the enemy!". This slogan inspired part of the text contained in the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". Later, it is written in bold letters: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist". All the text in the album back is in capital letters, except the last two letters of the title "CUBErt" and the text of the "COLUMBIA american" logo.
Considered by most fans to be one of the high points of Judas Priest's catalogue, Stained Class showcased a more streamlined songwriting style, while not compromising on the band's trademark heavy metal riffs.
An unfortunate legacy of Stained Class is the 1990 civil action brought against the band by the families of two teenagers who killed themselves after listening to "Better By You, Better Than Me." The suit alleged that the band recorded messages on the song that, when played backwards, said “do it, do it.” The suit was eventually dismissed. Ironically, "Better..."" is not even a Judas Priest original, but a cover of a 1969 track by Spooky Tooth (written by that band's keyboardist Gary Wright). The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added. In 2004, UK magazine Metal Hammer named Stained Class the heaviest metal album of all time.
Vulgar Display of Power is a groove metal album by heavy metal band Pantera, released on February 25, 1992 (see 1992 in music). Perhaps one of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s, Vulgar Display of Power is said to have revitalized thrash metal, speeding up the riffs and rhythms and adding a harder-edged, grinding vocal flourish. Several songs from this release have become some of the band's best known, such as "Fucking Hostile", "This Love" and "Walk".
Vulgar Display of Power peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
In 2001 Q magazine named it as one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All-Time."
The Platinum Collection is a compilation album released by the British rock group Deep Purple. It features songs from their very first album Shades of Deep Purple up to their (at the time) most recent album Bananas.
Infest is the debut major-label album by Californian rock group Papa Roach. It was released on April 25, 2000, and it became the 20th highest selling album of 2000 in the United States.
lovehatetragedy is the second major-label album by Californian rock group Papa Roach. It was released on June 18, 2002, and ultimately didn't sell as well as its predecessor, "Infest". Notable was the exception of previous rapcore style-vocals, although the album still fits under the nu metal genre.
Deep Purple composed by are an English hard rock band. Along
with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of the heavy metal genre, although they have never seen themselves as a heavy metal band per se. The band got their name from a songPeter De Rose. To date the band has sold over 100 million albums.
The band Episode Six released several singles in the UK during the mid-sixties. It featured Ian Gillan on vocals, Graham Dimmock on guitar, Roger Glover on bass, Tony Lander on guitar, Sheila Carter on keyboards, and Harvey Shields on the drums. Despite extensive touring, they never had their big break..
In 1967, a band called The Flowerpot Men and their Garden was formed, formerly known as The Ivy League. It was concentrated on a trio of singers. The new name was clearly derived from the children's show The Flowerpot Men, with the obvious psychedelic-era puns on flower power and "pot". The band's most popular song was "Let's Go To San Francisco." Some listeners assumed that the song was a parody of Scott McKenzie's "If You're Going to San Francisco," but the band has denied this. It featured Tony Burrows, Neil Landon, Robin Shaw, and Pete Nelson on vocals, Ged Peck on guitar, Nick Simper on bass, Jon Lord on organ, and Carlo Little on drums. Jon Lord had formerly played in The Artwoods, Nick Simper had been with Screaming Lord Sutch's The Savages, where he also played with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.
Metallica was the band Metallica's fifth album, released August 13, 1991 through Elektra Records. It is also called The Black Album because of its largely black and featureless cover with only the band's logo and a barely visible, coiled snake derived from the Gadsden flag. The motto of the flag, Don't Tread on Me, was also a song title featured on the album. The album's cover and title were inspired by those of the self-titled album by The Beatles, named The White Album because of its stark white cover. The Black album became the highest selling Metallica album to date with 14 million copies sold in the US alone. In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Sodom is the self-titled album by German thrash metal band Sodom. Follow up to the 2001 release M-16 and it was released on 21 April 2006. The first pressing comes in a slipcase and includes a full-colour poster of the artwork. The album is self-titled as Angelripper explained, because every band needs a self-titled album.
Dead Letters (occasionally known as Feeling Guilty within the
U.S.) is the 2003 album by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus. It was released in 2004 in the US and Australia.
and It was released in Europe in early 2003 reaching the top of the album charts in Germany, AustriaSwitzerland as well as Finland. Its European success led to the release of the album in other parts of the world. Dead Letters and its first single "In the Shadows" both reached the Top 50 of the Australian ARIA charts in 2004. It has also reached the top 20 of the American Billboard Heatseeker charts. The Rasmus' 5th album also hung around in Finland's Top 20 Album charts for over a year.
1. Benzin
2. Mann Gegen Mann
3. Rosenrot
4. Spring
5. Wo Bist Du
6. Stirb Nicht Vor Mir/Don't Die Before I Do (Ft Sharleen Spiteri)
7. Zerstoren
8. Hilf Mir
9. Te Quiero Puta
10. Feuer Und Wasser
11. Ein Lied
12:5 is Pain of Salvation's first live album. It was released in 2004 and
was recorded from a concert in the band's home town of Eskilstuna, Sweden on 12 May 2003. It was an "unplugged" show, meaning that there were only acoustic instruments, i.e. no distorted guitars; piano and harpsichord (instead of keyboard). It features songs from all the band's album to that date except One Hour by the Concrete Lake.
The songs of 12:5 are not simply the original studio versions played with acoustic instruments. Most have been rearranged and have new parts layered over the top of old ones. The reasoning behind this is that the band did not want to simply release "Pain of Salvation Live", but rather a performance of the band taking a more personal and different approach to the material. Reactions to the album were mainly positive, and the band was applauded for its ability to re-interpret their own material. Of particiular note is the 12:5 version of "Ashes" which begins with its original intro (in A minor), but then continues in an uplifting major key. This created an awkward aura, as the original song was entirely in a minor key and featured dark, depressive lyrics.
Spiritual Black Dimensions is the fourth album recorded by Dimmu
Borgir.
This was Dimmu Borgir's first foray into speed-laden black metal, and since much of their old material was slower and more doomy in approach, reviews of this album are mixed, giving it a serious love-hate relationship; many lauded the new direction Dimmu started going into and that it showed the band can expand their musical reach, while others criticized it for lack of originality (many of their contemporaries, such as Marduk and Dark Funeral, had a fast-as-hell approach to Black Metal) and having the keyboards, which were a prominent instrument in past recordings, buried in the mix below the guitars. This was also the first album to display the many talents of new keyboardist Mustis and the clean vocals of ICS Vortex (who would later join the band full-time).
Much of the darker, faster direction could be attributed to guitarist Astennu, as the album "Mirrored Hate Painting" from his project Carpe Tenebrum, recorded before he joined Dimmu Borgir, show-cased the faster black metal style Dimmu would display on this album.
Liberation Transmission is the third studio album by
lostprophets. The album was released on June 26 and June 27, 2006 in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively and entered the UK album chart at number one (July 2 for 1 week).
The first single, Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast), was released on June 19th 2006, and reached number 8 in the UK Top 40. The second single is A Town Called Hypocrisy, as bassist Stuart Richardson claimed in a recent BBC interview.The video is currently showing on various music channels, featuring lead singer Ian Watkins as a children's TV presenter.
The album was leaked via BitTorrent for illegal download on June 12 2006, two weeks prior to its official release.
Cryptic Writings is the seventh studio album by heavy meta
l band Megadeth, released in June of 1997, with a remastered version released in 2004.
An EP with instrumental versions of five of the songs was released the followed year.
Videos were made for the songs "Trust", "Almost Honest" and "A Secret Place".
"Use the Man" includes samples from the song "Needles and Pins" by The Searchers.
Continuing the trend from Youthanasia, Cryptic Writings features fewer songs critical of government and politics in favor of more personal songs. Megadeth's 1990s hard rock style also continues on this album. Some songs, however, recall the band's '80s thrash metal days, while other songs, especially "I'll Get Even," demonstrate more creative styles. Even though this album is similar in style to Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia, it is currently still the last Megadeth album to go platinum.
The first 500,000 copies of Cryptic Writings in The U.S. were released with silver background album cover. These releases also included a Vic Rattlehead collectable card which promoted " The Cryptic Writtings Of Megadeth" 4- issue run by CHAOS! comics. The latter U.S. pressings features the same artwork with black background album cover. The black background album cover is also featured in the remasters.
The Soundhouse Tapes is an EP by Iron Maiden. The
Soundhouse Tapes are the very first recordings of Iron Maiden. Released on 9th November 1979, it features three songs taken from the demo tape Spaceward. The songs were recorded by the band on New Year's Eve 1978/79. The three tracks - "Prowler", "Invasion" and "Iron Maiden" - appear in rougher form than they would later be heard on the first Iron Maiden album and subsequent singles. The fourth song from the demo - "Strange World" - would also appear on Iron Maiden. The song was not included in The Soundhouse Tapes because the band wasn't happy with the recording quality.
The EP was extremely successful, selling all 6,000 copies of its intitial pressing by mail order in less than a week. This prompted EMI to offer the band an impressive, five album record deal.
The Soundhouse Tapes have been bootlegged several times, as well as being re-released by the band in full on the 4 LP vinyl version of the Best of the Beast box set, and spread over singles and the two CD version released around the same time.
The Soundhouse Tapes' title was taken from The Soundhouse club. This was a heavy metal disco run primarily out of the Prince of Wales pub in Kingsbury, North West London by NWOBHM pioneer Neal Kay. Iron Maiden would play regular gigs at The Soundhouse and the venue was instrumental in gaining the band a wider following.
The Silent Force is the third studio album by the Dutch symphonic
metal band Within Temptation, released on November 15, 2004, by GUN Records.
It was released as three versions: a basic version with jewel case and no booklet; a standard version with jewel case and an eight page booklet; and a premium version as a digipak with luxury artwork, enhanced CD-ROM content and two bonus tracks (see below).
Only two months after its release, the album reached Gold status in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium and in mid-2005 also in Finland. Its predecessor album Mother Earth also reached Gold in Germany, reached Platinum in the Netherlands, and stayed in the German album charts for 30 weeks.
Enter is the first studio album from the symphonic metal band Within
Temptation, released in 1997. Although this album shows off Sharon den Adel's voice, the band's guitarist Robert Westerholt provides gruff death metal growls too.
The album's style is very instrumental compared to the band's later works. Many of the tracks have instrumental vocals with no real lyrics. On several songs Westerholt provides growling (in contrast to the band's recent works where growling is no longer used).
The lyrics focus on death, darkness, hell, war, romance, emptiness and ghosts rather than love, nature and fantasy on later albums. The songs are much longer and slower and are generally more depressing. Indeed the album may be considered as gothic doom.
Soundtrack to Your Escape (sometimes abbreviated STYE) is the
seventh studio album of In Flames. It was released on March 29, 2004 by Nuclear Blast. The album was available in both a regular jewel case release featuring 12 tracks, and a limited edition digipak with a bonus track, "Discover Me Like Emptiness". There was also a special edition which included a bonus DVD with videos of the first two singles, "The Quiet Place" and "Touch of Red", and live footage. The album was criticized by long time fans for its new age sound and sounding too much like nu-metal music, however the album was seen by many as a natural progression from Reroute to Remain and was critically praised in many areas of the press such as Metal Hammer and Kerrang!. Soundtrack to Your Escape peaked at #145 on the Billboard 200, #2 on the Heatseekers Chart, and #7 on the Top Independent Albums charts.
With Cradle Of Filth's seventh studio album slated for an October release, it's time to unveil a track for your listening pleasure.
'Dirge Inferno' is the second track from the forthcoming album 'Thornography'.
Lords of Acid is a Belgian acid house band from the 1990s that started as a spinoff of Praga Khan with the controversial New Beat single I Sit On Acid in 1988. Their debut album, 1990's Lust (along with the remix singles Rough Sex and I Must Increase My Bust) became famous within the electronic music and dance music communities for their outrageously sexual lyrics and sound samples - perhaps their most popular song, I Sit on Acid, begins with the a capella lyrics "Darling, come here / fuck me up the ..." only to be interrupted with a grinding rave beat. Their second album was Voodoo-U, which featured a more industrial sound. This was followed by Our Little Secret (1997), Heaven is an Orgasm (1998) and Expand Your Head (1999). In 2000 they released a more rock-influenced album entitled Farstucker and in 2003, after being in the business for 15 years, released a Greatest Hits album. Their fans formed an online community called Children of Acid.
Lords of Acid also performed as Digital Orgasm, with a less sex-based and more rave-influenced sound.
Their name is reportedly an homage to Traci Lords.
Ludicra is a black metal band from San Francisco. Originally formed in 1998 as a quartet and later expanded to five members, they specialize in straight-ahead black metal (i.e., no gothic keyboards, pagan folk influences, or electronic leanings) in a style influenced by bands such as Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Dødheimsgard, and Bethlehem. The group includes current and former members of other local bands such as Impaled, Hammers of Misfortune, Tallow, Missile Command, Ominum, and Hickey. Ludicra play semi-regularly in the San Francisco area, where they have built up a strong reputation based on their intense live shows. They have shared the stage with a diverse ranging of bands including the death metal quartet Impaled, the post-hardcore/noise outfit Total Shutdown, and instrumental math metallers the Fucking Champs.
